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Cookiebot is a cookie consent platform from Usercentrics. It scans a website for cookies and trackers, shows a consent banner and passes visitors' consent choices to ad platforms.[1]

Cookiebot is an automated cloud-driven solution for cookie control and tracker management. It enables full GDPR/ePrivacy and CCPA compliance for websites by scanning for cookies, providing customizable consent banners, and generating detailed cookie declarations.

Cookiebot belongs toCookie compliancecategory.

What it does

Automates cookie consent and sends consent signals to ad platforms[1]

Scanning

Scans your site monthly for cookies and trackers[1]

Free trial

14 days, cancel any time[1]

Free plan

One domain only[2]

73websites

use it — 2.9% of the 2,555 websites we scanned in the last 12 months

#3of 33

tools in its category seen in our scans (we recognize 81)

56public pages

on UptimeCard — open any of them to see how that site is doing

In short: an automated consent banner with monthly scans and a free plan for one site; the plan you need depends on your subpage count.[2]

3.96% of all websites we track run Cookiebot

Should you use Cookiebot?

The 10-second version, from the vendor’s own pages and what we see in our scans

Cookiebot fits if…

  • You run one or a few websites and want consent set up and updated automatically[1]
  • You want visitors' consent choices sent to ad platforms[1]

Look elsewhere if…

  • You want a consent tool with a free plan and listed monthly prices in US dollars[3]CookieYes lists these on its pricing page.
  • You want a wider privacy platform that covers more than consent[4]OneTrust's consent product sits inside a larger privacy suite.
Each domain is evaluated and billed separately by its number of subpages[2]
The free plan covers a single domain[2]

Cookiebot next to other consent tools

Statements come from each vendor's own page; website counts and speed are ours.

CookiebotOneTrustCookieYes
Plans
Free planYesfor one domain[2]Not stated on its home pageYesfor blogs and personal websites[3]
Free trial14 dayscancel any time[1]Not stated on its home page14 dayson paid plans[3]
What we see in our scans
Websites running it732.9% of 2,555 scanned sites42316.6% of 2,555 scanned sites592.3% of 2,555 scanned sites
Typical page load time3.9 s✓49 public sites4.7 s132 public sites3.9 s39 public sites
Typical page weight2.5 MB✓typical home page3.9 MBtypical home page3.1 MBtypical home page
Security grade B or better37%7 of 19 graded sites score B or better39%✓17 of 44 graded sites score B or better22%4 of 18 graded sites score B or better

Scan rows count public pages only; a tool needs at least 5 measured sites to appear.

  • OneTrust: A privacy platform whose consent product manages consent and preferences[4]
  • CookieYes: A cookie consent tool with a free plan and per-domain monthly prices[3]

Choose Cookiebot if…

  • You want automatic scanning and consent signals to ad platforms[1]

Choose OneTrust if…

  • You want consent as part of a larger privacy suite[4]

Choose CookieYes if…

  • You want listed monthly prices per domain[3]

Support and help for Cookiebot

How the vendor says you can reach it, and the public help community

Help center

A help center and developer documentation, plus a customer support team[1]

Stack Overflow

21 questions[6][7]

43% have an upvoted answer. [cookiebot] questions

How Cookiebot sites protect themselves

Share of the 73 sites we scanned that run each protection

HSTS80% · 58 sites

HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) informs browsers that the site should only be accessed using HTTPS

reCAPTCHA16% · 12 sites

reCAPTCHA is a free service from Google that helps protect websites from spam and abuse

Cloudflare Bot Management12% · 9 sites

Cloudflare bot management solution identifies and mitigates automated traffic to protect websites from bad bots

Protections add up, they do not replace each other: a site can run all of them.

What sites use Cookiebot for

An estimate from UptimeCard's technology map of 46 public sites

Runs the whole site38 sites

23m.com · appfox.io · axway.com

Runs the marketing site7 sites

365retailmarkets.com · billbee.io · cloudamqp.com

Runs a shop or catalog1 sites

getzowie.com

Rough guide, not a measurement: each description is written automatically from the site’s technology stack and the site has not confirmed it. A site is counted once, in the first group its description fits (shop, help and docs, blog, marketing site; otherwise the whole site). Descriptions that only guess (“likely”, “may”) are left out.

At a glance

UptimeCard's own scans and tests of 2,555 websites · refreshed weekly

How Cookiebot sites scoreout of 100 · hover or tap a score for details

56PerformanceLowaverage site: 5089AccessibilityGoodaverage site: 8996Best practicesGoodaverage site: 9392SEOGoodaverage site: 92

Page load time

Loads about 10% faster than the average site

Cookiebot sites
3.9 s
All sites
4.3 s

Most Cookiebot sites load in 2.9–5.7 s. Home page weight: 2.5 MB vs 3.3 MB for all sites. 49 public sites measured.

