Osano Pricing Explained (2026): What You Actually Pay

Here is the full breakdown: what the free and Plus plans include, where the limits sit, what the custom tiers add, and how to decide whether you are buying a privacy platform or paying platform prices for a cookie banner.

What Osano costs in 2026

Osano is a data privacy platform first and a cookie consent tool second. It sells consent management alongside subject rights (DSAR) handling, data mapping, and vendor risk assessments, and the pricing reflects that: two self-serve plans for consent, then a jump to sales-quoted platform tiers.

Free. $0 for one domain, one user, and up to 5,000 monthly visitors, with basic consent management.

Plus. $199 a month for three domains, two users, and up to 30,000 monthly visitors. It adds privacy templates and access to UK and EU GDPR representative services.

Everything above Plus is a custom quote. Osano's own plans page lists the next tier, Basic Privacy, with unlimited domains and users, a compliance check, basic subject rights handling, guided onboarding, and a $500,000 "No Fines, No Penalties" guarantee, but no price. Vendr, which tracks real contracts, reports a median deal of $8,459 a year across 41 purchases, with its enterprise tier starting around $2,000 to $3,000 a month and global deployments passing $100,000 a year.

The jump from free to $199

Osano's free plan is genuinely free, but it is sized for almost nobody: 5,000 monthly visitors is a few hundred sessions a week, and one user means your developer and your marketer share a login. It works as a trial. As a production setup for a growing business, you outgrow it fast.

The problem is what happens next. The next rung is $199 a month. There is nothing between $0 and $199: no $30 tier, no $50 tier, nothing sized for a small business that needs a compliant banner on one or two sites. That cliff is the most common complaint in Osano pricing discussions, and it is the honest reason many small teams look elsewhere.

It is also worth being precise about what $199 buys. Plus is still the consent product, plus privacy templates and representative access. The subject rights automation, data mapping, and assessments that justify Osano's platform positioning sit above Plus, behind the custom quote.

What the custom tiers add, and what they cost

If you want the platform features, you are in a sales conversation. Osano's listed next tier bundles unlimited domains and users, compliance checking, basic subject rights handling, guided onboarding, and the $500,000 guarantee. The deeper modules, full subject rights automation, data mapping, and assessments, are quoted case by case. Expect an annual contract.

On real-world numbers: Vendr, which tracks software contract data, reports a median Osano contract of $8,459 a year across 41 purchases, in a recorded range of $2,500 to $20,500. Its published list bands run higher: small deployments $2,400 to $12,000 a year, mid-market $12,000 to $40,000, and enterprise $40,000 to $100,000 or more. Treat those as market context rather than a rate card; your quote depends on traffic, domains, and which modules you take.

Two smaller notes. Osano offers discounts to nonprofits and startups on request, and it states it will not charge your payment method if you cancel before a trial ends. Neither changes the structure: past 30,000 visitors or past consent-only needs, pricing is quote-based and negotiated.

What Vendr's contract data shows above Plus

Vendr publishes list-price bands for three Osano tiers, using its own tier names, next to the contracts it has recorded. The table is the clearest picture of what a quote above $199 a month looks like.

Two cautions. Vendr's Starter band overlaps Osano's public $199 Plus plan, so the bottom row is not a hidden tier. And the median across the 41 purchases Vendr tracks is $8,459 a year, so most recorded buyers sit in the Starter-to-Business range, not the enterprise band. Vendr also reports discounts of 10 to 25 percent for multi-year commitments and 20 to 30 percent off initial enterprise quotes.

How Osano counts a visitor

Osano's documentation defines traffic as one visitor requesting its script (osano.js) from Osano's servers per 24-hour period, counted as visitors rather than sessions, with the script cached for 24 hours so repeat visits from the same device that day are not counted again. Plans are sized on average daily active users, and when traffic passes the contracted level Osano bills the prorated overage rather than switching the banner off. Bot traffic that reached your production site can count, which is one reason a quote and your analytics number can disagree.

Are you buying a privacy program or a banner?

This is the real question behind Osano's price. If you need a full privacy office from one vendor, meaning DSAR intake and fulfillment, data mapping, vendor assessments, and consent together, Osano is priced like the platform it is, in the same conversation as OneTrust and TrustArc and often below them. The $500,000 guarantee is genuine comfort for a buyer who values insurance-shaped promises.

If what you actually need is consent management, meaning a banner that holds trackers back until someone agrees, geo-targeted rules per regulation, and a consent log you can produce on request, then a $199 a month floor is platform pricing for banner work. Purpose-built consent tools cover that job for a fraction of the price.

ConsentStack's Pro plan is $29 a month, or $23 a month billed annually, for the same 30,000 monthly visitor allowance Osano Plus caps at, with two domains, unlimited team members, full customization, and consent logging included. Business is $79 a month for 1 million visitors and adds HIPAA compliance with a signed BAA. The free tier covers 1,000 visitors and does real script blocking, not just a notice.

The honest trade: ConsentStack does not sell data mapping or DSAR automation. If those are on your requirements list, you want a platform, and Osano belongs on your shortlist. If they are not, paying $199 a month to show a compliant banner is the wrong side of the trade. We keep a feature-by-feature comparison at ConsentStack vs Osano, and a guide to how every major CMP prices if you want the full market picture.

Check what your banner actually does

Whichever way you go, verify the banner does the job before you pay for it. Most consent setups fire at least one tracker before anyone clicks. Our free compliance scanner loads your pages the way a visitor in the EU or California would, records what fires before and after consent, and shows you exactly which scripts leak. No signup, and it works on any CMP, Osano included.