# consentmanager — Consent Management (CMP)

consentmanager by consentmanager AB holds a panel rating of 2.5/5 from 6 AI judges (category median 3/5), as of 2026-10-30. Provenance: EU-Made; sovereignty: not determined.

- Vendor: consentmanager AB (https://www.consentmanager.net/de/)
- Category: [Consent Management (CMP)](https://whats-best.ai/software/consent-management.md)
- Provenance (editorial classification): EU-Made
- Canonical page: https://whats-best.ai/software/consent-management/consentmanager
- Alternatives: https://whats-best.ai/software/consent-management/consentmanager/alternatives ([markdown](https://whats-best.ai/software/consent-management/consentmanager/alternatives.md))
- Data as of: 2026-11-04 · evaluated 2026-10-30 · oldest source captured 2026-10-29

**AI-generated.** Every score, rationale and verdict here is written by a panel of AI judges from public evidence — an analysis, not a hands-on test. Every fact quotes the vendor page it was read from. No score can be bought. How scores are made: https://whats-best.ai/methodology

## At a glance

- Vendor: consentmanager AB
- Headquarters: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 29 Oct 2026
- Data hosting: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 29 Oct 2026
- Free plan: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 29 Oct 2026

## The panel's verdict

consentmanager is a consent-management and cookie-banner tool from consentmanager AB in Stockholm; the judges' weighted verdicts land between 4.3 and 5.1. It is strongest on standards and platforms at 5-6 and sovereignty at 5-7: the pages name a Google-certified platform, cover Google Consent Mode v2 and IAB TCF for publishers, and list mobile app and connected TV consent, while a European chain is documented — a Swedish entity under Italian parent iubenda, Hamburg and Paris sales companies, hosting with PlusServer GmbH in Cologne, a data processing agreement with all customers as a processor, and named subprocessors with countries and safeguards. Pricing transparency is the weakest criterion at 0-2: a pricing page was captured, but no price, tier, limit or term figure was quotable. Prior blocking, scanning and classification, and consent records sit at 4-5, where developer documentation for automatic blocking, the cookie scanner and a consent log with audit trail is offset by unanswered questions on placeholders, rescan intervals and log retention. The computed review flagged no substantial disagreement between the judges.

**Speaks for it:**
- Google certification for consent collection is stated verbatim, with feature pages on Google Consent Mode v2 and IAB TCF for publishers and TCF v2 configuration help
- Consent can be granted or refused per purpose and per third-party provider, changed later, and requested again twelve months after the original choice
- A European chain is on the record: consentmanager AB in Stockholm under Italian parent iubenda, sales companies in Hamburg and Paris, hosting with PlusServer GmbH in Cologne, and a data processing agreement with every customer as processor
- Developer documentation covers automatic blocking of codes and cookies before consent and a consent log protocol with audit trail in English and German
- The module list includes a cookie scanner, a privacy-statement generator, a compliance monitor, mobile app consent and connected TV consent

**Held against it:**
- The captured pricing page gave no quotable figures for prices, tiers, page-view or domain limits, minimum terms or add-ons, so no annual cost can be computed
- We found no public information on whether reject sits on the first banner layer with equal weight, on banner languages or on banner accessibility
- We found no public information on placeholders for videos and maps, tag-manager integration, or a documented way to verify nothing loads before consent
- We found no public information on rescan intervals, a maintained classification database or a cookie declaration that updates itself from the scan
- We found no public information on consent-log contents, retention or export, on CMS plugins or a documented API, or on security certifications and log storage

**Best for:**
- You run advertising or audience measurement and need Google Consent Mode v2 and IAB TCF support, where standards and platforms scored 5-6
- You want a documented European chain — a Stockholm entity under Milan parent iubenda, Cologne hosting, named subprocessors with safeguards — where sovereignty scored 5-7
- You need per-purpose and per-vendor consent with a published consent log protocol and audit trail as your compliance baseline
- You collect consent beyond the web, on mobile apps and connected TV, both listed as product modules

