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c15t vs Ethyca

Choose c15t for native web consent components and a deployable backend. Compare Ethyca's Fides code and Janus platform without confusing their scope.

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Choose c15t for consent that fits your web product.

c15t is the stronger fit when your team needs consent components, vendor choices and backend records inside a web product. You can build the interface in your framework and review its behaviour with the application.

Ethyca addresses a wider set of privacy and data governance tasks. Its current Janus product offers consent APIs across web, mobile and backend systems.

Ethyca also publishes Fides source code. This comparison distinguishes that code from current commercial products and services.

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Compare what you get.

What you needc15tEthyca
Build consent into a web productNative components across the supported web frameworksJanus offers headless APIs and SDKs
Build a custom interfaceThemes, component parts and headless APIsCustom applications through Janus APIs. Fides includes a Privacy Center
Inspect source codeApache-2.0 client and backend sourceFides source is Apache-2.0. Check commercial product scope separately
Operate the backend yourselfSupplied c15t service with your own databaseFides documents local deployment. Ethyca archived its public repository
Control application vendorsCategory and vendor rules for registered scripts, requests and embedsJanus describes consent enforcement across connected systems
Carry choices across devices and systemsApplication and backend integration requiredJanus describes persistent consent state across devices and downstream services
Fulfil data-subject requestsNo bundled case management or fulfilment suiteFides includes request workflows. Ethyca also offers automated DSR products
Discover data and assess risksNot included in the c15t packagesBroader Ethyca governance products

Give your product team one consent workflow.

c15t connects the banner, privacy settings and vendor integrations through application state. Your team can change them in the same release.

Use native framework components or build the interface through headless APIs. The guides cover React, Next.js, Vue, Nuxt, Svelte, SvelteKit, Astro, TanStack Start and plain websites.

The vendor controls let a visitor refuse one named vendor within an accepted category. Registered scripts, requests and embeds can respect that choice.

For Next.js, choose the consent response path. The App Router's default streamed path shows the page first and does not include the banner in initial HTML.

Ethyca also supports headless consent. Choose c15t for its documented web component workflow and the backend that accompanies it.

Moving off Ethyca across many sites?

Inth builds c15t and runs migrations for large teams, from the first audit to the day you remove the old script.

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Install c15t. Get 42 integrations.

c15t maintains each typed helper. Most helpers load their vendor only after consent, and stop it when the visitor withdraws consent.

Import each helper from @c15t/integrations.

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Paste this line into your agent. It reads the setup brief and does each step.

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The setup brief is at /SKILL.md. For the docs, agents can read /llms.txt and /llms-full.txt, or use the MCP server at with no sign-in.

Inth hosts the backend, the policy rules and the IAB CMP ID.

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