Who each option is best for, and where either supplier is deliberately narrower.
Vendor comparison
Secure Privacy vs Ketch: capability comparison
A side-by-side comparison of Secure Privacy and Ketch across RoPA, DPIA, vendor risk, AI governance and evidence workflows. Acompli is shown as a third reference column.
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Which public claims, review signals, caveats and capability rows are evidenced.
How much work it takes to implement, maintain and export the privacy record.
The questions a privacy team should ask before switching or shortlisting.
On this page
Key takeaways
- Secure Privacy and Ketch are compared here on public-documentation capability coverage: Secure Privacy is publicly documented for 16 of 20 tracked capabilities, Ketch for 19.
- The clearest difference: Ketch adds Retention management, Training module, Spreadsheet import, which Secure Privacy doesn't publicly document.
- Secure Privacy's public lane is Cookie consent, consent management, website privacy compliance, privacy governance, DSAR, vendor management and DPIA support; Ketch's public lane is Enterprise data privacy, consent/CMP, DSR, data mapping, AI, assessments and privacy orchestration.
- Capability coverage reflects what each vendor publicly documents; confirm current scope, pricing and exports directly with each vendor.
01Short answer
Secure Privacy vs Ketch
Secure Privacy is positioned as: Cookie consent, consent management, website privacy compliance, privacy governance, DSAR, vendor management and DPIA support. Ketch is positioned as: Enterprise data privacy, consent/CMP, DSR, data mapping, AI, assessments and privacy orchestration. Across the tracked capabilities Secure Privacy and Ketch cover much of the same ground, so the decision rests more on operating model, depth and jurisdiction fit than on feature presence.
Ketch has broader public-documentation coverage in this comparison (19 of 20 tracked rows, compared with 16 for Secure Privacy). Capability coverage below reflects what each vendor publicly documents; Acompli is shown as a third reference column.
02At a glance
Secure Privacy vs Ketch at a glance
| Decision question | Secure Privacy | Ketch | Acompli |
|---|---|---|---|
| Best fit | Marketing, legal and privacy teams that need cookie consent, consent logging, website privacy compliance and privacy governance support across many laws | Enterprises and mid-market teams looking for broad data privacy management with consent, cookie management, DSARs, data mapping and assessments across GDPR, CCPA and US state laws | Privacy teams that need evidence-linked GDPR and AI-governance records with human approval, audit trail and regulator-ready exports |
| Operating model | Cookie consent and privacy compliance platform with consent solution, cookie scanner, privacy governance, DSAR, vendor management, DPIA and public plan tiers | A broad US data-privacy and consent platform: consent/CMP, cookie management, DSR, data mapping, AI and assessments with transparent tiered pricing | Connected privacy operations platform for RoPA, DPIA, DSAR, risk, vendors, data mapping, AI governance and code-scan evidence |
| When to choose it | Choose Secure Privacy when consent banners, cookie scanning, consent logging, website compliance and low-cost public pricing are the priority | Choose Ketch when consent, cookie management and broad data-privacy operations across multiple regimes, with transparent self-serve pricing, are central requirements | Choose Acompli when governance records, source evidence, Article 30 continuity and human approval are the priority |
- Best for: Marketing, legal and privacy teams that need a CMP, cookie scanning, consent records, privacy policies and broader governance in a public-pricing package.
- Deployment: Website/app consent platform with cookie scanner, consent collection, privacy governance modules and public pricing tiers.
- Best for: Enterprise and mid-market privacy and marketing teams needing consent, DSAR/DSR, data mapping, AI governance, assessments, tracker management and privacy operations.
- Deployment: Enterprise privacy/consent platform with public plan tiers; deployment is website/app/privacy orchestration oriented.
05Official source signals
What Secure Privacy and Ketch emphasise publicly
This section uses each vendor's own public positioning as the starting point. It is included so customers can see why the two companies may appear in the same shortlist while still solving different problems.
The capability table remains conservative: "Y" means a capability was publicly documented, while "N" means it was not publicly confirmed in the reviewed material.
