Cookiebot by Usercentrics vs. consentmanager

What is Cookiebot?

Cookiebot is a Google-certified Consent Management Platform (CMP) by Usercentrics. The software helps businesses comply with privacy regulations such as GDPR, the ePrivacy Directive, and CCPA. One can seamlessly integrate Cookiebot CMP into websites to collect and manage user consent for cookies and tracking technologies. Features include a customizable consent banner, automatic cookie scans, detailed consent logs, and customizable privacy policies. Pricing is available upon request from the provider.

What is consentmanager?

According to its own information, consentmanager has already helped more than 10,000 websites to become GDPR-compliant. The key benefits of the solution are very easy integration, "GDPR and CCPA/CPRA compliance, membership of the IAB CMPs, compatibility with almost all ad servers (including GAM/AdSense), full customisability to the respective design, integrated cookie crawler and availability in more than 30 languages. In addition, consentmanager CMP offers support for IAB TCF 2.2 and Google Consent Mode v2 as a certified partner of Google. It is also advertised that consentmanager is particularly frequently recommended by lawyers and data protection authorities. The platform is available under five licences, starting with a free basic version through to an enterprise version with a price based on individual agreement.