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SimaPro: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

SimaPro is life cycle assessment (LCA) software that helps organisations measure and reduce the environmental impacts of products and processes. It is offered as a desktop edition for LCA specialists, with advanced modelling capabilities, and as a cloud edition for teams that scale assessments across products and workflows. The product is sold by SimaPro B.V., which the company's website describes as part of the One Click LCA group. The group announced its acquisition of SimaPro and its developer PRé Sustainability in September 2025.

SimaPro B.V. is a Dutch company, and its parent One Click LCA Ltd is based in Finland, so the owner sits outside the Netherlands. The pages reviewed do not state where cloud data is hosted, and they do not describe a GDPR commitment. For a European organisation, the relevant facts are the Dutch operating entity and the Finnish group ownership, while the hosting location of cloud projects should be confirmed in the contract. Neither the website nor the acquisition announcement describes the software as open source.

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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 10, 2026
HeadquartersNL (EU)Verified by hand
Ultimate parent companyFIVerified by hand
Sovereignty modelVendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingEUVerified by hand
Open-sourceNoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantNoVendor-stated
CategoryESG & Sustainability
TypeProduct
Websitesimapro.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to SimaPro

The European alternatives to SimaPro 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 SimaPro

SimaPro is headquartered in NL 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 FI, also within Europe.

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

SimaPro 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 SimaPro 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 SimaPro?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to SimaPro include bluesign, Carbmee and Carbonfact. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to SimaPro?

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

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

SimaPro is headquartered in NL (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes SimaPro 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 10, 2026.

Sources

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Compliance evidence

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Digital sovereignty in ESG & Sustainability

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