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If your WordPress site sets cookies for analytics, ads, or embedded content, you’re legally required in most of the world — the EU/UK under GDPR and the ePrivacy Directive, California under the CCPA/CPRA, and a growing list of other regions — to ask visitors before you track them, not just tell them after the fact. A cookie consent plugin handles that: it shows a banner, blocks non-essential scripts until someone opts in, and keeps a record in case you ever need to prove compliance.

We tested and compared the most-installed options on WordPress.org to help you pick the right one for your site.

Quick comparison

Plugin	Price (from)	Installs & Rating	Best For
Complianz GDPR/CCPA	Free (Personal $59/yr)	1M+ installs, 4.7★ (1,659 ratings)	Deep legal coverage without a subscription
Cookie Compliance	Free (Pro $14.95/mo)	800,000+ installs, 4.8★ (2,851 five-star reviews)	Already using Google Consent Mode v2
Elementor Cookie Consent	Free (capped)	40,000+ installs, 4.3★ (4 reviews)	Sites built in Elementor wanting a native banner
Termly	Free (Starter $10/mo annual)	204 ratings, 3.6★	Bundled policy generator, modest traffic
Beautiful Cookie Consent Banner	Fully free	94 ratings, 4.5★	Simple sites, no dashboard needed
Okito Cookie Consent	Free	10 ratings, 4.9★	IAB TCF v2.3 without Complianz Premium

1. Complianz GDPR/CCPA Cookie Consent Banner

Complianz is the closest thing to an all-in-one option. The free version — not a trial, the actual free tier — includes a setup wizard, automatic cookie scanning, script/iframe blocking with placeholders, consent logging, and auto-generated cookie and privacy policies covering GDPR, UK-GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, LGPD, POPIA, PIPEDA, and more. There’s no page-view or session cap on the free tier, which is unusual in this space.

What’s behind the paywall: A/B testing for the banner, advanced site scanning, IAB TCF v2.0 integration, simultaneous multi-region targeting, and premium support.

Good fit if: you want strong multi-jurisdiction coverage (not just GDPR/CCPA) without paying anything, and you’re comfortable with a slightly more technical setup wizard.

Current version 7.5.5, requires WordPress 5.9+ and PHP 7.4+.

Read our full Complianz review for the deep-dive on pricing tiers and what’s behind the paywall.

2. Cookie Compliance for WordPress (formerly Cookie Notice)

This one operates in two modes. “Banner Only” is fully free and just shows a customizable consent banner — no blocking, no records. “Connected Mode” links the plugin to the vendor’s own platform (free or paid subscription) and adds automatic script blocking, consent categories, Google Consent Mode v2 / Meta / Microsoft consent signal support, multi-domain management, and an audit trail.

Good fit if: you’re already running Google Consent Mode v2 or Meta/Microsoft ads and want a plugin built around those integrations specifically. It has the highest install base and rating of the group, but check whether Connected Mode’s free tier covers your traffic before assuming it’s free at scale — the vendor gates some volume-based features behind paid plans.

Read our full Cookie Compliance review for the free-vs-paid breakdown.

3. Elementor Cookie Consent

Elementor — one of the most-installed page builders in the entire WordPress ecosystem — launched its own native cookie consent plugin in June 2026, built to be designed inside the same Elementor Editor you already use for the rest of the site. It detects cookies by loading your pages in a full headless browser (Chromium) rather than a simpler script scan, and supports both GDPR (opt-in) and CCPA (opt-out) modes with automatic Google Consent Mode v2 integration.

The free tier covers the fundamentals: banner customization, cookie scanning (up to 25 pages), 30-day consent logging, script blocking, and Consent Mode v2 — capped at 800 monthly consents on one site. Designing a fully custom banner requires Elementor Pro’s Popup Builder. Several features that matter more for larger or international sites — geo-targeted banners, GTM integration, scheduled scans, IAB TCF support, and white-labeling (removing Elementor’s own branding) — are gated behind Elementor One, and as of this writing several of those are still listed as “coming soon” rather than actually shipped, so don’t count on them being available yet if you need them now.

It’s genuinely new: version 0.0.11, with only 4 reviews on WordPress.org (4.3★ — three 5-star, one 2-star). Treat that rating as too small a sample to weigh heavily yet, and expect some rough edges typical of a sub-1.0 release from a vendor this size.

Good fit if: your site is already built in Elementor and you’d rather design the consent banner in the same editor as everything else, and your traffic is modest enough to stay under the 800-consent free cap.

Current version 0.0.11, requires WordPress 6.7+ and PHP 7.4+.

4. Termly — GDPR/CCPA Cookie Consent Banner

Termly’s free plan gives you one legal policy, a cookie banner with a script auto-blocker, and quarterly cookie scans, capped at 10,000 banner views a month. Paid tiers start at $10/month with annual billing, or $14/month billed monthly (Starter — 2 policies, monthly scans), and $15/month with annual billing, or $20/month billed monthly (Pro+ — unlimited policies and views, weekly scans, IAB TCF 2.3, custom banner styling, multi-language support, and consent logs).

Good fit if: you want Termly’s policy generator bundled in and your traffic is modest enough to stay under the free tier’s view cap — otherwise budget for Starter or Pro+.

Read our full Termly review for more on the free-tier view cap and what the paid tiers unlock.

5. Lightweight alternatives

If you don’t want to connect your site to an external consent-management platform at all, Beautiful Cookie Consent Banner is a fully free, self-contained option — no account, no data sent to a third-party service, just a customizable banner. It won’t auto-block scripts or generate legal policies for you, so it suits simple brochure sites more than stores or high-traffic blogs. Okito Cookie Consent is a smaller, newer entrant (4.9★ on a small number of ratings) worth watching if you specifically need IAB TCF v2.3 without paying for Complianz Premium.

How to choose

Need broad legal coverage (not just GDPR/CCPA) for free: Complianz.
Already using Google Consent Mode v2 or Meta/Microsoft ads: Cookie Compliance.
Already building your site in Elementor and want the banner designed natively there: Elementor Cookie Consent — but budget for Elementor Pro or Elementor One if you need custom banner design, geo-targeting, or IAB TCF.
Want a bundled policy generator and can live with a view cap, or will pay for Pro+: Termly.
Running a small, low-traffic site and want the simplest possible free banner: Beautiful Cookie Consent Banner.
Running WooCommerce: Complianz and Cookie Compliance both confirm WooCommerce-related integrations (tracking pixels/payment gateways for Complianz; Blocks Checkout handling for Cookie Compliance) — worth testing against your specific checkout setup either way.

Not sure if you even need one of these yet? Start with our consent-management checklist.

None of these plugins are a substitute for actual legal advice on what your specific site needs to comply with — treat this as a starting point for picking a tool, not a compliance guarantee. For more on what the underlying laws actually require, see our GDPR vs CCPA vs ePrivacy explainer and Do You Need a Cookie Policy on Your WordPress Site?