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Cookiebot
Automated cookie scanning and consent banner for websites, owned by Usercentrics
As of 31 August 2026, Cookiebot has a free plan and paid plans start at €7/month. A cookie consent platform that scans your site, classifies what it finds and blocks non-essential tags until consent is given. Softwr lists it under Legal. Cookiebot is made by Cybot A/S, a Usercentrics company, available on Web.
Overview
What Cookiebot does
Cookiebot, built by the Danish company Cybot, scans a website on a schedule, discovers cookies and trackers, classifies them into categories, generates a cookie declaration and serves a consent banner that blocks non-essential scripts until the visitor consents. It records consent with a timestamp so you can evidence it, and it supports Google Consent Mode v2 and the IAB Transparency and Consent Framework. The ownership matters for the roadmap. Usercentrics acquired Cybot in September 2021 and now sells both products side by side as Cookiebot by Usercentrics and Usercentrics Web CMP. They remain separate products with separate dashboards, separate subscriptions and separate billing, and the enterprise features, single sign-on, A and B testing of banner variants, dedicated account management, live on the Usercentrics side rather than on Cookiebot. So the upgrade path out of Cookiebot is a migration to a different product from the same vendor, not a plan change. Buyers are marketing and web teams at small and mid-sized organisations who need a defensible consent record for European traffic without hiring a privacy engineer. The pricing model is the thing to model carefully: it is per domain and banded by subpage count, at 7 euros a month for a single domain up to 50 subpages, 15 for up to 350, 30 for up to 3,500, 50 for up to 7,000 and 90 above that. An organisation with a dozen brand domains and a large content site can reach a four-figure annual bill for what looks like a 7 euro product, and Google Consent Mode certification does not exempt you from that arithmetic.
What people use it 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
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Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about 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.
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- CookiebotvsDidomi
Didomi: Stronger for publishers and advertising heavy sites in Europe, with deeper TCF and partner signalling
- Cookiebotvsiubenda
iubenda: Cheaper for very small sites and bundles policy generation with consent
- CookiebotvsTermly
Termly: Similar price point with policy generation aimed at small US businesses
Pricing
What Cookiebot costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Free
Free
- 1 domain, up to 50 subpages
- Automated scanning
- Google Consent Mode
- Cookiebot branding on the banner
Premium Lite
€7 /mo
- 1 domain, up to 50 subpages
- Custom banner design and logo
- Multi-language banners
- Geotargeting
- Advanced reporting
Premium Small
€15 /mo
- Per domain
- Up to 350 subpages per domain
- Multiple domains supported
Premium Medium
€30 /mo
- Per domain
- Up to 3,500 subpages per domain
Premium Large
€50 /mo
- Per domain
- Up to 7,000 subpages per domain
Premium XLarge
€90 /mo
- Per domain
- Over 7,000 subpages per domain
Capabilities
Features
Automated cookie scanning
Crawls the site on a schedule and discovers cookies, pixels and trackers without manual declaration
Prior blocking
Holds non-essential scripts until consent is recorded, rather than firing and asking afterwards
Google Consent Mode v2
Certified support for signalling consent state to Google advertising and analytics tags
IAB TCF support
Transmits consent signals in the advertising industry framework for publishers
Consent logging
Timestamped consent records retained as evidence of lawful basis
Cookie declaration
Auto-generated and updated list of cookies for the privacy policy page
Multi-language banners
Banner text in a large set of languages with geotargeted rule variation
Geotargeting
Serves different consent behaviour by visitor region so US and EU traffic can be handled differently
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Questions people ask
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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.
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.
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.
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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