Cookiebot alternatives: where to go, and how to keep your consent records
Seven Google-certified consent tools, one pick per reason to leave, and an eight-step switch plan.
The short answer: CookieYes if your site has lots of pages but modest traffic (free up to 5,000 pageviews a month, then $10). Termly if you run a small US site and want a free tier that actually works (10,000 banner views). Complianz if everything runs on WordPress. Usercentrics if you juggle several domains and want session-based pricing from the company that already owns Cookiebot. Axeptio, the only one here with a Labs score (3.7 out of 5), suits a single EU small business site. Two things matter before you pick. If you run Google ads for EU, UK or Swiss visitors, your new tool must be on Google's certified CMP list: all seven are. And download your consent log before canceling, because Cookiebot erases it right away. We compared these seven tools and checked their prices in 2026.
Our ranking is editorial: a sponsored spot is always labeled on its card, and no affiliate link ever changes a score.
Why people leave Cookiebot, and why it's usually the invoice
Cookiebot is a serious product. It sits on Google's certified CMP list, supports the IAB Transparency and Consent Framework (TCF) on paid plans, and you can cancel any time. Hardly anyone leaves because it fails to block cookies. They leave because its pricing follows rules few customers read before the first invoice. Six complaints keep coming back in reviews and forums.
You pay per subpage, and the scanner picks your plan
Cookiebot prices by the number of subpages on your site, not by traffic. You don't really choose your tier: if the scanner finds more pages than your plan allows at the end of a cycle, you move up automatically. The price is based on the highest page count in your scan history. A content-heavy blog with a small audience climbs tiers on its own.
The €15 plan needs at least four domains
Small costs €15 per domain per month, but only on accounts with four domains or more. With one to three domains, any site above 50 subpages lands straight in Medium at €30 a month. Cookiebot bills in euros even on its English site, so US customers also carry the exchange rate.
Every subdomain is billed as its own site
Cookiebot treats each subdomain as a separate domain. So blog.example.com or shop.example.com is billed on top of example.com (only the www duplicate is grouped with the bare domain). On server-side tracking forums, users also find they have to pass consent between subdomains themselves, since the tool sees them as unrelated sites.
Surprise charges and slow support
One-star reviews follow a pattern: a monthly bill that jumped to €60 without warning, an unexpected €360 annual renewal, two small sites kept on an oversized plan for months. Several customers also describe support tickets that never got an answer. The overall rating holds around 3.9 out of 5 across roughly 390 reviews, but the complaints are almost all about billing.
A heavy script that sometimes breaks pages
The banner loads from Cookiebot's servers before it appears. WordPress plugin reviews mention worse Core Web Vitals, an Elementor hamburger menu that stops opening, and embedded videos that vanish. It doesn't happen everywhere, but it's the second biggest family of complaints.
A free plan capped at 50 subpages
Free covers one domain and up to 50 subpages, with no TCF. The paid trial lasts 14 days with no card; when it ends, the banner stops showing and your logs are locked until you pay. The WordPress plugin now steers new users toward the Usercentrics offer capped at 1,000 sessions, which several reviewers call a bait and switch.
You're leaving because… go to…
The right Cookiebot alternative depends on what's pushing you out. Usually one line fits. Each card jumps to the full profile.
Priced by pageviews, free up to 5,000 a month.
You run a small US site and want a real free tierTermlyFree up to 10,000 banner views, paid from $10 a month.
Your site runs on WordPressComplianzFree plugin, license from $59 a year per site.
You manage several domains or subdomainsUsercentricsSession-based pricing, three domains included on Pro.
You also need a privacy policy and cookie policyiubendaBanner plus legal documents, from $5.99 a month billed yearly.
Your traffic spikes and you want a flat billCookieScriptUnlimited pageviews on every paid plan.