**Avoid if:**
- You must compute an annual cost before committing — pricing transparency scored 0-2 and the captured pricing page gave no quotable figures
- You must produce consent records in a lawsuit or authority audit — ask the vendor: the public pages we read do not show it
- You are answering a regulator's letter that requires first-layer, equally prominent reject — banner and choice ranged 4-6 with that point unanswered
- You rely on a cookie declaration that updates itself from scheduled scans — scanning and classification scored 4-5 with no public information on rescans or self-updating declarations

## Scores by judge and criterion

Scores out of 5, each judge scoring independently against the published rubric (v1). "n/r" = not rated: the vendor publishes no price, or the judge found no public information on that criterion.

| Criterion | The Data Protection Officer | The Agency Developer | The Publisher Marketing Lead | The In-House Lawyer | The WordPress Webmaster | The Skeptic |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Banner & choice architecture | 2/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 2/5 | 2.5/5 |
| Prior blocking & script control | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2.5/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 |
| Scanning & cookie classification | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2.5/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 |
| Consent records & proof | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2.5/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2.5/5 |
| Frameworks, signals & platforms | 2.5/5 | 2.5/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 2.5/5 | 3/5 |
| European sovereignty | 3/5 | 3/5 | 2.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3/5 | 2.5/5 |
| Pricing transparency | n/r | 1/5 | 1/5 | n/r | n/r | n/r |
| **Weighted verdict** | **2/5** | **2/5** | **2.5/5** | **2.5/5** | **2/5** | **2.5/5** |

### The judges

- **The Data Protection Officer** (v1.0): External DPO for a dozen mid-sized companies, two of which received a letter from a state supervisory authority about their cookie banner last year. Wants reject on the first layer, nothing loaded before the click, a consent log that shows which banner version each visitor saw, a cookie list that matches the site, and a DPA and subprocessor list that keep visitor data in the EU.
- **The Agency Developer** (v1.0): 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.
- **The Publisher Marketing Lead** (v1.0): Runs marketing for an ad-funded news site and an online shop in the same group, where every point of consent rate shows up in ad revenue and in Google Ads conversions. Wants a registered IAB TCF CMP, Google Consent Mode v2 in advanced mode, banner tests within what the law allows, consent shared between the site and the app, and a dashboard that shows where visitors drop off.
- **The In-House Lawyer** (v1.0): In-house counsel at a retailer with shops in Germany, France and Austria, who has read the court decisions on missing reject buttons and the regulators' banner guidance. Wants § 25 TDDDG and the GDPR mapped to concrete settings, equal-weight choices as the default, consent that can be withdrawn as easily as it was given, and records that would hold up if a competitor or a consumer group sued.
- **The WordPress Webmaster** (v1.0): 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.
- **The Skeptic** (v1.0): Has opened the browser's network tab on sites with a "certified" banner and watched the ad pixels fire before anything was clicked. Reads "consent rate optimisation" as a hint that reject will be grey and small, "auto-blocking" as a claim until the test steps are published, and "EU hosting" next to a US script CDN — and asks what leaving would cost: the consent logs, and every visitor asked again.

## European sovereignty — proven facts

Built only from facts on the vendor's own pages; a dimension we could not prove is left open, never scored as zero. Headline: not determined.

| Dimension | Finding | Points | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Legal entity | Not determined | — | — |
| Hosting location | Not determined | — | — |
| Hosting options | Not determined | — | — |
| Open source | Not determined | — | — |
| Data processing agreement | Not determined | — | — |
| Transfer impact assessment | Not determined | — | — |

## Key facts

Each fact is the vendor's own statement, cited to the source page it was read from ([S*n*] → Sources).

**Compliance**
- Data not used for own purposes: no [S8]
- DPA: processor_only · yes [S8]
- Supervisory authority: Stockholm, Schweden · Datainspektionen (Integritetsskyddsmyndigheten) [S8]

**Data**
- Double opt in registration: yes [S8]
- No sale of data: no [S8]
- Retention contact data: 24 [S8]
- Retention contract data: Adressdaten · Zahlungsdaten · Bestelldaten · Handels- und Steuerrecht · 10 [S8]
- Retention customer email marketing: 3 [S8]
- Rights: Auskunft (Art. 15) · Berichtigung (Art. 16) · Löschung (Art. 17) · Einschränkung (Art. 18) · Widerspruch (Art. 21) · Widerruf der Einwilligung (Art. 7 Abs. 3) · Datenübertragbarkeit (Art. 20) [S8]

