# Osano — Data Protection

Osano by Osano, 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: Osano, Inc. (https://osano.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/osano
- Alternatives: https://whats-best.ai/software/data-protection/osano/alternatives ([markdown](https://whats-best.ai/software/data-protection/osano/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: Osano, 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: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026

## The panel's verdict

Osano, a data protection platform, scores highest on integrations and automation at 7 to 8: 155 data-discovery integrations, a documented REST API, webhooks, Jira alerting, and automated subject-rights summaries and deletions across SaaS apps. Rights and incidents scores a flat 6 — embeddable and email intake, internal deadlines ahead of the 30/45-day windows, deletion with CSV proof — with no public information on breach registers, the 72-hour clock, or authority notification. Privacy management runs 4 to 5 and framework coverage is a flat 5, crediting GDPR and CCPA pages, consent across 50+ countries in 42 languages, but no public information appears on TOMs, legal bases, DPIA triggers, or regimes like BDSG, Swiss nDSG, UK GDPR. Audit readiness spans 4 to 6: some credit audit logs and dashboards as standing proof; others read Audit Defense as staffed response, not system-produced state. Sovereignty at 1 to 2 and pricing transparency at 0 to 1 are the floor: the vendor is a US public benefit corporation, no hosting, DPA or subprocessor details appear, and beyond a free 30-day trial no prices are published.

**Speaks for it:**
- 155 data-discovery integrations, a documented REST API and webhooks connect the platform to the live SaaS estate
- Subject-rights handling runs from embeddable and email intake to automated deletion that returns a CSV of what was removed
- Internal deadlines can be set earlier than the statutory 30/45-day windows
- Automatically generated audit logs and a centralized consent audit trail record how personal data and consents were handled
- GDPR and CCPA each get dedicated solution pages, with geofencing presenting jurisdiction-appropriate request types

**Held against it:**
- No prices appear on any captured page; the only public commercial offer is a free 30-day trial
- We found no public information on a breach register, the 72-hour clock, or authority notification
- We found no public information on hosting location, a published DPA, or a subprocessor list
- We found no public information on TOMs, legal bases, or DPIA triggers derived from the record
- Audit Defense is a human-led service triggered by a regulator's notice, with customers asked to alert Osano within 24 hours

**Best for:**
- You need automated DSAR fulfillment across a large SaaS estate, with API-driven deletion that returns a CSV of what was removed
- You operate mainly under GDPR and CCPA and want one data map serving jurisdiction-appropriate request types through geofencing
- Your consent program spans many countries — claimed across 50+ countries in 42 languages — and you want it alongside subject-rights automation
- You want compliance reporting you can hand to stakeholders — dashboards filter by jurisdiction and date, and audit logs are generated automatically

**Avoid if:**
- You need to know the price before a sales conversation — ask the vendor: the public pages we read do not show it
- You need breach and incident workflows, not just subject rights — ask the vendor: the public pages we read do not show it
- Your procurement requires a visible jurisdictional chain for the platform holding your records of processing — ask the vendor: the public pages we read do not show it
- You need a standing, system-produced audit state without a human service — audit readiness spans 4 to 6 across the bench on exactly that question

## 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 | 2/5 | 2.5/5 | 2.5/5 | 2/5 | 2.5/5 | 2.5/5 |
| Data subject rights & incidents | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 |
| Privacy regime coverage | 2.5/5 | 2.5/5 | 2.5/5 | 2.5/5 | 2.5/5 | 2.5/5 |
| Audit readiness & evidence | 2.5/5 | 2.5/5 | 3/5 | 2/5 | 2.5/5 | 2/5 |
| Integrations & automation | 4/5 | 4/5 | 4/5 | 3.5/5 | 4/5 | 3.5/5 |
| European sovereignty | 0.5/5 | 0.5/5 | 0.5/5 | 0.5/5 | 1/5 | 0.5/5 |
| Pricing transparency | 0.5/5 | 0.5/5 | 0.5/5 | 0/5 | 0.5/5 | 0/5 |
| **Weighted verdict** | **2/5** | **2.5/5** | **2.5/5** | **2/5** | **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**
- DPA available: yes [S1]
- DPA offered: yes [S6]
- Google cmp: yes [S2]

