Legal · head to head
Rocket Matter vs Secure Privacy
Rocket Matter
Legal
Legal practice management with billing and time tracking, tiered from matter basics to full legal accounting
- From
- On request
- Rated
- -
Secure Privacy
Legal
Consent management and website privacy compliance priced per domain by monthly consent volume
- From
- Free
- Rated
- -
The short version
- Only Secure Privacy has a free tier, so it costs nothing to try first.
- Each has a real cost: Rocket Matter trust accounting compliance is only included on the most expensive Elite tier, so firms with a regulatory requirement for it face a higher effective floor price than the entry-level plan suggests.; Secure Privacy consent allowances are the real constraint and they are per domain, so a high traffic site on the Business tier can burn through 50,000 consents well before month end and be pushed to a tier that costs more than four times as much.
- They diverge on capability: Rocket Matter covers Matter management, Secure Privacy covers Cookie scanning.
- Prices and features above were last checked on 1 September 2026.
Where they differ
Only the attributes on which Rocket Matter and Secure Privacy actually diverge.
| Attribute | Rocket Matter | Secure Privacy |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | On request | Free |
| Pricing model | Per user per month | Per domain per month by consent volume |
| Free tier | No | Yes |
| Platforms | Web, iOS, Android | Web |
Identical on both: user rating (Not yet rated), category (Legal).
What each one covers
Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.
Only in Rocket Matter
- Matter management
- Time tracking and billing
- Trust accounting
- Document management
- Matter budgeting
- Reporting
Only in Secure Privacy
- Cookie scanning
- Automatic cookie blocking
- Legal templates
- Data subject access requests
- IAB TCF 2.3
- Cross-domain consent
- Scan behind login
- Audit logs and SSO
What people use each for
The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.
Rocket Matter
- A solo practitioner wanting matter tracking and billing in one system without separate accounting softwarenot Secure Privacy
- A small firm that needs kanban-style visibility into where each matter standsnot Secure Privacy
- A mid-sized firm that has outgrown Essentials and needs split billing across multiple timekeepers on a matternot Secure Privacy
- A firm required to demonstrate trust accounting compliance that specifically needs the top Elite tiernot Secure Privacy
Secure Privacy
- A mid-sized ecommerce site that wants published pricing it can budget against rather than an enterprise quote cyclenot Rocket Matter
- An agency running consent across many client domains that needs branding removed and per-domain billingnot Rocket Matter
- A company that needs both a consent banner and maintained privacy and cookie policy templates without retaining a law firmnot Rocket Matter
- A business receiving occasional deletion and access requests that wants them tracked in the same tool rather than in a shared inboxnot Rocket Matter
Where each one falls short
Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.
Rocket Matter
- Trust accounting compliance is only included on the most expensive Elite tier, so firms with a regulatory requirement for it face a higher effective floor price than the entry-level plan suggests.
- It is not built for large enterprise legal departments, so firms above a certain size outgrow it and move to platforms such as Clio or Aderant.
- The tier structure gates common workflow features like kanban boards and templates behind Pro and above, so the cheapest tier is functionally limited.
- Its name is easily confused with the Matter smart-home connectivity protocol, an entirely unrelated technology, which can cause mismatched search results.
- Per-user monthly pricing across four tiers means a growing firm needs to actively reassess its plan as headcount and accounting needs change, rather than a single plan scaling automatically.
Secure Privacy
- Consent allowances are the real constraint and they are per domain, so a high traffic site on the Business tier can burn through 50,000 consents well before month end and be pushed to a tier that costs more than four times as much.
- Billing is per domain, which makes multi-brand organisations and agencies pay linearly with domain count even when the configuration is identical across all of them.
- There is no data discovery or records of processing at enterprise depth, so it documents website consent rather than a privacy programme, and organisations facing a regulator will still need something more.
- Automatic cookie blocking is not available on the free tier, so the free plan cannot deliver the compliance behaviour that is the reason to install a consent tool in the first place.