Cookiebot alternatives, tool by tool
For each tool: why switch to it, who it's for, its catch, how to move your setup, and what it costs. All seven are on Google's certified CMP list, which you need to keep serving personalized ads in the EEA, the UK and Switzerland. Only Axeptio already has a Labs score (3.7 out of 5, from our GDPR compliance software ranking for small businesses). The other six don't have a review page with us yet, so they show as "not rated" and come after it, in the order we recommend them. Prices are the ones listed in 2026, in dollars when the vendor shows dollars, before tax.
Axeptio: the simplest banner for a single EU site
EU small businessWhy switch to it. Axeptio counts pageviews, not subpages. A 300-page site with light traffic stays on a small plan. The banner looks polished, and the French vendor appeals to EU businesses that want a European contact.
Who it's for. Small businesses with one site and a few thousand pageviews a month, especially with EU customers. One reviewer describes a smooth WordPress setup with GA4 and the Meta Pixel after leaving OneTrust.
Who it's not for. Agencies and multi-site owners: each plan covers one domain, and subdomains are only included on Large. Anyone who wants a trial first: none is listed.
The catch. TCF and automatic cookie scanning start on the Small plan (5 scans a month, 30 on Medium). On the free and Extra Small plans you declare services by hand. If you run Google ads, budget at least €29 a month.
How to move. List your services and categories from Cookiebot, rebuild them in Axeptio, then swap the script. Scripts Cookiebot blocked with data-cookieconsent need to be rewritten one by one with Axeptio's method.
Price. Free up to 200 visitors a month. Extra Small at €90 a year (2,500 pageviews, yearly only). Small at €29 a month (5,000 pageviews), Medium at €69 (100,000), Large at €129 (500,000, subdomains included). Axeptio also lists prices in USD, GBP, CHF and CAD.
- Labs score
- 3.7/5
- Price
- from €90/year
- Counts
- pageviews, 1 domain
- Catch
- TCF from Small
CookieYes: the most generous free tier by traffic
Content-heavy sitesWhy switch to it. CookieYes bills by pageviews per domain. Its free plan covers 5,000 pageviews a month, and its scanner reads 100 to 8,000 pages depending on the plan. For a large site with a modest audience, it's the exact opposite of Cookiebot's logic.
Who it's for. Blogs, publishers and content sites with hundreds of pages, and small teams that want a free plan they can actually use.
Who it's not for. Anyone hoping to cover several sites on one free account: only one free domain per account. Ad-funded sites that don't want to pay for Pro.
The catch. TCF comes with Pro and Ultimate only. Past your pageview quota, every extra 1,000 pageviews costs $0.30.
How to move. Run the CookieYes scan, compare its list with your Cookiebot declaration, and fill the gaps by hand. Use the 14-day trial to check everything before you switch Cookiebot off.
Price. Free up to 5,000 pageviews a month. Basic at $10 a month or $100 a year (100,000 pageviews), Pro at $25 or $250 a year (300,000), Ultimate at $55 or $550 a year (unlimited). Taxes extra.
- Labs score
- not rated
- Free
- 5,000 pageviews/mo
- Price
- from $10/mo
- Catch
- TCF from Pro
Termly: a US-built banner for small sites
Small US sitesWhy switch to it. Termly is a US vendor that prices in dollars and counts banner views. The free plan goes up to 10,000 banner views, and Pro+ removes the cap entirely. If your audience is mostly American, you skip euro billing altogether.
Who it's for. Small businesses and solo founders in the US who want a free tier, or a flat price once traffic grows.
Who it's not for. Agencies needing a published price: the Agency plan is quote-only. Anyone who wants to pay in euros: Termly lists no euro prices.
The catch. TCF support and Google's "Advanced" Consent Mode come with Pro+ only. Starter is fine for a basic banner, not for an ad-funded site.
How to move. Rebuild your categories in Termly, run its banner on staging, and switch on launch day. Termly offers a 30-day refund, so a wrong pick costs little.
Price. Free up to 10,000 banner views. Starter at $10 a month billed yearly or $14 monthly (50,000 views). Pro+ at $15 a month billed yearly or $20 monthly (unlimited).
