Shortbread vs Cookiebot
A Cookiebot alternative priced per domain, with unlimited pages
Cookiebot sets your price by how many pages each domain has, and since August 2025 an account with one to three domains pays €30 a month for any domain over 50 pages. Shortbread costs €9 a domain for any number of pages, keeps your visitors' Cookiebot choices, and answers to the same JavaScript API.
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 Cookiebot's own pricing page and help centre. A dash means its docs don't say.
| Feature | Cookiebot | Shortbread |
|---|---|---|
Price for 1 domain, no vendor branding Per month, on the cheapest plan with no vendor logo or "Powered by" line. | Not offered No unbranded plan. The help centre says to hide the logo with your own CSS. | €9 Pro |
Price for 20 domains, no vendor branding Per month for an agency with 20 client sites, on the same terms. | Not offered No unbranded plan | €46.50 Agency |
Banner size, gzipped Everything the banner downloads on a visitor's first page view. | 161.9 KB Measured on cybot.com | 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. Settings load from its servers | Yes. Settings load on each page view |
Custom colours on the free plan Change the banner's colours without paying. | No. Premium only | Yes. Every plan |
Your logo on the free plan Put your own logo on the banner without paying. | No. Premium only | Yes. Every plan |
Gradient, frosted-glass, and pattern backgrounds Set them in the editor, without writing CSS. | No. Only by coding a custom template | Yes. All three, every plan |
Matches your site's colours for you The editor reads your site and suggests a matching banner. | No. Not in its editor docs | Yes. Reads your site's CSS |
Font choice without code Pick the banner's font in the editor, on any plan. | No. Not in its editor docs | 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. | No. No paid option; hide it with CSS | 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 by page count instead | Yes. No traffic caps on any plan |
Consent log on the free plan Each visitor's decision is recorded with a timestamp, without paying. | Yes. Up to 12 months | Yes. 30 days free, 5 years on Pro |
Monthly billing Pay month to month instead of a year up front. | Yes. Monthly or yearly | Yes. Monthly or yearly |
Google Consent Mode v2 Sends consent signals to Google tags before they run. | Yes. Free and Premium | 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 | Cookiebot | Shortbread |
|---|---|---|
| What you pay for | Each domain, in tiers by subpage count. Subdomains and www count as separate domains. | The domain. Pages and visitors are unlimited. |
| First paid plan | Premium Lite, €7 a month, under 50 subpages. Over 50 subpages on an account with one to three domains, Premium Medium at €30 a month. | Pro, €9 a month or €79 a year per domain |
| Free plan | 1 domain, up to 50 subpages, fixed template, no custom colours or logo | 1 domain, unlimited pages, every design control |
| Banner design | Dialog, bar, or compact layout; light, dark, or custom colours; three button styles; logo upload. Custom colours and the custom HTML template need Premium. | 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 | The Cookiebot logo shows on the Swift banner. The help centre's only removal method is hiding it with your own CSS. | A small "Consent by Shortbread" link on the free plan only |
| Banner script (gzipped) | 162 KB across 4 files, measured on cybot.com | 9.5 KB across 3 files: the script, its settings, and a region check |
| Google Consent Mode v2 | Yes, on Free and Premium | Yes, defaults sent before any tag runs |
| IAB TCF | Yes, on Premium | No. Sites that sell programmatic ads need a TCF-registered tool. |
| Install | Sign up, copy the code, and paste it in your page header. Official WordPress plugin, Shopify app, and Wix app. | One script tag, or one prompt to a coding agent. No account needed to start. |
Cookiebot details read from its public pages on 2026-10-26. Prices excl. VAT. Sources are listed at the bottom of this page.
Price
One website, per month
Cookiebot
€30
Premium Medium: a domain over 50 subpages on an account with one to three domains
Shortbread
€9
Pro, any number of pages
An agency with 20 client sites, per month
Cookiebot
€300
Premium Small at €15 per domain for 50 to 349 subpages each, on accounts with 4 or more domains
Shortbread
€46.50
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 Cookiebot lets you change
- Three layouts: a centred dialog, a full-width bar at the top or bottom, or a compact box at the left or right. Compact isn't available with TCF.
- Light, Dark, or Custom themes. Custom banner and button colours are a Premium feature.
- Default, solid, or outline buttons, and a logo upload.
- A fully custom template on Premium, edited as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript in a code editor.
- The free plan is fixed to the Swift template, the light theme, and the popup display, with no logo.
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.
yoursite.com
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.
Cookiebot
161.9 KB
Shortbread
9.5 KB
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
Cookiebot
Sign up, copy the code, and paste it in your page header. Official WordPress plugin, Shopify app, and Wix app.
Shortbread
<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 Cookiebot is the better choice
- You sell programmatic ads in Europe through AdSense or Ad Manager. That needs an IAB TCF-registered tool, and Cookiebot is one.
- You have one small site under 50 subpages and want the Premium Lite plan at €7 a month.
- You need consent for mobile apps or connected TVs alongside the website.
Questions about switching from Cookiebot
- Do my visitors have to choose again after I switch?
- No, if you keep the carry-over setting on. Shortbread reads the CookieConsent cookie that Cookiebot stored and applies the same choices. Turn the setting off if your counsel prefers fresh consent.
- Do my Cookiebot script tags and callbacks keep working?
- Yes. Shortbread releases scripts marked type="text/plain" with data-cookieconsent the same way, exposes window.Cookiebot with the same properties, and fires the same CookiebotOnAccept and CookiebotOnDecline events.
- 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
- Cookiebot pricing
- Cookiebot: changes to the Premium Small subscription
- Cookiebot: what changes on the free plan
- Cookiebot: configuring the Swift banner
- Cookiebot: removing Cookiebot branding from the Swift banner
- Cookiebot and the TCF
- Google certified CMP list
- Cookiebot measured on www.cybot.com on 2026-10-26: uc.js, settings.json, cc.js, and the bc-v5 iframe, 165,773 bytes gzipped in total. Size varies with each site's languages and cookie list.
- 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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