- Single sign-on and audit logs appear only on the 249 dollar Advanced tier, which puts basic enterprise access control behind a per-domain price that is punishing for anyone with more than a couple of sites.
Pricing, plan by plan
Rocket Matter
On request- Essentials$49/month
- Matter management
- Billing and timekeeping
- No trust accounting
- Pro$79/month
- Matter templates
- Kanban board matter management
- Premier$99/month
- Advanced billing permissions
- Split billing and fee allocation
- Elite$129/month
- Matter budgets
- Full legal accounting and trust accounting compliance
Secure Privacy
Free- FreeFree
- Up to 10 domains
- 500 consents per month
- 1 legal template
- Small$15/month
- Per domain
- Unlimited domains
- 5,000 consents per month
- Business$59/month
- Per domain
- 50,000 consents per month
- Over 40 legal templates
- Advanced$249/month
- Per domain
- 5 million consents per month
- Audit logs
Which should you pick?
Choose Rocket Matter if
- You need matter management.
- You work on Web, iOS, Android.
- You also want time tracking and billing.
Choose Secure Privacy if
- You need cookie scanning.
- You want to start without paying.
- You also want automatic cookie blocking.
Questions people ask
- Is Rocket Matter or Secure Privacy better?
- Neither clearly leads. Rocket Matter starts at On request and Secure Privacy at Free, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
- Which is cheaper, Rocket Matter or Secure Privacy?
- Secure Privacy has a free tier; the other does not. Paid plans start at On request for Rocket Matter and Free for Secure Privacy.
- Does Rocket Matter or Secure Privacy run on more platforms?
- Rocket Matter runs on Web, iOS, Android. Secure Privacy runs on Web.
- Can I use Secure Privacy for free?
- Yes. Secure Privacy has a free tier, so you can try it without paying. Rocket Matter starts at On request.
- What is Rocket Matter best used for?
- Rocket Matter is most often used for a solo practitioner wanting matter tracking and billing in one system without separate accounting software, a small firm that needs kanban-style visibility into where each matter stands, a mid-sized firm that has outgrown essentials and needs split billing across multiple timekeepers on a matter, a firm required to demonstrate trust accounting compliance that specifically needs the top elite tier. Of those, a solo practitioner wanting matter tracking and billing in one system without separate accounting software and a small firm that needs kanban-style visibility into where each matter stands are not what Secure Privacy is typically brought in for.
- What can Rocket Matter do that Secure Privacy cannot?
- Rocket Matter covers Matter management, Time tracking and billing, Trust accounting, Document management. Secure Privacy covers Cookie scanning, Automatic cookie blocking, Legal templates, Data subject access requests.
Answered from the vendors’ own pages
Rocket Matter: Does Rocket Matter include trust accounting?
Only on the Elite tier; the Essentials, Pro and Premier tiers do not include full trust accounting compliance.
Secure Privacy: What is a consent, for billing purposes?
A recorded consent decision from a visitor. Because returning visitors can re-consent, consent counts do not map cleanly to unique visitors, and this is the most common source of unexpected tier upgrades.
Rocket Matter: Is Rocket Matter the same as the Matter smart-home standard?
No, that is an unrelated connectivity protocol for smart-home devices; Rocket Matter is legal practice management software.
Secure Privacy: Is the free plan usable?
For evaluation only. It caps at 500 consents a month and does not include automatic cookie blocking.
Rocket Matter: What size firm is Rocket Matter built for?
Solo practitioners through mid-sized firms; larger firms typically need a more enterprise-oriented platform.
Secure Privacy: Does it handle data subject requests?
Yes, from the Business tier at 59 US dollars per domain per month. The Small tier does not include it.
Secure Privacy: Can it replace OneTrust?
For website consent and simple request handling, yes. For data discovery, records of processing and vendor risk, no.
Related pages
More on Rocket Matter
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