A Cookiebot alternative for developers
Cookiebot is the incumbent for a reason: deep scanning, TCF support, enterprise compliance workflows. If you run programmatic ads or need IAB TCF 2.2, use it. This page is for the other case - you build sites for clients, you need consent that actually blocks scripts, and you do not want per-domain pricing or an admin console between you and the markup.
The comparison, honestly
| Cookiebot | Consentify | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Per domain, tiered by page count | EUR 10/mo flat, 10 domains |
| Free tier | 1 domain under 50 pages | 1 domain, unlimited decisions |
| Integration | Script tag + admin console | Script tag, npm SDK, or shadcn component |
| Script blocking | Automatic rewrite + manual markup | Explicit data-consentify markup |
| Google Consent Mode v2 | Supported | Supported, one attribute |
| Cookie scanner | Scheduled deep crawls | On-demand single-page scan |
| TCF 2.2 (adtech) | Yes | No - deliberate, see below |
| Framework packages | None official | @consentify/core, @consentify/react, CLI |
Where the price difference comes from
Cookiebot charges per domain and scales the price with page count. For an agency or freelancer managing ten client sites, that is ten subscriptions. Consentify Pro is EUR 10 a month for up to ten domains, and consent decisions are unlimited on every tier. The free tier runs one production site without a card.
Integration is markup, not a console
The banner is one script tag. Blocking a tracker until consent is one attribute pair on the script you already have:
<script
src="https://consentify.dev/widget.js"
data-token="ct_..."
data-gcm="true"
defer
></script>
<!-- blocked until the visitor grants "analytics" -->
<script
type="text/plain"
data-consentify="analytics"
src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-XXXXXXX"
></script>Prefer npm? @consentify/core is a headless SDK with the same consent state, and the dashboard generates consent-gated snippets for GA4, Meta Pixel, GTM, and a dozen other integrations. There is also a shadcn registry component if the banner should be yours to style completely - see the shadcn guide.
What Consentify deliberately does not do
No TCF 2.2, because the IAB framework exists for programmatic advertising and drags in a vendor list UI your visitors do not need if you are not selling ad space. No scheduled deep crawls - the scanner fetches one page on demand. If those are requirements, Cookiebot is the better tool and this page just saved you an evaluation.
Compliance basics both tools cover
Prior blocking, equal-prominence accept and reject, granular categories, proof of consent with policy versioning, Google Consent Mode v2 signals, and honoring the Global Privacy Control browser signal. Consentify records which banner text a visitor actually saw and exports the full consent log as CSV.
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