**Integrations**
- API customer rest: Customer REST API documented [S10]
- Custom data sources: integrate data sources beyond automatic integrations [S11]
- Data discovery count: 155 [S10]
- Jira: Jira integration for alerts and notifications [S11]
- Privacy signal count: 2 [S10]
- Source discovery count: 12 [S10]
- Surface summary: A listing of all integrations available at Osano, organized into Data Discovery, Source Discovery, and Privacy Signal integration categories. [S10]
- Webhooks: Webhooks documented [S10]
- Webhooks APIs: Webhooks and APIs for notifications into existing systems [S4]

**Legal**
- Company entity: Public Benefit Corp · Osano, Inc. [S5]
- Disclaimer: no legal advice disclaimer [S11]
- DPA available: yes [S3]
- Entities: Osano, Inc. (Public Benefit Corp) · Osano International Compliance Services LTD · Osano UK Compliance LTD [S8]
- Entities mentioned: Osano, Inc. a Public Benefit Corporation · Osano International Compliance Services LTD · Osano UK Compliance LTD [S3]
- Entity: Public Benefit Corporation · 2018-2026 · Osano, Inc. [S2]
- Entity: Public Benefit Corp · Osano, Inc. [S4]
- Entity: Public Benefit Corp · Osano, Inc. [S6]
- Entity: Public Benefit Corporation · 2018-2026 · Osano, Inc. [S10]
- Entity: Osano, Inc., a Public Benefit Corporation · yes [S7]
- Entity: Public Benefit Corporation [S11]
- No legal advice: yes [S3]
- Public benefit corp: yes [S8]
- Trademark: yes [S3]

**Pricing**
- Fine pledge: No Fines, No Penalties · 200000 [S2]
- Fines guarantee: $500,000 No Fines, No Penalties Guarantee [S1]
- Free trial: 30 · yes [S3]
- Free trial: 30 · yes [S2]
- Free trial: yes · 30 [S4]
- Free trial: yes · yes · 30 [S5]
- Free trial: 30 [S6]
- Free trial: 30 · yes [S9]
- Free trial: 30 · yes [S11]
- Premier plan inclusion: subject rights management included in Premier plan [S5]

