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 Cookiee 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yearly price (starts from; per site) | €49 | €39 | €49 | €108 |
| Free version available |  |  | |  only for small sites |
| Cookie & Consent Management | ||||
| Cookie templates for popular services | 60+ templates | 24+ templates | best results if the cloud service is activated | visible after site scan |
| Individual cookie groups | | | predefined groups | predefined groups |
| Technical specifications of HTTP cookies and cookie-like information | | one complete technical cookie definition per service | | |
| Execution of opt-in and opt-out HTML/JavaScript code | | | one script for all services | you have to code this feature by yourself |
| Automatic deletion of 1st-party cookies in case of opt-out | | | for predefined cookie list | client-side |
| Hiding of cookie banner in the privacy policy and imprint page | | | | |
| Accepting all cookies for bots | | | | |
| Use of “Do Not Track” header | | | | |
| Age notice to comply with GDPR youth protection regulations | | | | |
| Obtaining consent for data processing in the USA | | | | |
| Show cookie banner only to EU users | | | | |
| Content Blocker | ||||
| Content Blocker templates for popular services/plugins | 35+ templates | 7+ templates | 16+ templates | |
| Block already integrated link, (inline) script and iframe HTML tags until the consent of the visitor | | | works for 16 predefined services | elements have to be manually marked |
| URL blocking to block entire elements using a URL | | | | |
| Programmatic custom element blocking for blocking entire elements | | | | |
| Design customization | ||||
| Cookie Banner design presets | 10+ design presets | | 7+ design presets | |
| Customizable design of cookie banner | 170+ design settings | 80+ design settings | 20+ design settings | 5 design options |
| Live preview of design changes | | | | |
| Consents and documentation | ||||
| Documentation of consents | | without design settings and list of all cookies | | without design settings |
| Creation of consents afterwards traceable through interactive visualization | | | | |
| Proactive obtain new consents after changing the content or behavior of the cookie banner | | manually to trigger | | manually to trigger |
| Statistics about visitor consents | Three statistics with dynamic time range | statistic without date choice | | |
| Shortcodes for viewing the history of consent, changing and revoking consent | | | | |
| Technical solution | ||||
| Native solution in WordPress | | | | Cloud service loaded as external script |
| Anti-Ad-Blocker system to get consents from users with aggressive Ad-Blocker | | | | |
| Import and export settings | | | | |
| Export of collected consents | | | | |
| Support for Google Tag Manager (GTM) und Matomo Tag Manager (MTM) | | according to the documentation, GTM should also be loaded without consent | with predefined events | GTM loads before user consent |
| Support for multilingual websites with WPML and Polylang | with cookie/service synchronization between languages | | | |
| Support for WordPress Multisites | | | | 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 | | | |
| 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 | | for 2 page cache plugins |
| Compatible WordPress version | 5.2 or newer | unknown | 4.7 or newer | 4.4 or newer |
The comparison was made in September 2020 on the basis of the following versions of the WordPress Plugins: Real Cookie Banner v1.3.0 (information updated in February 2021), Borlabs Cookie v2.2.10, Compliance v4.7.1, Cookiebt v3.8.0
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