CookieYes Pricing Explained (2026): What You Actually Pay

If you're pricing out CookieYes, the number that matters isn't the $10 on the homepage. It's how CookieYes charges: per domain, with the features most sites actually need spread across higher tiers, and a pageview limit that can switch your banner off if you cross it. Here's what you actually pay in 2026, and where the bill grows faster than you'd expect.

CookieYes is one of the most-installed cookie banners on the web, and for a single small site it's genuinely cheap. The math changes once you add sites or need more than the basics.

What CookieYes costs in 2026

CookieYes has four tiers, and every paid one is priced per domain per month:

• Free. $0 for one domain and 5,000 pageviews a month. No geo-targeting, no branding removal.
• Basic. $10 per domain for 100,000 pageviews, plus $0.30 per extra 1,000. Still no geo-targeting.
• Pro. $25 per domain for 300,000 pageviews. This is the first tier with geo-targeting, and the one most real sites end up on.
• Ultimate. $55 per domain for unlimited pageviews, and the only tier that removes CookieYes branding.

Annual billing knocks off about two months. The per-domain part is the detail that matters, and we'll come back to it.

The features you'd expect are gated

A few things that sound like table stakes sit behind the higher tiers:

• Geo-targeting. Showing EU visitors an opt-in banner and US visitors an opt-out one requires Pro ($25). On Free and Basic, everyone sees the same banner regardless of where they are, which applies one consent model to jurisdictions that legally need different ones.
• Branding removal. Getting the CookieYes logo off your banner requires Ultimate at $55 per domain.
• Color customization. As of v3.4.0 in January 2026, CookieYes removed color customization from the free tier.

The pageview limit can switch your banner off

CookieYes bills by pageviews, and if you exceed your plan's limit without buying more, it suspends your consent banner. While it's suspended, cookies and trackers can load without asking anyone. A tool you bought for compliance becomes the reason you're not compliant, at exactly the moment your traffic is highest. Pageviews aren't visitors, either: one visitor browsing a few pages generates several pageviews, so the meter runs faster than your visitor count suggests.

Per-domain pricing compounds fast

Here's the part that catches agencies and anyone running more than one site. CookieYes Pro is $25 per domain, every domain a separate subscription with no volume discount. ConsentStack Pro is $29 for two domains, then $5 for each additional one, so the gap widens with every site you add.

At one site CookieYes is a few dollars cheaper. At twenty, it's about $500 a month against $119.

A flat-priced alternative

If the per-domain stacking or the gated basics are what's pushing your CookieYes bill up, ConsentStack is priced the other way: a flat $29 a month on Pro for two domains, $5 per extra, billed by unique monthly visitors. Geo-detection, script blocking, and all 195+ regulations are on every tier, including free, not reserved for Pro or Ultimate. Paid plans never suspend your banner; if you pass your visitor cap it keeps running and you're upgraded on the next cycle.

CookieYes still has real strengths. It's the most-installed WordPress consent plugin with a deep plugin ecosystem, it does scheduled cookie scanning with detailed reports, it's IAB TCF certified for programmatic ads, and it has a large support community built over years. If those are what you need, it's a fair pick. If you mainly need consent handled correctly at a predictable price across more than one site, the math favors switching. The full ConsentStack vs CookieYes comparison goes feature by feature.

Check what you're actually paying for

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