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ThePay: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

ThePay is a payment gateway for online merchants. It accepts card payments, PSD2-based payments and QR-code payments, supports Apple Pay and Google Pay, and offers recurring payments. The website also lists accounts in several currencies, including CZK, EUR, USD, GBP, HUF, PLN and RON. The service is delivered as a hosted online payment platform that merchants connect to their web shops.

ThePay, a.s. is a Czech joint-stock company with its registered seat in Jihlava, according to the company's contact details. The website names no owner or parent group, so the ownership structure is not confirmed. Hosting locations and data-processing terms are not stated on the pages consulted, so a European organisation should check the privacy terms and the list of processors before use. As a company established in the EU, ThePay is subject to EU data-protection law for its processing.

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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 11, 2026
Headquarters
CZ (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
NoVendor-stated
Category
Payments
Type
Product
Website
thepay.eu ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to ThePay

The European alternatives to ThePay 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 ThePay

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

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

ThePay 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 ThePay 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 ThePay?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to ThePay include Adyen, Alma and Autopay. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to ThePay?

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

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

ThePay is headquartered in CZ (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes ThePay 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

Public sources used in the latest check of this record.

Compliance evidence

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Digital sovereignty in Payments

Payments: Payment services, payment gateways, online payments and financial transactions. 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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