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Explore| Signal | Secure Privacy | Ketch |
|---|---|---|
| Public positioning | Secure Privacy positions itself around website privacy compliance, consent management and privacy request workflows. | Ketch positions itself around responsible data use, consent, preference and privacy rights orchestration. |
| Main public signals | Official pages emphasise cookie consent, website scanning, consent management and privacy policy support.; The strongest official lane is web privacy compliance and consent operations.; Secure Privacy should be compared where cookie, tracker and website-consent scope is central to the buying case. | Official pages emphasise consent and preference management, data subject rights, privacy operations and policy enforcement.; The strongest public lane is customer-facing privacy experience plus governance over data use choices.; Ketch is a strong comparator where consent, preferences and rights workflows are the centre of the buying case. |
| Best-fit buyer | Marketing, legal and privacy teams that need a CMP, cookie scanning, consent records, privacy policies and broader governance in a public-pricing package | Enterprise and mid-market privacy and marketing teams needing consent, DSAR/DSR, data mapping, AI governance, assessments, tracker management and privacy operations |
| Buyer verification | Ask Secure Privacy to demonstrate the workflows behind the modules that matter to your team, with export evidence and plan scope. | Ask Ketch to demonstrate the workflows behind the modules that matter to your team, with export evidence and plan scope. |
06Sourced 2025-2026 signals
What's new at Secure Privacy (2025-2026, sourced)
These sourced updates were researched on 2026-07-05 and are listed separately from the live comparison table so existing profile claims remain unchanged.
Secure Privacy is retiring its original platform: v1 reaches end-of-support in Q2 2026 (no further security patches or new compliance-signal support such as Google Consent Mode v2 enforcement updates), with existing customers migrated free of charge to a v2 platform that adds unified web/mobile/TV-app consent from one account, a governance portal with DSAR workflows, cryptographic audit logs, and 19+ platform connectors. This is a vendor-stated roadmap/support-lifecycle change, not independently verified.
G2 lists Secure Privacy at 4.9/5 across 115 reviews (as of 2026) — an independent review data point separate from the Capterra figure (5.0/5, 82 reviews, independently re-confirmed as still current) already cited on the comparison page.
Direct verification (July 2026) confirms the Free $0 / Small $15 / Business $59 / Advanced $249 per-domain-per-month tiers on the comparison page are still accurate, but Secure Privacy now also lists a fifth 'Enterprise' tier above Advanced (custom pricing, unlimited consents, dedicated success manager, custom data-center location choice) plus a 30-day free trial requiring no credit card on paid tiers and an annual-billing 'two months free' discount — none of which appear on the comparison page.
Secure Privacy's Vendors Module (published October 2025, last updated April 2026) automatically categorizes third-party vendors into high/medium/low risk tiers and tracks certification expiry (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001) alongside data-processing-agreement tracking — a level of vendor-risk detail beyond the simple 'Vendor risk: Y' entry in the comparison page's capability table.
07Sourced 2025-2026 signals
What's new at Ketch (2025-2026, sourced)
These sourced updates were researched on 2026-07-05 and are listed separately from the live comparison table so existing profile claims remain unchanged.
Ketch was named a Leader in G2's Summer 2026 reports (announced June 18, 2026), earning 22 badges across 41 reports spanning Consent Management, DSAR, Data Privacy Management, Cookie Tracking and Sensitive Data Discovery categories; G2 shows Ketch at a 4.6/5 rating from 147 reviews, and Ketch states it ranked #1 in Enterprise Usability, Results and Relationship for Consent Management, and #1 in DSAR Momentum (fastest-growing DSAR platform on G2 this quarter). This is independent review-platform data not currently reflected in the comparison page.
On Gartner Peer Insights, Ketch shows a 4.8/5 rating from 28 reviews in the Consent and Preference Management market (independently visible on Gartner's site), while Ketch's own marketing materials claim it is the '#1 ranked consent management platform on Gartner Peer Insights' at 4.9/5 -- these are close but not identical figures, so the vendor's superlative claim should be treated as marketing framing rather than quoted as the raw Gartner figure.
Ketch launched 'Data Sentry' on April 22, 2025, described as the industry's first frontend data map for detecting website privacy vulnerabilities -- it scans actual outbound data packets from a website to surface misconfigured CMPs, tracking pixels firing after opt-out, and unauthorized transfers of sensitive data, positioned as a 'privacy pentest' to pre-empt CIPA/VPPA-style demand letters and regulatory action. This is a distinct product capability (frontend privacy-risk/vulnerability scanning) not captured in the existing capability table, which only records a Y/N for basic cookie/tracker scanning.
