Alternative to Complianz
GrantCookie vs Complianz
Complianz is a privacy suite for WordPress, with a free plugin and Premium licences per website each year. GrantCookie works on any site with one script tag, with set-up guides for WordPress, Shopify and Wix.
- No card to start
- One script tag to go live
- No sales call
At a glance
Checked on 2 October 2026
| GrantCookie | Complianz | |
|---|---|---|
| Priced by | Pageviews | Website licences, no pageview limit |
| Works on | Any site | WordPress, Shopify |
| Consent Mode v2 | Supported | Premium |
| Consent records | Every plan | Premium |
GrantCookie and Complianz, side by side
Each Complianz fact comes from Complianz’s own website and its WordPress.org plugin page, checked on 2 October 2026. Each GrantCookie fact comes from our pricing page, features page and terms.
| GrantCookie | Complianz | |
|---|---|---|
| Priced by | Pageviews a month (each page load on a website that runs the GrantCookie script), with each website on its own plan | Each website, on yearly licences for 1, 5 or 25 websites, with no limit on pageviews or records of consent |
| Free plan | Yes: 5,000 pageviews a month, one website and five cookie scans a month | Yes: a free WordPress plugin with no pageview limit; it detects cookies on the first 50 pages, and records of consent need Premium |
| Cheapest paid plan | Basic: $10 a month, or $8 a month billed annually, for 100,000 pageviews a month on one website (USD, excluding local tax) | Personal, the one-site Premium licence: $59 a year (USD) for one WordPress site; the Shopify app is a separate subscription |
| Free trial | 14 days on Basic, Pro and Ultimate, with no card needed | None listed for the WordPress plugin; the Shopify app has a free trial |
| Google Consent Mode v2 | Supported | On Premium; Complianz says it is Google CMP certified |
| Automatic cookie scans | Monthly on Pro and weekly on Ultimate; on Free and Basic, scans run when you start them | The free plugin scans the first 50 pages, with a periodic scan for changes; Premium runs a hybrid scan of the whole site on a regular schedule |
| Consent records | A consent log on every plan, kept for 30 days on Free (older records are anonymised), 90 days on Basic, 180 days on Pro and 1 year on Ultimate; export on every plan, and CSV import of your old records on paid plans | Records of consent on Premium, kept in your own WordPress database |
| How it is installed | One script tag on any site, or Google Tag Manager; set-up guides for WordPress, Shopify and Wix | A WordPress plugin, and a separate Shopify app |
| Beyond cookie consent | A cookie policy generator that turns the scanner’s inventory into draft cookie policy text, a privacy policy generator for GDPR and CCPA, and a checker for the consent signals your site sends to Google | A privacy suite for WordPress, with legal document generators, data requests and A/B testing |
Complianz sources: pricing, plans page, pricing FAQ, Shopify app, plugin listing.
Comparisons are based on publicly available information at the time of writing. We do not speak for Complianz. Check their current offering on their own website before deciding.
Priced by pageviews
- Every plan includes the scanner, the banner and the consent log.
- Pageviews reset on the first of the month. There are no automatic overage fees: if you go over, we email you to discuss a plan that fits your traffic.
- Annual billing costs 20% less: Basic is $8 a month instead of $10, Pro is $20 instead of $25, and Ultimate is $44 instead of $55.
- You can cancel a paid plan at any time and keep its features until the end of the billing period.
Plans
USD a month for each website, excluding local tax
| Free $0 | Basic $10 | Pro $25 | Ultimate $55 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pageviews a month | 5,000 | 100,000 | 300,000 | Unlimited |
| Support | Priority |
Automatic cookie scanning
- Crawls your site and lists every cookie, tracker and pixel it finds, sorted into categories.
- Names the third parties that set them.
- Scans again on a schedule: monthly on Pro and weekly on Ultimate.
- On Free and Basic, scans run when you start them.
One script tag, on any site
- Paste one script tag into the head of your site, before your analytics tags.
- Set-up guides for WordPress, Shopify and Wix. Any other site works through Google Tag Manager or the JavaScript API.
- Loads asynchronously, so it does not block your page from rendering.
- Works with React, Vue, Angular, Svelte, Next, Nuxt or plain HTML, and the JavaScript API fires events when consent changes.
Install
Paste into the head of your site
<script
src="https://cdn.grantcookie.com/gc.js"
data-site="YOUR_SITE_ID"
async></script>Works with
