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 WordPress Webmaster
Looks after the WordPress site of a mid-sized engineering company on top of the actual job, with Google Analytics, a YouTube channel, a Maps embed and a contact form with reCAPTCHA. Wants a plugin that finds these by itself, blocks them until the visitor agrees, survives the next plugin update and caching, and costs a known amount per site per year without a call to sales.
consentmanager
Didomi
This judge's pick
Criterion by criterion
Banner & choice architecture
consentmanager
Consent per purpose and even per third-party vendor is confirmed, visitors can change their settings later, and the banner asks again twelve months after the original choice; the legal notice also names a Google-certified platform with AI-supported banner testing. We found no public information on whether reject sits on the first layer with equal weight, how far I can change texts and layout, banner languages, or consent-rate statistics.
Didomi
The help centre documents a first layer with one-click accept ("Agree and close") and several reject routes of equal availability ("Disagree and close", the cross button, "Continue without agreeing"), Agree-to-all and Disagree-to-all buttons that cannot be disabled, granular choices per purpose and per vendor, and resurfacing the notice as easily as it first appeared. Branding customisation, more than 45 languages with automatic detection, per-country targeting of the right notice, and A/B testing with consent-rate analytics are all on the product pages. I found no public information on accessibility of the banner itself (a WCAG statement) or on limits to what may be A/B tested, which keeps this a notch below the top of the scale.
Prior blocking & script control
consentmanager
The captured help centre includes developer pages titled automatic blocking of codes and cookies and blocking third-party codes and cookies, which is the direction I need for Analytics, the YouTube embed and the Maps widget, but the confirmed facts go no further. We found no public information on placeholders for videos and maps, tag-manager integration, consent passed to forms and CAPTCHAs, or a documented way to test that nothing loads before consent.
Didomi
The documented blocking route is manual and GTM-centred: you create a trigger for each non-IAB vendor against Didomi's consent variables and events, and the documentation is frank about the traps — an OR-condition that drops cookies before consent, and trigger groups that fire only once on single-page sites. Verification is well covered: banner simulation for accept-all, refuse-all and no-action scenarios, a compliance bot that treats trackers fired before consent as violations, and a server-side tagging module. I found no public information on an automatic script-blocking mode or on content-blocker placeholders for YouTube and Maps embeds, which is precisely what a WordPress site with embeds needs.
Scanning & cookie classification
consentmanager
The vendor's own module list includes a cookie scanner, a privacy-statement generator and compliance monitors, so scanning and a generated declaration exist as product parts. We found no public information on scheduled rescans, automatic classification from a maintained database, or alerts on new trackers.
Didomi
Scanning is described in real depth: a bot that crawls up to 20,000 pages, can scan behind logins and from a chosen country, splits trackers into cookies, pixels and local storage and into first- versus third-party, with monthly or weekly rescans depending on the plan and alerts the moment something changes. Audit-ready outputs are stated — a time-stamped historical audit trail, full vendor and tracker data exportable in JSON, risk assessments on every vendor — plus a free first scan. I found no public information on per-cookie lifetimes in a maintained database or on a self-updating cookie declaration in several languages.
Consent records & proof
consentmanager
The banner asks again twelve months after a visitor's settings, and the captured help centre includes developer pages titled consent log protocol audit trail in both English and German. We found no public information on what each record contains, retention and storage of the consent log, export, or whether records tie back to the banner version shown.
Didomi
Every consent event is captured, versioned and retrievable — the vendor says privacy and legal teams can pull the exact UI a user agreed to, on any date, for audits, regulator inquiries and DSARs — and a versions-and-proofs module keeps published notice versions alongside end-user consent records, with proof files attachable through an API and available within 24 hours. Cross-device consent unification and batch export appear on the plan matrix. I found no public information on retention of consent logs, configurable consent expiry, or withdrawal being recorded as its own event.
Frameworks, signals & platforms
consentmanager
The legal notice confirms a Google-certified platform and lists mobile app consent and connected TV consent as modules, and captured feature pages are titled on Google Consent Mode v2 and IAB TCF for publishers. As the one who would install this on our WordPress site, I found no public information on a WordPress or other CMS plugin, a REST API, or managing several domains from one account.
Didomi
The signal list is broad and named: IAB TCF with an IAB-validated standard text, GPP, GPC, Google Consent Mode v2 with Google CMP certification for web, apps and connected TV, plus Microsoft UET and AWS consent modes, with the developer docs noting Consent Mode applies only under the GDPR regulation. Multi-domain banners, cross-domain consent, an Admin API and consents endpoints, and modules for mobile apps, connected TV and server-side tagging are documented. As the person who keeps a WordPress site running, I note I found no public information on a WordPress plugin or other named CMS plugins, on a registered IAB CMP ID, on Consent Mode advanced mode, or on agency accounts.
European sovereignty
consentmanager
A European chain is documented in the vendor's own pages: the Swedish company owns the product with German and French sales companies and an Italian parent, a data processing agreement is concluded with all customers with processing strictly as a processor, hosting is with PlusServer GmbH in Köln, and subprocessors are named with countries and safeguards such as standard contractual clauses for Stripe. We found no public information on where the banner script and consent logs are stored or served from, or on security certifications.
Didomi
The contracting entity is solidly French — Didomi SAS at 137 Boulevard de Sébastopol in Paris, registered with the Paris RCS, French VAT, a DPO address and the CNIL named as complaint authority — and the security page states ISO 27001 certification, encryption in transit and at rest, and replication across at least two physically separated data centres. However, the legal notice names Amazon Web Services with a Seattle address as host of the vendor's own website, and I found no public information on where the banner script and consent logs are served and stored, on subprocessors, or on a published data processing agreement. The European entity is proven; the chain the CMP actually runs on is not.
Pricing transparency
consentmanager
We found no public information on prices, tiers, page-view limits, minimum terms or VAT treatment — the captured pricing page gave no quotable figures — so I cannot compute an annual cost per site and would have to ask sales.
Didomi
The offers page names Essential, Advanced and Premium tiers and details inclusions — audit-scan counts, scan frequency, SSO seats, analytics export destinations, unlimited domains based on MUV — but every plan button reads "Contact us", and the XL scan is likewise "Please contact your Didomi representative for more information". A free Compliance Monitoring scan exists and a link labelled Self Service Pricing appears on the product pages, yet the captured pages show no price figure, so I cannot compute an annual cost per site. For a one-site WordPress budget that wants a number before committing, this is the dealbreaker.
Sovereignty, side by side
Dimension
consentmanager
Didomi
Legal entity
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Hosting location
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Hosting options
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Open source
Not determined
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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.