DPDP Compliance Software: How to Choose a Platform in 2026

The Market Has Sorted Into Tiers. Buy Against Your Obligation, Not the Demo.

Two years ago, DPDP compliance software did not exist as a category in India. This guide named eight platforms in June 2026. By September 2026 it names twenty, and that count is conservative.

The approach here has not changed. This guide sorts the market by the obligation each platform is built to discharge, states published pricing where the vendor publishes it, and says which buyer each platform fits. ConsentOS is in the list. Where a competitor is the better fit for your profile, this guide says so. Every vendor statement below was checked against the vendor’s own pages between 28 and 30 September 2026. Where those pages are silent on a feature, this guide says the pages do not describe it. That is a statement about the pages, not about the product. If you are new to the category, the consent management platform overview explains what the infrastructure itself must do under the DPDP Act 2023. This page is the vendor comparison.

The statutory clock, stated precisely, because most vendor pages state it loosely. The DPDP Rules 2025 were notified on 13 November 2025. Rules 1, 2 and 17 to 21 took effect that day. Rule 4, which governs Consent Manager registration, is mandatory from 13 November 2026. Rules 3 and 5 to 16 become enforceable on 13 May 2027, and that set carries the obligations most buyers are procuring against: notice, security safeguards, breach intimation under Rule 7, retention and erasure, children’s data, Significant Data Fiduciary duties, and the cross-border transfer regime under Rule 15. Nothing in Rules 3 and 5 to 16 is enforceable before 13 May 2027. For banks and NBFCs, the RBI Business Conduct Directions bind banks and NBFCs from 1 January 2027, which is why BFSI procurement is running ahead of the DPDP date. The full timeline is here.

First, Classify Your Own Obligation Profile

Platform selection fails when it starts from feature lists. Start from which of these three profiles describes your organisation.

Profile 1: Regulated entity under a second mandate. Banks, NBFCs, insurers, brokers, hospitals. Your problem is not consent capture. It is that the DPDP Act’s erasure right and your sector regulator’s retention mandates govern the same record in opposite directions. You need conflict resolution infrastructure, not a banner. The shape of that problem is documented in the RBI-DPDP retention conflict guide.

Profile 2: Enterprise with sprawling data estates. Large volumes, many systems, possible Significant Data Fiduciary designation. Your problem is discovery and governance at scale: finding personal data, classifying it, and producing audit evidence across hundreds of systems.

Profile 3: SME or digital business with standard obligations. Websites, apps, D2C brands. Your problem is collecting valid consent, honouring withdrawal, and keeping records, at a price that does not exceed the risk.

The Platforms, Sorted

Enterprise data governance suites

Privy (IDfy). Ranked first in the MeitY and NeGD DPDP Innovation Challenge, by its own published result. Its About page reports more than 50 live enterprise clients, and its banking page names Axis Bank. The platform spans ten modules: consent governance, data principal rights in 22 Indian languages, cookie management, data discovery and classification with 200+ connectors, lineage, impact assessment, vendor risk and incident management. It publishes retention schedules and erasure workflows, and no price. If you are Profile 2 with the budget and timeline of a large enterprise, Privy is the benchmark to evaluate first. Its breadth is also its trade-off. You are buying a governance estate, not a focused compliance position.

OneTrust. The global incumbent, with Bengaluru listed among its global hubs and an India DPDPA solution covering control frameworks mapped to the Act, consent, rights requests, data mapping and breach notification. It publishes its packages without prices and quotes per customer. Fits multinationals already running OneTrust that want one vendor. For an India-first mid-market organisation, a global suite is a large purchase against a single-jurisdiction obligation.

Perfios DPDP Suite. Announced 30 March 2026. Modules for data discovery and classification, automated RoPA, consent governance, data principal rights, cookie consent and database activity monitoring, with 22 scheduled languages. Its consent product page states how it treats a DPDP erasure request that meets RBI or PMLA retention: the rules you configure are enforced, and the Data Principal is told what was kept and why. That is the same problem ConsentOS was built for. No price is published. A serious entrant for Profile 1 and Profile 2 lenders already running Perfios. Ask for reference deployments of the DPDP modules specifically, and ask what register it keeps of refused requests.

