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Holistic AI: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Holistic AI is a platform for AI governance, risk management and compliance, aimed at larger organisations that want control over their AI estate. According to the vendor, it discovers AI models, agents and applications across cloud, code and SaaS, including shadow AI, and maintains an inventory with owners and risk levels. The platform tests models and agents for security, safety and bias, including red-teaming for prompt injection and jailbreaks, and links policies to controls mapped to the EU AI Act, the NIST AI RMF and ISO/IEC 42001. It is delivered as software as a service.

According to the OECD tools catalogue, Holistic AI is headquartered in the United States, with offices in Palo Alto and London. The vendor's website does not state where customer data is hosted, nor whether an EU hosting option or self-hosting exists. The software is not open source. A European organisation should therefore settle in the contract where data is processed and which jurisdiction applies to the provider.

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Sovereignty score
17 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-210
    Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
  • Data residency SOV-30
    No hosting in Europe (US)
  • 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 September 27, 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
USVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
NoVendor-stated
Hosting signal
CLOUDFLARESPECTRUM - Cloudflare London, LLC, US (US)Technically measured
Category
AI Security
Type
Product
Website
holisticai.com ↗

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 Holistic AI

The European alternatives to Holistic AI 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 Holistic AI

Holistic AI 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.

Holistic AI hosts data outside the EU (US). Personal data therefore leaves the EU, which requires a transfer mechanism under the GDPR and pulls the data residency score down.

Holistic AI 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 Holistic AI 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 Holistic AI?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Holistic AI include 2021.AI GRACE, CalypsoAI and Giskard. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Holistic AI?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Holistic AI include Giskard and Mistral Shieldstral. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is Holistic AI GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Holistic AI is headquartered in US and hosts data in US. Its GDPR compliance is limited or unclear. For full EU data residency the EU alternatives on this page usually offer more certainty.

Details and sources

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Sources

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Compliance evidence

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