- Labs score
- not rated
- Free
- 10,000 banner views
- Price
- from $10/mo yearly
- Catch
- TCF on Pro+ only
Complianz: the alternative built for WordPress
WordPressWhy switch to it. Complianz lives inside WordPress. The plugin is free, and the premium license is a yearly fee per number of sites, with no page or traffic counter. Your price stays put as the site grows.
Who it's for. WordPress sites, and especially agencies: 25 sites plus multisite for $399 a year.
Who it's not for. Anything outside WordPress (there's a separate Shopify app). Anyone expecting a ten-minute setup: several one-star reviews call the wizard endless.
The catch. Setup takes time. The wizard asks a lot of questions, and negative reviews mention broken links in it. Plan half a day for your first site.
How to move. Deactivate the Cookiebot plugin the day Complianz is ready, not before. Then check that the Cookiebot tag template is gone from Google Tag Manager.
Price. Free plugin on WordPress. Personal at $59 a year (1 site), Professional at $179 (5 sites), Agency at $399 (25 sites and multisite). Billed yearly.
- Labs score
- not rated
- Price
- from $59/year, 1 site
- Counts
- number of sites
- Catch
- WordPress only
iubenda: consent banner plus legal documents
Banner plus policiesWhy switch to it. iubenda bundles the banner with a generated privacy policy and cookie policy that it keeps up to date. If you're replacing Cookiebot and a policy generator at the same time, one subscription covers both.
Who it's for. Freelancers, online stores and small agencies that want the banner and the legal pages handled together.
Who it's not for. High-traffic sites: Ultimate stops at 150,000 pageviews a month, and overage is billed per 1,000 pageviews.
The catch. TCF comes with all three plans, but scans run monthly (hourly only on Ultimate). A site that adds scripts often will see them detected late.
How to move. Recreate your categories, let the monthly scan build the list, and keep your old policies live until the new ones are published.
Price. In dollars, billed yearly: Essentials at $5.99 a month (25,000 pageviews), Advanced at $24.99 (50,000), Ultimate at $99.99 (150,000). Free to start, 14-day trial.
- Labs score
- not rated
- Price
- from $5.99/mo yearly
- Includes
- legal policies
- Catch
- monthly scans
Usercentrics: same company, different meter
Multiple domainsWhy switch to it. Usercentrics has owned Cookiebot since the 2021 merger, but its Web CMP bills by sessions with domains included. If subdomains or page count are your problem, the meter changes and the problem goes away, without changing vendor.
Who it's for. Companies with three to ten domains, or a large site with light traffic. Pro includes three domains, Business ten.
Who it's not for. Anyone leaving because of the group's support: it's the same company.
The catch. Prices are in euros only, before tax. TCF starts on Pro at €30 a month, so Essential and Plus won't do for ad-funded sites.
How to move. It's still a script and configuration swap: Usercentrics and Cookiebot are separate products. Build the new banner during the 14-day trial (no card) without switching it on.
Price. Free under 1,000 sessions a month and one domain. Essential at €7 a month (1,500 sessions), Plus at €15 (3,000), Pro at €30 (15,000 sessions, 3 domains), Business at €50 (50,000 sessions, 10 domains). Corporate on quote.
- Labs score
- not rated
- Price
- from €7/mo
- Counts
- sessions, domains included
- Catch
- euros only, TCF from Pro
CookieScript: unlimited pageviews on paid plans
Flat billWhy switch to it. CookieScript counts scanned pages, but once you pay, pageviews are unlimited. A traffic spike never turns into a surprise invoice.
Who it's for. Sites with irregular traffic, and teams that want a fixed, predictable price.
Who it's not for. Ad-funded sites looking for the cheapest plan: TCF only arrives on Plus.
The catch. Prices are in euros only. Scanning is capped per domain, from 10 to 3,000 pages depending on the plan.
