Cookiebot vs. CookieYes: A Comprehensive Comparison

Cookiebot: features, support & pricing

Features:

• Consent Mechanism: Offers a customizable banner with various design options and the ability to group cookies into categories. Google Consent Mode is supported on every plan, including Free.
• Cookie Scanning: Automatically scans your website to identify and categorize cookies. Premium plans scan monthly; daily scanning costs €99 a month extra.
• Cookie Management: Provides a user-friendly interface for managing cookie settings, including the ability to withdraw consent and delete cookies.
• Analytics and Reporting: A dashboard with opt-in and opt-out statistics on all plans. Premium adds CSV export of consents and categories.
• GDPR Compliance: Provides features to help businesses comply with GDPR requirements, such as clear consent banners, granular control over cookie categories, and a consent log kept for up to 12 months.
• Additional Features: Google-certified CMP (CMP ID 134). IAB TCF 2.4 on Premium plans (not on Free). 47+ languages on Premium; Free has one language. Support for Microsoft UET Consent Mode, Amazon Consent Signal and the Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal.

Integration with other tools: Cookiebot works with Google Tag Manager and has a WordPress plugin, a Wix app and a Shopify app, plus integrations for CMSs like Umbraco and HubSpot.

Customer support: Cookiebot has a help centre for self-service setup. A personal Customer Success Manager comes with Usercentrics Advanced, the enterprise product.

Scalability: Cookiebot is owned by Usercentrics: the two companies merged in September 2021 and Cookiebot is now a trademark of Usercentrics A/S. Cookiebot is aimed at small and mid-sized businesses. Larger organisations are pointed to Usercentrics Advanced, which is priced on sessions, covers unlimited domains and 60+ languages.

Privacy and security: Cookiebot states it holds ISO 27001 and ISO 27701 certifications.

Customization: Cookiebot offers a high degree of customization, allowing you to tailor the banners, messaging, and settings to match your brand and website design. Custom branding is Premium only.

Cost-effectiveness: Cookiebot prices by the number of subpages per domain (see pricing plans). Free covers one domain with up to 50 subpages. Premium Lite is €7 a month (one domain, up to 50 subpages), Medium €30 per domain (up to 3,500 subpages), Large €50 (up to 7,000) and XLarge €90 (more than 7,000), all excl. VAT. Premium Small (€15 per domain, up to 350 subpages) is only offered to accounts with four or more domains; with one to three small domains you are on Medium. There is a 14-day free trial.

CookieYes: features, support & pricing

Features:

• Consent Mechanism: Offers a customizable banner with various design options and the ability to group cookies into categories. Google Consent Mode v2 is supported on every plan, including Free, and Microsoft UET Consent Mode is supported too.
• Cookie Scanning: Automatically scans your website to identify and categorize cookies. Free scans up to 100 pages, Basic 600, Pro 4,000 and Ultimate 8,000. Scheduled scans are monthly on Pro and weekly on Ultimate.
• Cookie Management: Provides a user-friendly interface for managing cookie settings, including the ability to withdraw consent and delete cookies.
• Analytics and Reporting: A dashboard with consent trends and page views, on all plans.
• GDPR Compliance: Provides features to help businesses comply with GDPR requirements, such as clear consent banners, granular control over cookie categories, and a consent log (anonymised IP address, country, consent status, date and time) that you can export as CSV.
• Additional Features: Google-certified CMP (CMP ID 401). IAB TCF v2.4 banner on Pro and Ultimate. The banner can show in 170+ languages, with automatic translation in 40+ languages on paid plans.

Integration with other tools: CookieYes has its own apps for WordPress, Shopify and Wix, and works with Google Tag Manager. Other platforms use a script you add to the site.

Customer support: The Free plan has no chat support. Paid plans do.

Scalability: Pricing is based on page views per domain. Basic covers 100,000 page views a month, Pro 300,000 and Ultimate is unlimited. Above the Basic and Pro limits you pay €0.30 per 1,000 extra page views.

Privacy and security: The consent log stores an anonymised IP address rather than the full one.

Customization: The Free plan has basic customization only, without custom colours. Removing CookieYes branding and adding your own logo is Ultimate only.

Cost-effectiveness: The Free plan covers 5,000 page views a month for one domain. Paid plans per domain per month: Basic €9, Pro €23, Ultimate €50 (or €90, €230 and €500 a year). For a site with a lot of pages and modest traffic, CookieYes is usually cheaper than Cookiebot, since Cookiebot prices by subpages and CookieYes by page views. For a small site with a lot of traffic, it can be the other way round.

Conclusion

Both Cookiebot and CookieYes are effective tools for managing cookie consent and ensuring GDPR compliance. The choice between the two platforms ultimately depends on your specific needs, budget, and preferences.

If you want a route to an enterprise setup later (Usercentrics), or your site is small but busy, Cookiebot may be the better choice. If you have many pages, modest traffic or a tight budget, CookieYes is likely cheaper, and its free plan includes Consent Mode v2 and a consent log. Neither free plan includes IAB TCF.

It’s important to carefully evaluate the features, pricing, and customer support offered by both platforms to determine which one best fits your business’s requirements.