Alternative to Cookiebot for WordPress websites
You think Cookiebot is too expensive, you can’t customize the design enough for your website, or you are missing important features? Real Cookie Banner as an alternative to Cookiebot for WordPress websites tries to offer a more customizable cookie banner that is easy to set up for a smaller budget. Make your website GDPR and ePrivacy Directive compliant!
Why you should choose Real Cookie Banner
Real Cookie Banner is a cookie and consent management plugin. Obtain consent to load services and set cookies for your visitors in accordance with the GDPR and ePrivacy Directive. In addition, content blockers help you to be compliant even if your theme, plugin or content loads styles, scripts or iframes that would transfer personal data. Start now with our guided-configuration and avoid legal risks!
Consent Management
You can use Real Cookie Banner to store all technical and legal information about services and cookies to obtain informed consent. You can use 150+ service templates and 120+ content blocker templates to quickly and securely provide all the information you need.
Content Blocker
Themes, plugins and co. usually load scripts, styles and content that transfer personal data and set cookies before you have the consent of your visitors. You usually cannot control this by yourself. Content blockers make sure that these features are only executed after you have obtained consent.
Customize design
You can design the cookie banner according to your wishes. 20+ design templates and 200+ options give you the flexibility to customize the cookie banner perfectly to your needs. From colors and effects to texts, you can unleash your creativity! All changes are displayed in a live preview.
Guided configuration
After installation, the checklist will guide you through all steps to be able to set up Real Cookie Banner in a legally compliant manner. We also explain the legalities of features and the legal consequences if you change settings. So, you can quickly and safely set up your cookie banner!
Documentation of consents
According to the GDPR, you have to prove that a visitor has consented to cookies and processing of personal data if he or she doubts this. We document consent completely and make it possible to trace the origin of the consent afterwards. You are on the safe side even in the worst case!
Native in WordPress
Real Cookie Banner is a cookie plugin specially designed for WordPress. It is fully installed in your WordPress as a native plugin. All consents are processed and stored on your server. Nothing is downloaded from a cloud in your visitor’s browser, which avoids further legal issues.
Compare us with Cookiebot
Cookiebot is a universal cookie banner that you can use on any website and that tries to find all used services for you. Unfortunately, compared to Real Cookie Banner, Cookiebot is only slightly adapted to the WordPress ecosystem, the design of the cookie banner can only be changed marginally and the automated setup makes it difficult to track as a website owner whether the cookie banner really contains all cookies, services, etc. that you use. Real Cookie Banner tries to do that and much more better. Compare us with alternative WordPress plugins to get your own opinion!
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The comparison of consent mangement solutions for WordPress was created in July 2025 based on Borlabs Cookie 3.3.11, Complianz 7.5.4 Premium, Cookiebot 4.5.10 (WordPress plugin) variant “Admin Interface”, Usercentrics with Cookiebot 4.5.10 (WordPress plugin) variant “v3” and Real Cookie Banner 5.1.12. New versions of the software with modified features may have become available in the meantime.
| Real Cookie Banner | Borlabs Cookie | Complianz | Cookiebot | Usercentrics | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yearly price (for one website; up to prices depend on billing units used and are limited to public prices; incl. 19% VAT) | €59.00 | €58.31 | €59.00 | €99.96 up to € 714.00 | €99.96 up to € 10,710.00 |
| Billing unit | per website (unlimited page views/sessions) | per website (unlimited page views/sessions) | per website (unlimited page views/sessions) | per user session & domain | per user session & domain |
| Free version available | |||||
| Translations of plugin into # languages (> 90% completeness; language variants not counted) | 17 texts in cookie banner are customizable | 8 texts in cookie banner are customizable | 10 texts in cookie banner are customizable | 60 texts in cookie banner are customizable | 60 texts in cookie banner are customizable |
| Audited by external law firm | no information provided by developer | not adverised, but in-house legal team | not adverised, but in-house legal team | not adverised, but in-house legal team | |
| Cookie & Consent Management | |||||
| Covered jurisdictions | EU/EEA, CH, GB | EU/EEA | EU/EEA, GB, US-CA, CA, BR, ZA, AU | EU/EEA, CH, GB, US (some states), BR, ZA, AU | EU/EEA, CH, GB, US (some states), BR, ZA, AU |
| Service (cookie) templates (legal and technical information for obtaining consent) | |||||
| Per-service consent in cookie banner | |||||
| Individual service groups | |||||
| Information obligations per service (information in accordance with Art. 13 GDPR) | only link to provider’s privacy policy | only link to provider’s privacy policy | |||
| Disclosure of cookies used per service (HTTP cookies and cookie-like information) | |||||
| Safety mechanism disclosures for third-country transfers (requirements of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR) | |||||
| Consent to unsafe third-country data processing (according to Art. 49(1)(a) GDPR) | |||||
| Minor protection measures (requirements of Art. 8 GDPR) | |||||
| Compliance for CDN use (e.g. explanations of necessary safeguards) | |||||
| Cookie policy generator (improves transparency for website visitors) | |||||
