Snapshot
ConsentStack is a modern alternative to Cookiebot for website consent management. Broader coverage, transparent pricing, and a faster script.
Pricing
One medium-traffic site is the decision point most Cookiebot users face. Here's what you get.
- 30,000 visitors/mo
- 2 domains included
- Cookie scanning included
- Customize every detail
- Analytics with country breakdown
- 195+ regulations
- Custom CSS/JS
- Headless mode + full API
- Up to 3,500 subpages (not visitors)
- 1 domain only
- Monthly scanning (daily = +~$115/mo)
- 2 color presets + CSS overrides
- Basic analytics (1 graph, no filtering)
- ~10 documented regulations
- Custom HTML/CSS/JS on Premium only
Even the free tiers tell the story. Cookiebot Free covers 50 subpages, 1 domain, and compliance with a single regulation. ConsentStack Free covers 1,000 visitors, 195+ regulations with full geo-detection and script blocking. The compliance engine works the same on free as it does on paid.
Visitors, not pages
Cookiebot prices by scanner-detected page count, and users can't verify or dispute the count. One reviewer was charged for 5,000+ pages on a site they say doesn't have that many. The scanner counts search result pages, paginated archives, and parameter-based URLs as separate subpages. ConsentStack prices by monthly unique visitors, a number you already track in your analytics. If you approach your limit, you're notified at 80% and auto-upgraded on the next billing cycle. No compliance gap, no mystery invoice.
Growth doesn't cost extra per domain
Cookiebot charges the full subscription price per domain. Subdomains count separately. No volume discounts. Ten medium sites costs ~$340/month. ConsentStack Pro includes 2 domains per site. Extra domains are $5/month each.
What happened in August 2025
Cookiebot doubled its base Premium pricing and automatically migrated accounts with fewer than 4 domains to a more expensive tier. Customers described the communication as poor and the change as disrespectful. ConsentStack's pricing is published, self-serve, and has never changed without advance notice.
Source for Cookiebot prices: cookiebot.com/pricing and enzuzo.com/blog/cookiebot-pricing. Verified April 2026.
Experience
Cookiebot installs in 5 minutes. That part is genuinely easy. What comes after is harder. The banner customization offers two color presets and basic text editing. Anything beyond that requires CSS overrides or a custom HTML/CSS/JS template, available only on Premium. The admin dashboard is described by its own users as “clunky and annoying to navigate.” And the reporting gives you a single time-series chart with no way to filter by country or device.
“Front-end branding and visual control are extremely limited... You're stuck with very few options for how the popup presents.”
Garrett Genest, Marketing Manager — TrustRadiusConsentStack's visual builder offers 12 color tokens, 5 banner layouts, 4 preferences center layouts, and full content editing on every tier. Pro adds custom CSS, custom JavaScript, and headless mode for complete control. One dashboard, no hunting for settings.
One product, one brand
Cookiebot is now branded “Cookiebot CMP by Usercentrics.” New signups are redirected to Usercentrics Web CMP, a different platform. Existing customers need a support article to figure out which account they have. The WordPress plugin has been renamed multiple times, and one user reported losing all settings after temporarily deactivating it. ConsentStack is a single product with a single brand. What you sign up for is what you use.
Coverage
One toggle in the dashboard enables Global Compliance Mode. That single setting covers 195+ privacy regulations across 157+ jurisdictions, with automatic per-visitor resolution at the CDN edge. No region configuration, no manual rule mapping, no jurisdiction research. A visitor from Germany gets GDPR treatment. A visitor from California gets CCPA/CPRA. A visitor from Virginia gets VCDPA. All automatic, all from one toggle. When new laws take effect, they're added to the database and apply automatically. The site owner does nothing.
Cookiebot requires you to do the compliance homework. Its free tier covers a single regulation. Add a second jurisdiction and you're setting up “Multiple Configurations” with data-georegions attributes, choosing which laws apply to which visitors, and hoping you haven't missed a jurisdiction. Cookiebot documents support for approximately 10 regulations. Coverage across Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, and Sub-Saharan Africa is not documented.
