Cookie Compliance home page with its own consent banner across the bottom, showing the Private, Balanced and Personalized buttons above a Save my preferences button — Cookie Compliance for WordPress

Is the free Cookie Compliance plan enough?

Only for a small site. Past 1,000 visits in a 30-day cycle, the free plan stops recording proof of consent and switches off autoblocking, so ad tags and analytics can load before the visitor chooses. The banner keeps showing and stores the choice in the browser only, until the next cycle or an upgrade.

Below that cap, the free plan includes the banner, core autoblocking, Google Consent Mode v2, seven days of consent logs and one language besides English. Plain Banner Only mode needs no account at all, but it blocks nothing and keeps no proof.

On WordPress.org the plugin keeps its old slug, cookie-notice, and scores 96 out of 100 from 3,025 ratings, 109 of them one-star.

Do Not Sell links, GPC and Meta consent mode for US traffic

Both plans show Privacy Policy and Do Not Sell or Share links and honor Do Not Track. Professional adds Global Privacy Control, regional default consent levels, and Meta and Microsoft consent modes for sites buying ads on Facebook or Bing. It also lets you choose between a two-button Accept and Reject banner and three access levels: Private, Balanced and Personalized.

The terms set a ceiling that matters for big tubes. Above one million visits in 30 days, Hu-manity may ask to discuss a high-traffic plan. Above 2.5 million without a tailored agreement, autoblocking and proof-of-consent storage may be turned off and the subscription ended with a refund of the unused balance.

Adult ad networks need Pro to be blocked

Autoblocking recognizes common vendors out of the box, and the documentation names no adult network. Uncommon loaders need a URL pattern, and custom providers and patterns are a Pro feature. On the free plan, an ExoClick or TrafficStars tag the tool does not know has no way to be held back. IAB TCF is not supported on either plan.

What Cookie Compliance Pro costs

Domains	Monthly	Yearly
1	$14.95	$149.50
5	$29.95	$299.50
10	$49.95	$499.50
20	$69.95	$699.50

Yearly billing saves 17%. The FAQ offers a refund within 7 days of the first payment, while the terms say monthly and yearly payments are not refunded on cancellation. Consent data is hosted on Amazon Web Services in Ireland, and Pro adds unlimited retention, CSV export and anonymization.

Cookie Compliance strengths and limitations

Strengths

Flat price per domain from $14.95 a month.
GPC, Meta and Microsoft consent modes on Pro.
Banner Only mode with no account.

Limitations

No blocking past 1,000 visits on the free plan.
Traffic ceiling in the terms, even on Pro.
No IAB TCF.
Refund policy contradicted by the terms.

Cookie Compliance and GDPR Cookie Compliance are different plugins

GDPR Cookie Compliance comes from Moove Agency in London, keeps consent data on your own server and sells its Premium add-on from £59 a year, with no visit cap. Cookie Compliance for WordPress is Hu-manity’s plugin, formerly Cookie Notice, with consent data hosted by Hu-manity and pricing per domain.