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iDenfy: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

iDenfy is an identity verification and fraud prevention platform aimed at financial services, gambling operators, online retailers and similar businesses. It combines automated checks of identity documents, facial recognition and liveness detection with optional manual review. It also offers AML screening, business verification (KYB), age estimation and a Shopify app for high-risk orders. Organisations use it to onboard customers and meet KYC and AML obligations.

iDenfy is headquartered in Kaunas, Lithuania, and is privately held; no non-European parent company is known. According to its documentation, document images, biometric liveness data, extracted personal data, AML screening data and API logs are processed and stored in EU data centres by default. Other regions are available only to enterprise customers on request. Sub-processors are located in the EU/EEA or covered by standard contractual clauses. The residency setting applies to data at rest, and transient processing may differ. The software is not open source and is consumed as a service, so a European organisation depends on the provider for availability and data handling.

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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 4, 2026
Headquarters
LT (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
Hosting signal
CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
Category
Identity
Type
Product
Website
idenfy.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 iDenfy

The European alternatives to iDenfy 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

58 European Identity vendors are in the catalogue. View the whole category · Submit an alternative · View category on the map

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Why digital sovereignty matters with iDenfy

iDenfy is headquartered in LT 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 iDenfy scores best on data residency.

iDenfy 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 iDenfy 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 iDenfy?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to iDenfy 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 iDenfy?

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

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

iDenfy is headquartered in LT (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes iDenfy 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 4, 2026.

Sources

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Compliance evidence

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