ConsentStack covers all 20 US state privacy laws with a single toggle. Cookiebot documents support for roughly 6. The gap matters because a visitor from Texas, Nebraska, or Maryland needs different consent treatment than a visitor from California, and getting it wrong means non-compliance in that state.
Performance
Cookiebot's consent script blocks your page from rendering until it finishes loading. An independent benchmark ranked it 9th out of 11 consent tools tested. On pages with Google ads, one reviewer noted their Interaction to Next Paint scores “deteriorated considerably.” ConsentStack loads in the background without blocking your page. The banner appears in roughly 50 milliseconds.
A slower banner means more visitors interact with your site before consent is collected. That creates both a compliance risk and a performance penalty in search rankings. ConsentStack's SDK is a single 23KB file with no external dependencies. Cookiebot loads 34KB of synchronous code and injects 209 DOM elements.
Source: agencewebperformance.fr independent CMP comparison, Style Factory review.
Complete consent management, fairly priced.
195+ regulations, a lightweight SDK, and no per-domain fees. From $29/mo.
FAQ
Yes. ConsentStack provides consent management with geo-aware enforcement, script blocking, platform integrations, analytics, and 195+ regulation coverage starting at $29/month. Cookiebot's equivalent tier (Premium Medium) costs ~$34/month for a single domain with ~10 documented regulations and more limited analytics. ConsentStack is built for teams that want transparent pricing, deeper compliance coverage, and a better daily experience.
ConsentStack Pro costs $29/month per site and includes 2 domains, all 6 platform integrations, custom CSS/JS, headless mode, analytics, and 195+ regulations. Cookiebot Premium Medium costs ~$34/month per domain with 1 domain included, basic analytics, and ~10 documented regulations. Additional Cookiebot domains cost another ~$34/month each with no volume discount. Both platforms auto-upgrade when you exceed your tier, but ConsentStack upgrades are transparent and keep your banner running.
Yes. One toggle enables Global Compliance Mode, which automatically covers 195+ privacy regulations across 157+ jurisdictions, including GDPR, all EU/EEA ePrivacy implementations, CCPA/CPRA, all 20 US state laws, LGPD, PIPL, POPIA, and regulations across Asia-Pacific, Middle East, and Africa. Consent models resolve automatically per visitor via CDN-edge geo-detection. No manual region configuration required. This works on every tier, including free.
Yes. ConsentStack requires a single script tag. Add it to your site, configure your banner and consent categories in the visual builder, and publish. The SDK handles geo-detection, script blocking, and consent logging automatically. There is no build step, no package manager, and no tag manager required. Most sites are live in under 10 minutes.
ConsentStack uses a different approach. Instead of crawling your site monthly to discover cookies, ConsentStack blocks third-party scripts in real-time using a library of 5,800+ known tracker domains. Scripts are automatically classified and blocked before they execute. This means there is no 30-day gap between scans, but ConsentStack does not generate a publishable cookie declaration document the way Cookiebot does. If your compliance workflow requires a cookie inventory, you would need to generate that separately.
ConsentStack does not currently support IAB TCF v2.2 or GPP. If your use case requires TCF compliance for EU programmatic advertising, Cookiebot offers this as a certified CMP (ID 134) with Google Gold Tier certification. ConsentStack supports Google Consent Mode v2, GPC, and native consent signaling to Meta, TikTok, Microsoft, Pinterest, and LinkedIn.
Cookiebot was acquired by Usercentrics in 2021. As of 2026, all new Cookiebot signups are redirected to Usercentrics Web CMP, a separate platform. Existing Cookiebot accounts continue to work, but the product is branded 'Cookiebot CMP by Usercentrics.' ConsentStack is a single product with a single brand and no parent company migration path.
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