6 European alternatives to 2021.AI GRACE — GDPR-compliant & EU-hosted.

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Facts

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Headquarters: DK (EU)
Sovereignty model: Vendor-hosted (EU)
Category: AI Security
Type: Product
GDPR-compliant: Yes
Open-source: No
Data hosting: EU

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Sovereignty profile of 2021.AI GRACE

How this vendor scores on the five dimensions of the Digital Sovereignty Heatmap: 0 is sovereign, 100 is high exposure. These are the same scores the assessment uses.

Jurisdictional exposure (JES)	Headquartered in the EU: European law applies	0
Data residency (DRS)	EU-only hosting	0
Cryptographic key sovereignty (CKS)	Key management with a European vendor	40
Platform lock-in (PLS)	Closed source: switching requires data migration	60
Source & runtime sovereignty (SRS)	Closed source, runtime with the vendor	45
Average		29

Why digital sovereignty matters with 2021.AI GRACE

2021.AI GRACE is headquartered in DK 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 2021.AI GRACE scores best on data residency.

2021.AI GRACE 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 2021.AI GRACE together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to 2021.AI GRACE

The European alternatives to 2021.AI GRACE come from our knowledge base of over 3,600 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.

CalypsoAI
Irish enterprise AI security platform acting as a control layer between employees and LLMs to filter data leaks and prompt injections; acquired by US-based F5 Networks in September 2025.
IE · commercial
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Giskard
French open-source platform for AI testing, red-teaming and guardrails.
FR · open-source
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Lakera
Swiss AI security platform for testing LLM/GenAI vulnerabilities and automated red-teaming, with an AI security centre in Zurich; acquired by Israel's Check Point Software Technologies in 2026.
CH · commercial
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Mistral Shieldstral
3B-parameter policy-adaptive safety classifier released by Mistral AI (France) under Apache 2.0 as open weights, for on-device content moderation. Mistral AI is a real company, so not a controlling-company-free project despite the open licence.
FR · open-source
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NeuralTrust
Spanish AI agent security platform (Barcelona): vulnerability and attack detection plus compliance, with a split-plane architecture that keeps data in the customer's own VPC.
ES · commercial
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TaoQ AI
Applied AI research and engineering company specialising in AI security, agent red-teaming, and EU AI Act conformity with open-source security testing frameworks for intelligent systems.
NL · open-source
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Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to 2021.AI GRACE?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to 2021.AI GRACE include CalypsoAI, Giskard and Lakera. On this page you can compare 6 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to 2021.AI GRACE?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to 2021.AI GRACE include Giskard, Mistral Shieldstral and TaoQ AI. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is 2021.AI GRACE GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

2021.AI GRACE is headquartered in DK (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes 2021.AI GRACE an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Digital sovereignty in AI Security

AI Security: Security for AI/LLM systems — prompt-injection detection, AI red-teaming, agentic security posture management and AI governance guardrails. 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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