Summary
consentmanager is a product of consentmanager AB in Västerås, Sweden, sold by its German and French sister companies; it was founded in 2018 and joined the iubenda group in 2022. Its site crawler detects cookies, pixels and vendors several times a day on paid plans and sends alerts when something new appears. The Starter plan (€23 per month, 100,000 page views) includes a privacy policy generator and Legal Shield, which combines scans with a partner lawyer and covers legal costs under its annex in five countries. A free plan for one site and 3,000 page views is listed on plugin pages but not on the main pricing page.
Best for: Businesses that want frequent automated cookie monitoring, EU-only data storage and some legal cost cover bundled with the banner.
Score breakdown
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Legal coverage25% weight3.4
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Evidence & transparency20% weight7.0
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Help to fix15% weight8.5
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EU/EEA focus15% weight8.0
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Price transparency & value15% weight6.0
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Ease of getting started10% weight7.0
Overall (weighted average)6.3 / 10
How each criterion is assessed: methodology.
Pros and cons
Pros
- Several crawls a day from the cheapest paid plan (3 per day on Starter) with alerts for new cookies and vendors
- Legal Shield included from Starter: partner lawyer and cost cover under its annex in Germany, Italy, Spain, France and the UK
- EU-only data storage stated for all plans
- Google Gold CMP partner and IAB TCF v2.3 validated CMP (CMP ID 31)
- Separate accessibility widget and scanner from €15 per month
Cons
- Starter allows one banner language and Essential five; 35+ languages only on Enterprise
- The free plan (3,000 page views, one site) is not shown on the main pricing page
- No VAT statement on the pricing page; overage €0.10 per 1,000 page views on Starter
- Consent records kept for 13 months on Starter and Essential
- The free cookie scanner leads to a registration
In detail
consentmanager was founded in 2018 in Västerås, Sweden. The product belongs to consentmanager AB; consentmanager GmbH in Hamburg and consentmanager SAS in Paris handle sales. Since 2022 it has been part of the iubenda group. It is a consent management platform with a strong focus on monitoring.
The site crawler looks for cookies, tracking pixels, tags and vendors, using a database of more than three million cookies and 2,500 vendors. Paid plans crawl several times a day (three crawls a day on Starter, ten on Essential) and send alerts when new cookies or vendors appear. Consent decisions are logged with timestamp, scope and banner version, kept for 13 months on Starter and Essential and 36 months on Enterprise, and can be exported as CSV or PDF. The vendor states that all data is stored only in the EU. consentmanager is a Google Gold CMP partner and an IAB TCF v2.3 validated CMP (CMP ID 31).
From Starter, Legal Shield is included without a separate fee: regular scans flag potential issues, a partner lawyer handles eligible claims and legal costs are covered in line with the Legal Shield annex, in Germany, Italy, Spain, France and the UK. A privacy policy generator is part of the paid plans, and an accessibility widget with a scanner is sold separately from €15 per month. consentmanager does not check imprints or e-shop duties.
Pricing is by page views. Starter costs €23 per month (100,000 page views, €0.10 per extra 1,000), Essential €59 (one million page views, IAB TCF, A/B testing) and Enterprise is custom with a 12-month contract. Starter allows one banner language, Essential five and Enterprise 35+. The pricing page does not say whether prices include VAT. A free plan (€0, 3,000 page views, one site) appears on plugin pages only; the pricing page offers a 14-day trial.
Features
As published by the vendor. “Not published” means we could not find the information in the vendor’s public material.
What it checks
- Cookie & storage scanYes
- Consent banner checkNo
- Tracker detectionYes
- Privacy notice checkNo
- Imprint / legal notice checkNo
- Consumer-law checkNo
- Accessibility checkYes
What you get
- Consent banner (CMP) includedYes
- Continuous monitoringYes
- Evidence reportYes
- Fix guidanceNot published
- Certificate / sealNo
Reach
- LanguagesBanner 35+ languages (1 on Starter, 5 on Essential, all on Enterprise)
- Countries coveredGlobal (GDPR, ePrivacy, US state laws); Legal Shield in DE, IT, ES, FR, UK
Verdict
consentmanager stands out for frequent automated crawls, EU-only storage and the Legal Shield bundled from its first paid plan. Like other consent platforms it checks cookies and vendors rather than legal texts or e-shop duties, and its language limits and unclear VAT treatment weigh on value for small multilingual sites.
Sources
- Pricing consentmanager.net
- Features and plan comparison consentmanager.net
- Free plan (WordPress plugin page) consentmanager.net
- Legal Shield consentmanager.net
- Imprint consentmanager.net
- About us consentmanager.net
- Free cookie scanner consentmanager.net
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