EU Representative Providers Compared

Our own appointment is on the EU representative services page.

This page compares the main EU Representative providers, and we are one of them, so read it with our bias stated up front. Providers are listed alphabetically everywhere on this page, because a cheapest-first ordering would be the wrong way to read a market where the prices are not measured on the same thing.

That is the practical problem with shopping for an Article 27 appointment. One provider bands its price on your headcount, the next on how many people you hold data about, the next on your global revenue, so a company with fifteen staff and a large consumer app is small on one ladder and large on another and can be quoted at opposite ends of the two. An entry price describes the bottom of that provider’s own measure rather than your position on it, which is why the lowest published figure is so often not the lowest quote. Every row below says what a provider bands on before it says what the price is.

Key takeaways

• Our EU appointment is €690 a year at the smallest band, and the EU and UK together are €1,103 a year, billed annually and charged once up front with no setup fee. Every band is published, including the largest, and none of them routes you to a call.
• Our bands are set by employees or global annual revenue, whichever puts you higher. They are commercial pricing bands, not statutory business classifications.
• GDPR Local publishes €1,180 a year at 1 to 10 employees for one mandate, or €1,772 a year for EU and UK together, on its annual plan, rising with headcount (as of October 2026). €1,772 is €669 more than the €1,103 our EU and UK appointments cost together at the smallest band.
• DataRep bands on data subject volume, VeraSafe on the client’s global revenue, and EDPO, GRC Solutions, and Prighter on headcount, while Euverify combines employees with revenue. Compare the measures before you compare the numbers.
• If you also need a UK Representative, we sell it as a second mandate on the same order rather than as a separate engagement.
• A sales office in the EU does not satisfy the Article 27 requirement unless the EU entity is the actual controller or processor.

What each provider bands its price on

DataRep bands on the number of data subjects whose data you hold. EDPO, GRC Solutions, and Prighter band on headcount. VeraSafe bands on the client’s global revenue. Euverify combines employees with revenue. We use employees or global annual revenue, whichever puts you in the higher band. GDPR Local also bands on employees, published as a flat monthly figure that rises with headcount. Formiti does not publish what sets its price.

We have not repeated every competitor’s number on this page. Some publish more than one price set, some quote several of their mandates on individual assessment rather than showing a figure, and some publish none, so a single number here would either go stale or misrepresent them. Where a price does appear above it carries the date we read it, and the way to use any of it is to ask each provider what your own company would pay on their measure.

Who is a good GDPR representative provider?

GDPR representative and EU Representative name the same Article 27 role, so the shortlist is the same whichever term you searched for. We provide a standalone EU Representative appointment for any EU member state, established in Amsterdam, at €690 a year at the smallest band, with the UK available as a second mandate on the same order. Experience across 100+ startups and enterprises, including Amazon, Coinbase, Robinhood, Fanatics, Medtronic, AbbVie, IKEA, Nestle and Hopin. The other providers on this page differ mainly on how many jurisdictions a single appointment covers, on what their price is banded on, and on whether they publish a figure at all.

What an EU Representative does

Acts as the formal local point of contact for EU supervisory authorities and data subjects, and receives and handles that correspondence inside the EU. Maintains a copy of the controller’s Records of Processing Activities, and cooperates with supervisory authorities during an investigation.

The EU Representative role is distinct from the Data Protection Officer role. Where you need both, we act in both and scope them together, and our EU Representative service sets out exactly what the Article 27 appointment covers on its own.

Who needs an EU Representative

Any controller or processor outside the EU that offers goods or services to people in the EU, or monitors the behavior of people in the EU. Exceptions exist for occasional processing that is unlikely to result in risk, and for public authorities.

A common misconception is that having a sales office in the EU removes the need for an EU Representative. Sales presence does not satisfy the Article 27 requirement unless the EU entity is the actual controller or processor. If that describes you, the standalone EU Representative appointment is the whole of what you need, and it does not require a DPO engagement alongside it.

How to choose

If you only need the EU mandate, every specialist on this page is built for it, and the question becomes which measure your company looks smallest on and whether you want to see a price before you speak to anyone. If you are a UK company selling into or monitoring people in the EU, the obligation is the same GDPR Article 27 role, but the post-Brexit specifics are their own question; see EU Representative for UK companies for that detail.

If you need the EU and the UK, ask each provider what the second mandate adds rather than comparing entry prices, because some fold it into the same subscription and others charge close to full price for it. Ours is €1,103 a year for both at the smallest band and €1,583 at band 1, which is the EU appointment in full plus the UK one at 75 percent of its own price.

If you need representation beyond the EU and the UK, a provider with a wider footprint, such as Prighter or VeraSafe, keeps the vendor list shorter than assembling one appointment at a time.

If you need a DPO as well as a representative, we act in both roles and scope them together on a single contract.

Compare Engage against a specific provider

If you have a name in mind, here is a head-to-head on the Article 27 EU Representative service, each written to be fair to the other provider:

• Engage Compliance vs Prighter
• Engage Compliance vs DataRep
• Engage Compliance vs EDPO
• Engage Compliance vs VeraSafe
• Engage Compliance vs GDPR Local
• Engage Compliance vs Osano
• Engage Compliance vs Formiti
• Engage Compliance vs GRC Solutions
• Engage Compliance vs Euverify
• Engage Compliance vs EU Presence
• Engage Compliance vs MyData-TRUST

If you have not shortlisted anyone yet, the two routes most buyers weigh first are a small specialist and a law firm: Engage vs a boutique provider and Engage vs using a law firm.

Country-specific guidance is on the pages for Chinese, Indian, Israeli, UAE, Saudi, South African and Turkish companies.