CookieYes review

CookieYes started in 2018 as a WordPress plugin and is now a hosted consent management platform run by CookieYes Limited, a company registered in England and Wales with a remote team in the UK and India. It is aimed at small sites that want a working banner quickly.

The scanner crawls a site and matches what it finds against a database of more than 100,000 categorised cookies and trackers. Scripts such as Google Analytics or the Facebook Pixel can be blocked until the visitor consents. Consents are logged with an anonymised IP address, country, status and timestamp and can be exported as CSV or as a proof-of-consent PDF; paid plans allow export for five years. Privacy and cookie policy generators are part of every plan. The banner is available in more than 175 languages, 41 of them with automatic translation. CookieYes is an IAB-registered CMP for TCF v2.4 and a Google Gold CMP partner, and states SOC 2 and ISO/IEC 27001 controls.

A free cookie checker on the website crawls a URL and lists HTTP, JavaScript and HTML5 local-storage cookies by category. CookieYes does not check privacy-policy content, the imprint, e-shop duties or accessibility.

Prices are per domain, in USD, EUR or GBP, with local taxes added at checkout. Free: 5,000 page views a month, 100 pages per scan, five scans a month, one banner language and CookieYes branding. Basic: $10 / €9 / £8 a month or $100 / €90 / £80 a year, 100,000 page views, 600 pages per scan, no scheduled scans. Pro: $25 / €23 a month with monthly scheduled scans, geo-targeting and IAB TCF. Ultimate: $55 / €50 a month with weekly scans and no branding. Basic and Pro charge $0.30 per 1,000 extra page views. Paid plans have a 14-day trial; the card is charged at the end unless cancelled.