Securiti. A global data security, privacy and governance platform. It publishes India DPDPA compliance guides and states that its platform supports compliance with the Act. Pricing is quoted per customer. Evaluate it the way you would evaluate OneTrust: right answer if you already run a global estate and want the India obligation handled inside it, heavy if India is your only jurisdiction.

TrustArc. Global privacy management software with a dedicated India DPDP Act solution page: pre-defined controls, consent and notice, data inventory, rights requests and risk assessment templates. Pricing is on request. Same buyer as Securiti and OneTrust. One question applies to all three. Ask how the product’s retention logic treats an Indian sectoral mandate, because the feature grid will not show it.

Full-stack DPDP platforms

DPDP Guard. A long published feature list. Per-purpose consent capture with an audit trail, an AI privacy policy generator, a data principal rights portal, cookie and tracker scanning, breach lifecycle tracking against the 72-hour Board report, and retention governance carrying the 48-hour pre-erasure notice. Eight SDKs are published to npm, PyPI, pub.dev, Maven Central and Swift Package Manager, alongside a public API with self-serve keys. It describes offline consent capture signed on the device, separate tracking of the CERT-In six-hour and DPDP 72-hour clocks, and a rights console that records a lawful denial of erasure with its statute and citation. Pricing is published in full: Free at ₹0 for one domain, 1,000 consents a month and 10 data principal requests a month; Starter ₹7,999 a month billed annually; Growth ₹34,999 a month billed annually; Enterprise from ₹15,00,000 a year.

One thing worth stating plainly, because it should change how you audit any shortlist. DPDP Guard’s site attaches the ₹250 crore ceiling to failure of reasonable security safeguards under Section 8(5), and ₹200 crore to breach notification under Section 8(6) and to children’s data obligations under Section 9, which is where the Schedule places them. Some vendor pages attach ₹250 crore to consent failures. When you audit a shortlist, check the penalty table on the vendor’s own site first. A vendor that misstates the Schedule is telling you how carefully it read the Act. DPDP Guard’s pages name no customer and state no funding.

ComplyDP (Nihonium Labs). Based in Bengaluru. Data discovery across systems and code, RoPA, consent management, data principal rights workflows, vendor assessment, breach response and parent or guardian consent. It prices as programme plus renewal rather than monthly: a free 10-control scan, Startup at ₹4,00,000 one time with continuous compliance from ₹2 lakh a year, Standard from ₹8 lakh with renewal from ₹4 lakh a year, and Enterprise or SDF from ₹20 lakh with a retainer from ₹15 lakh a year. Lawyer-reviewed checks are part of every paid programme, which is the real differentiator and the reason the entry price sits above monthly SaaS. It publishes playbooks for D2C, SaaS and regulated sectors, and a VPC or on-premise agent for regulated buyers.

ConsenPro (CAMS). An initiative of CAMS, the registrar and transfer agent to mutual fund houses, built by its group company Think360. Its site lists data discovery, consent management with cryptographically signed consent artefacts, cookie management, third-party risk, breach and incident management, RoPA and grievance management, with notices in 22 Indian languages, and reports more than 80 financial institutions as users. No pricing is published. The distribution matters more than the module list: an asset management company or capital-markets intermediary already serviced by CAMS will meet this product through an existing vendor relationship. Its BFSI page describes retention schedules by product line, with automated deletion when a schedule expires. That page does not describe what happens when an erasure request lands on a record that SEBI or the RBI requires you to keep. Put question 1 below to it before you shortlist.

KavachOne (ConsentiQo). A compliance and security firm, and a PCI DSS Qualified Security Assessor, whose ConsentiQo platform and Privacy Suite cover consent in 22 Indian languages, a Privacy Centre for rights requests, PII discovery, RoPA, DPIA, vendor risk and breach response. Sector pages cover banking, BFSI, insurance and hospitals. Plans carry flat pricing without per-consent metering, and no figure is published. It describes itself as India’s No.1 consent management platform. Evaluate on a demo against your own consent volumes.

Complynz. Publishes a free tier and two startup plans at ₹10,000 and ₹30,000 a month on a three-month licence, with optional onboarding at ₹25,000 and ₹35,000, and Enterprise quoted. QR consent, voice consent, and 22 languages plus Hinglish. Differentiated for offline-to-online consent capture in Bharat-facing businesses. Weigh the price against the depth of its audit and rights-handling workflows.