Ketch has raised a total of $43M across 2 funding rounds (Series A and A1) from investors including Acrew Capital, CRV and SVB, with its most recent disclosed round in 2021 and no Series B or acquisition activity found through mid-2026. This is useful scale context for the comparison (a well-reviewed but still Series-A-stage vendor) and was not previously documented on the page.
08Overlap and gaps
Secure Privacy vs Ketch: what the public data actually shows
Feature count is only a starting point. A customer should separate shared coverage from unique public signals, then test whether the vendor can run the required workflow end to end.
| Decision point | Public signal | Buyer interpretation |
|---|---|---|
| Shared evidenced coverage | DPIA/PIA assessments; RoPA / Article 30; DSAR / privacy rights; Data mapping; Vendor risk; Privacy risk; AI governance; plus 9 more | If your requirement sits here, compare workflow depth, implementation effort, evidence quality and price. |
| Only Secure Privacy publicly confirmed | Secure Privacy has no unique tracked public capability against Ketch in this dataset. | Keep Secure Privacy on the shortlist for these requirements, but ask Ketch whether the same capability exists in current product scope. |
| Only Ketch publicly confirmed | Retention management; Training module; Spreadsheet import | Keep Ketch on the shortlist for these requirements, but ask Secure Privacy whether the same capability exists in current product scope. |
| Acompli reference column | No Acompli-only edge against both vendors appears in the tracked rows. | Use this as a third reference point where a narrower evidence-first privacy workflow may be preferable to a broader platform. |
09Capability comparison
Secure Privacy vs Ketch: capability by capability
Each capability is marked Y or N for Secure Privacy and Ketch based on what each vendor publicly documents, with Acompli shown in the final column.
| Capability | Secure Privacy | Ketch | Acompli |
|---|---|---|---|
| DPIA/PIA assessments | Y | Y | Y |
| RoPA / Article 30 | Y | Y | Y |
| DSAR / privacy rights | Y | Y | N |
| Data mapping | Y | Y | Y |
| Vendor risk | Y | Y | Y |
| Privacy risk | Y | Y | Y |
| AI governance | Y | Y | Y |
| Consent management | Y | Y | N |
| Cookie/tracker scanning | Y | Y | N |
| Breach/incident management | N | N | N |
| Retention management | N | Y | Y |
| Policy/notice management | Y | Y | N |
| Training module | N | Y | N |
| Approval workflows | Y | Y | Y |
| Audit trail | Y | Y | Y |
| Role-based access control | Y | Y | Y |
| Multi-entity support | Y | Y | Y |
| Spreadsheet import | N | Y | Y |
| PDF/CSV/Excel export | Y | Y | Y |
| Public pricing | Y | Y | N |
10Where each is stronger
Secure Privacy vs Ketch: the differences that matter
On the tracked capabilities, Secure Privacy and Ketch overlap on most rows; the differences that matter are the capabilities only one of them evidences, plus the depth and focus each brings to them.
- Only Ketch (not Secure Privacy) is evidenced for: Retention management, Training module, Spreadsheet import.
- Secure Privacy: Cookie banners, scanner, automatic blocking, consent logging, cross-domain consent and Google/Meta consent mode support.
- Secure Privacy: Transparent self-serve pricing with a free tier and low monthly plans for cookie and consent compliance.
- Ketch: Consent and cookie/tracker management (a full CMP).
- Ketch: Transparent, self-serve public pricing with a free tier and tiered plans.
11Customer due diligence
Questions customers should ask before choosing Secure Privacy or Ketch
A useful comparison should move beyond a product page checklist. Customers should ask each supplier to prove the same live workflow, with the same assumptions, so the difference between platform breadth and usable evidence becomes visible.
Run one real workflow
Ask Secure Privacy and Ketch to process the same example: new activity, assessment, RoPA update, supplier evidence, risk record, review and export.
Check evidence provenance
Confirm whether each important field in Secure Privacy and Ketch has a source, owner, review date and change history, not just a completed form.
Validate exports
Ask both vendors for a regulator-readable export for one legal entity, including controller and processor records where relevant.
