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Drata: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Drata is a trust management platform that supports compliance, governance, risk management and security assurance. It collects evidence automatically, monitors controls continuously and maps controls across frameworks such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS and DORA. It also offers a Trust Center for sharing security posture with prospects and customers, AI-assisted answers to security questionnaires, third-party risk management and integrations with many tools. It is aimed at startups, growing companies and enterprises and is delivered as software as a service.

Drata was founded in 2020 and is based in the United States, with offices including San Francisco, New York and San Diego, as well as London and Sydney. US legislation such as the CLOUD Act can therefore apply. Drata accounts are created in a North America, Europe or Asia-Pacific region, and the organisation settings show the region where the data is hosted. The documentation does not state which cloud locations sit behind each region, so a European organisation is best advised to record the hosting location contractually. Drata is not open source.

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Sovereignty score

27 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-210
Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
Data residency SOV-350
Hosting inside and outside Europe (EU, OTHER)
Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-320
Key management with a non-European vendor
Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
Closed source: switching requires data migration
Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-615
Closed source, runtime with the vendor

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 5, 2026

Headquarters	US (US)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision	Only for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (non-EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	EU, OTHERVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Category	Compliance & GRC
Type	Product
Website	drata.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Drata

The European alternatives to Drata 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 Drata

Drata is headquartered in the United States. US vendors fall under the CLOUD Act and FISA 702: US authorities can compel access to data, even when that data sits in a European data centre. That is the core of the jurisdictional exposure in our model.

Drata hosts data in EU, OTHER. Exactly what stays within the EU — and what does not — is defined by the vendor's data processing agreement and sub-processor list, not by a setting you control yourself; check those documents for the precise scope, including backups, logs and support access.

Drata is closed source and hosted by the vendor. The encryption keys and the runtime sit with the vendor and switching requires data migration. Ask about bring-your-own-key, export options and open standards.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Drata 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 Drata?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Drata include 2B Advice PrIME, Actecil and Adherent. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Drata?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Drata include CISO Assistant. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is Drata GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Drata is headquartered in US and hosts data in EU, OTHER. The vendor states it is GDPR-compliant, but the data falls under non-EU jurisdiction. For full EU data residency the EU alternatives on this page usually offer more certainty.

Details and sources

Verified by handHeadquarters, owner, hosting locations and licence have been checked by us against public sources. Free of charge and for every vendor, not a paid label. Nothing in this knowledge base is taken over automatically. Last checked on October 5, 2026.

Sources

Public sources used in the latest check of this record.

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Compliance evidence

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