# Ketch — Data Protection

Ketch by Ketch Technologies, Inc. holds a panel rating of 2.5/5 from 6 AI judges (category median 2.5/5), as of 2026-10-15. Provenance: provenance unknown; sovereignty: not determined.

- Vendor: Ketch Technologies, Inc. (https://ketch.com)
- Category: [Data Protection](https://whats-best.ai/software/data-protection.md)
- Provenance (editorial classification): provenance unknown
- Canonical page: https://whats-best.ai/software/data-protection/ketch
- Alternatives: https://whats-best.ai/software/data-protection/ketch/alternatives ([markdown](https://whats-best.ai/software/data-protection/ketch/alternatives.md))
- Data as of: 2026-10-21 · evaluated 2026-10-15 · oldest source captured 2026-10-13

**AI-generated.** Every score, rationale and verdict here is written by a panel of AI judges from public evidence — an analysis, not a hands-on test. Every fact quotes the vendor page it was read from. No score can be bought. How scores are made: https://whats-best.ai/methodology

## At a glance

- Vendor: Ketch Technologies, Inc.
- Headquarters: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026
- Data hosting: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026
- Free plan: Yes, per the vendor’s own page [S4]

## The panel's verdict

Ketch, from Ketch Technologies, Inc. of 140 New Montgomery, San Francisco, is a data-protection platform strongest where privacy work meets infrastructure. Integrations and automation scores 8, the top score: 1,000+ pre-built connectors across analytics, CDP, CRM and warehouse categories, Okta-driven system discovery, and agents that classify data and propose fixes on human approval. Privacy management, framework coverage and audit readiness score 5-6, built on ready-to-use DPIA, PIA, TIA, vendor review and ROPA templates, a complete-assessment export with sources, approvals and timeline for regulators, and four consent frameworks — TCF v2.2, GPP, GPC, Consent Mode v2 — in one configuration. Sovereignty scores 0-1, with every sovereignty attribute unknown and no public information on hosting region, a published DPA or a subprocessor list; pricing transparency scores 2-3, with the full-feature CMP at $0 — no credit card — the only public figure. Rights and incidents scores 4-5: DSR enforcement through the connectors is operational, but we found no public information on a breach register, the 72-hour clock or authority notification. Score spread never exceeds one point on any criterion, so no criterion split the panel.

**Speaks for it:**
- Integrations and automation scored 8 — 1,000+ pre-built connectors across analytics, CDP, CRM, ecommerce, tag-management and warehouse categories, automatic Okta-driven system discovery, and agent-proposed fixes gated on human approval.
- A free entry point is fully public — a full-feature CMP at $0 with no credit card, live in minutes, alongside a Ketch Free tier.
- Ready-to-use templates ship for DPIAs, PIAs, TIAs, AI impact assessments, vendor reviews and the ROPA, fed by live discovery and contract-versus-DPA reconciliation.
- DSR enforcement runs through the pre-built connector set with identity resolution across browsers, devices and touchpoints, and records tied to the individual rather than a browser session.
- A complete assessment exports with sources, approvals and timeline for regulators, alongside continuous agent-driven drift detection against policy and the ROPA.

**Held against it:**
- Sovereignty scored 0-1 — the captured pages show a San Francisco headquarters, every sovereignty attribute is listed unknown, and we found no public information on hosting region, a published DPA or a subprocessor list.
- Pricing transparency scored 2-3 — the full-feature CMP at $0 is the only public figure, and we found no public information on paid edition, module or scale pricing.
- Rights and incidents scored 4-5 — we found no public information on statutory deadline tracking, a breach register, the 72-hour clock or authority notification.
- Audit readiness stops short of a standing state — we found no public information on revision-safe change history, auditor access roles, or reconstructing the register state on a given date.
- The captured pages give different figures for the pre-built connector count — '1,000+' in several places and 'hundreds' in another.

**Best for:**
- You need consent and DSR signals enforced end to end across a broad SaaS and warehouse estate — integrations and automation scored 8, the top score recorded.
- You want a free start — the full-feature CMP is $0 with no credit card, live in minutes.
- Your team builds DPIAs and processing records from live system discovery and agent-flagged drift between contracts and actual data flows.
- You run consent under TCF v2.2, GPP, GPC and Google Consent Mode v2 and want one configuration with new IAB and Google framework versions applied automatically.

**Avoid if:**
- You must verify hosting region, DPA terms and subprocessor exposure before procurement — sovereignty scored 0-1, and the captured pages show a San Francisco headquarters with nothing further on this criterion.
- You need breach workflows — ask the vendor: the public pages we read do not show it
- You must compute the total platform invoice before a sales conversation — pricing transparency scored 2-3 and the only public figure is the free tier.

