Teams reconsidering OneTrust are mostly reacting to how it is bought: a quote after a call, packages measured in usage meters, and a consent module that sits among AI governance and risk products. The alternatives below range from WordPress plugins to session-priced banners and other quoted enterprise platforms.
Short answer: Smaller vendors fill the top three places where the category offers them, and the household names start at place 4. For OneTrust users, the top three picks from our consent management platform ranking are Complianz, Axeptio and CookieYes. Pick Complianz if your sites run on WordPress or Shopify and you want a yearly fee that ignores traffic. The 11 entries that follow are all ranked in Best Consent Management Platforms in 2026; each one explains what sets it apart from OneTrust.
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Pricing: Packaged and quoted per organisation; demo on request
Established in: United States
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Why buyers look past OneTrust
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Nothing to compare until a salesperson has called
OneTrust's pricing page shows packages and no amounts. It says a quote follows from your team size and business goals after a short call, and the header repeats Talk to Sales and Request Demo. Search the pages we read for a free plan or trial and none is mentioned, so a small site cannot try the product before talking.
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The meter is average daily visitors across every property
For the CMP Base and CMP Suite packages the pricing metric is average daily visitors across all channels and properties. Tiers allow growth during the term, and when usage keeps exceeding a tier the account executive moves you up. Traffic you add through a campaign can therefore reach the invoice through a conversation, not a published rate.
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The banner product belongs to a larger platform
The consent page places the CMP inside Consent and Preferences, next to Universal Consent and Preference Management, Privacy Operations and Third-Party Risk. The cookie page adds mobile app and OTT or CTV consent as related products. A team that only wants a blocked-until-consent banner will see menus built for a privacy programme, and the page does not describe the set-up effort.
a privacy team wants US-state coverage and a named account manager, and accepts a sales cycle
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What each one does differently
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Complianz
Netherlands · Published
Complianz BV in Groningen sells a WordPress plugin on yearly licences: $59 for one site, $179 for five and $399 for 25, each with a year of support and updates. Visitor numbers never enter the price. A Shopify app with a free trial exists too, and a 30-day money-back promise applies. Anything outside those two platforms is out of reach.
Switch from OneTrust if your sites run on WordPress or Shopify and you want a yearly fee that ignores traffic.
Axeptio started in Montpellier and prices by traffic: free to 200 visitors a month, then $29 for Small, $69 for Medium and $129 for Large, with one domain in each. The scanner and IAB TCF arrive at Small, and the banner design is where it spends its effort. Several domains push you into a custom Enterprise contract.
Switch from OneTrust if one French-built site needs a tidy, branded banner and a monthly price you can read.
CookieYes Limited, from Milton Keynes, charges per domain: Basic $10, Pro $25 and Ultimate $55 a month, or two months free on annual billing. A free plan covers 5,000 pageviews. Paid plans start with a 14-day trial, and the two lower tiers add $0.30 per 1,000 pageviews over the cap, so a busy site should do the sum first.
Switch from OneTrust if you manage a handful of domains and want to pay for each one separately, starting small.
Cookiebot, a Usercentrics A/S trademark in Denmark, bills by the number of subpages a domain holds instead of visitors: €7 for Lite, €15 Small, €30 Medium, €50 Large and €90 beyond 7,000 pages. A 14-day trial needs no card. Subdomains count as separate domains, and the FAQ and table disagree on the Small plan rules.
Switch from OneTrust if page count matters more than traffic on your sites and you want to try before paying.
Usercentrics GmbH in Munich sells its web CMP by sessions: €7 for Essential at 1,500 sessions, €15 Plus, €30 Pro with three domains and 60 banner languages, €50 Business with ten domains, and Corporate from one million sessions on quote. Free up to 1,000 sessions, and a 14-day trial asks for no card.
Switch from OneTrust if you want published prices up to ten domains and a German vendor, with a quote only at the top.
Piwik PRO folds a consent manager into an analytics suite. Business starts at €36 a month with analytics, tag manager, data activation and the Cookie Information consent module across up to 20 domains, hosted in Sweden. A 30-day trial needs no card at the start. Enterprise begins at €366 a month, billed annually.
Switch from OneTrust if you also need first-party analytics and a tag manager, and prefer EU-operated hosting.
iubenda S.r.l. in Milan sells per site: Essentials €4.99 for 25,000 pageviews with one language, Advanced €19.99 with geo-targeting and every language, Ultimate €79.99 with hourly scans and a mobile SDK. Overage costs €0.05 per 1,000 pageviews. A free plan exists, as do a 14-day trial and refund window.
Switch from OneTrust if you want consent and legal documents from one Italian supplier, priced per site.
Termly Inc. combines legal policies with a banner, one licence per website: Free at 10,000 banner views, Starter $10 at 50,000, Pro+ $15 unlimited, with annual billing saving 25 percent. Agency pricing is custom from ten websites. Policies sit beside the banner, which shortens work for small firms without counsel.
Switch from OneTrust if you need generated policies next to the banner and run few sites.
Osano, Inc. in Austin, a public benefit corporation, lists a free tier for one user, one domain and 5,000 monthly visitors, then Plus at $199 a month for three domains and 30,000 visitors. Basic Privacy is custom and carries a No Fines Guarantee up to $500,000 under its terms. The cookie page mentions a 30-day trial.
Switch from OneTrust if a mid-sized team wants published entry pricing plus DSAR intake, and values a stated guarantee.