**Product**
- Additional identity files: additional files and info can be captured for identity verification [S5]
- Assessments module: yes [S3]
- Assessments reporting: yes · Spotlight metrics to highlight data like overdue, upcoming, and open assessments · Severity of risk across your recent assessments · Privacy scores of assessed vendors · Assessment statuses by assignee [S9]
- Assessments repository: yes · yes [S2]
- Audit defense end to end: Support includes drafting documentation and handling follow-up requests [S8]
- Audit defense expert guidance: Audit Defense provides an expert to guide through responses to audits, investigatory queries, or notices of non-compliance [S8]
- Audit defense process: Customer receives a clear, actionable plan [S8]
- Audit trail: yes [S2]
- Automated actions: automate actions like deleting user data or updating data stores [S11]
- Automated deletion: CSV summary of deleted data · yes · SaaS app supports deletion via API [S5]
- Automated subject rights: Automated subject rights management to expedite DSAR fulfillment and meet 30/45-day deadlines [S4]
- Automated summary CSV: CSV file · yes [S5]
- CCPA platform: Osano Privacy Platform supports CCPA compliance with opt-out request management, GPC universal preference signals, and consumer and employee DSAR automation [S7]
- Cmp reporting: consents by region · consent changes over time · opt-out rates · yes [S9]
- Compliance countries: GDPR · CCPA · LGPD · US state laws · 50+ [S1]
- Compliance countries: 50+ [S5]
- Consent audit trail: centralized consent audit trail as single source of truth [S11]
- Consent implementation: WordPress · SquareSpace · 1 [S2]
- Consent modes: opt-in · opt-out [S7]
- Consent modules: yes · yes [S3]
- Consent regulation coverage: 50 · 42 [S2]
- Cookie consent: iOS · Android · multiple · yes [S2]
- Cross functional response: Response involves legal counsel, compliance experts, and technical specialists [S8]
- Customer rating: 4.5 · 175+ [S6]
- Data discovery: Automated data discovery identifies an individual's personal data across disparate systems and identifies data passed to third parties [S4]
- Data inventory ropa: guide covers data inventories/RoPAs documenting collection, storage, processing, and sharing of personal data [S3]
- Data mapping: yes · yes [S2]
- Data mapping: yes [S6]
- Data mapping: Automated, privacy-focused data mapping [S7]
- Data mapping discovery: Automated system discovery via SSO provider or CDP; manual uploads for non-discoverable systems [S4]
- Data mapping module: yes [S3]
- Data store management: create and manage data stores; convert manual to automated [S11]
- Dsar auto fulfillment: Automated fulfillment of summary and deletion requests with human verification [S7]
- Dsar automation: automated DSAR workflows within 30-day GDPR window [S6]
- Dsar automation capabilities: automated email intake · automated email verification · automated task assignment · automated data store owner notification · automated data summary · automated data deletion · automated data packaging [S5]
- Dsar deadline: 30 [S6]
- Dsar deadlines: 30 · 45 [S2]
- Dsar discovery: Discovers personal information across disparate data stores [S7]
- Dsar forms out of box: yes · one line of code [S5]
- Dsar intake: embeddable form · designated email address [S7]
- Dsar stats: 130M [S1]
- Dsar timeline: CCPA requests must be met within 45 days; Osano streamlines and automates the process [S7]
- Dsar types: access · correction · deletion · opt-out [S7]
- Faq exists: Integrations FAQ documentation covering Common Issues & Solutions [S10]
- GDPR representative: Osano Compliance Services International · Dublin [S6]
- GDPR representative: yes [S8]
- Geo banner: Detects California visitor geolocation, displays relevant banner, and blocks data trackers on opt-out [S7]
- Geo consent banners: yes [S6]
- Geofencing localization: Geofencing and localization present jurisdiction-appropriate request types to data subjects [S4]
- Guarantee fines: 500000 [S8]
- Integrations saas list: large and growing list of SaaS integrations [S5]
- Internal deadlines: Internal timelines can be set earlier than statutory 30/45-day windows [S4]
- Ios sdk: iOS SDK for privacy compliance in apps [S11]
- Js implementation: Cookie Consent implemented with one line of JavaScript [S7]
- Legal advice disclaimer: No legal or regulatory advice disclaimer [S9]
- Legal disclaimer: Osano services do not constitute legal advice [S8]
- Legal entity: Osano, Inc., a Public Benefit Corp [S9]
- Localized rights processing: yes · yes [S2]
- Manual vs automated data stores: task auto-assigned to data store owner · Osano processes automatically [S5]
- Maturity model scope: 18-chapter privacy program maturity model guide [S3]
- Mobile apps: Compliance coverage for websites and mobile apps [S1]
- Module list: Osano Platform · Cookie Consent · Unified Consent & Preference Hub · Subject Rights Management · Data Mapping · Vendor Management · Assessments · Compliance Check · TrustHub · Privacy Templates · GDPR Representative · Regulatory Guidance ·… [S7]
- Modules listed: Cookie Consent · Unified Consent & Preference Hub · Subject Rights Management · Data Mapping · Vendor Management · Assessments · Compliance Check · TrustHub · Privacy Templates · GDPR Representative · Regulatory Guidance · Consult Privacy… [S9]
- No fines pledge: No Fines. No Penalties. [S6]
- Notification requirement: 24 [S8]
- Optout channels: banner · universal preference signals · do-not-sell/-share link [S7]
- Owner email notification: yes [S5]
- Owner file upload: yes [S5]
- Packaging zip: CSV files packaged into single zip and sent to requestor [S5]
- Per field dsar rules: per-field processing rules for DSARs, e.g. delete vs redact [S5]
- Pia automation: consent management · DSAR workflows · privacy impact assessments [S2]
- Platform modules: Cookie Consent · Unified Consent & Preference Hub · Subject Rights Management · Data Mapping · Vendor Management · Assessments · Compliance Check · TrustHub · Privacy Templates · GDPR Representative · Regulatory Guidance · Consult Privacy… [S2]
- Platform modules: Cookie Consent · Unified Consent & Preference Hub · Subject Rights Management · Data Mapping · Vendor Management · Assessments · Compliance Check · TrustHub · Privacy Templates · GDPR Representative · Regulatory Guidance · Consult Privacy… [S6]
- Privacy scores: yes [S2]
- Rating: 4.5 · 175 [S2]
- Rating: 4.5 · 175 [S8]
- Report filtering: Filtering by jurisdictions, dates, consent categories [S9]
- Report sharing: Report elements shareable with customers or prospects [S9]
- Review rating: 4.5 · 175+ [S1]
- Ro pa GDPR requirement: yes [S3]
- Ro pa resources: What is a RoPA? · Privacy Assessments & RoPAs · Download this Guide as a PDF · Download the Scoring Calculator [S3]
- Secure messaging portal: one-click packaging and delivery via secure messaging portal [S5]
- Single line code: Compliance deployment via single line of code [S1]
- Subject rights API: Subject Rights and Data Mapping APIs [S11]
- Subject rights management: yes · yes · 100 [S2]
- Subject rights module: yes [S3]
- Subject rights reporting: yes · Active requests, at-risk, and overdue requests · Requests by jurisdiction · Verified, auto-rejected, and unverified requests · Time to complete requests · Action items by assignee [S9]
- Subprocessor discovery: Discovers sub-processors and fourth parties handling customer data [S7]
- Summary before delete testing: automated summaries can be enabled first to test before enabling automated deletion [S5]
- Third party control: Controls personal data flows to third parties and targeted advertising based on consent [S7]
- Trial: 30 · yes [S1]
- Trial: yes · 30 [S8]