## Scores by judge and criterion

Scores out of 5, each judge scoring independently against the published rubric (v2). "n/r" = not rated: the vendor publishes no price.

| Criterion | The External DPO | The In-House Counsel | The Drafted Generalist | The Lead Auditor | The IT Integrator | The Skeptic |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Records & DPIA depth | 3/5 | 3/5 | 2.5/5 | 2.5/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 |
| Data subject rights & incidents | 2.5/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 |
| Privacy regime coverage | 2.5/5 | 2.5/5 | 2.5/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 2.5/5 |
| Audit readiness & evidence | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 2.5/5 | 2.5/5 |
| Integrations & automation | 4/5 | 4/5 | 4/5 | 4/5 | 4/5 | 4/5 |
| European sovereignty | 0/5 | 0/5 | 0/5 | 0/5 | 0.5/5 | 0/5 |
| Pricing transparency | 1.5/5 | 1/5 | 1.5/5 | 1/5 | 1.5/5 | 1.5/5 |
| **Weighted verdict** | **2.5/5** | **2/5** | **2/5** | **2.5/5** | **3/5** | **2/5** |

### The judges

- **The External DPO** (v2.0): Carries thirty client mandates and bills by the hour they save. Optimizes for multi-client capability, reusable templates, a RoPA that drives the rest, and client-ready reports. Rejects single-tenant tools that treat the consultancy as thirty separate customers.
- **The In-House Counsel** (v2.0): Answers personally when the authority writes. Optimizes for defensibility: request clocks that never slip, a breach workflow that produces the Art. 33 notification, regime coverage that matches where the company actually operates. Rejects tools whose legal content nobody maintains.
- **The Drafted Generalist** (v2.1): Office manager at an 80-employee firm who got compliance added to her job title, not her calendar. Optimizes for guided workflows in plain language and software that knows the law so she does not have to. Rejects consultant-shaped platforms that assume a compliance department.
- **The Lead Auditor** (v2.0): Audits management systems for a living and has seen every folder of screenshots. Optimizes for revision-safe history, evidence packs on demand, and a defensible answer to "show me the state on date X". Rejects systems where the audit trail is assembled the week before the audit.
- **The IT Integrator** (v2.0): Has to feed the compliance platform from the estate that already exists: Entra ID, Jira, the CMDB. Optimizes for directory import, a real API, webhooks and SSO — compliance data that stays current because it syncs, not because someone retypes it. Rejects data islands with a CSV drawbridge.
- **The Skeptic** (v2.1): Hunts certification logos that link nowhere, "AI-powered" features with no substance behind them, consulting bundled as software, legal-update promises with no named lawyer, and customer counts that disagree between pages. Exists to keep the rest of the bench honest.

## European sovereignty — proven facts

Built only from facts on the vendor's own pages; a dimension we could not prove is left open, never scored as zero. Headline: not determined.

| Dimension | Finding | Points | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Legal entity | Not determined | — | — |
| Ownership | Not determined | — | — |
| Data residency | Not determined | — | — |
| Subprocessors | Not determined | — | — |

## Key facts

Each fact is the vendor's own statement, cited to the source page it was read from ([S*n*] → Sources).

**Compliance**
- Google cmp certified: yes [S2]
- Security page: yes [S4]

**Hosting**
- Address: 140 New Montgomery, San Francisco, CA 94105 [S2]
- Address: 140 New Montgomery, San Francisco, CA 94105 [S6]
- Address: 140 New Montgomery, San Francisco, CA 94105 [S5]
- Hq address: 140 New Montgomery, San Francisco, CA 94105 [S3]

**Integrations**
- Analytics examples: Adobe Analytics, Amplitude, Branch, FullStory, Google Analytics, Heap, Microsoft Clarity, Mixpanel, MongoDB, Pendo [S5]
- Categories: Analytics · CDP · CRM & Customer Service · Ecommerce · Marketing & ads · Productivity & Operations · Tag Management · Warehouse · Other [S5]
- Cdp examples: Acquia, Adobe CDP, Blueconic, Blueshift, Insider CDP, Twilio Segment, Simon Data, Tealium CDP, mParticle, Bloomreach, Hightouch [S5]
- Count prebuilt: yes · 1000+ [S5]
- CRM examples: HubSpot, Intercom, Kustomer, Outreach, Qualtrics, Salesforce Sales Cloud, Zendesk Support, Freshdesk, Gorgias [S5]
- Ecommerce examples: Adobe Commerce, BigCommerce, Commercetools, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, ShipStation, Shopify, Talon.One, Zephr, Elevar [S5]
- Other examples: Google Pub/Sub, OneTrust, Salesforce, SKU Vault, Sourcepoint, Stripe, Vanta, Webflow [S5]
- Prebuilt count: yes · 1000+ [S4]
- Prebuilt sdks: yes [S2]
- Tag management examples: Adobe Experience Platform (AEP), Google Tag Manager [S5]