How to move. Scan your domain during the 14-day trial, compare with your Cookiebot declaration, then swap the script.
Price. Free up to 10,000 pageviews. Lite at €9 a month, Standard at €19, Plus at €29, before tax.
- Labs score
- not rated
- Price
- from €9/mo
- Counts
- scanned pages
- Catch
- TCF on Plus
The 7 alternatives side by side
The first test when you leave Cookiebot: stay on Google's certified CMP list, and keep TCF if you run ads. The second: a meter that doesn't punish your site. Left, certification and the plan where TCF starts. Right, the entry price and what gets counted.
| Google-certified and TCF | Entry price and meter | |
|---|---|---|
| AxeptioLabs score 3.7/5 | Certified; TCF from Small (€29/mo) | €90/year; pageviews, 1 domain |
| CookieYesNot rated | Certified; TCF from Pro ($25/mo) | $10/mo; pageviews per domain |
| TermlyNot rated | Certified; TCF on Pro+ ($15/mo yearly) | $10/mo yearly; banner views |
| ComplianzNot rated | Certified; TCF included | $59/year; number of WordPress sites |
| iubendaNot rated | Certified; TCF included | $5.99/mo yearly; pageviews |
| UsercentricsNot rated | Certified; TCF from Pro (€30/mo) | €7/mo; sessions, domains included |
| CookieScriptNot rated | Certified; TCF on Plus (€29/mo) | €9/mo; scanned pages |
Prices listed by vendors in 2026, before tax. For reference, Cookiebot charges €30 per domain per month on Medium past 50 subpages, or €15 on Small with four domains or more. Klaro and tarteaucitron.js, two open source tools often suggested, are not on Google's list, so they aren't ranked here.
Leaving Cookiebot in eight steps
No tool imports Cookiebot's consent records. Your history stays separate, and that's fine. What matters is getting it out before you cancel, and not leaving any script stuck in Cookiebot's blocking system. The order of these steps protects you from both.
Download the consent log first
In the Cookiebot Manager, download the consent log domain by domain, for the full period available. Cookiebot deletes visitor data after 12 months, and immediately when you cancel the account. Its own policy says not to cancel until you have the copy. That file is your proof if a visitor ever disputes consent.
- Time
- an hour
- Trap
- deleted on cancellation
Export your configuration
Save your banner copy, categories, vendor list, script declarations, domains and languages. Keep a copy of the live cookie declaration with the export date. It's your checklist for rebuilding the banner without missing anything.
- Time
- half a day
- Keep
- copy, categories, vendors
Find every trace of Cookiebot
Search your theme, plugins and Google Tag Manager for the uc.js script loaded from consent.cookiebot.com, the data-cbid attribute, the CookieDeclaration script, the Cookiebot tag template in GTM, and every script tagged data-cookieconsent. One line per item.
- Time
- one to two hours
- Trap
- scripts hard-coded in the theme
Release the blocked scripts
Cookiebot blocks a script by setting type="text/plain" with a data-cookieconsent attribute (statistics, marketing or preferences). Remove Cookiebot without touching those scripts and they never load again: your analytics quietly flatline. Set them back to text/javascript, or rewrite them for your new tool's blocking method.
- Time
- varies
- Risk
- analytics at zero
Set up the new banner and Consent Mode
Install the new tool on staging. Google Consent Mode defaults (the signal that tells GA4 and Google Ads what the visitor allowed) must load before any Google tag. In GTM, point every trigger at the new tool's events.
- Time
- half a day
- Order
- defaults first
Cut over in one go, never two banners
On launch day, remove the Cookiebot tag and enable the new banner in the same release. Two consent tools running at once means a double banner and conflicting consent states. Removing the main tag also removes the hidden frame loaded from consentcdn.cookiebot.com.
- Time
- one release
- Rule
- one consent tool live
Test it like a visitor
Open the site in a private window and replay five cases: first visit, reject all, accept all, returning visitor, and no script firing before a choice is made. Visitors will be asked for consent again by the new tool, which is expected.
