Consent and privacy management
Asked as “consent management platform”, and as “cookie consent and privacy compliance tool”, on behalf of a mid-market B2B software company. 48 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, six models each.
01The standing
Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, over all six models, for a mid-market B2B software company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
Show the four products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
Bars are the share of first choices, 0 to 100Every product with at least 10 labels here. Every product name links to its vendor page.
Recommended versus criticized
Every product with at least 10 labels here, on both axes. The 30% line names a quadrant, not the verdict above: that one needs more than 40%.
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01Enzuzo25%
Enzuzo25%02Osano19%
Osano19%03CookieYes17%
CookieYes17%04Cookiebot10%
Cookiebot10%05iubenda6%
iubenda6%06Termly6%
Termly6%07Usercentrics4%
Usercentrics4%08Complianz4%
Complianz4%09consentmanager2%
consentmanager2%10CookieScript2%
CookieScript2%11OneTrust2%
OneTrust2%12Ketch0%
Ketch0%13Secure Privacy0%
Secure Privacy0%14Didomi0%
Didomi0%15TrustArc0%
TrustArc0%02What they warned about
A high negative share on a product with few labels is a warning. A low share on a product with many labels is salience, not sentiment.
OneTrust64%
30 of 47 labels negative · 9 of 6 models · 11 hard negative
“What to Avoid at Your Size - **OneTrust** — Minimum contract now **$10,000+/year**. Overkill for most mid-sized B2B companies” DeepSeek V4 Flash, paraphrase prompt
Cookiebot26%
11 of 43 labels negative · 7 of 6 models · 5 hard negative
“a German administrative court (Wiesbaden) ruled that a university could not use **Cookiebot** (a Danish CMP) because Cookiebot served its banners using Akamai” Gemini 3.5 Flash, negative prompt
TrustArc37%
7 of 19 labels negative · 6 of 6 models · 5 hard negative
“High cost: Median contracts around $15,000/year... Slow feature development... Steep learning curve” Kimi K2, negative prompt
Didomi38%
9 of 24 labels negative · 6 of 6 models · 4 hard negative
“Avoid for Mid-Market B2B ... Didomi ... lacks the simplicity mid-sized B2B needs” Mistral Small, paraphrase prompt
03What they cite
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list: four of the six in this edition.
Sites the answers cite
20 of 72 answers in this category came back with a source list, from 4 of 6 models: citations where the model returns them, or the search results it consulted. 6 of those lists are Google grounding redirects that name no site and are left out of the counts. 192 links across 70 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page. The other 2 models searched through a gateway that returned no source list on this edition.
vendor site · Osano10 answers · 12 citations · 3 models
vendor site · Secure Privacy9 answers · 11 citations · 2 models
vendor site · Usercentrics8 answers · 10 citations · 2 models
vendor site · Enzuzo7 answers · 14 citations · 2 models
vendor site · Consently7 answers · 11 citations · 2 models
vendor site · iubenda6 answers · 9 citations · 3 models
6 answers · 8 citations · 2 models
6 answers · 7 citations · 2 models
vendor site · Ketch6 answers · 6 citations · 2 models
vendor site · CookieYes5 answers · 6 citations · 1 model
vendor site · Ethyca5 answers · 5 citations · 2 models
5 answers · 5 citations · 2 models
Pages the answers cite
The ten pages named in the most answers, by full address. A page here is one the models returned with a recommendation, not one the index endorses.
7 answers · 2 models
7 answers · 2 models
7 answers · 2 models
6 answers · 2 models
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4 answers · 2 models
04How they answered
Six framings of the same buying question, each sent to every model in a fresh session with search on. One row per model, so a row shows whether it held its answer under rewording, what it named when cost was the constraint, and what it argued against. Computed from the raw judge labels.
ModelDirect“What is the best consent management platform for a mid-market B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which cookie consent and privacy compliance tool would you recommend to a mid-sized B2B company?”Comparative“What are the top consent management platforms and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best consent management platform for a company with a limited budget?”Scale-constrained“We are a 500 person company evaluating a consent management platform. What should we look at?”Negative“Which consent management platforms should I avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Opus 5no first choiceno first choiceno first choiceno first choiceno first choicenothing named
Claude Opus 4.8no first choiceno first choiceno first choiceno first choiceno first choicenothing named
GPT-6 Astrano first choiceno first choiceno first choiceno first choiceno first choicenothing named
GPT-5.6 Solno first choiceno first choiceno first choiceno first choiceno first choicenothing named
Gemini 3.1 Prono first choiceno first choiceno first choiceno first choiceno first choicenothing named
Perplexity Sonar Prono first choiceno first choiceno first choiceno first choiceno first choicenothing named
Bold is the first choiceAlternatives are counted; the count opens them.What the answer argued against
05The record
One row per call: the version string exactly as returned, whether the model searched, sources cited, and latency. Full answer text is in the free responses file. Download the record
Zero rows: every prompt, every model, every answer.
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Normalization in this category
Every judgment call made between the raw labels and the numbers above, listed so it is visible and reversible.
Category-scoped readings
None. Every name in this category resolved on its own.
Unresolved, counted raw
ConsentPixel
Generic/Freemium "No-Name" Scripts
Google Consent Mode
Google Funding Choices
InMobi Choice
Osano Open Source Library
Usercentrics CMP
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.