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FusionAuth: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

FusionAuth is a customer identity and access management (CIAM) platform. It handles login and authorisation for the customers of an application and offers multi-factor authentication, passkeys and passwordless login, single sign-on, social login, role-based access control, user registration and webhooks. All functions are available through an API. Developers can self-host FusionAuth, for example with Docker or Kubernetes, including on premises or in an air-gapped network, or use it as a managed service through FusionAuth Cloud.

FusionAuth is a US company and is therefore subject to US law, including the CLOUD Act. The core software is proprietary and covered by the FusionAuth licence; only components such as client libraries and documentation are open source. A free Community plan exists, including for self-hosting. Organisations that self-host decide where the data is located, for example in a European cloud or their own data centre. FusionAuth says deployment is possible in any geography, but its website does not name specific hosting regions for the cloud service.

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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 (US, EU)
  • 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 2, 2026
HeadquartersUS (US)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decisionOnly for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified by hand
Sovereignty modelVendor-hosted (non-EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingUS, EUVerified by hand
Open-sourceNoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
Hosting signalAMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
CategoryIdentity
TypeProduct
Websitefusionauth.io ↗

The hosting signal shows the network that serves the vendor's website, often a CDN, and not necessarily where the service or your data is hosted. How we verify · Something wrong? Suggest a correction

Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to FusionAuth

The European alternatives to FusionAuth 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 FusionAuth

FusionAuth 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.

FusionAuth hosts data in US, EU. 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.

FusionAuth 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 FusionAuth 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 FusionAuth?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to FusionAuth include Procivis, Evolveum midPoint and Hanko. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to FusionAuth?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to FusionAuth include Evolveum midPoint, Hanko, Kanidm, LemonLDAP::NG, NethServer, SimpleSAMLphp and Univention. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

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

FusionAuth is headquartered in US and hosts data in US, EU. 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 2, 2026.

Sources

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Compliance evidence

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