Evaluation Checklist for DPDP Compliance Platforms

It provides the systems and support an organisation needs to meet its DPDP obligations, including:

Different DPDP vendors solve different parts of the compliance problem.

A platform vendor gives you the software your compliance runs on, day to day, permanently. A consultant or auditor gives you an assessment of where you stand at a point in time.

An audit tells you if your consent flows and data processing are non-compliant. A platform is what you use to fix them and keep them compliant.

Start by making a list of the features you need — consent, notices, retention, rights, breach response, data discovery — and compare vendors against it. Ask for specifics on the areas where platforms differ most: retention and deletion, unstructured data discovery, and what happens downstream when consent is withdrawn. Look at their credentials — certifications, existing enterprise deployments, regulatory expertise.

Check what each vendor charges and how they charge. Per-consent or per-storage pricing appears cheap at pilot volumes but scales badly. Flat annual or quarterly pricing is more predictable.

Where possible, run a pilot before committing.

If you need a ready-made framework, our evaluation checklist breaks all of this into categories you can score vendor by vendor.

At minimum: consent collection with verifiable records, notices in scheduled languages, withdrawal handling, rights request fulfilment, retention and deletion, assessments, breach response, and India data residency. India-specific requirements matter here. Platforms built for GDPR often handle 22-language notices, phygital consent and Indian sectoral requirements poorly, because those requirements do not exist in the regimes they were designed for.

Per-consent or per-storage pricing appears cheap at pilot volumes but scales badly. Flat annual or quarterly pricing is more predictable.

Some platforms, including Consentin, offer a free tier for low volumes or live pilots — in Consentin's case 3,000 consents a month at no cost — which lets you test against real traffic before committing.

Deploying the platform and connecting it to your CRM, core banking or LOS systems. Each platform offers different levels of support, so find out what the go-live timeline looks like, who is assigned to you, and what support exists after launch.