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MitID: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

MitID is Denmark's national digital identity system. Citizens use it to prove who they are online, for example when logging in to the citizen portal borger.dk or to online banking. Public authorities and private providers accept it as a login method, which makes it the main entry point to many Danish digital services. In the MitID partnership, the Danish Agency for Digital Government (Digitaliseringsstyrelsen) represents the state, the regions and the municipalities, and the Danish banks take part through a subsidiary of Finans Danmark.

The development and operation of the system were awarded to Nets DanID A/S in a 2019 tender. Digitaliseringsstyrelsen is now preparing a new tender for operation, maintenance and support, so the operator could change. MitID serves Danish citizens and businesses, and MitID Erhverv is the variant for Danish companies and associations. A European organisation outside Denmark mainly meets MitID as a login option offered by Danish services.

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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 12, 2026

Headquarters	DK (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	EUVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	NoVendor-stated
Category	Identity
Type	Product
Website	mitid.dk ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to MitID

The European alternatives to MitID come from our knowledge base of over 7,800 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 MitID

MitID is headquartered in DK 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 MitID scores best on data residency.

MitID 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 MitID 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 MitID?

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

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

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

MitID is headquartered in DK (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes MitID 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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Compliance evidence

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