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Lakera: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Lakera provides an AI security platform for GenAI applications, agents and MCPs. Its offering covers runtime protection against threats such as prompt injection and data leakage (Lakera Guard), pre-deployment risk assessments and automated red-teaming (Lakera Red), and protection of employees' AI usage. According to the company, Gandalf, an adversarial testing community, is used to train its detection models. The platform is aimed at enterprises and developers, is delivered as SaaS and has an API-first design. It is not open source.

Lakera is described in Check Point's announcement as Zurich-based, with offices in Zurich and San Francisco. Check Point Software Technologies completed its acquisition of Lakera in October 2025 and is making Zurich its global centre of excellence for AI security. The ultimate parent therefore sits outside Switzerland and the EU, which matters when assessing exposure to foreign jurisdiction. Lakera's website does not state in which regions data is hosted, so this is a question for the vendor.

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Sovereignty score
59 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in Switzerland: Swiss law, recognised by the EU as adequate
  • Data residency SOV-350
    Hosting inside and outside Europe (EU, US, OTHER)
  • 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-645
    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 9, 2026
HeadquartersCH (EU)Verified by hand
Ultimate parent companyILVerified by hand
Sovereignty modelVendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingEU, US, OTHERVerified by hand
Open-sourceNoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantNoVendor-stated
Hosting signalCLOUDFLARESPECTRUM - Cloudflare London, LLC, US (US)Technically measured
CategoryAI Security
TypeProduct
Websitelakera.ai ↗

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 Lakera

The European alternatives to Lakera come from our knowledge base of over 6,200 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 Lakera

Lakera is headquartered in Switzerland and falls under Swiss law, including the revised Swiss data protection act. Switzerland is not an EU member, but the European Commission recognises its level of data protection as adequate. Its Swiss headquarters does not by itself bring it under US legislation such as the CLOUD Act. The ultimate owner is based in IL. Foreign control undermines part of the certainty a European headquarters offers.

Lakera hosts data in EU, US, OTHER. Exactly what stays within the EU — and what does not — is defined by the vendor's data processing agreement and sub-processor list, not by a setting you control yourself; check those documents for the precise scope, including backups, logs and support access.

Lakera 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 Lakera 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 Lakera?

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

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

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

Lakera is headquartered in CH (EFTA) and hosts data in EU, US, OTHER. That makes Lakera 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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Sources

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Compliance evidence

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