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Passwork: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Passwork is a password and secrets manager for businesses, used to store credentials, share them within teams and control access. It is offered as Passwork Self-Hosted, installed on the customer's own servers and described by the vendor as on-premise by default, and as Passwork Cloud, a SaaS service. The vendor describes role-based access, double encryption and a zero-knowledge architecture.

Passwork Europe S.L. is registered in Barcelona, Spain, and the vendor says it relocated its headquarters there from Finland. It describes the company as founder-owned and free from outside capital. In the self-hosted edition, passwords never leave infrastructure controlled by the customer, so the data location is in the organisation's hands. The cloud edition uses EU and US data centres according to the vendor's FAQ. The vendor states full GDPR and NIS2 compliance but does not describe the product as open source, so a European organisation should choose the self-hosted option or confirm the cloud data location in writing.

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Sovereignty score
78 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    Hosting inside and outside Europe (EU, US)
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-380
    Closed source, but self-hostable: encryption keys and runtime under your own control
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
    Closed source: switching requires data migration
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-670
    Closed source, but self-hostable on your own infrastructure

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
HeadquartersES (EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingSelf-hosted, e.g. in EU, US (your choice)Verified by hand
Open-sourceNoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
CategoryPassword Manager
TypeProduct
Websitepasswork.pro ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Passwork

The European alternatives to Passwork 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 Passwork

Passwork is headquartered in ES and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

Passwork runs on infrastructure you choose and control yourself. You decide where the data lives, including fully within the EU if you want — this is not a fixed hosting choice made by the vendor.

Passwork is closed source, but you run the software yourself on your own infrastructure. The encryption keys and the runtime therefore stay under your own control, though you cannot audit or modify the source code. Ask about export options and open standards to limit software-level lock-in.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Passwork 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 Passwork?

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

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Passwork 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 Passwork GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Passwork is headquartered in ES (EU) and hosts data in EU, US. That makes Passwork 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 October 11, 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".

security.txt
passwork.pro/.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 11, 2026. What is the Cyber Resilience Act?

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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