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Curity Identity Server: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Curity Identity Server is an identity and access management server built on OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect and SCIM. Organisations use it for login, authorization and API security across web and mobile applications, APIs and microservices. Curity delivers the product as software that you deploy yourself: ready-made Docker images and Kubernetes Helm charts are available, so the server can run on your own servers, in a cloud environment or across several clouds. According to the vendor, the cluster scales linearly and has no inter-node dependencies.

Curity AB is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, and was founded in 2015. On its deployment page Curity describes only self-managed deployment, so authentication data resides wherever you run the server. A European organisation can therefore choose EU infrastructure, a sovereign cloud or its own data centre. According to Curity, such a setup can help meet local data-residency requirements, GDPR and DORA. The jurisdiction of the infrastructure provider you choose remains your own consideration.

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Sovereignty score

80 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-2100
Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
Data residency SOV-3100
EU-only hosting
Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-380
Closed source, but self-hostable: encryption keys and runtime under your own control
Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
Closed source: switching requires data migration
Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-680
Closed source, but self-hostable on your own infrastructure

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 10, 2026

Headquarters	SE (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	Self-hosted, e.g. in EU (your choice)Verified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Category	API Management
Type	Product
Website	curity.io ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Curity Identity Server

The European alternatives to Curity Identity Server come from our knowledge base of over 6,800 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with Curity Identity Server

Curity Identity Server is headquartered in SE and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

Curity Identity Server runs on infrastructure you choose and control yourself. You decide where the data lives, including fully within the EU if you want — this is not a fixed hosting choice made by the vendor.

Curity Identity Server is closed source, but you run the software yourself on your own infrastructure. The encryption keys and the runtime therefore stay under your own control, though you cannot audit or modify the source code. Ask about export options and open standards to limit software-level lock-in.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Curity Identity Server together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to Curity Identity Server?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Curity Identity Server include Alumio, Apideck and Axway. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Curity Identity Server?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Curity Identity Server include Fusio. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is Curity Identity Server GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Curity Identity Server is headquartered in SE (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Curity Identity Server an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

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Compliance evidence

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