As of 30 Oct 2026, the panel rates consentmanager 2.5/5 and Didomi 3.5/5 in Consent Management (CMP). Weighted by what each judge cares about, 0 of the 6 judges pick consentmanager and 6 pick Didomi. consentmanager scores higher on 1 of 6 criteria (European sovereignty). Didomi scores higher on 5 of 6 criteria (Scanning & cookie classification, Consent records & proof, Banner & choice architecture, plus 2 more). Provenance — consentmanager: EU-Made; Didomi: EU-Made. Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: how scores are made.
Didomi is ahead on six of seven criteria — banner and choice 7.5 to 5.2, prior blocking 5.8 to 4.2, scanning and classification 7.8 to 4.2, consent records 7.7 to 4.3, standards and platforms 7.0 to 5.5, each 6 judges to 0, and pricing transparency 2.5 to 0.7 with 5 leans and 1 tie; pricing is not weighted in Didomi's verdicts. Sovereignty is the exception: 6 judges to 0 lean consentmanager, 5.8 versus 4.0. consentmanager's attributes list data residency and subprocessor exposure as EU only, and the verdict documents PlusServer GmbH hosting in Cologne, a data processing agreement and named subprocessors with countries; Didomi's attributes list both as unknown, and its verdict names Amazon Web Services LLC at a Seattle address as host of the vendor's own website. Weighted totals per judge span 6.3 to 7.0 for Didomi and 4.3 to 5.1 for consentmanager. The benches split by criterion, not by judge.
Choose consentmanager if
You need consent data to stay in the EU: consentmanager's data residency attribute reads EU only, while Didomi's reads unknown.
Your vendor review requires subprocessor exposure within the EU only: that attribute reads EU only for consentmanager and unknown for Didomi.
You must sign a data processing agreement with the vendor as processor and review named subprocessors with countries and safeguards before rollout: the verdict documents both for consentmanager.
Your auditors want the hosting entity and corporate chain on record: the verdict names a Swedish entity under Italian parent iubenda and PlusServer GmbH hosting in Cologne.
Choose Didomi if
You need scanning behind logins, from a chosen country, or across up to 20,000 pages: scanning and classification is 7.8 to 4.2, 6 judges to 0 for Didomi.
Your legal team must pull the exact consent UI a user agreed to on any date: Didomi's versions-and-proofs module backs consent records at 7.7 to 4.3.
You want a one-click deny route beside accept and agree/disagree buttons that cannot be disabled: banner and choice is 7.5 to 5.2 for Didomi.
Your stack leans on standards and platform support: standards and platforms is 7.0 to 5.5 in Didomi's favor.
You prioritize prior blocking ahead of consent: it is 5.8 to 4.2 for Didomi, with the verdict noting manual per-vendor Google Tag Manager setup at its low end.
Read this comparison as one judge. Each weighs the same scores by what they care about.
The Agency Developer
Lead developer at a web agency that maintains forty client sites on WordPress, TYPO3 and Shopify. Wants one account for every client, blocking that works without rewriting each theme, content blockers for YouTube and Maps, a Tag Manager template, a scanner that flags the tracker a client added on Friday, and a JavaScript API documented well enough that forms and plugins can ask for consent.
consentmanager
Didomi
This judge's pick
Criterion by criterion
Banner & choice architecture
consentmanager
The privacy policy documents consent per purpose and per vendor, lets visitors change their choices afterwards, and re-asks after twelve months; the legal notice lists GDPR, German TDDDG, Swiss, US and Canadian law support, the certification page mentions AI-supported banner testing, and the help centre covers custom designs, texts and adding a reject link. We found no public information on whether reject carries equal weight on the first layer, per-country geolocation rules, or the banner's own accessibility.
Didomi
The first layer is documented with one-click deny options — "Disagree and close", the cross button or a "Continue without agreeing" link — next to "Agree and close", the agree/disagree buttons in TCF notices cannot be disabled, and TCF 2.2 withdrawal resurfaces the notice with choice-making as easy as the first display. Consent runs per vendor and per purpose, geo-targeting selects the notice per location, and dozens of languages with automatic detection are claimed (the captured pages give different figures, 45+ and 50+). We found no public information on the banner's accessibility certification or on limits to what may be A/B tested.
Prior blocking & script control
consentmanager
The developer reference documents automatic blocking of codes and cookies before consent, with a getting-started guide on blocking third-party codes — that is what I need so my team does not hand-edit forty client themes. We found no public information on placeholders for YouTube or Maps embeds, a tag-manager template, or instructions to verify nothing fires before consent.
Didomi
The documented blocking is tag-manager-manual: one GTM trigger per non-IAB vendor wired to the Didomi events and variables, with unusually honest warnings about OR-logic double triggers dropping cookies without consent, per-container setup and single-page-app limits. What lifts it for me is the monitoring side — the scan bot treats trackers fired before consent as violations and alerts on new tracker activity, so the plugin a client added on Friday gets caught. We found no public information on an automatic blocking mode or placeholder content blockers for embedded videos and maps, only a recommendation to collect consent before launching embedded videos.
