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Index Vendors › Cookiebot · September 2026 Edition
2 categories · Ranked

Cookiebot

119Judge labels
11First choices
35Negative labels
12 of 12Models named it
2Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-09-16.3, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
10% in Consent for mid-market buyers
Rank 4 of 39 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
1 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 26% of its 43 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In consent · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Cookiebot for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
Consent and privacy managementGTM data and infrastructure10%4 of 3926%43criticized challenger
Tag managementGTM data and infrastructure0%25 of 590%2under 10 labels · led by Google Tag Manager at 77%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Cookiebot yet. The next is due October 1, 2026. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Cookiebot across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.512205
GPT-5.4 mini02002
Gemini 3.5 Flash01124
Perplexity Sonar13004
Grok 4.1 Fast22015
Mistral Small01023
DeepSeek V4 Flash02226
Llama 4 Maverick00101
Qwen 3.7 Flash01203
Kimi K202024
GLM 4.7 FlashX11114
MiniMax M2.521014

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct20 labels4
Paraphrase16 labels3
Comparative24 labels2not counted in share
Budget-constrained19 labels3
Scale-constrained12 labels1
Negative28 labels3not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative119 labels in all, every segment counted; 11 of the 16 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“Cookiebot (Essential plan at $8/month) or Enzuzo (Starter at $9/month) offer the best balance of affordability and features” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Consent · budget prompt · first choice
“Ketch, Captain Compliance, and Cookiebot were found to be strongest on consent record accuracy and audit trail management” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Consent · negative prompt · first choice
“Enzuzo or Cookiebot offer the best balance of features, ease of use, and cost-effectiveness” MiniMax M2.5 · Consent · direct prompt · first choice
“I recommend Cookiebot by Usercentrics as the top cookie consent and privacy compliance tool.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Consent · paraphrase prompt · first choice

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“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 · Consent · negative prompt · hard negative
“Platforms with Significant Concerns... Pricing transparency issues... one review called it a "complete scam"” Kimi K2 · Consent · negative prompt · hard negative
“Pricing doubled: In August 2025, with minimal notice ... Pre-consent firing on most implementations” MiniMax M2.5 · Consent · negative prompt · hard negative
“Pricing increases: Doubled per-domain pricing in August 2025... Consent-only limitation” Kimi K2 · Consent · negative prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Cookiebot, over the 118 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Cookiebot was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
OneTrust91 of 11819Not in the top three
Osano72 of 1185Not in the top three
CookieYes70 of 11830Not in the top three
Usercentrics59 of 1182Not in the top three
TrustArc49 of 1183Not in the top three
Enzuzo47 of 1189Not in the top three
Didomi42 of 1180Not in the top three
iubenda40 of 1186Not in the top three
Termly39 of 1189Not in the top three
Ketch38 of 1189Not in the top three
A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Cookiebot. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 21 of the 118 answers that named Cookiebot and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

enzuzo.com14
osano.com14
usercentrics.com13
expertinsights.com12
secureprivacy.ai12
elementor.com11
comparitech.com10
didomi.io10
learn.g2.com10
iubenda.com9

115 of the 115 domain citations in answers naming Cookiebot came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Cookiebot

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Cookiebot; a claim can dispute any of them.
Cookiebot by Usercentrics 5Cookiebot (Usercentrics) 4Cookiebot (by Usercentrics) 3Cookiebot / Usercentrics 2Cookiebot (now under Usercentrics) 1Usercentrics / Cookiebot (Usercentrics Group) 1
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