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Non-EU vendorPassword ManagerHeadquarters: AU

Passwordstate: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Passwordstate is an enterprise password manager developed by Click Studios (SA) Pty Ltd, a software company in Adelaide, South Australia. It includes privileged account management and optional self-service password reset. The vendor says it can run on the customer's own infrastructure or in a private cloud such as Azure or AWS, including air-gapped environments without internet access.

Click Studios is headquartered in Adelaide, Australia, outside the EU and EEA, and the company's website does not name a parent or owner. Because the customer chooses where Passwordstate runs, data residency depends on that choice. An EU-hosted deployment on the organisation's own servers, or in a European cloud region, keeps the data inside the EU. The licence and update relationship stays with an Australian company, and the pages reviewed contain no GDPR or data-location statement that a European organisation could rely on directly.

Sovereignty score
32 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-250
    Headquartered outside the EU (AU)
  • Data residency SOV-30
    No hosting in Europe (OTHER)
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-340
    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-630
    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 10, 2026
HeadquartersAU (OTHER)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decisionNo — no adequacy decisionVerified by hand
Sovereignty modelVendor-hosted (non-EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingOTHERVerified by hand
Open-sourceNoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantNoVendor-stated
CategoryPassword Manager
TypeProduct
Websiteclickstudios.com.au ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Passwordstate

The European alternatives to Passwordstate 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 Passwordstate

Passwordstate is headquartered in AU, outside the EU. Contracts and data therefore also fall under non-European law. The GDPR applies through contractual terms, but in a conflict with local legislation you have less certainty than with a European vendor.

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

Passwordstate 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 Passwordstate 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 Passwordstate?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Passwordstate include AuthPass, Avira Password Manager and Dashlane. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Passwordstate?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Passwordstate include AuthPass, gopass, KeePass and KeePassXC. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

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

Passwordstate is headquartered in AU (OTHER) and hosts data in OTHER. Its GDPR compliance is limited or unclear. For full EU data residency the EU alternatives on this page usually offer more certainty.

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 October 10, 2026.

Sources

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Compliance evidence

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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".

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

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Digital sovereignty in Password Manager

Password Manager: Password vault — generate, store and autofill passwords. 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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