Where are they hosted?

Mostly Amazon Web Services and Cloudflare

  • Amazon Web Services27%
  • Cloudflare20%
  • Microsoft Azure5%
  • Fastly4%
  • Other45%
United States 52%Canada 16%Germany 5%

Who uses it?

Software as a Service (SaaS) sites use Cookiebot 1.5× more than average

Technology and Software64%
Business Services11%
Software as a Service (SaaS)1.5× avg9%
Educational Resources4%

Share of 56 classified public sites. “× average” compares with all 961 public sites.

Browser-security check

37% of graded sites pass

7of 19 score B or better

Rates each site’s own security settings, not Cookiebot. 19 public sites graded so far.

How Cookiebot sites are built

Closest partners. The number says how many times more often the tool runs on Cookiebot sites than on an average website. Hover a partner for its share of sites.

Cybot35×Cookie Control33×Tailwind CSS3×Piwik PRO Core3×Hotjar3×HubSpot3×Linkedin Insight Tag2×

Stacks we see most. Tools that tend to run together with Cookiebot on the same websites. The percentage is the share of all 73 Cookiebot sites that run the whole stack.

5 stacks · swipe, drag or use the arrows
#1

Cookiebot + Cookie Control + Tailwind CSS

9.6%7 of 73 sites
#2

Cookiebot + jsDelivr + cdnjs

8.2%6 of 73 sites
#3

Cookiebot + jsDelivr + Webflow

5.5%4 of 73 sites
#4

Cookiebot + Tailwind CSS + Radix UI

5.5%4 of 73 sites
#5

Cookiebot + Craft CMS + Yii

5.5%4 of 73 sites

Usually installed alongside

The bigger the bubble, the more of the 73 Cookiebot sites also run the tool. Colour shows what the tool does. Hover or tap a bubble for details.

Google Tag Manager97%Google Analytics71%Linkedin Insight Tag34%Piwik PRO Core22%Cookie Control26%HubSpot26%DoubleClick Floodlight18%Microsoft Advertising18%Yoast SEO12%
Tag managerAnalyticsCookie consentMarketingAdvertisingSearch visibility

Similar tools in its category

Cookie compliance: 81 tools known, 33 seen in our scans

OneTrust423 sitesAlternativeFunding Choices154 sitesAlternativeCookieYes59 sitesAlternativeTrustArc47 sitesAlternativeOsano43 sitesAlternativeDidomi36 sitesAlternativeUsercentrics34 sitesAlternativeKetch25 sitesAlternativeCookie Control20 sitesUsed together

How websites combine Cookiebot with other tools

Relationships found on the websites that use it, from the same map status pages show.

Integrates with another 50Needs another tool 19Overlaps with another 15Complements another tool 12Built on a platform 1

Websites using Cookiebot

73 websites use Cookiebot: 2.9% of the 2,555 websites we scanned in the last 12 months. A selection is shown below.

Scores are out of 100: P Performance · A Accessibility · B Best practices · S SEO. Green 80+, yellow 65–79, orange 50–64, red below 50. The dot shows whether our last scan found the site failing (red) or not (green); Red, amber or blue: an active incident on the site's status page (outage, degraded, maintenance) or a failing scan; amber also means a certificate ending within 30 days. Hover the dot for details.

Who is behind Cookiebot

From its own pages and public records, with sources

Part of

Usercentrics[9][10]

Trademark held by

Usercentrics A/S[8]

Usercentrics A/S is registered in Denmark · Cookiebot since 2012[8][9]

Questions about Cookiebot

What is Cookiebot?
A consent management platform that automates cookie consent and sends consent signals to ad platforms.[1]
Is there a free plan?
Yes, but the Free plan can only be applied to one domain. There is also a 14-day free trial.[2][1]
How does Cookiebot find cookies?
It scans your website monthly to identify and classify the cookies and trackers in use.[1]
What decides which plan I need?
The number of subpages on a domain, where a subpage is any unique URL. Each domain is billed separately.[2]
How many websites use Cookiebot?
We found Cookiebot on 73 of the 2,555 websites we scanned in the last 12 months (2.9%). 56 of them have a public status page.
What is Cookiebot often used with?
Among the websites we scan, Cookiebot is often found alongside Google Analytics (71.2% of its sites), PHP (49.3% of its sites), Amazon Web Services (34.2% of its sites).
What are the alternatives to Cookiebot?
Other cookie compliance tools we recognize include OneTrust, Funding Choices, CookieYes, TrustArc.

Is your website built with Cookiebot?

UptimeCard checks it around the clock, tells you the minute it stops answering, and gives your visitors a status page.

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