Acceptrics, cheap and quiet about the details
Acceptrics deserves credit for two things most consent tools get wrong. Its free tier is genuinely usable rather than a trial in disguise — 50,000 pageviews a month, all the consent features, 27 languages, no card required. And its paid pricing is about as easy to read as pricing gets: $5 for every extra 50,000 pageviews, so 75,000 views costs $5, 200,000 costs $15, and 500,000 costs $45. If you run one small site and want a banner up this afternoon, that is a reasonable place to land.
The gap opens once someone asks a harder question. Acceptrics documents Google Consent Mode v2 on its own site, but its public pages do not name an IAB TCF version — so if you sell ad inventory through TCF, you cannot confirm from the website which framework version you would be running. It publishes no hosting region, no CMS-by-CMS integration list, and no self-hosted or open-source edition. Automated cookie scanning, the thing that keeps your banner honest as your site changes, is a separate $5 per month add-on rather than part of the product. And there is a version-control wobble worth knowing about: a Google-hosted product profile document lists the free tier at 10,000 pageviews a month, not 50,000. Two published numbers, one product.
Conzent vs Acceptrics at a glance
| Conzent | Acceptrics | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Per site, not per view — the price drops as you add sites, and traffic never changes it. See current tiers | Per pageview, in US dollars. Free to 50,000 views/month, then $5 per additional 50,000. Published examples: $5 at 75,000 views, $10 at 120,000, $15 at 200,000, $45 at 500,000 |
| What happens when you grow | Nothing — no allowance to exceed, no overage rate, no surprise line item | The meter keeps running — another $5 block for every 50,000 views, so the invoice follows your traffic upward |
| GDPR / IAB TCF / Consent Mode v2 | ✓ GDPR, CCPA & 25+ regional laws ✓ IAB TCF v2.4 ✓ Consent Mode v2 (Basic & Advanced) — all included, every plan | Consent Mode v2 supported and documented on its own site · IAB TCF version not named on any public Acceptrics page |
| CMS & platform integrations | 6 native integrations: WordPress, Wix, Joomla, Drupal, TYPO3, Umbraco — plus a universal script tag for anything else | 27 banner languages advertised, but no published CMS-by-CMS integration list |
| Self-hosted / open source | ✓ Yes — OCI, Apache 2.0, one-line installer, unlimited sites and pageviews | ✗ Not published — no self-hosted or open-source edition appears in Acceptrics' public material |
| EU data residency | ✓ Yes — managed cloud data hosted in Germany; self-host it and it never leaves your own server | No hosting region published, and no residency option stated |
| Free tier | ✓ Free forever if self-hosted; free trial on managed cloud | Yes — 50,000 pageviews/month with all consent features and no card. Note that a Google-hosted product profile document lists this limit as 10,000, so confirm which applies to you |
Acceptrics figures are taken from its public pricing page and a Google-hosted product profile document, both current in 2026. Pricing changes — confirm the numbers with Acceptrics before you switch. See Conzent's current plans.
Switching from Acceptrics? Here's what to expect
Moving CMPs follows the same shape whichever vendor you leave: install the new script alongside the old one for a short test window, run a fresh scan to rebuild your cookie categories, configure and preview the banner, then switch the live script and remove the old one. Historical consent records stay with the vendor that collected them and don't transfer — that's normal for any CMP migration rather than anything specific to Acceptrics, so plan to start your consent log fresh. Because Acceptrics bills monthly against a pageview meter rather than an annual commitment, there is usually less contract to unwind than with enterprise CMPs.
Why teams switch from Acceptrics to Conzent
The free tier ends, the meter doesn't
A generous free allowance is lovely right up to the month you outgrow it, and then your consent banner becomes a variable cost that rises every time marketing does its job. Conzent charges for the number of sites you run, so a record traffic month and a quiet one cost the same.
The answers are written down
Conzent publishes the specifics you'll be asked for in a vendor review: IAB TCF v2.4, Consent Mode v2 in both Basic and Advanced, GDPR, CCPA and 25+ regional laws, and managed cloud data hosted in Germany. All of it is on every plan, so nothing depends on which tier you bought.
An exit that doesn't cost anything
Conzent's core is open source under the Apache 2.0 licence. If the commercial relationship ever stops working for you, you can run the same platform on your own server for free instead of starting another vendor search.
Frequently asked questions
How much does Acceptrics cost?
Its public pricing page lists $0 per month for the first 50,000 pageviews, then $5 for each additional 50,000. The worked examples on that page are $5 at 75,000 views, $10 at 120,000, $15 at 200,000 and $45 at 500,000. Automated cookie scanning is a separate $5 per month add-on. Note that a Google-hosted product profile document shows the free allowance as 10,000 pageviews instead, so ask which figure applies before you budget.
Does Acceptrics support IAB TCF, and which version?
Its public pages describe consent management and Google Consent Mode v2, but they do not name a TCF version anywhere. If you run TCF ad inventory, ask Acceptrics directly and get the version in writing. Conzent runs IAB TCF v2.4 on every plan, including self-hosted.
Is cookie scanning included with Acceptrics?
Automated scanning is priced as a $5 per month add-on rather than being part of the base product. That matters more than it sounds: scanning is how your banner stays accurate when a colleague adds a new tag. Add it to the monthly figure when you compare totals.
Can I self-host Acceptrics?
No self-hosted or open-source edition appears in its public material, and no hosting region is published either. Conzent's OCI core is Apache 2.0, installs with one line, and runs on your own infrastructure for free with unlimited sites and pageviews.
What's the best alternative to Acceptrics?
If you like the simplicity but want the details published, look for a CMP that states its TCF version, its hosting region and its integration list on the website. Conzent does that, prices by site count rather than traffic, and can be self-hosted at no cost if you'd rather own the whole thing.