Cookiebot vs. Cookie Information: Consent Management Platform Comparison

Both Cookiebot™ and Cookie Information enable GDPR and CCPA/CPRA compliance. Only Cookiebot™ covers additional regulations: VCDPA, LGPD, and POPIA in both their Free and Premium plans. The Cookiebot™ value of compliance with numerous regulations worldwide ensures comprehensive compliance across jurisdictions, reducing administrative burden and enhancing trust. This together with their geotargeting feature allows businesses to localize the user’s consent experience and helps them to achieve regulatory compliance. Whether you are tech savvy website manager or a non-technical digital marketeer, with Cookiebot CMP legislation pre-sets, you can design a consent banner that is inline with the regulations requirements.

Both platforms provide core features like cookie and tracker management, compliance oversight, and automated blocking. Cookiebot CMP additionally supports geotargeting. The Cookiebot™ solution offers a wide variety of core functionalities, enabling growing businesses to effortlessly manage the complexities of cookie consent and data protection, ensuring compliance while maintaining a smooth user experience. Cookie Information also brings core features like auto scanning and cross-domain consent sharing, but lacks geotargeting functionalities.

Both platforms include banner customization and offer different templates that can be used, as well as further customization possibilities with CSS. With Cookiebot™ you can also add the company logo and preferred fonts for further customization. Both CMP providers offer multi-language support and auto-translation, though Cookiebot™ includes support for more languages.

Both platforms enable integrations with popular CSM such as WordPress and offer support for tools such as Google Consent Mode and Google Tag Manager.

Both CMPs offer WordPress plugins for cookie consent management integration, though Cookiebot™ has over 30,000 active WordPress installations and a 4.5-star rating based on 369 reviews, outranking Cookie Information’s plugin, which has around 10,000 installations, and a 4.5-star rating based on a more limited 13 reviews.

Cookiebot CMP is a scalable platform that is compatible with multiple implementation methods based on your tech stack. Whether you use WordPress, Wix, Hubspot, Drupal or Magento, you can find detailed instructions in the installation guides.

Both platforms provide analytics and reporting tools, including an analytics dashboard, reporting and CSV exports. Cookie Information offers more comprehensive analytics and reporting, with an analytics dashboarding with Piwiki Pro integration.

While both Cookiebot™ and Cookie Information are Google-certified and IAB registered CMPs, the CookiebotTM patented scanning helps to automatically find and control cookies and trackers being used on your website, which supports that your data usage aligns with transparency and user consent requirements.

Both platforms offer a free trial and smaller free plan, as well as multiple customer support options. The Cookiebot™ pricing for paid plans has clear tiers based on the number of subpages. Pricing plans with Cookie Information are based on subpages as well as on the number of consents collected, which can fluctuate, affecting pricing.

With the Premium Lite package for websites with fewer than 50 subpages, Cookiebot CMP offers an attractive pricing of €7, providing businesses with a comprehensive cookie consent solution within their budget. Cookie Information’s solution starts at 15€/month, not including some valuable features such as consent rate insights and the monitorization of non-EU data transfers.