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Microsoft Dragon Copilot: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Microsoft Dragon Copilot is an AI workspace for clinicians. It captures conversations between clinicians and patients and converts them into specialty-specific draft notes, with structured entries for nurses and draft reports for radiologists. It also answers questions with citations, suggests codes, and drafts referral letters and after-visit summaries. Dragon Copilot works with electronic health records such as Epic and is delivered through a web browser, a mobile app, a desktop application, or embedded in the record system.

Microsoft is headquartered in Redmond, Washington, in the United States, and is therefore subject to US law, including the CLOUD Act. According to Microsoft, customer data at rest is stored depending on the customer's location, for example in France or Germany within the EU. Dragon Copilot is an EU Data Boundary service. Audio and transcripts are retained for up to 90 days, and according to Microsoft the models are trained only on anonymised data. Processing is covered by Microsoft's Data Protection Addendum. The product is not open source.

Sovereignty score
27 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-210
    Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
  • Data residency SOV-350
    Hosting inside and outside Europe (US, EU, 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
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Vendor-hosted (non-EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
US, EU, OTHERVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Microsoft Dragon Copilot

The European alternatives to Microsoft Dragon Copilot 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 Microsoft Dragon Copilot

Microsoft Dragon Copilot 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.

Microsoft Dragon Copilot hosts data in US, EU, 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.

Microsoft Dragon Copilot 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.

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Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to Microsoft Dragon Copilot?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Microsoft Dragon Copilot include Ada Health, Agfa HealthCare and Aiforia. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Microsoft Dragon Copilot?

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

Is Microsoft Dragon Copilot GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Microsoft Dragon Copilot is headquartered in US and hosts data in US, EU, 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.

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Digital sovereignty in Healthcare

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