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Signicat: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Signicat is a platform for digital identity and electronic signing. Its portfolio covers identity verification of people and organisations (including document and biometric checks), an eID and Wallet Hub connecting national eIDs and EU Digital Identity Wallets, and authentication options such as MobileID and passkeys. For signing there is an Electronic Signature API and the Dokobit Portal for self-service, supported by Digital Evidence Management for audit records. The services are delivered as SaaS and through APIs and are aimed mainly at financial services.

Signicat was founded in Trondheim, Norway, which is part of the EEA but not the EU. According to a 2019 announcement, Nordic Capital is the majority shareholder. Signicat states that its data centres are located in the EU and that all processing takes place within the EU. Organisations that require strictly EU-only processing should also review its sub-processor list. Signicat is not open source.

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Sovereignty score
71 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in the EEA: the GDPR applies directly
  • 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
NO (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Hosting signal
CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
Category
E-signatures
Type
Product
Website
signicat.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 Signicat

The European alternatives to Signicat 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 Signicat

Signicat is headquartered in NO, which falls under the GDPR through the European Economic Area. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

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

Signicat 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 Signicat 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 Signicat?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Signicat include A-Trust, Agrello and Assently. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Signicat?

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

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

Signicat is headquartered in NO (EFTA) and hosts data in EU. That makes Signicat 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".

No public compliance evidence has been recorded for this vendor yet. Do you know its DPA or subprocessor list? Something wrong? Suggest a correction

Digital sovereignty in E-signatures

E-signatures: Electronic signatures, trust services, eIDAS services. 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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