Compare Real Cookie Banner with Alternatives
Compare our consent management solution with well-known alternatives for WordPress and decide which solution fits the best for you! All solutions compared with Real Cookie Banner can be used in WordPress websites, according to its producer.
Real Cookie Banner is a cookie and consent management plugin designed to be an easy-to-use, powerful solution. All the features of our plugin are based on the legal texts in order to provide a solution that complies with the legal requirements of the GDPR and ePrivacy Directive. Compare us with alternative plugins!
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| Real Cookie Banner | Borlabs Cookie | Complianz | Cookiebot | |
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| Yearly price (starts from; per site) | €49 | €39 | €39 | €108 |
| Free version available |  |
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 only for small sites |
| Cookie & Consent Management | ||||
| Service (cookie) templates | 100+ templates |
25+ templates |
25+ templates; best results if the cloud service is activated |
visible after site scan |
| Individual service groups | |
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only if you use Google Tag manager |
predefined groups |
| Consent possible per service | |
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| Technical specifications of HTTP cookies and cookie-like information | |
one complete technical cookie definition per service |
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| Execution of opt-in and opt-out HTML/JavaScript code | |
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one script for all services |
you have to code this feature by yourself |
| Automatic deletion of 1st-party cookies in case of opt-out | |
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for predefined cookie list |
client-side |
| Hiding of cookie banner in the privacy policy and imprint page | |
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| Accepting all services for bots | |
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| Use of “Do Not Track” header | |
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| Age notice to comply with GDPR youth protection regulations | |
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| Obtaining consent for data processing in the USA | |
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| Geo-restriction to show cookie banner only if necessary | |
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restrictable to EU only |
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| Scanner | ||||
| Automatic check of all subpages for used services | each page indexed in sitemap |
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each page indexed in sitemap |
| Detection of external services (with and without template) | based on HTML markup |
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based on first-party cookies in browser of administrator |
technical cookies not always automatically associated with a service |
| Detection of known WordPress plugins | |
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| Content Blocker | ||||
| Content Blocker templates for popular services/plugins | 60+ templates |
7+ templates |
16+ templates |
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| Block already integrated link, inline style, (inline) script and iframe HTML tags until the consent of the visitor | |
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works for 16 predefined services |
client-side for known or manually marked services |
| URL blocking to block entire elements using a URL | |
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always unblocks when opt-in for marketing services |
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| Programmatic custom element blocking for blocking entire elements | |
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| Splitting of inline styles to block individual CSS selectors | |
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| Automatic video playback after consent via content blocker | for YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion and Loom videos |
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| Design customization | ||||
| Cookie banner design presets | 20+ design presets |
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| Customizable design of cookie banner | 200+ design settings |
85+ design settings |
45+ design settings |
8 design options |
| Live preview of design changes | |
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if TCF support disabled |
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| Transparency & Consent Framework (TCF) | ||||
| TCF v2.0 or newer support | |
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| Vendors can be selected from GVL | |
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all vendors that use least one selected purpose or feature |
manual lookup in vendor-list.json |
| Publisher restrictions can be applied to vendors | |
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manual lookup in vendor-list.json |
| Stacks for user-friendly visualization | |
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| Individual selection for visitors integrated in cookie banner | |
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visitor must switch to cookie policy |
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| Proactive notice of design violations (e.g. contrast too low) | |
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| Content blocker for content/scripts from vendors without consent | |
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| Consents and documentation | ||||
| Documentation of consents | |
without design settings and list of all cookies |
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without design settings |
| Creation of consents afterwards traceable through interactive visualization | |
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| Proactive obtain new consents after changing the content or behavior of the cookie banner | |
manually to trigger |
on adding new service, but not on changing e.g. texts |
when adding new services, but not when changing texts |
| Statistics about visitor consents | three statistics with dynamic time range |
statistic without date choice |
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one opt-in chart |
| Shortcodes/Scripts for viewing the history of consent, changing and revoking consent | |
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| Technical solution | ||||
| Native solution in WordPress | |
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Cloud service loaded as external script |
| Anti-Ad-Blocker system to get consents from users with aggressive Ad-Blocker | |
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| Import and export settings | |
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| Export of collected consents | |
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| Support for Google Tag Manager (GTM) and Matomo Tag Manager (MTM) that loads tag manager only after consent | |
according to the documentation, GTM should also be loaded without consent |
GTM loads before user consent |
GTM loads before user consent |
| Support for multilingual websites with WPML and Polylang | with cookie/service synchronization between languages |
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| Support for multilingual websites with TranslatePress (advanced integration) | |
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| Support for multilingual websites with Weglot (advanced integration) | with machine translations |
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| Support for WordPress Multisites | |
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with limitations of options |
| Consent Forwarding to avoid multiple consents of a visitor on multiple sites of an organization | one-way and two-way sync |
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Consents shared via cookie, but without e.g. documentation of consent |
within one subscription |
| Support for automatic emptying of all known page caches after a change to the cookie banner | for 14 page-cache plugins |
for 5 page-cache plugins |
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for 2 page-cache plugins |
| Compatible WordPress version | 5.2 or newer | unknown | 4.9 or newer | 4.4 or newer |
The comparison was made in May 2021 and was updated in September 2021 on the basis of the following versions of the WordPress Plugins: Real Cookie Banner v2.7.0, Borlabs Cookie v2.2.24, Complianz v5.0.3, Cookiebot v3.10.1
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