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Krisp: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Krisp is an AI meeting assistant from Krisp Technologies, Inc., a Delaware corporation headquartered in Berkeley, California. It removes background noise from calls and produces transcripts, summaries and action items that can be sent to tools such as Slack and Salesforce. It is offered as a desktop app, Chrome extension and mobile app, with a choice between bot-free recording and a bot that joins the call. English transcription runs on the device; other languages are processed on servers.

The main sovereignty question is jurisdiction. As a US company, Krisp may be subject to US law for data it controls. Its privacy policy says data is primarily processed and stored in the United States and may be processed elsewhere through affiliates and subprocessors, without naming EU hosting. It states that it is not established in the EEA, uses EU Standard Contractual Clauses for transfers and signs data processing agreements on request. Organisations should review these terms before using it for confidential meetings.

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, OTHER)
  • 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
US, OTHERVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
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Type
Product
Website

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Krisp

The European alternatives to Krisp 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 Krisp

Krisp 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.

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

Krisp 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 Krisp 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 Krisp?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Krisp include 2501.ai, Beam and Cognigy. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Krisp?

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

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

Krisp is headquartered in US and hosts data in US, OTHER. 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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