A Complianz alternative that works on any site, not only WordPress
Complianz is a WordPress plugin with yearly licences, and it costs less than Shortbread for WordPress sites. Shortbread works the same on WordPress, Webflow, Shopify, Framer, and hand-built sites. It gives you a design suite and one dashboard for every client, and it keeps the consent log for you.
Feature by feature
Prices are for the plan that removes the vendor's branding, so both columns buy the same thing. The rest are yes-or-no questions answered from Complianz's own pricing page and help centre. A dash means its docs don't say.
| Feature | Complianz | Shortbread |
|---|---|---|
Price for 1 domain, no vendor branding Per month, on the cheapest plan with no vendor logo or "Powered by" line. | €4.23 Personal, $59 a year. Branding not documented. | €9 Pro |
Price for 20 domains, no vendor branding Per month for an agency with 20 client sites, on the same terms. | €28.60 Agency, $399 a year for 25 sites. Branding not documented. | €46.50 Agency |
Banner size, gzipped Everything the banner downloads on a visitor's first page view. | 16.5 KB Plus about 20 KB of banner HTML in each page | 9.5 KB Script, settings, and region check |
Install by asking a coding agent Claude Code, Cursor, and similar tools can add the banner through an MCP server or documented agent instructions. | No. No MCP server or agent docs found | Yes. MCP server, no account needed first |
Edits go live without touching your site Change the banner in the dashboard and every page shows the new version, with no code to re-paste or redeploy. | Yes. Saved in your WordPress admin | Yes. Settings load on each page view |
Custom colours on the free plan Change the banner's colours without paying. | Not documented. Not documented | Yes. Every plan |
Your logo on the free plan Put your own logo on the banner without paying. | Not documented. Not documented | Yes. Every plan |
Gradient, frosted-glass, and pattern backgrounds Set them in the editor, without writing CSS. | Not documented. Not documented | Yes. All three, every plan |
Matches your site's colours for you The editor reads your site and suggests a matching banner. | Not documented. Not documented | Yes. Reads your site's CSS |
Font choice without code Pick the banner's font in the editor, on any plan. | Not documented. Not documented | Yes. Headline font and weight |
Branding removed for under €10 a month The cheapest plan with no vendor logo or "Powered by" line costs less than €10 a month. | Not documented. Not documented | Yes. Pro, €9 a month |
No traffic cap on the first paid plan A busy month doesn't push you onto a bigger plan or switch the banner off. | Yes. Priced per site | Yes. No traffic caps on any plan |
Consent log on the free plan Each visitor's decision is recorded with a timestamp, without paying. | No. Premium only | Yes. 30 days free, 5 years on Pro |
Monthly billing Pay month to month instead of a year up front. | No. Yearly licences only | Yes. Monthly or yearly |
Google Consent Mode v2 Sends consent signals to Google tags before they run. | Yes. Yes | Yes. Every plan |
IAB TCF Needed to sell programmatic ads in Europe through AdSense or Ad Manager. | Yes. Premium | No. Not supported |
In detail
| Attribute | Complianz | Shortbread |
|---|---|---|
| What you pay for | A yearly licence for a number of WordPress sites | The domain. Pages and visitors are unlimited. |
| First paid plan | Personal, $59 a year for one site | Pro, €9 a month or €79 a year per domain |
| Free plan | The wordpress.org plugin. Records of consent, TCF, and geo rules need premium. | 1 domain, unlimited pages, every design control |
| Banner design | Four templates, width, colours, border radius, position, show or hide logo and title, and custom CSS | 12 starter looks, 7 shapes, patterns, gradients, frosted glass, motion, your logo and fonts, and an auto-match to your site's colours |
| Their branding on your banner | Not documented | A small "Consent by Shortbread" link on the free plan only |
| Banner script (gzipped) | 17 KB of files from your own server, plus about 20 KB of banner HTML inside every page, measured on complianz.io | 9.5 KB across 3 files: the script, its settings, and a region check |
| Google Consent Mode v2 | Yes | Yes, defaults sent before any tag runs |
| IAB TCF | Yes, on premium | No. Sites that sell programmatic ads need a TCF-registered tool. |
| Install | Install the WordPress plugin and run its wizard. A separate Shopify app exists. No Webflow, Wix, or Squarespace version. | One script tag, or one prompt to a coding agent. No account needed to start. |
Complianz details read from its public pages on 2026-10-26. Prices excl. VAT. Sources are listed at the bottom of this page.