| Auto-delete first-party cookies (upon website visitor opt-out) | |||||
| Executing code on opt-in or opt-out (enables integration of e.g. Google Analytics directly via cookie banners) | only per service group, but not per service | only with implementation via code | |||
| Region-based cookie banner visibility (shows cookie banner only if legally required) | |||||
| Transfer of service consents to Google Tag Manager (allows firing of tags only with legal basis) | |||||
| Banner-less consent obtaining (consent management with only content blockers) | |||||
| Anti-adblocker technology (prevents cookie banner blocking in most cases) | |||||
| Legal pages linked in footer of cookie banner (e.g. privacy policy or legal notice/imprint linkable) | |||||
| Hide banner on legal pages (e.g. on privacy policy or legal notice/imprint page) | |||||
| Automatic service consent for bots (GDPR only applies to natural persons) | |||||
| Scanner | |||||
| Check of for used services (detects used services across all subpages) | |||||
| Edit-triggered page rescan (scans pages immediately after editing) | |||||
| Periodic website scans without specific cause (schedulable and regular scans) | |||||
| Detection of external services (with and without service template) | detected cookies not always auto-associate with a service | ||||
| Detection of known WordPress plugins (service need to be available) | |||||
| Detection of unknown external connections (manual entry of service details required) | |||||
| Content Blocker | |||||
| Content blocker templates (blocks services until consent is given) | one blocker for all services based on regex | no templates, but auto-blocking without visible replacement or settings possible | |||
| Embeds replaced by similar placeholder (e.g. YouTube video replaced by dummy video player) | |||||
| Blocking of already integrated links, styles, scripts & iframes | only scipts & iframes; only per service group, but not per service | for services known by Cookiebot or manual blocking | for services known by Usercentrics or manual blocking | ||
| Blocking of elements by URL | only per service group, but not per service | ||||
| Split inline styles per selector (enables fine-grained inline CSS blocking) | |||||
| Automatic video playback post-consent (if consent is given via content blocker) | |||||
| Disclosure parity in content blocker (same level of as in cookie banner to meet GDPR information obligations for informed consents) | |||||
| Design customization | |||||
| Cookie banner design presets | |||||
| Customizable design of cookie banner (e.g. colors, fonts, sizes) | |||||
| Live preview of design changes (changes immediately visible without saving; displayed as appearing on the website) | |||||
| Mobile-optimized design options (cookie banners design on e.g. smartphones customizable) | |||||
| Interaction-triggered banner loading (e.g. load after click/scroll; may interrupt user flow) | |||||
| Accessibility | |||||
| WCAG 2.1 Level AA or later compliance (to comply with European Accessibility Act) | |||||
| Accessibility scoring for design settings (evaluates contrast, font size compliance, etc.) | |||||
| Consent Mode | |||||
| Google Consent Mode v2 support | |||||
| Explicit consent per purpose (consent type) (to fulfil purpose limitation of Art. 5(1)(b) GDPR for Google Consent Mode) | |||||
| Microsoft UET Consent Mode support | |||||
| Transparency & Consent Framework (TCF) | |||||
| TCF v2 or newer support | |||||
| Google certified CMP (for AdSense, Ad Manager, or AdMob) | |||||
| Vendors from GVL selectable (Global Vendor List provided by IAB Europe) | all vendors using at least one selected purpose or feature | ||||
| Auto-import of vendor lists from ad servers (may create hundreds of vendors fully automatically) | vendors not freely selectable | ||||
| Publisher restrictions for vendors (requested purposes can be reduced) | |||||
| Content blocker for TCF vendors (prevents loading vendor content and scripts without consent) | |||||
| Stacks for user-friendly visualization | |||||
| Proactive design violation notices (in accordance with the TCF Policy) | |||||
| Consents and documentation | |||||
| Documentation of consents (to fulfill accountability under Art. 5(2) GDPR) | |||||
| Documentation by contract processor (proof stored by third party; data processing agreement may be necessary) | |||||
| Interactive visualization of consent creation (displays cookie banner and behavior that led to consent) | |||||
| Consent history, modification & revocation links (enables website visitors to exercise their rights) | |||||
| Proactive notice for consent re-solicitation on banner modification | |||||
| Statistics on visitor consents | |||||
| Consent documentation fault tolerance (e.g. delayed logging & auto-retry on overload) | |||||
| Multilingual support | |||||
| WPML support | |||||
| Polylang support | |||||
| TranslatePress support | |||||
| Weglot support | |||||
| Language switcher in cookie banner | |||||
| Technical solution | |||||
| Native solution in WordPress (consent management in WordPress plugin code) | |||||
| Cache clearing after banner modification (proactive offer to clear page cache) | |||||
| WordPress Multisite support | |||||
| Consent forwarding across multiple websites (website visitors consent only once; consent applies to all linked websites) | |||||
| Import and export settings | |||||
| Export of collected consents | |||||
| Compatible WordPress version | 5.9 or newer | 4.7 or newer | 5.8 or newer | 4.4 or newer for WordPress plugin | 4.4 or newer for WordPress plugin |
You want to know more?
Have we caught your interest in Real Cookie Banner? The WordPress plugin offers you even more than what you’ve seen here. To learn more, have a look at the full list of features, services templates and more in the product description!
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