Cookiebot vs CookieYes (2026): Pricing, Compliance Data, and How to Choose

A disclosure before the details: we make ConsentStack, a competing consent platform. This comparison sticks to published prices, observable behavior, and scan data you can check yourself.

The short answer

Pick Cookiebot if you need deep automated cookie scanning and enterprise-grade coverage across regions, and you have budget for per-domain pricing. Pick CookieYes if you want the fastest route to a live banner on WordPress, Wix, or Shopify and you run one site. If you manage several sites, or you want proof that your banner actually blocks tracking, run our free compliance scanner on your site before you decide anything.

How their pricing compares

Cookiebot bills per domain, tiered by subpage count: a free plan for one small site, then $8 to $96 a month for each domain. CookieYes also bills per domain, tiered by pageviews: free up to 5,000 pageviews a month, then $10 to $55 per domain. Both look inexpensive for one small site and grow quickly across several.

A subpage, in Cookiebot's terms, is any unique URL on your domain, so a site with a few hundred blog posts lands in the middle tiers even if traffic is modest. CookieYes counts pageviews instead and charges $0.30 per 1,000 beyond your plan's allowance on Basic and Pro; only the $55 Ultimate tier removes the cap. Paying annually gets you two months free at CookieYes.

Cookiebot's pricing also has history. In August 2025 it doubled its base Premium per-domain rate (roughly 15 to 30 euros at the time) and automatically moved accounts with fewer than four domains onto a more expensive tier. Customers described the communication as poor and the increase as steep. The second result on Google for this exact comparison is a Reddit thread titled "Thinking about switching from CookieBot", and the top complaint is pricing that keeps shifting by domain, subdomain, and site size.

We keep detailed, regularly re-verified teardowns of both: Cookiebot pricing explained and CookieYes pricing explained.

What real-world scans say about compliance

In July 2026 we scanned 912 sites running the four most common consent tools, from EU and US test locations, including 241 Cookiebot installations and 186 CookieYes installations. Sites on both tools failed the EU consent test at similar rates: 92% of Cookiebot sites and 89% of CookieYes sites with a conclusive verdict. That gap is not statistically significant, so the honest reading is a tie, at a very high failure rate.

Two honest caveats. First, the cohort comes from our own English-language research lists of small and mid-size businesses, not a random sample of each tool's customer base, and enterprise deployments were excluded by design. Second, the scanner watches network traffic, not page code, so it cannot tell whether a failure comes from how the tool was configured, a tracker the tool did not catch, or the order in which scripts load. The outcome is the same either way: data left the site before the visitor made a choice.

Across all four tools combined, 24% of the sites where a reject option existed kept firing an analytics or marketing tracker after the visitor clicked it. The trackers most often seen before consent were Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics, and the Meta Pixel. The full methodology, failure-mode breakdown, and per-tool table are in our cookie compliance study.

Features side by side

Cookiebot's edge is scanning depth and enterprise reach through its parent company Usercentrics. CookieYes's edge is speed to a live banner, with dedicated WordPress, Shopify, and Wix apps. Both support Google Consent Mode v2 and banner customization; the differences show up in scan limits, scheduling, and branding removal.

Where ConsentStack fits

ConsentStack prices by traffic instead of domain count: a free plan covering 1,000 unique visitors a month on one domain, Pro at $29 a month covering two domains and 30,000 unique visitors ($5 a month for each extra domain), and Business at $79 with 1 million visitors, HIPAA support, and a signed BAA. When a visitor declines, the platform blocks the tracking requests rather than just recording the choice, and you can verify that behavior on any site, including your current setup, with the free scanner.

For a single small site, CookieYes or Cookiebot's entry tiers cost less than our Pro plan, and that is a fair reason to pick them. The economics flip as domains and traffic grow. If you want the head-to-head detail, see ConsentStack vs Cookiebot and ConsentStack vs CookieYes.

Which one should you choose?

Choose Cookiebot if you operate across multiple regions, want the deepest automated scanning available in a mainstream tool, and can absorb pricing that scales with domains and subpages.

Choose CookieYes if you run one site on WordPress, Wix, or Shopify and want a compliant-looking banner live in an afternoon at the lowest entry price.

Consider ConsentStack if you run several sites, want a bill that does not multiply per domain, or want the blocking behavior verified rather than assumed.

Whichever way you lean, test the result. Nine in ten sites we scanned running these tools still leaked data before the visitor chose, and no vendor's marketing page will tell you whether yours is one of them. The scanner is free and takes about a minute.