Scanning & cookie classification
consentmanager
The modules list names a cookie scanner, a compliance monitor and a privacy-policy generator, backed by a dedicated scanner features page and a help article on classifying unknown cookies — so a client's Friday-morning tracker would at least surface for someone to classify. We found no public information on scheduled rescans, a maintained vendor database with purposes and lifetimes, or alerts on new and changed trackers.
Didomi
This is the strongest part of the product: a bot that scrapes configured domains for trackers and vendors, splits them into cookies, pixels and local storage and first- versus third-party, scans up to 20,000 pages, can log in behind credentials, can originate from a chosen country, runs monthly or weekly depending on tier, alerts when something changes, and produces a time-stamped audit trail with JSON export and vendor risk assessments. To reach the top it would need the classification sources and update process published and a self-updating on-site cookie declaration; on the latter we found no public information beyond the JSON export meant to keep policies accurate.
Consent records & proof
consentmanager
There is developer documentation for a consent log protocol with audit trail, in English and German, and the policy confirms visitors are asked again twelve months after their settings. We found no public information on what each record contains, retention of the consent log itself, export of the log, or tying records to the banner version shown.
Didomi
The versions and proofs module keeps published notice versions and end-user consent records so legal can "pull the exact UI a user agreed to, on any date" for audits, regulator inquiries and DSARs, with proofs uploadable and retrievable through the developer API and batch export tied to the tiers. Cross-device and cross-domain consent are covered, and historical reporting gives a time-stamped audit trail. We found no public information on a visitor-facing consent-ID lookup, configurable consent expiry, or a tamper-evident log, and retention is stated only generally (duration of the contract).
Frameworks, signals & platforms
consentmanager
The legal notice states the platform is Google-certified, there is a Consent Mode v2 features page, IAB TCF v2 configuration documented in the help centre, and mobile app and connected-TV consent listed as modules alongside GDPR, Swiss, US and Canadian law solutions. For an agency shop like mine, we found no public information on WordPress, TYPO3 or Shopify plugins, one account managing many client sites, or a JavaScript API that forms and plugins can query for consent.
Didomi
The signal coverage is deep for an enterprise buyer: IAB TCF (the captured pages give different version figures, v2.2 and 2.4), GPP and GPC, Google Consent Mode v2 with Google-certified partner status, Microsoft UET and AWS consent mode, certification across web, apps and connected TV, unlimited domains based on MUV, and a documented developer API. For an agency like mine the gap is sharp: we found no public information on WordPress, Shopify or TYPO3 plugins, a named agency or partner account model, or a registered IAB Europe CMP ID, and several capabilities such as server-side tagging and cross-device consent are marked upon request.
European sovereignty
consentmanager
The legal notice and privacy policy are unusually concrete: consentmanager AB in Stockholm as the entity (parent iubenda in Milan), sales through Hamburg and Paris companies, hosting on PlusServer in Cologne, an Auftragsverarbeitungsvertrag concluded with every customer, processing strictly as a processor, and named subprocessors with countries and safeguards such as Stripe in the USA under standard contractual clauses and PayPal in Luxembourg. We found no public information on where the banner script and the consent logs are actually served and stored, or on any ISO 27001 or SOC 2 certification.
Didomi
Didomi SAS is a French simplified joint-stock company at 137 Boulevard de Sébastopol in Paris with a French VAT number, a DPO contact and CNIL named as complaint authority, and the company states ISO 27001 certification, encryption in transit and at rest, and replication across at least two physically separated data centers. But the only hosting fact captured names Amazon Web Services LLC at a Seattle address for the website, and we found no public information on where the banner script and consent logs are stored, on the subprocessor list, or on a published data processing agreement.
Pricing transparency
consentmanager
The captured pages include the vendor's own pricing page, but the confirmed facts state no price, tier, traffic limit or scaling rule, so I cannot budget a single client site from what was captured. We found no public information on agency or reseller terms, minimum terms, or what TCF, app SDKs or extra domains cost.
Didomi
Every tier — Essential, Advanced, Premium — says "Contact us" for the price, though the inclusions matrix is public (unlimited domains based on MUV, monthly or weekly scan frequency, SSO seat counts, export destinations, support SLA) and a free compliance monitoring scan exists as the only public offer. Connected TV, server-side tagging and cross-device consent are all "Upon Request" and the XL scan is a premium feature to raise with the Didomi representative, so I cannot compute an annual cost for a client from these pages alone.
Sovereignty, side by side
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Legal entity
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Hosting location
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Hosting options
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Open source
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Data processing agreement
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Transfer impact assessment
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Facts, side by side
Only facts both products carry under the same definition — anything else would not be a fair row.
As of 30 Oct 2026, the panel rates Didomi higher: 3.5/5 against 2.5/5. Weighted by what each judge cares about, 0 of the 6 judges pick consentmanager and 6 pick Didomi. Which one fits depends on the criteria that matter to you; the table on this page shows both side by side, and each judge’s reading has its own page. Both were scored by the same AI bench under the same rubric, from public evidence only, as the methodology describes.
Is consentmanager or Didomi European?
consentmanager is European (EU-Made). Didomi is European (EU-Made). Provenance is read from each company’s own legal pages: who builds it and who owns it.
Do consentmanager and Didomi have a free plan?
As of 30 Oct 2026, Didomi’s own pages state a free plan; consentmanager’s pages as captured do not. Each product page links the pricing page it was read from.