Confirm commercial scope
Verify which modules, integrations, service hours, data residency options and support commitments are included in the quoted Secure Privacy or Ketch package.
12Shortlisting notes
Choosing between Secure Privacy and Ketch
Assess Secure Privacy and Ketch against the workflow you actually need to run - RoPA, DPIA, vendor and risk records - and how defensibly each exports its evidence.
- Shortlist Secure Privacy when consent banners, cookie scanning, consent logging, website compliance and low-cost public pricing are the priority.
- Shortlist Ketch when consent, cookie management and broad data-privacy operations across multiple regimes, with transparent self-serve pricing, are central requirements.
- Ask Secure Privacy and Ketch to run one real scenario end to end - a new processing activity, its assessment, the RoPA update, supplier evidence, the privacy risk and an exportable audit trail - rather than a feature-by-feature demo.
13Ireland & UK
Secure Privacy vs Ketch: Article 30 records for Irish and UK teams
Both Secure Privacy and Ketch are weighed by Irish and UK privacy teams against the same fixed obligation: a record of processing activities under GDPR Article 30 - a controller record under Article 30(1) and a separate processor record under Article 30(2). In Ireland the Data Protection Commission (DPC) publishes Article 30 guidance; in the UK the ICO sets out what UK GDPR requires.
Whichever of Secure Privacy or Ketch an Irish or UK team weighs, the questions are the same: how deep is the Article 30 record, is EU and UK GDPR distinguished on one register, and can each legal entity produce a self-contained export its own supervisory authority can read?
| Article 30 check | Secure Privacy | Ketch | Why customers care |
|---|---|---|---|
| Controller record | Ask Secure Privacy to show the Article 30(1) controller fields for one processing activity, including purposes, categories, recipients, transfers, retention and security measures. | Ask Ketch to show the Article 30(1) controller fields for one processing activity, including purposes, categories, recipients, transfers, retention and security measures. | A controller record must stand on its own when a regulator or auditor asks for it. |
| Processor record | Ask Secure Privacy to show Article 30(2) processor records separately from controller records, scoped to the controller on whose behalf processing is carried out. | Ask Ketch to show Article 30(2) processor records separately from controller records, scoped to the controller on whose behalf processing is carried out. | Many tools capture controller records more clearly than processor records; customers should verify both. |
| Ireland and UK fit | Ask Secure Privacy how EU GDPR and UK GDPR records are separated or tagged for Irish and UK entities. | Ask Ketch how EU GDPR and UK GDPR records are separated or tagged for Irish and UK entities. | Irish DPC and UK ICO expectations are close, but entity scope, local law references and export format still matter. |
| Standalone export | Ask Secure Privacy for a complete export that a legal entity could provide without giving the regulator product access. | Ask Ketch for a complete export that a legal entity could provide without giving the regulator product access. | A defensible record should be readable outside the platform, with enough context to explain the processing activity. |
- Article 30(1) and 30(2) - does each of Secure Privacy and Ketch model controller and processor records separately, scoped by legal entity?
- DPC (Ireland) and ICO (UK) - is EU and UK GDPR distinguished on one register for Secure Privacy or Ketch?
- Export - can Secure Privacy or Ketch let each legal entity produce a self-contained record its own supervisory authority can read?
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Open moduleRoPA management
Maintain Article 30 records that stay linked to approved assessments, systems, suppliers and transfers.
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Run DPIAs, LIAs, TIAs, processor reviews and AI Act assessments with templates, AI support and human approval.
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Acompli architecture
One governed foundation. Five connected modules.
Imported systems, suppliers, policies, DPIAs and RoPA spreadsheets become the shared evidence model for assessments, risk, records, third-party oversight and data mapping.
- OnboardingImport DPIAs, RoPA spreadsheets, suppliers, systems, policies and documents.
- AssessmentsRun DPIAs, LIAs, TIAs, processor reviews and AI Act assessments with human approval.
- RiskExtract candidate risks from approved evidence and assign treatment plans.
- RoPAMaintain Article 30 records linked to assessments, systems, suppliers and transfers.
- Third-PartyRecord suppliers once, then reference them across assessments, RoPA, risk and maps.
- Data MappingBuild a living view of systems, suppliers, locations, categories and transfers.
Point tools create records. Acompli connects them.