Consent and privacy management · RankedCookieYes
CookieYes is a consent management platform for cookie compliance, aimed at businesses of every size · cookieyes.com ↗
Strongest at small business, contested with Cookiebot. Thin evidence at enterprise: nine labels.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Ranked first, contested: Cookiebot has 21%.
Osano is first at 29%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
OneTrust is first at 66%.
Why models recommend it
“CookieYes is frequently recommended as the best overall budget choice.”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“the best default choice is usually CookieYes. It has a free plan”GPT-5.4 mini · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“For a small company managing website cookies, I'd start with CookieYes.”GPT-6 Luna · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“I'd recommend starting with Cookiebot ($8/month) or CookieYes”MiniMax M2.5 · Budget-constrained question · first choice
What gives them pause
“Too basic; built for small businesses and WordPress sites. Lacks DSAR, vendor governance”Kimi K2 · Direct question · warning
“Frequent complaints about poor/slow customer support, bureaucratic processes, high costs”Grok 4.20 · Negative question · warning
“tools such as CookieYes may be fine for basic sites, but check support for GPC, IAB GPP, Google Consent Mode, TCF, multilingual regional rules”Perplexity Sonar · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as CookieYes, over the 103 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 81 | 13 | Compare → | |
| 65 | 6 | Compare → | |
| 60 | 5 | View → | |
| 54 | 6 | Compare → | |
| 51 | 6 | Compare → | |
| 49 | 3 | View → | |
| 34 | 0 | View → | |
| 31 | 0 | View → | |
| 30 | 1 | Compare → | |
| 29 | 0 | Compare → |
What the models named instead of CookieYes →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on CookieYes's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- businesses of every size
- Price stated
- Free
- Starting price
- 0
- Free plan or trial
- Create a lifetime free account!; 14-day free trial Cancel anytime
- Certifications
- IAB TCF, GDPR, WCAG
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 100 of the 103 answers that named CookieYes and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
314 of the 347 domain citations in answers naming CookieYes came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Grok 4.20 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 363 | undated | Consent | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 123 | undated | Identity | ||
| Comparison | 58 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 15 | undated | |||
| Case study | 6 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 3 | undated | |||
| Webinar or virtual event | 1 | undated | |||
| News or press | 1 | undated |
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page cookieyes.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.