EU-hosted, non-EU parentVPNHeadquarters: SE

OVPN: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

OVPN is a VPN service for individuals, delivered through apps for Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, Ubuntu, openSUSE and Fedora, with router support. It supports OpenVPN and WireGuard, runs its own DNS servers and offers port forwarding, plus Multihop and a public IPv4 address as add-ons. The vendor states that it keeps no logs, owns its servers rather than renting them, and runs them without hard drives.

OVPN announced in May 2023 that it had been acquired by Pango, the US company also behind Hotspot Shield, and would continue as a separate service. According to a product catalogue, that parent is now called Point Wild. The site and privacy policy name OVPN Inc., incorporated in the United States, as the legal operating entity. The company says its account and VPN services run in the EU and the US, and it shows data centres in Stockholm and Gothenburg. A US entity and parent are exposed to the CLOUD Act, which a European organisation should weigh despite the Swedish infrastructure.

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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 July 2, 2026

Headquarters	SE (EU)Verified by hand
Ultimate parent company	USVerified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	EUVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Compliance documents	4 published, see belowVendor-stated
Hosting signal	OBEHOSTING - Obehosting AB, SE (SE)Technically measured
Category	VPN
Type	Product
Website	ovpn.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 OVPN

The European alternatives to OVPN 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 OVPN

OVPN is headquartered in SE and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data. The ultimate owner is based in US. Foreign control undermines part of the certainty a European headquarters offers.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so OVPN scores best on data residency.

OVPN 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 OVPN 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 OVPN?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to OVPN include AdGuard VPN, AirVPN and Avast SecureLine VPN. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to OVPN?

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

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

OVPN is headquartered in SE (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes OVPN 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 July 2, 2026.

Sources

This record was checked via the vendor's website and legal notice during the full audit of June and July 2026. Source links have been recorded per record since 20 September 2026.

Compliance evidence

The links below point to the vendor's own public documents. We only record what we found: a missing link means "not found publicly", not "not compliant".

Data Processing Agreement (DPA): ovpn.com/privacy-policy
Subprocessor list: ovpn.com/privacy-policy
Security page / trust center: ovpn.com/security
EU hosting documented: ovpn.com/privacy-policy

Provenance of the links above:Vendor-stated

Links checked on September 21, 2026.

Cyber Resilience Act

Public signals that relate to the EU Cyber Resilience Act. They do not count towards the score. A missing line means "not found publicly".

security.txt: ovpn.com/.well-known/security.txt

For products in scope of the CRA, CE marking is required from 11 December 2027; this cannot be checked yet.

Checked on October 9, 2026. What is the Cyber Resilience Act?

Digital sovereignty in VPN

VPN: Virtual private network — privacy protection, encrypted connection. In this category the choice of vendor determines who has legal access to your data, where that data lives and how easily you can switch later.

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