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Engity: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Engity is a cloud-based customer identity and access management (CIAM) platform operated by Engity GmbH. It offers login with username and password, social login, enterprise single sign-on via SAML and multifactor authentication, as well as passwordless options such as email magic links and passkeys. Further features include a customisable login with server-side logic and webhooks, multi-tenant directory environments, breached-password detection and sign-up without an email account. It is a fully managed service that organisations integrate into their applications, and the company positions it as a European alternative to Okta.

Engity states that it is headquartered in the EU, presents itself as "Hightech Made in Germany" and says it provides its services from EU cloud data centres to avoid data transfers into non-GDPR countries. It does not name the data centre country or provider on the pages consulted. No non-European parent company is mentioned. The platform itself is not open source, although Engity publishes some open-source components on GitHub. For European organisations it is a vendor-operated service under EU jurisdiction.

Sovereignty score
71 / 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-360
    Key management with a European vendor
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
    Closed source: switching requires data migration
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-655
    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 2, 2026
HeadquartersDE (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty modelVendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingEUVerified by hand
Open-sourceNoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
Compliance documents1 published, see belowVendor-stated
Hosting signalOVH - OVH SAS, FR (FR)Technically measured
CategoryIdentity
TypeProduct
Websiteengity.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Engity

The European alternatives to Engity come from our knowledge base of over 6,200 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 Engity

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

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so Engity scores best on data residency.

Engity 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.

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Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to Engity?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Engity include Adnovum, Airlock and Auðkenni. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Engity?

Our list of EU alternatives to Engity is mostly commercial options. Browse the category on the map for open-source choices.

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

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

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 2, 2026.

Sources

Public sources used in the latest check of this record.

Compliance evidence

The links below point to the vendor's own public documents. We only record what we found: a missing link means "not found publicly", not "not compliant".

Security page / trust center
engity.com/gdpr-compliance/

Provenance of the links above:Vendor-stated

Links checked on September 21, 2026.

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