Didomi SAS in Paris keeps pricing off the page, listing an Essential, Advanced and Premium offer behind a demo. The product covers geo-targeted banners in 45-plus languages, TCF 2.2 and GPP, Google Consent Mode v2, connected TV, preference management and a four-step migration that runs beside the live setup.
Switch from OneTrust if you have an enterprise estate and want a French counterparty and a guided migration.
TrustArc, from Walnut Creek, sells its consent manager within a wider privacy platform. It scans behind logins, blocks cookies, supports GPC, TCF 2.2 and Google Consent Mode, and names over 100 jurisdictions. No prices are published, a demo comes first, and the Advanced tier adds a dedicated technical account manager.
Switch from OneTrust if a privacy team wants US-state coverage and a named account manager, and accepts a sales cycle.
OneTrust remains the more sensible pick when websites, mobile apps and connected-TV apps need one consent record. Its cookie page cites a database of over 45 million pre-categorised cookies, over 250 languages, geolocation rules, scans behind logins, A/B tests of banner layouts and a consent transaction database, and says more than 750,000 websites use it. If a privacy team already runs other OneTrust packages, the CMP shares that setting and splitting vendors adds integration work.
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What moving off OneTrust involves
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Export the consent records before the contract ends
The CMP page describes consent receipts in an audit-ready database with change history and exportable logs. Ask for the full export in writing, with the retention period you need, because regulators can ask for proof of past consent.
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Inventory what the banner actually controls
List the domains, mobile apps and CTV apps that use OneTrust, the geolocation rules and the languages shown. Each needs an equivalent in the new tool, and a smaller tool may cover only the website.
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Run both banners in parallel on one site first
Install the new script on a low-traffic site, rescan the cookies and compare the categories with OneTrust's list before you remove the old script. Keep the old tag live until blocking behaves the same.
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Questions about replacing OneTrust
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What is the best alternative to OneTrust for a small website?
Complianz ranks first in our list for WordPress and Shopify sites: $59 a year for one site, $179 for five, no traffic limit. Axeptio and CookieYes follow with monthly plans and free tiers. Outside those platforms, check the scope of each before you buy.
Does OneTrust publish its prices?
The pricing page we read lists packages such as CMP Base and CMP Suite with their usage meters, and no amounts. A quote comes after a short call. It does not mention a free plan or a trial.
Which OneTrust alternatives have a free plan?
CookieYes covers 5,000 pageviews, Termly 10,000 banner views, Osano 5,000 monthly visitors on one domain, Usercentrics under 1,000 sessions and Axeptio 200 visitors. Cookiebot and iubenda list free tiers as well. Check the limits on each page, since they differ widely.
Is there a European alternative to OneTrust?
Yes. Complianz (Netherlands), Axeptio and Didomi (France), Usercentrics (Germany), Cookiebot (Denmark), Piwik PRO (Poland, hosted in Sweden on Business) and iubenda (Italy) are all run from Europe. CookieYes is British. Only Didomi's pricing is quoted.
Which alternative to OneTrust covers several domains?
Usercentrics Pro includes three domains and Business ten, at €30 and €50 a month. Piwik PRO Business allows up to 20 consent domains. Cookiebot and CookieYes bill each domain separately, and Axeptio plans carry one domain each.
What replaces OneTrust for mobile or connected-TV consent?
Didomi lists connected TV and mobile apps among its modules, TrustArc names SDK integrations for Firebase, AppsFlyer and others, and iubenda offers a mobile SDK in its top plan. Test each against your actual apps in a trial or demo.
Can I move from OneTrust without losing consent history?
Plan an export of the consent records first. Didomi describes a four-step migration that keeps existing records and runs next to the live setup. For the others, ask about importing or archiving logs before signing.
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Checked 2 November 2026
OneTrust pricing: Packages without amounts, CMP Base and Suite, average daily visitors meter, quote after a short call, tier growth, no free plan or trial mentioned.
OneTrust Cookie Consent: 750,000 websites, 45 million cookies, 250 languages, geolocation, A/B tests, scans behind logins, mobile and CTV products, demo.
OneTrust consent management platform: Consent receipts and exportable logs, website, app and OTT consent, related UCPM, Privacy Operations and Third-Party Risk.
Complianz pricing: $59, $179 and $399 yearly for 1, 5 and 25 sites, 30-day refund, WordPress and Shopify only.
CookieYes pricing: Free, Basic $10, Pro $25, Ultimate $55, pageview caps, $0.30 per 1,000 extra, 14-day trial, per domain.
Axeptio pricing: Free 200 visitors, Small $29, Medium $69, Large $129, TCF from Small, one domain per plan, Enterprise custom.
Cookiebot pricing: Free to 50 subpages, Lite €7, Small €15, Medium €30, Large €50, XLarge €90, subdomains separate, 14-day trial.
Usercentrics pricing: Free, Essential €7, Plus €15, Pro €30, Business €50, Corporate custom, sessions, domains, languages, 14-day trial.
Piwik PRO pricing: Business from €36 a month, Enterprise from €366, up to 20 consent domains, 5,000 subpages, Sweden hosting, 30-day trial.
Osano cookie consent plans: Free for 1 domain and 5,000 visitors, Plus $199 for 3 domains and 30,000 visitors, Basic Privacy custom, No Fines Guarantee up to $500,000.
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Written, edited and fact-checked by Sebastiaan Smits. Last reviewed 2 November 2026. How we review.
