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Hologram: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Hologram is an IoT connectivity platform for businesses that deploy connected devices. Its core product is the Hyper SIM, a cellular SIM with access to mobile networks in many countries. Customers manage SIMs and devices through a web dashboard, a REST API and fleet automation tools such as Conductor, and can test devices before rollout. Hologram states that it runs two independent mobile cores to protect against outages.

According to its privacy policy, Hologram, Inc. is a US company based in Chicago, Illinois. The website names no owners or investors and does not state where platform or device data is hosted. The privacy policy says personal data is stored on third-party servers and may be transferred outside the EEA, relying on contracts approved by the European Commission as a safeguard. The provider states that it is SOC 2 and GDPR compliant. For a European organisation, the main points are US jurisdiction over the provider, the location of hosted data and whether a data processing agreement is available. The product is not presented as open source.

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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 October 11, 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	YesVendor-stated
Category	IoT & Embedded
Type	Product
Website	hologram.io ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Hologram

The European alternatives to Hologram 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 Hologram

Hologram 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.

Hologram 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.

Hologram 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 Hologram 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 Hologram?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Hologram include 1NCE, Actility ThingPark and akenza. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Hologram?

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

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

Hologram is headquartered in US and hosts data in US. 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

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Compliance evidence

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