Inventories built from surveys
Data maps assembled from questionnaires describe what people remember, not what the systems do — and they are stale by the next release.
Comparison
A privacy alternative to OneTrust
OneTrust sells a broad privacy suite, from consent management to data subject requests. Noru takes a narrower, engineering-led route: records of processing derived from your code, run alongside your security frameworks. Here is where each fits.
Why alternatives
What privacy teams tell us they are re-evaluating
Common reasons teams evaluate other options.
Privacy and security run apart
When the privacy register and the security programme live in different tools, the same system is described twice and audited twice.
Usage-metered packaging
OneTrust meters its packages on measures such as admin users, inventory size, visitors and data volume. Teams model how that grows before they sign.
Engineering left out
Privacy records that engineering never touches cannot keep up with what engineering ships.
Noru vs OneTrust: Privacy Compared
| Feature | Noru | OneTrust |
|---|---|---|
| Records of processing | Article 30 records derived from code and CI | Records of processing within Privacy Automation |
| Data mapping | Data map built from the systems that hold personal data | Data and activity map, with data discovery and classification |
| Privacy assessments | GDPR DPIAs and US state data protection assessments | Privacy risk assessment workflows |
| Consent | Scans your sites for consent behaviour; no consent banner | Consent Management Platform and preference management |
| Data subject requests | Not offered | DSAR Automation |
| Security frameworks | 30+ frameworks, mapped once and reused | Tech Risk & Compliance, stated at 50+ frameworks |
| Pricing model | Platform plus capability packages, scoped per deployment | Not published; packages metered by usage |
Records from the code
Engineering describes data categories, uses and subjects once in a manifest next to the code; CI pushes it, and Noru materialises systems, datasets and processing activities with full history.
Privacy on the security control library
GDPR runs on the same control library as SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIS2 and DORA, so a system is described once and its evidence counts everywhere.
AI drafts, your DPO decides
Legal bases, retention reasoning and safeguards are drafted from each activity's code context and stay drafts until a person accepts them.
EU residency by default
Every customer's evidence, policies and personal data are stored and processed in the EU. AI inference is the one activity that may leave the EEA, under EU Standard Contractual Clauses.
Why Noru
Where Noru is different
What sets Noru apart for faster, smarter compliance.
Moving from OneTrust
Existing processing activities can be created in Noru and then progressively backed by code manifests as teams adopt them. Consent banners and data subject request handling are not part of Noru, so keep a tool for those if you rely on them.
Bring across processing activities, then back them with manifests
Connect the systems that hold personal data
Run GDPR on the same control library as your security frameworks
Keep a consent and DSAR tool if you rely on one
Is Noru a OneTrust alternative for privacy?
For records of processing, data mapping and privacy assessments, yes — with records derived from your code and run on the same control library as your security frameworks. Noru does not provide a consent banner or data subject request handling, which OneTrust does.
Does Noru replace OneTrust's consent management?
No. Noru scans your sites for consent behaviour — cookies, trackers, consent signals — and records what it finds, but it does not serve a consent banner. If you use OneTrust's Consent Management Platform, keep it or another CMP.
How much does Noru cost compared with OneTrust?
Neither publishes prices. OneTrust quotes packages metered on usage such as admin users, inventory size and visitors. Noru licenses the platform plus the capability packages your obligations require — Privacy Automation is priced by connected systems and processing activities — per deployment. Book a demo for a written quote.
Does Noru train AI on our privacy data?
No. Customer data is never used to train, fine-tune or evaluate any model — Noru's or a provider's — and every AI feature runs under zero data retention terms, so the model provider returns the output and keeps no copy of the prompt or response. Both commitments are contractual, in Section 4.6 of our Terms and Sections 3.5–3.6 of our DPA. Ask every vendor you shortlist for the same in writing.
Primary sources
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