**Support**
- Documentation: Documentation · Developer Documentation · System Status [S3]
- Documentation: yes · yes · yes [S6]
- Documentation: Documentation · Developer Documentation · System Status [S7]
- Rating: 4.5 · 175+ [S7]

12 more facts on the canonical page: https://whats-best.ai/software/data-protection/osano

## Questions

### Is Osano European?

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

### Where does Osano store data?

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

### Does Osano have a free plan?

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

### What are the best alternatives to Osano?

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: [Osano alternatives](https://whats-best.ai/software/data-protection/osano/alternatives).

## What this page leaves out

- 23 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.
- 3 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 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.
- 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.
- 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://osano.com (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S2] Records & DPIA depth — found from sitemap: https://www.osano.com/solutions/data-privacy-management-software (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S3] Records & DPIA depth — found from sitemap: https://www.osano.com/guide/privacy-program-maturity-model/data-inventory-ropa (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S4] Data subject rights & incidents — found from sitemap: https://www.osano.com/articles/dsar-management (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S5] Data subject rights & incidents — found from sitemap: https://www.osano.com/updates/introducing-osano-automated-dsar-summaries-and-deletion (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S6] Privacy regime coverage — found from sitemap: https://www.osano.com/solutions/gdpr-compliance-software (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S7] Privacy regime coverage — found from sitemap: https://www.osano.com/solutions/ccpa-compliance-software (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S8] Audit readiness & evidence — found from sitemap: https://www.osano.com/solutions/audit-defense (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S9] Audit readiness & evidence — found from sitemap: https://www.osano.com/updates/new-reporting-features (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S10] Integrations & automation — found from sitemap: https://www.osano.com/integrations (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S11] Integrations & automation — found from sitemap: https://www.osano.com/updates/introducing-osano-api-ios-sdk (checked 2026-10-13)

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