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EU sovereignESG & SustainabilityHeadquarters: Switzerland

Transpareo: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Transpareo is a software-as-a-service platform for Digital Product Passports under the EU ecodesign rules (ESPR), from Transpareo AG in Zug, Switzerland. Manufacturers import product and component data from Excel, CSV or the REST API, ask suppliers to fill in missing fields through a link without an account, and publish passports with QR codes on their own domain. Data can be exported as CSV, XLSX, JSON-LD or SQL. Every passport version is signed and can be verified in the browser; the verification renderer, Transpareo Time Machine, is open source under GPL v3.

Transpareo AG is headquartered in Switzerland, an EFTA country with an EU adequacy decision, and no foreign parent company is stated. According to its privacy policy, all platform servers and stored data are located in Germany, with Hetzner as hosting provider. A Swiss content delivery network serves public passport pages from edge servers that may sit outside the EU. A data processing agreement and a list of sub-processors are published. The platform itself is not open source, but open exports and stable passport URLs limit lock-in.

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Sovereignty score
71 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in Switzerland: Swiss law, recognised by the EU as adequate
  • 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 17, 2026
Headquarters
SwitzerlandVerified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Category
ESG & Sustainability
Type
Product
Website
transpareo.com ↗

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European alternatives to Transpareo

The European alternatives to Transpareo come from our knowledge base of over 9,900 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 Transpareo

Transpareo is headquartered in Switzerland and falls under Swiss law, including the revised Swiss data protection act. Switzerland is not an EU member, but the European Commission recognises its level of data protection as adequate. Its Swiss headquarters does not by itself bring it under US legislation such as the CLOUD Act.

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

Transpareo 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 Transpareo 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 Transpareo?

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

Are there open-source alternatives to Transpareo?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Transpareo include Brightway. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

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

Transpareo is headquartered in Switzerland (EFTA) and hosts data in the EU. That makes Transpareo an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

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