Legal · head to head
Cookiebot vs Luminance
Cookiebot
Legal
Automated cookie scanning and consent banner for websites, owned by Usercentrics
- From
- Free
- Rated
- -
Luminance
Legal
Machine learning contract analysis for review, negotiation and compliance
- From
- On request
- Rated
- -
The short version
- Only Cookiebot has a free tier, so it costs nothing to try first.
- Each has a real cost: Cookiebot pricing is per domain and banded by subpage count, so an organisation with many brand domains or a large content site pays many multiples of the 7 euro headline, and the bands are counted from the scan rather than from what you think you publish.; Luminance no independent evaluation of its accuracy has been published, and it did not take part in the Vals Legal AI Report, so buyers have only vendor-produced evidence to work from.
- They diverge on capability: Cookiebot covers Automated cookie scanning, Luminance covers Anomaly detection.
- Prices and features above were last checked on 31 August 2026.
Where they differ
Only the attributes on which Cookiebot and Luminance actually diverge.
Identical on both: user rating (Not yet rated), category (Legal).
What each one covers
Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.
Only in Cookiebot
- Automated cookie scanning
- Prior blocking
- Google Consent Mode v2
- IAB TCF support
- Consent logging
- Cookie declaration
- Multi-language banners
- Geotargeting
Only in Luminance
- Anomaly detection
- Contract negotiation
- Due diligence review
- Multi-language analysis
- Document comparison
What people use each for
The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.
Cookiebot
- A marketing team that needs a defensible consent record for European visitors without adding privacy engineering headcountnot Luminance
- A site using Google Ads and Analytics that must send Consent Mode v2 signals or lose conversion measurement in the EEAnot Luminance
- An agency managing many small client sites that wants per-domain billing it can pass through at costnot Luminance
- A content-heavy publisher needing IAB TCF signals passed to advertising partnersnot Luminance
Luminance
- In-house teams auditing a contract estate for a specific exposure such as change of controlnot Cookiebot
- Procurement and compliance functions reviewing supplier agreements at scalenot Cookiebot
- Transaction teams reviewing large contract populations against a deal deadlinenot Cookiebot
- Negotiation teams applying a standard playbook consistently across many counterpartiesnot Cookiebot
Where each one falls short
Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.
Cookiebot
- Pricing is per domain and banded by subpage count, so an organisation with many brand domains or a large content site pays many multiples of the 7 euro headline, and the bands are counted from the scan rather than from what you think you publish.
- Enterprise features such as single sign-on, banner A and B testing and a dedicated account manager sit on Usercentrics Web CMP rather than on Cookiebot, so growing out of Cookiebot means migrating to a sibling product with its own dashboard and contract.
- Prior blocking depends on Cookiebot recognising the script, and custom or first-party tags frequently need manual tagging, which means a site can believe it is blocking trackers when it is not until someone audits it.
- Scans crawl a limited number of subpages per band, so trackers that only appear on deep or gated pages can go undiscovered and unblocked between scans.
- The free tier carries Cookiebot branding and is limited to one domain and 50 subpages, which makes it a demonstration rather than a workable option for anything but a brochure site.
Luminance
- No independent evaluation of its accuracy has been published, and it did not take part in the Vals Legal AI Report, so buyers have only vendor-produced evidence to work from.
- The one named accuracy benchmark, ContractIQ Bench, was built, run and scored by Luminance on a dataset it has not released, against comparison models it does not name.
- Value scales with document volume, so an organisation reviewing tens rather than thousands of contracts will not recover the licence cost.
- Output still requires qualified review, so it reduces reading time rather than removing the lawyer, and staffing plans that assume otherwise fail.
- Pricing is not published, so cost per matter cannot be modelled until after a sales process and a proof of concept.
Pricing, plan by plan
Cookiebot
Free- FreeFree
- 1 domain, up to 50 subpages
- Automated scanning
- Google Consent Mode
- Premium Lite$7/month
- 1 domain, up to 50 subpages
- Custom banner design and logo
- Multi-language banners
- Premium Small$15/month
- Per domain
- Up to 350 subpages per domain
- Multiple domains supported
- Premium Medium$30/month
- Per domain
- Up to 3,500 subpages per domain
Luminance
On request- Luminance$undefined/year
- Enterprise licensing quoted per organisation
- Scoped by user count and document volume
- Proof of concept normally run before contracting
Which should you pick?
Choose Cookiebot if
- You need automated cookie scanning.
- You want to start without paying.
- You also want prior blocking.
Choose Luminance if
- You need anomaly detection.
- You work on Web, Windows.
- You also want contract negotiation.
Questions people ask
- Is Cookiebot or Luminance better?
- Neither clearly leads. Cookiebot starts at Free and Luminance at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
- Which is cheaper, Cookiebot or Luminance?
- Cookiebot has a free tier; the other does not. Paid plans start at Free for Cookiebot and On request for Luminance.
- Does Cookiebot or Luminance run on more platforms?
- Cookiebot runs on Web. Luminance runs on Web, Windows.
- Can I use Cookiebot for free?
- Yes. Cookiebot has a free tier, so you can try it without paying. Luminance starts at On request.
- What is Cookiebot best used for?
- Cookiebot is most often used for a marketing team that needs a defensible consent record for european visitors without adding privacy engineering headcount, a site using google ads and analytics that must send consent mode v2 signals or lose conversion measurement in the eea, an agency managing many small client sites that wants per-domain billing it can pass through at cost, a content-heavy publisher needing iab tcf signals passed to advertising partners. Of those, a marketing team that needs a defensible consent record for european visitors without adding privacy engineering headcount and a site using google ads and analytics that must send consent mode v2 signals or lose conversion measurement in the eea are not what Luminance is typically brought in for.
- What can Cookiebot do that Luminance cannot?
- Cookiebot covers Automated cookie scanning, Prior blocking, Google Consent Mode v2, IAB TCF support. Luminance covers Anomaly detection, Contract negotiation, Due diligence review, Multi-language analysis.
Answered from the vendors’ own pages
Cookiebot: Who owns Cookiebot?
Usercentrics, which acquired the Danish developer Cybot in September 2021. It is sold as Cookiebot by Usercentrics alongside the separate Usercentrics Web CMP.
Luminance: Is Luminance's accuracy independently verified?
No independent verification has been published. It did not participate in the Vals Legal AI Report, the main lawyer-baselined benchmark, and the only named benchmark in its materials is one it built and ran itself. Treat the published figures as vendor claims and run a proof of concept on your own documents.
Cookiebot: What does a real deployment cost?
Between 7 and 90 euros per domain per month depending on subpage count. Ten domains on the medium band is 300 euros a month, not 7.
Luminance: What do the ninety per cent time-saving claims mean?
They are unattributed marketing figures about time and cost rather than accuracy, published without methodology, dataset or baseline. They are not a measure of how often the software is right.
Cookiebot: Does it support Google Consent Mode v2?
Yes, and Cookiebot is in Google CMP partner programme, which matters if you run Google advertising into the EEA.
Luminance: Who backs Luminance?
It launched in 2016 with backing from Invoke Capital, the fund founded by Mike Lynch, and has since raised further rounds led by March Capital and Point72 Private Investments.
Cookiebot: Is the free plan usable in production?
Only for a single very small site. It caps at one domain and 50 subpages and shows Cookiebot branding on the banner.
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