- Time
- an hour
- Cases
- 5
Clean up the account, then cancel
Before the last billing cycle, remove unused subdomains from your Cookiebot account: each entry is billed. Cancel once the new banner is live and the log is saved. Removing the script from your site doesn't stop billing; only canceling does.
- Time
- fifteen minutes
- Trap
- script gone, plan still active
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What makes a Cookiebot switch go wrong
The failures people describe in reviews and forums rarely come from the new tool. They come from doing a step in the wrong order.
Canceling before you have the log
This one can't be undone: visitor data is deleted the moment you cancel. Without the log, you have no consent proof for the past period. Download it, open the file to check it, and only then cancel.
Picking a tool that isn't on Google's list
Klaro and tarteaucitron.js are open source and well liked, but neither is on Google's certified CMP list. For a site with no Google ads, they can work alongside Consent Mode for GA4 and Google Ads. For a site earning from AdSense or Ad Manager in Europe, they switch off personalized ads. Our GDPR compliance software ranking also covers broader privacy suites.
Comparing on the wrong meter
Cookiebot counts subpages, CookieYes and iubenda count pageviews, Termly counts banner views, Usercentrics counts sessions, Complianz counts sites. Write down three numbers first: page count, monthly pageviews, number of domains. The cheapest option depends entirely on that profile. If you're replacing your analytics too, our guide to switching from Google Analytics helps you choose both at once.
- Consent log downloaded and opened
- Configuration and cookie declaration saved
data-cookieconsentscripts released or rewritten- Consent Mode defaults loaded before Google tags
- One banner live on cutover day
- Unused subdomains removed, then account canceled
Cookiebot alternatives: frequently asked questions
What is the best free Cookiebot alternative?
For most small sites, CookieYes (5,000 pageviews a month with scanning) or Termly (10,000 banner views). CookieScript goes up to 10,000 pageviews. If you don't run Google ads, the open source tarteaucitron.js library is free, though it isn't Google-certified.
Which Cookiebot alternative is cheaper for multiple domains?
Usercentrics includes three domains on Pro (€30 a month) and ten on Business (€50). On WordPress, Complianz Agency covers 25 sites for $399 a year. Cookiebot charges per domain, and each subdomain counts as one.
What's the best Cookiebot alternative for WordPress?
Complianz, built as a WordPress plugin with a free version and a premium license from $59 a year. Expect a long setup wizard. CookieYes and iubenda also have WordPress plugins if you prefer a hosted dashboard.
Cookiebot vs CookieYes: which is cheaper?
CookieYes, for most sites with many pages and modest traffic. It counts pageviews, starting at $10 a month for 100,000. Cookiebot counts subpages and charges €30 a month per domain past 50 subpages unless you have four domains or more.
Is Cookiebot being discontinued?
There's no official announcement. Usercentrics has owned Cookiebot since 2021 and presents them as two separate products. What did change is that the WordPress plugin now pushes new users toward the Usercentrics offer.
Can I switch without losing my consent records?
Yes, if you download the consent log before canceling. No tool imports Cookiebot's records, so you keep the file as proof and visitors give consent again to the new banner. Canceling first erases the data immediately.
Do I need a Google-certified CMP?
Only if you serve Google ads to visitors in the EEA, the UK or Switzerland. AdSense, Ad Manager and AdMob require a certified CMP integrated with TCF for personalized ads there. Google says it doesn't check CMPs for full legal compliance, so certification isn't a legal seal.
Is there an open source Cookiebot alternative?
Yes: Klaro and tarteaucitron.js, both free to self-host. Neither is on Google's certified list. tarteaucitron.js supports Consent Mode v2, and warns that loading the banner alone doesn't block scripts already on the page.
What if I'm also leaving a bigger privacy suite like OneTrust?
Our guide to switching from OneTrust compares tools that also handle data requests and records, beyond the banner itself.
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