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Cookiebot by Usercentrics – Automatic Cookie Banner for GDPR/CCPA & Google Consent Mode
Easy to install but hard to escape once the bills arrive.
HealthyDeclining
57/100
The easy setup is overshadowed by deceptive pricing and sudden service interruptions.
Active installs
~258,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 100k+
Rating
4.4★
435 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-10%
Declining
1,766 → 1,584 installs/day
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Declining · -10% in the last year
1,766/day a year ago→1,584/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayCookiebot by Usercentrics is a well-known consent management plugin that is easy to set up on the surface, but carries a significant reputation for deceptive pricing, unresponsive support, and unexpected charges that undermine trust in a plugin whose core purpose is transparency.
What people like
- +Easy and fast to set up×3
- +Responsive support noted by at least one user
Common complaints
- −Support is largely unresponsive — multiple users report tickets and emails going unanswered×3
- −Misleading or hidden pricing: free plan limits (session caps, time limits) are not clearly disclosed upfront×3
- −Meaningful customization requires a paid plan×2
- −Unexpected charges billed without warning or clear invoicing
- −Free plan was silently time-limited; plugin stopped working without prior notice, then demanded ~€180/year to continue
- −Account data and settings wiped after temporarily deactivating the plugin/plan, forcing users to pay and reconfigure from scratch
- −Complex to configure properly without significant financial investment
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.25★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.40★
- 20%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2024-03-162025-05-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 435 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-05-28★★★★★Top tool!steef90901-shot
- 2026-04-27★★★★★Works, but only payed version is customizableDaniel1-shot
- 2026-03-31★★★★★Best Cookie Complianz plugin for WPJakub Pankowski
- 2026-03-31★★★★★Great cookie plugin!katarinal
- 2026-02-09★★★★★Perfect and easyseeusbudapest
- 2026-01-19★★★★★Great Cookie Pluginmtungate1-shot
- 2026-01-08★★★★★Great pluginalbenaabigail
- 2026-01-06★★★★★Fascinatingmohammadrezailmakchi1-shot
- 2025-12-29★★★★★muy buen complentoJavier Burgos Arratibel
- 2025-10-15★★★★★Good Job!maaadmaaan
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNFor developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
2,022
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
2,162
Prior 7-day baseline
1,391
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
33,764
Mean release-day peak (30d)
1,828
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-6.5%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
12%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
0.87
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
79%
5★ share in analyzed sample
20%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
-25%
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.20 → 4.25★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered