Complianz Pricing Explained (2026): Free vs Premium, Decoded

Here is the full breakdown: what the free version does and does not do, what Premium adds, the per-site math, and when a WordPress plugin is the wrong tool for the job.

What Complianz costs in 2026

Complianz is a cookie consent plugin for WordPress, with a separate paid app for Shopify, built by the Dutch team at Really Simple Plugins. There are two things to know: the free WordPress plugin, and paid Premium.

• Free. A cookie consent banner for GDPR, ePrivacy, CCPA and other regimes, automatic periodic cookie scanning, and a cookie policy generator, on a single WordPress site. Real, and enough for a simple site. What it leaves out is covered below.
• Premium. Three annual tiers, priced by how many sites the license covers. Every paid tier includes unlimited pageviews and consent records.

Shopify is priced separately. Complianz has a free Shopify plan (relaunched in 2025) and paid plans that start at $2.99 a month. Everything below is about the WordPress product, where most Complianz users are.

What the free version actually includes, and what it doesn't

The free Complianz plugin is not a demo. It gives you a working cookie banner for GDPR, ePrivacy, CCPA and CPRA and a handful of other laws, automatic periodic scanning for new cookies, and a cookie policy drafted through a wizard built with an IT law firm. For one small WordPress site, that clears the basics.

What you do not get on the free tier is the part that makes consent provable and correct per visitor. These are Premium-only:

• Geo IP detection. Serving the right banner to the right region automatically. Without it, you either show everyone your strictest banner or pick one region and hope.
• Records of consent. A stored log that a specific visitor consented. If you are ever asked to demonstrate consent, this is the evidence. The free tier keeps none.
• Google Consent Mode v2. Required if you run Google Ads or GA4 and want conversions and analytics to keep working after someone makes a choice.
• IAB TCF. Needed if you work with programmatic advertising partners.
• Multi-region banners, A/B testing, and the advanced legal documents such as the privacy statement and processing agreement.

The per-site tiers, and the jump at six sites

Complianz licenses by number of sites, not by traffic. That is simple until you cross a tier line. One to five sites is $179 a year on Professional. The sixth site pushes you to Agency at $399 a year, more than double, for one extra site, after which you have room up to twenty-five. For a single site or a stable small portfolio this is cheap and predictable. For an agency adding sites steadily, the cost climbs in steps rather than smoothly.

Two smaller notes. Complianz states it does not offer discount codes, so searching for one is a dead end; there is a 30-day money-back guarantee instead. And support and updates are included for one year with every paid license.

Where a WordPress plugin stops being enough

Complianz is priced like a WordPress plugin because that is what it is, and for an all-WordPress setup that is a feature, not a flaw. Two situations change the math.

The first is platform spread. Complianz covers WordPress and, through a separate app, Shopify. A Webflow site, a Framer landing page, a headless frontend, or a custom stack is not supported. If your properties span platforms, you are either running more than one consent tool or leaving some sites uncovered.

The second is when you need consent that geo-targets and logs without paying to unlock it. On Complianz those live behind Premium. If that is the job, a platform rather than a plugin tends to fit better.

ConsentStack is built the other way: one script tag on any website, WordPress or not. Pricing is flat and public, $29 a month on Pro for two domains and $5 per extra, or $79 a month on Business for up to a million visitors. Geo-detection, consent logging, and 195+ regulations across 157+ jurisdictions are on every tier, including the free one. A person configures the banner and installs it for you.

The honest trade: for one WordPress site that will stay one WordPress site, Complianz at $59 a year is hard to beat, and there is no reason to switch. ConsentStack is the answer when you have more than WordPress, more sites than a tier cleanly fits, or you want consent that geo-targets and logs without an upgrade. The full ConsentStack vs Complianz comparison goes platform by platform.

Check what your banner actually does

Before you renew Complianz or switch anything, confirm the banner you have actually holds trackers back until someone consents. A banner that appears is not the same as trackers being blocked before consent, and that is the part regulators look at. Run your site through our free compliance scanner and see exactly what fires before and after someone clicks Reject. It takes about a minute and does not need an email.