**Legal**
- Address: 140 New Montgomery, San Francisco, CA 94105 [S4]
- Company: Ketch Kloud, Inc. [S5]
- Entity: Ketch Kloud, Inc. [S2]
- Entity: Ketch Kloud, Inc. · 2026 [S6]
- Entity: Ketch Kloud, Inc. [S4]

**Pricing**
- Free tier: yes [S4]

**Product**
- Agent network: yes [S4]
- Agent network updates: Agent Network applies new IAB and Google framework versions automatically [S2]
- AI governance module: yes [S3]
- Assessment types: DPIA · PIA · TIA · AI impact assessments · vendor reviews · ROPA [S4]
- Audit demo compliance: yes · records are tied to the individual rather than a browser or session [S4]
- Audit exports: yes [S4]
- Backward compatibility: yes [S2]
- Case study pch traffic: Prestige Consumer Healthcare · 46 [S3]
- Configuration drift detection: agent applies inside relevant Ketch product on your approval · yes [S4]
- Configure once no code: yes [S2]
- Connector surface: Pre-built APIs with 1,000+ systems, apps, and models [S6]
- Consent management module: yes [S3]
- Consent mode v2 capabilities: Real-time sync with Google tags, GPP/CMP compatibility, data minimization [S2]
- Consent mode v2 description: Consent Mode v2 required for EEA/UK advertisers running Google Ads [S2]
- Consent scale: 67200000000 [S3]
- Consent scale: 67.2B consent transactions a month [S5]
- Consent tagging approach: Ketch tags every piece of collected data with permits determining permissible use; developers can query permissibility [S3]
- Consent transactions monthly: 67.2 [S2]
- Continuous risk management: yes [S4]
- Contract DPA reconciliation: yes [S4]
- Customer count: 3500 [S1]
- Data classification: yes [S4]
- Description: Modern privacy management / permissioning software platform [S1]
- Developer ecosystem: Ketch integrations and developer ecosystem [S5]
- Discovery modules: Data Sentry · Data Mapping · Data Discovery & Classification · AI Governance [S1]
- Discovery scope: Scans Okta for personal data using connected credentials [S6]
- Dsr automation module: yes [S3]
- Dsr enforcement: pass consent signals and enforce DSRs via pre-built integrations [S5]
- EU AI act: yes [S4]
- Framework updates scope: yes [S2]
- Frameworks one configuration: 4 · GPP · GPC · TCF v2.2 · Consent Mode v2 [S2]
- Free cmp: yes · 0 · no [S3]
- Free tier: yes [S6]
- G2 rating: 4.6 · 170+ [S1]
- G2 rating: 4.6 · 170+ [S4]
- GDPR operationalization: Ketch operationalizes GDPR across Discovery, Permissioning, and Growth [S3]
- Global regulation coverage: Ketch claims coverage of entire global regulatory landscape without codebase changes [S3]
- Gpc audit trails: GPC automatic detection, cross-system enforcement, audit trails [S2]
- Gpc enforcement: GPC is a browser opt-out signal treated as valid under CCPA/CPRA; Ketch enforces it end to end [S2]
- Gpc enforcement scope: GPC enforced end to end vs typical CMP banner-level acknowledgment [S2]
- Gpp description: GPP carries jurisdiction-specific consent signals in a single string passed downstream to adtech [S2]
- Gpp signal translation: GPP string translation, legacy IAB backward compatibility, no-code orchestration [S2]
- Identity management module: yes [S3]
- Identity resolution: Resolve identity across browsers, devices, and touchpoints automatically. [S5]
- Identity synchronization: Identity Synchronization carries consent state across devices, browsers, and authenticated sessions [S2]
- Integration timeline: pre-built connectors: minutes; complex environments: days or weeks [S5]
- Ketch free tier: yes [S3]
- Live data connections: yes [S4]
- Okta capability scope: System Discovery [S6]
- Okta integration purpose: Ketch integrates with Okta to discover which applications an organization uses by reading Okta's application registry [S6]
- Okta required access: Okta API Token from Read-only Administrator role · or custom role with 'View applications and their details' permission · organization's Okta domain [S6]
- Okta scan behavior: newly found systems on the Ketch Systems home screen · yes [S6]
- Onetrust migration: yes [S2]
- Pch prior issue: Prestige Consumer Healthcare · 56 [S3]
- Permission vault: Permission Vault is server-side canonical consent database [S2]
- Permission vault: yes [S4]
- Permissioning modules: Consent Management · DSR Automation · Risk Management [S1]
- Platform features: Data Mapping & Data Discovery Tools · Consent & Preference Management · Risk Assessments & Reporting · Data Subject Rights (DSR) Fulfillment [S3]
- Platform modules: Ketch Agent Network · Ketch Free · AI Governance · Consent Management · DSR Automation · Identity Management [S2]
- Platform modules: Ketch Agent Network · Ketch Free · AI Governance · Consent Management · DSR Automation · Identity Management [S6]
- Realtime enforcement: Apply consent and marketing preferences consistently the moment they change. [S5]
- Roi claims: 12x · +38:1 · +95% · +70% [S4]
- Scale claim: 67200000000 [S6]
- Scale claims: millions of orchestrated data flows daily, thousands of deployments, 20+ categories, multi-cloud and hybrid environments [S5]
- Scale metrics: 67.2 [S1]
- Setup time: setup in less than 5 minutes [S1]
- Sme routing: yes [S4]
- Stats: 3500+ · 5+ · 30.8B · 67.2B [S4]
- Supported frameworks: GPP · GPC · Google Consent Mode v2 · IAB TCF [S2]
- Tcf description: TCF governs consent collection under GDPR and ePrivacy Directive [S2]
- Tcf granular control: TCF v2.2 support with granular control over vendors, purposes, legal bases [S2]
- Tcf v22 support: yes [S2]
- Unified orchestration: Coordinate consent across every tool and channel from a single control plane. [S5]
- Workflow steps: .Detect · Translate · Enforce · Document [S2]

