OneTrust is a privacy governance platform first and a cookie banner second. If cookie consent is the only module you use, you are paying and configuring for a lot you do not need. These are the banners people move to, what each one is good at, and the part nobody tells you: how to check that the new one actually blocks anything.
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Every one of these is a consent banner, which CookieInspector is not. Descriptions stick to what each vendor says on its own site; no pricing, because it changes faster than we can keep up.
Enterprise consent platform (IAB TCF, server-side consent, app SDKs), the company that also owns Cookiebot.
Best for: Publishers and larger organisations with programmatic advertising or mobile apps.
Hosted consent banner with an automatic cookie scan, now part of Usercentrics; one of the most widely installed banners on the web.
Best for: Small and mid-sized sites that want a banner and a cookie declaration maintained for them.
Enterprise consent and preference management, strong in media and TCF-heavy setups.
Best for: Publishers and enterprises in Europe with advertising stacks.
Consent management alongside a wider data-privacy platform (subject requests, vendor monitoring).
Best for: Teams that want consent as part of a broader privacy program.
Privacy suite from Italy: cookie banner, consent database and generators for privacy policy, cookie policy and terms.
Best for: Sites that want policies and the banner from one vendor.
Consent banner with a free tier and a popular WordPress plugin, plus consent logs and Google Consent Mode support.
Best for: WordPress sites and small businesses that want a quick install.
Consent banner plus policy generators, with a free plan for small sites.
Best for: Small businesses that want policies and a banner with little setup.
Staying with OneTrust? Our OneTrust scanner comparison goes through what its built-in scanner checks and what it misses, and the list of 30+ consent platforms we recognise by name covers every option above.
Price and procurement: OneTrust sells through a sales cycle and annual contracts sized for enterprises.
Complexity: the consent module lives inside a platform with its own admin, templates and publishing flow.
Only one module in use: companies that bought it for data mapping or assessments and only ever use the banner.
Consent records tied to the rest of a privacy program (assessments, data subject requests, vendor inventory).
Geolocation rules and templates per region managed centrally across many sites.
Enterprise support, SSO and the audit trail that compliance teams in regulated industries lean on.
Install the new banner, then run a free scan of the page. The report shows every cookie, script and third-party request that fired before a first-time visitor clicked anything, split from what fired after, and whether "reject" blocked them. A banner that is installed but not wired to the tags is the most common thing we find, and it looks identical from the outside.
If the site uses Google tags, the same scan reads Consent Mode v2 off the network: the default state before the click and the update after it. That is the check that catches a template which loads gtag.js before the banner sets the default to denied.
“CookieInspector is not a OneTrust replacement. It is the independent check that whichever banner you pick does what it says: nothing fires before consent, and rejecting actually rejects.”
No. OneTrust shows the banner and records consent; CookieInspector does neither. It audits the site from the outside: which cookies and trackers fire before the visitor answers, and whether rejecting actually blocks them. People use it next to OneTrust, or next to whatever they pick instead.
Run a free scan on a staging or production page with the new banner installed. The report shows every request that fired before the click, split from what fired after, so a banner that is installed but not blocking shows up on day one instead of in an audit.
It can. Consent Mode needs the default state set to denied before the Google tag loads and an update after the click; a template that loads the tag outside the banner's control quietly disables it. The scan reads the real state off the network (G100 before, G111 after) so you can verify it after the switch.
OneTrust's scanner inventories cookies to build the banner's categories; it is not a test of whether the live banner blocks them. Our OneTrust comparison page goes through what each one checks.
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