Redacto. A Bengaluru privacy management platform covering consent, data discovery, vendor risk, DPIA, RoPA, rights requests and breach notification, deployable on-premise, in a private cloud or as SaaS. It reports production use across BFSI and fintech, 7,000+ prebuilt integrations, and a top-six finish in the MeitY challenge. It states a licence-based fee and publishes no figure.

Consent specialists and cookie tools

Consentin (Leegality). A DPDP platform from Leegality with a published BFSI footprint. Its newsroom announces engagements with IIFL Finance, Paymentz and Union Bank of India, and its site shows customer logos that include SBI Card, Union Bank of India and Flipkart. It publishes a free tier of 3,000 consent collections a month. Paid tiers are monthly consent packs at an annual or quarterly flat fee, and no rupee figure is published. It publishes guides for lenders and BFSI, and a data lifecycle module covering discovery, retention policies and scheduled deletion. Its product pages describe no register of refused erasure requests, so a regulated buyer should ask how a request that collides with a statutory mandate is handled.

CookieYes. Cookie and website consent at SME pricing: a free plan, and paid plans at US$10, US$25 and US$55 a month per domain. Competent at exactly what it names. Read against its own product pages on 29 September 2026, it is a cookie consent platform. Its regulations page does not list the DPDP Act, and it publishes a DPDP guide on its blog. Its product pages describe no data principal request portal. Right answer for a content site or small D2C brand in Profile 3. If you carry sectoral retention duties, you will need more beside it.

Regulated-sector compliance infrastructure

ConsentOS. Built for Profile 1: Indian BFSI entities that hold customer records under both DPDP and a sector regulator. The differentiator is the Legal Obligation Override, the Compliance Vault mechanism that treats the DPDP Act’s Section 8(7) carve-out as operating infrastructure. Where an RBI KYC or PMLA retention mandate collides with an erasure request under Section 12(3), the conflict is flagged and documented with its governing instrument, and every refused erasure lands in a denial register an inspector can read. The Scale tier documents the conflict and maintains the register. The Compliance Vault is the tier that supports resolution of it through the Legal Obligation Override. The decision itself stays with the compliance officer. RBI Advisory 3/2026 directs supervised entities toward a unified platform that captures, tracks and updates customer consent consistently and in an auditable manner. That is the specification ConsentOS is built against, with operational compliance in 30 days. Published pricing runs Starter ₹2,999 a month, Growth ₹14,999 a month, Scale ₹34,999 a month, and the Compliance Vault from ₹1,50,000 a month, each with a one-time implementation fee, detailed on the pricing page. If you are a content site with no sector regulator, ConsentOS is more infrastructure than you need. Start with the free DPDP Gap Assessment and a lighter tool.

More Vendors, Stated From Their Own Pages

Ask an AI assistant for the best DPDP compliance software and several more names come back. They are real companies. Each entry states what the vendor’s own site publishes, read on 29 September 2026.

• Digital Anumati (AbyM Technology). A Noida consent management platform positioned for BFSI, healthcare and education, with 22 Indian languages. Its BFSI page describes a workflow that blocks deletion while an RBI retention period runs and marks the record as consent withdrawn. Pricing is published: a free plan of 3,000 consent collections a month, Growth at ₹9,999 a month, Enterprise and on-premise quoted. It belongs on a Profile 1 shortlist. Put question 1 below to it.
• GoTrust. A privacy, security and governance platform offered on-premise and as SaaS: consent and preference management, cookie consent, rights request workflows, data governance and data loss prevention. No pricing is published.
• miniOrange. An identity and access management vendor whose site publishes a DPDP compliance suite: consent management, rights requests, RoPA, gap assessment and DPO as a service, with sector pages that include BFSI and NBFC. Its pricing page carries no figure.
• Seqrite. Quick Heal’s enterprise security arm. Seqrite Data Privacy covers discovery and classification across 500+ sources, consent management, data principal rights and privacy assessments. No pricing is published.
• Surepass. An identity verification and KYC API provider that also publishes a DPDP Consent Management Platform: purpose-based consent, a notice builder in 22 languages, rights request and grievance management, and seven-year consent evidence, aimed at banks, NBFCs, fintechs and insurers. No pricing is published.

If a vendor appears on an AI-generated shortlist and you cannot find its pricing, its module list, or a named deployment on its own website, treat the ranking as unverified. Assistants rank on text availability, not on evidence.