Price
Personal, $59 a year for one WordPress site, shown per month
Pro, any number of pages
Agency, $399 a year for up to 25 WordPress sites, shown per month
Agency plan, any number of pages per site
Banner design
The banner is the first thing a visitor sees on your site. It should look like your site made it.
What Complianz lets you change
- Four templates: cookie wall, accept or dismiss, consent per category, and consent per service.
- Width, colours, border radius, and position, with switches to hide the logo, title, and close button.
- Custom CSS, and a banner built from a template file if you edit code.
What Shortbread lets you change
- 12 starter looks
- Paper, Playful, Night, Editorial, Rounded, Mono, Sticker, Ticket, Bubble, Torn, Brutal, and Pill. Start from one and change anything.
- 7 shapes
- Card, bubble, ticket, sticker, torn paper, pill, and brutalist. Tilt the box up to 6 degrees either way.
- Surfaces
- Solid colour, a two-colour gradient at any angle, or frosted glass that blurs the page behind. Add dots, grid, stripes, or grain on top.
- Type and logo
- Your logo beside or above the title, a separate headline font and weight, and an illustration that hangs off the corner.
- Buttons and borders
- Contrast, filled, or outline buttons in square, rounded, or pill shapes. Six border styles and four shadow styles, including hard and glow.
- Matches your site
- Paste your URL and Shortbread reads your CSS for brand colour, background, font, and icon, and checks the contrast.
- Saved looks
- Design a banner once and apply it to every site you run. Agencies keep one look per client.
- On the free plan
- Every control above works on the free plan. Paying removes the byline and adds history, not design features.
The real Shortbread script, cycling through starter looks. Nothing you click here is recorded.
Weight
The banner script loads on every page view, before most of your page. Smaller files show the banner sooner on slow phones.
Gzipped size of every file the banner loads on first view, measured on one customer site per vendor. The source list names each site.
Install
Install the WordPress plugin and run its wizard. A separate Shopify app exists. No Webflow, Wix, or Squarespace version.
<script src="https://tryshortbread.com/shortbread.js" async></script>
Paste it before the closing head tag. The site exists on first load and you claim it by email. Guides cover WordPress, Webflow, Shopify, and coding agents.
When Complianz is the better choice
- Your sites are all on WordPress and price is the deciding factor. Complianz's licences cost less per site.
- You sell programmatic ads in Europe. That needs an IAB TCF-registered tool, and Complianz premium includes it.
- You want consent records stored in your own WordPress database.
Questions about switching from Complianz
- Do my visitors have to choose again after I leave Complianz?
- Yes, once. Shortbread can't read Complianz's stored choices, so returning visitors see the new banner on their next visit. Shortbread carries over stored choices only from Cookiebot today.
- Will Google Tag Manager keep working?
- Yes. Shortbread sends Google Consent Mode v2 defaults before any tag runs and updates them when the visitor decides. It also pushes consent events to the dataLayer, so triggers built on consent keep firing.
- Is Shortbread enough for GDPR?
- For sites that don't sell programmatic ads, yes. Accept and Reject carry equal weight, non-essential scripts stay blocked until consent, every decision is recorded with a timestamp, and the banner renders a cookie declaration. Your privacy policy is still yours to write.
Try it on your site
The free plan covers one domain with every design control. No card.
Set up Shortbread freeSources
- Complianz pricing
- Complianz on wordpress.org
- Complianz: the cookie banner in 6.0
- Complianz: records of consent
- Google certified CMP list
- Complianz measured on complianz.io on 2026-10-26: complianz.min.js, the WP Consent API script, and two stylesheets, 16,915 bytes gzipped. The page also carries about 19,925 bytes of banner HTML and configuration, compressed with the page and not counted here.
- Shortbread measured on 2026-10-26: shortbread.js, its settings file, and the region check, 9,732 bytes gzipped in total.
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