**Hosting**
- Provider: Köln, Deutschland · PlusServer GmbH [S8]

**Integrations**
- Ssl: yes [S8]

**Legal**
- Consentmanager ab: consentmanager AB · Torsgatan 26, 113 21 Stockholm · Schweden [S7]
- Consentmanager ab email: support@consentmanager.net · no [S7]
- Consentmanager ab VAT: 559053-1959 · SE559053195901 [S7]
- Consentmanager gmbh: consentmanager GmbH · Eppendorfer Weg 183, 20253 Hamburg [S7]
- Consentmanager gmbh register: DE334454594 · Amtsgericht Hamburg, HRB 164932 [S7]
- Consentmanager sas: consent manager SAS · 35 Boulevard Saint-Michel, 75005 Paris [S7]
- Consentmanager sas register: 891014284 · FR90891014284 [S7]
- Dispute resolution: Not willing and not obliged to participate in consumer dispute resolution proceedings [S7]
- Entity: consentmanager AB · Torsgatan 26, 113 21 Stockholm, Schweden · Schweden [S8]
- Group structure: consentmanager AB (Sweden) · consentmanager GmbH (Germany) · consentmanager SAS (France) [S7]
- Iubenda parent: iubenda Srl · Via San Raffaele, 1 – 20121 Milan (Italy) [S7]
- Iubenda register: Handelskammer Milan, REA 1952415 · 12603.5 · Manuel Heilmann [S7]
- Iubenda VAT: IT07347120961 · GB 370904694 [S7]
- Privacy URL: https://www.iubenda.com/privacy-policy/252372/legal [S7]
- Site operator: consentmanager AB · Manuel Heilmann [S7]
- Tos URL: https://www.iubenda.com/de/user/tos/legal [S7]

**Product**
- Account features: Profildaten bearbeiten · Bestellungen einsehen · CMP für eigene Website einrichten und bearbeiten [S8]
- Certification google: KI-gestütztes Bannertesten · Compliance-Überwachung · Einwilligungserfassung · yes · 100000 [S7]
- Consent granularity: yes · yes [S8]
- Consent reask period: 12 [S8]
- Consent settings changeable: yes [S8]
- Description: Consent-Management / Cookie-Banner-Tool · consentmanager [S8]
- Modules listed: Consent Management Plattform · Cookie-Scanner · Datenschutzerklärung-Generator · Mobile App Consent · Connected TV Consent · Whistleblower-Software · Compliance Monitor · App Compliance Monitor · Barrierefreiheits-Widget & Scanner [S7]
- Newsletter content: neue Funktionen (Sprachen, Designs, Anbieter, neue Anforderungen) · neue Angebote · Einladungen zu Firmenveranstaltungen [S8]
- Purposes supported: externe Elemente · Streaming-Inhalte · statistische Analysen · Reichweitenmessung · individualisierte Produktempfehlungen · individualisierte Werbung [S8]
- Solutions listed: DSGVO · TDDDG · DSG Schweiz · US-Datenschutzgesetze · PIPEDA/CPPA [S7]

**Subprocessors**
- Calendly: Calendly, LLC · USA · Terminbuchung/Demo-Buchung · Art. 49 Abs. 1 S. 1 lit. a) DSGVO (Einwilligung) [S8]
- Creditreform: Verband der Vereine Creditreform e. V. · Deutschland · Bonitätsprüfung beim Kauf auf Rechnung [S8]
- Paypal: PayPal (Europe) S.à.r.l. et Cie, S.C.A. · Luxemburg · Zahlungsabwicklung [S8]
- Stripe: Stripe Inc. · USA · Kreditkartenzahlung · Standardvertragsklauseln [S8]

## Questions

### Is consentmanager European?

Yes. whats-best.ai classifies consentmanager as EU-Made.

