Legal · head to head
Secure Privacy vs Spellbook
Secure Privacy
Legal
Consent management and website privacy compliance priced per domain by monthly consent volume
- From
- Free
- Rated
- -
Spellbook
Legal
Contract drafting and review assistant inside Microsoft Word
- From
- On request
- Rated
- -
The short version
- Only Secure Privacy has a free tier, so it costs nothing to try first.
- Each has a real cost: 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.; Spellbook it publishes no accuracy figure for its own output and no independent evaluation exists, so a firm must run its own assessment on real agreements.
- They diverge on capability: Secure Privacy covers Cookie scanning, Spellbook covers Word add-in drafting.
- Prices and features above were last checked on 31 August 2026.
Where they differ
Only the attributes on which Secure Privacy and Spellbook actually diverge.
| Attribute | Secure Privacy | Spellbook |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | Free | On request |
| Pricing model | Per domain per month by consent volume | quote |
| Free tier | Yes | No |
| Platforms | Web | Windows, macOS, 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 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
Only in Spellbook
- Word add-in drafting
- Contract review
- Benchmarks against market standards
- Question answering
- Named model providers
What people use each for
The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.
Secure Privacy
- A mid-sized ecommerce site that wants published pricing it can budget against rather than an enterprise quote cyclenot Spellbook
- An agency running consent across many client domains that needs branding removed and per-domain billingnot Spellbook
- A company that needs both a consent banner and maintained privacy and cookie policy templates without retaining a law firmnot Spellbook
- A business receiving occasional deletion and access requests that wants them tracked in the same tool rather than in a shared inboxnot Spellbook
Spellbook
- Transactional lawyers drafting commercial agreements in Wordnot Secure Privacy
- In-house teams reviewing inbound contracts without a contract lifecycle systemnot Secure Privacy
- Lawyers who want a first pass at redlines before applying their own judgementnot Secure Privacy
- Firms that need to know which model providers process their documents before adopting an AI toolnot Secure Privacy
Where each one falls short
Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.
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.
Spellbook
- It publishes no accuracy figure for its own output and no independent evaluation exists, so a firm must run its own assessment on real agreements.
- The ten times more accurate claim originated in a funding announcement as a statement of intent and has no methodology, dataset or baseline behind it.
- Contract text is processed by third-party model providers, so despite the zero data retention agreements this still needs checking against client confidentiality terms and outside counsel guidelines.
- Pricing is not published, so seat cost cannot be compared against competitors without booking a demo.
- It is a drafting assistant rather than a contract lifecycle system, so it does nothing for execution, obligation tracking or renewals.
Pricing, plan by plan
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$249/month
- Per domain
- 5 million consents per month
- Audit logs
Spellbook
On request- Spellbook$undefined/year
- Priced by the number of seats on the licence
- Rates quoted after a demo, not published
- Seven day free trial, free access for academic use
Which should you pick?
Choose Secure Privacy if
- You need cookie scanning.
- You want to start without paying.
- You also want automatic cookie blocking.
Choose Spellbook if
- You need word add-in drafting.
- You work on Windows, macOS, Web.
- You also want contract review.
Questions people ask
- Is Secure Privacy or Spellbook better?
- Neither clearly leads. Secure Privacy starts at Free and Spellbook at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
- Which is cheaper, Secure Privacy or Spellbook?
- Secure Privacy has a free tier; the other does not. Paid plans start at Free for Secure Privacy and On request for Spellbook.
- Does Secure Privacy or Spellbook run on more platforms?
- Secure Privacy runs on Web. Spellbook runs on Windows, macOS, Web.
- Can I use Secure Privacy for free?
- Yes. Secure Privacy has a free tier, so you can try it without paying. Spellbook starts at On request.
- What is Secure Privacy best used for?
- Secure Privacy is most often used for a mid-sized ecommerce site that wants published pricing it can budget against rather than an enterprise quote cycle, an agency running consent across many client domains that needs branding removed and per-domain billing, a company that needs both a consent banner and maintained privacy and cookie policy templates without retaining a law firm, a business receiving occasional deletion and access requests that wants them tracked in the same tool rather than in a shared inbox. Of those, a mid-sized ecommerce site that wants published pricing it can budget against rather than an enterprise quote cycle and an agency running consent across many client domains that needs branding removed and per-domain billing are not what Spellbook is typically brought in for.
- What can Secure Privacy do that Spellbook cannot?
- Secure Privacy covers Cookie scanning, Automatic cookie blocking, Legal templates, Data subject access requests. Spellbook covers Word add-in drafting, Contract review, Benchmarks against market standards, Question answering.
Answered from the vendors’ own pages
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.
Spellbook: Is Spellbook's accuracy independently verified?
No. It publishes no accuracy figure of its own, and no third-party evaluation has been published. It did not participate in the Vals Legal AI Report, the main independent lawyer-baselined benchmark. Evaluate it on your own agreements during the trial.
Secure Privacy: Is the free plan usable?
For evaluation only. It caps at 500 consents a month and does not include automatic cookie blocking.
Spellbook: Which models does it use and where does our text go?
Spellbook names OpenAI GPT-5 and Anthropic Claude models, and states it has zero data retention agreements with both providers. Confirm the current terms and subprocessor list against your client confidentiality obligations before use.
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.
Spellbook: What does it cost?
Pricing is per seat but is not published. The vendor quotes it after a demo, so the seat rate cannot be compared with competitors in advance.
Secure Privacy: Can it replace OneTrust?
For website consent and simple request handling, yes. For data discovery, records of processing and vendor risk, no.
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