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GovAI: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

GovAI is an AI platform for public authorities from publicplan GmbH. It offers an AI chat with a privacy layer called Data Guard, individual AI assistants for tasks such as drafting decisions or analysing files, workflows that need no programming, web research, document processing (RAG) and a shared prompt library. It has a REST API, single sign-on, multi-tenancy and usage reports. Data Guard replaces sensitive data such as names, addresses and IBANs with placeholders before a request reaches an external model. GovAI can switch between models including GPT, Claude, Mistral and Llama, or connect to language models run on the customer's own servers.

publicplan GmbH is based in Düsseldorf, Germany; its website names no parent company. GovAI is available as SaaS in ISO 27001-certified German data centres or on premises in the customer's own data centre, both also white-label. According to the vendor, hosting, support and development take place entirely within the EU. The product page does not describe GovAI itself as open source.

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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 15, 2026
Headquarters
DE (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Category
AI
Type
Product
Website
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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to GovAI

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

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Why digital sovereignty matters with GovAI

GovAI 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 GovAI scores best on data residency.

GovAI 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 GovAI 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 GovAI?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to GovAI include Acapela Group, aiaibot and Aleph Alpha. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to GovAI?

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

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

GovAI is headquartered in DE (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes GovAI 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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