### Where does consentmanager store data?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 29 Oct 2026.

### Does consentmanager have a free plan?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 29 Oct 2026.

### What are the best alternatives to consentmanager?

As of 3 Nov 2026, the panel rates [Usercentrics CMP (3.5/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/consent-management/usercentrics), [Didomi (3.5/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/consent-management/didomi) and [CCM19 (3.5/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/consent-management/ccm19) highest among the other 19 Consent Management (CMP) products evaluated. Ratings that look equal are rounded to half stars; the order uses the unrounded rating, then the name. The highest-rated European alternative is [Usercentrics CMP](https://whats-best.ai/software/consent-management/usercentrics) (EU-Made). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: [how scores are made](https://whats-best.ai/methodology#ordering). The full list, with European products first: [consentmanager alternatives](https://whats-best.ai/software/consent-management/consentmanager/alternatives).

## Head-to-head

- [consentmanager vs Didomi](https://whats-best.ai/compare/consentmanager-vs-didomi.md)

## What this page leaves out

- We could not confirm any pricing information on the vendor’s own pages as captured, so this page shows none rather than a statement we cannot stand behind.
- 163 product facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 24 compliance facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 13 legal facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 8 integrations facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 4 hosting facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 4 support facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 2 data facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 1 subprocessors fact could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and was left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 2 sovereignty dimensions could not be confirmed on the vendor’s own pages and are shown as unknown.
- 6 of the readings below were written against an earlier fact sheet — a fact has been corrected, added or pulled since. Until the panel next runs on this product you are reading the older judgement.

## Sources

- [S1] Vendor homepage: https://www.consentmanager.net/de/ (checked 2026-10-29)
- [S2] Features page (cookie scanner): https://www.consentmanager.net/de/cookie-scanner/ (checked 2026-10-29)
- [S3] Features page (Google Consent Mode v2): https://www.consentmanager.net/de/google-consent-mode-v2/ (checked 2026-10-29)
- [S4] Features page (publishers and IAB TCF): https://www.consentmanager.net/de/publisher/ (checked 2026-10-29)
- [S5] Features page (mobile apps): https://www.consentmanager.net/de/mobile-app-consent/ (checked 2026-10-29)
- [S6] Pricing page: https://www.consentmanager.net/de/preise/ (checked 2026-10-29)
- [S7] Legal notice: https://www.consentmanager.net/de/impressum/ (checked 2026-10-29)
- [S8] Privacy policy: https://www.consentmanager.net/de/datenschutz/ (checked 2026-10-29)
- [S9] Banner & choice architecture — found from sitemap: https://www.consentmanager.net/en/help/faq-troubleshooting/how-to-add-a-reject-link-to-the-text/ (checked 2026-10-29)
- [S10] Banner & choice architecture — found from sitemap: https://www.consentmanager.net/en/help/getting-started/5-create-your-own-design-texts/ (checked 2026-10-29)
- [S11] Prior blocking & script control — found from sitemap: https://www.consentmanager.net/en/help/developer-reference/automatic-blocking-of-codes-and-cookies/ (checked 2026-10-29)
- [S12] Prior blocking & script control — found from sitemap: https://www.consentmanager.net/en/help/getting-started/7-blocking-third-party-codes-and-cookies/ (checked 2026-10-29)
- [S13] Scanning & cookie classification — found from sitemap: https://www.consentmanager.net/en/cookie-scanner/ (checked 2026-10-29)
- [S14] Scanning & cookie classification — found from sitemap: https://www.consentmanager.net/en/help/faq-troubleshooting/how-to-classify-unknown-cookies/ (checked 2026-10-29)
- [S15] Consent records & proof — found from sitemap: https://www.consentmanager.net/en/help/developer-reference/consent-log-protocol-audit-trail/ (checked 2026-10-29)
- [S16] Consent records & proof — found from sitemap: https://www.consentmanager.net/de/help/entwickler-referenz/einwilligungsprotokoll-protokoll-prufpfad/ (checked 2026-10-29)
- [S17] Frameworks, signals & platforms — found from sitemap: https://www.consentmanager.net/en/help/configuration/using-the-iab-tcf-in-your-cmp/ (checked 2026-10-29)
- [S18] Frameworks, signals & platforms — found from sitemap: https://www.consentmanager.net/de/help/konfiguration/iab-tcf-v2-konformitat/ (checked 2026-10-29)

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Cite as: whats-best.ai, "consentmanager — Consent Management (CMP)", AI panel analysis, as of 2026-11-04. https://whats-best.ai/software/consent-management/consentmanager

Corrections: https://whats-best.ai/correct/1152?target=page