**Support**
- Competitor comparisons: OneTrust · TrustArc · BigID · DataGrail · Securiti · Transcend · Privado · Osano [S3]
- Newsletter: once a month · yes [S3]
- Okta docs: yes [S6]
- Trial cta: yes [S3]
- Trial free tier: Ketch Free · yes [S2]
- Unsubscribe policy: yes [S3]

## Questions

### Is Ketch European?

Not determined: the vendor’s pages as captured do not say where Ketch is based.

### Where does Ketch store data?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026.

### Does Ketch have a free plan?

Yes. Ketch has a free plan, per [the vendor’s page captured 13 Oct 2026](https://whats-best.ai/evidence/7560).

### What are the best alternatives to Ketch?

As of 21 Oct 2026, the panel rates [preeco | datenschutz (4/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/data-protection/preeco), [Dastra (3/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/data-protection/dastra) and [caralegal (3/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/data-protection/caralegal) highest among the other 41 Data Protection products evaluated. Ratings that look equal are rounded to half stars; the order uses the unrounded rating, then the name. The highest-rated European alternative is [preeco | datenschutz](https://whats-best.ai/software/data-protection/preeco) (EU-Made). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: [how scores are made](https://whats-best.ai/methodology#ordering). The full list, with European products first: [Ketch alternatives](https://whats-best.ai/software/data-protection/ketch/alternatives).

## What this page leaves out

- 12 product facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 5 integrations facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 4 legal facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 2 pricing facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 1 compliance fact could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and was left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 1 hosting fact could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and was left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 6 of the readings below were written against an earlier fact sheet — a fact has been corrected, added or pulled since. Until the panel next runs on this product you are reading the older judgement.

## Sources

- [S1] Vendor page: https://ketch.com (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S2] Privacy regime coverage — found from sitemap: https://www.ketch.com/solutions/privacy-frameworks (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S3] Privacy regime coverage — found from sitemap: https://www.ketch.com/regulatory-compliance/general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S4] Audit readiness & evidence — found from sitemap: https://www.ketch.com/platform/risk-management-and-reporting (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S5] Integrations & automation — found from sitemap: https://www.ketch.com/integrations (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S6] Integrations & automation — found from sitemap: https://www.ketch.com/integrations/okta (checked 2026-10-13)

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Cite as: whats-best.ai, "Ketch — Data Protection", AI panel analysis, as of 2026-10-21. https://whats-best.ai/software/data-protection/ketch

Corrections: https://whats-best.ai/correct/784?target=page