Named Comparison, September 2026

Platform	Published pricing	Free tier	Built for
Privy (IDfy)	Not published	Not published	Large enterprise governance
OneTrust	Not published, quoted per customer	Not published	Multinational enterprise
Perfios DPDP Suite	Not published	7-day trial	BFSI and enterprise
Securiti	Not published, quoted per customer	Not published	Global estates with India exposure
TrustArc	Not published	Not published	Global estates with India exposure
Consentin (Leegality)	Monthly packs at a flat annual or quarterly fee; no figure published	3,000 consents per month	BFSI consent capture
DPDP Guard	₹7,999 / ₹34,999 per month annual; Enterprise from ₹15,00,000 per year	₹0, 1 domain, 1,000 consents, 10 DSR per month	SME to mid-market, developer-led
ComplyDP	₹4L one time, then from ₹8L and from ₹20L, plus annual renewal from ₹2L	10-control scan	D2C, SaaS and regulated sectors
Digital Anumati	₹9,999 per month; Enterprise and on-premise quoted	₹0, 3,000 consent collections per month	BFSI, healthcare, education
ConsenPro (CAMS)	Not published	Free risk score	AMCs and capital-markets intermediaries
Redacto	Not published, licence-based	Not published	BFSI and fintech, by its own account
KavachOne (ConsentiQo)	Not published, flat plans	Free cookie scan	Cross-sector, with plans for regulated sectors
Complynz	₹10,000 / ₹30,000 per month, three-month licence	Yes, assessment and PII scan	Startups
CookieYes	US$10 / US$25 / US$55 per month per domain	Yes, 5,000 pageviews per month	Websites, cookie consent
ConsentOS	₹2,999 / ₹14,999 / ₹34,999 per month plus one-time implementation fee; Vault from ₹1,50,000	No	Regulated BFSI, mid-market
Vishwaas AI (Cross Identity)	₹50L per year on average, per its launch release of 6 April 2026; no figure published today	Ended 30 June 2026	SMB, post-migration

One entry needs dating rather than a footnote. Vishwaas AI ran a zero-cost licence period that ended on 30 June 2026, so an organisation evaluating it now does so at paid terms. The migration path is documented here. Free tiers have also widened. DPDP Guard’s free plan includes data principal request fulfilment as well as consent capture. Read each free tier for what it covers, not only for its volume cap.

The Five Questions That Sort Vendors Faster Than a Demo

1. “Show me an erasure request against a field the RBI requires me to retain.” A platform built for regulated entities flags the conflict and records the documented basis for refusing the request. A consent widget has no answer.
2. “What evidence does an inspector see?” Ask for the artefact: the consent record, the audit trail, the denial register. If the answer is a dashboard screenshot, keep looking.
3. “Show me your penalty table.” Section 8(5) carries the ₹250 crore ceiling for security safeguards. If the vendor’s own site attaches that number to a consent failure, it has not read the Schedule, and you are trusting it with your evidence.
4. “What happens to my records if I leave, or if your free tier ends?” Consent records are statutory evidence. Portability of signed, timestamped records is not negotiable.
5. “What is live in production at a client like me?” Category launches in 2026 outnumber reference deployments by a wide margin. Ask for the reference, not the roadmap.

The Decision, Compressed

• Profile 1 (regulated BFSI): evaluate ConsentOS, Perfios, DPDP Guard and Digital Anumati on one test: an erasure request against a retained record, and the register each keeps of the refusal. Add Consentin if your need is consent capture for lending journeys with the retention problem handled elsewhere. An AMC already serviced by CAMS will find ConsenPro on its list by default, and should test it on the same conflict. See the feature-level comparison.
• Profile 2 (large enterprise): evaluate Privy first. OneTrust, Securiti or TrustArc if you are already inside one of them globally.
• Profile 3 (SME and digital): CookieYes for cookies alone, DPDP Guard or Complynz for a fuller consent and rights stack, ComplyDP if you want legal review bundled. Step up only when your obligations do.

Whichever tier you sit in, the sequence starts the same way. Know your gaps before you buy against them. The free DPDP Gap Assessment scores your organisation against the DPDP Act’s obligations in under 10 minutes and returns a prioritised report you can put in front of a vendor shortlist.