Complianz or Gatelamp? How they compare.
Complianz is a self-hosted privacy plugin for WordPress, with a separate Shopify app, and you can use it today. Gatelamp is in development and looks after all your sites from one dashboard, on any platform that takes a script tag.
Complianz’s plans and features as shown on their own site on 21 October 2026.
Pick Complianz if your sites run on WordPress, you need a banner today, or you want IAB TCF and legal documents from the same plugin. Pick Gatelamp if your sites run on different platforms and you want them all in one dashboard, with a banner only where one is needed. Gatelamp isn’t open yet, and its WordPress plugin is planned.
Side by side
| Complianz | Gatelamp | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A privacy plugin for WordPress: banner, scan, script blocking and legal documents, plus a Shopify app. Available today | A cookie banner only on the sites that need one, with a scanner and one dashboard for all your sites (in development) |
| Free plan | Yes: the free WordPress plugin with a banner and cookie policy; its scan covers the first 50 pages | Planned: one site, with the honest banner, a cookie page, a monthly scan, proof of consent and a “consent by gatelamp” label |
| Paid plans | Personal: €59 or $59 a year for 1 WordPress site, billed yearly. Shopify app: $5.99 a month or $59 a year | Planned: Maker for a handful of sites and Studio for portfolios and agencies, monthly. Prices follow before Gatelamp opens |
| Pricing model | A yearly licence by number of WordPress sites (1, 5 or 25). Pageviews and consent records are unlimited | Per workspace, never per pageview |
| Many sites in one account | Licences for 5 or 25 sites, each set up on its own; Agency adds a plugin that copies settings across a Multisite network | Every site in one dashboard with a status lamp each, one shared library of tools, and presets that update many sites at once |
| Cookie scanner | Premium: a hybrid scan of the whole site, inside WordPress and by simulated visits, synced with cookiedatabase.org | A real browser visits three times: before a choice, after reject and after accept. Weekly, and on demand after a deploy |
| Banner design | Styling, position, templates and custom CSS, or your own HTML template; placeholders for embedded content | Each site’s own colours, font, corners and spacing, as a bar, a corner card or a centred dialog |
| Google Consent Mode v2 | Yes, on premium plans; not in the free plugin | Yes: all four signals start as denied and update when someone chooses |
| IAB TCF | Yes, on premium plans: registered as CMP ID 332 and Google CMP certified | Not at launch |
| Languages | Menus and legal documents in 47+ languages; translations are in the free plugin too | Text per language, picked from the page; starter text in English, Dutch, German, French, Danish and Swedish |
| Where the script loads from | Your own WordPress site: the plugin is self-hosted and stored data stays on your server | Your own domain: a web component of around 12 kB, so script-src 'self' can stay |
| Proof of consent | Premium: user ID, anonymised IP, region, categories and time, in your WordPress database, with a PDF per record | A random consent ID, the choice per category and the banner version. No IP addresses. CSV export |
| Platforms | WordPress only for the plugin, plus a separate Shopify app. Other platforms aren’t supported | At launch: a script tag, an npm package and an Astro component. Planned: WordPress, Shopify, Webflow, Framer and GTM |
Gatelamp is in development: its plans and prices are planned and can still change. Something here out of date? Tell us and we’ll fix it.
Where Complianz is strong
- Available today, with a free WordPress plugin, more than a million users and a 30-day money-back guarantee on premium.
- Self-hosted inside WordPress: the plugin and all stored data stay on your own server.
- IAB TCF with CMP ID 332, Google CMP certified, and Consent Mode v2 on every premium plan.
- Legal documents beyond the cookie policy, such as a privacy statement, disclaimer and imprint, for several regions.
Where Gatelamp is different
- Works on any site with a script tag, with an npm package and an Astro component at launch. WordPress and Shopify are planned.
- Every site in one dashboard with a status lamp each, and one shared library of tools across all of them.
- Sites that need no banner get none. The scanner shows which ones can do without, and how.
- Consent records keep no IP addresses at all, and live in an EU database.
Gatelamp vs Complianz: common questions
- Is Gatelamp cheaper than Complianz?
- We can’t say yet, because Gatelamp’s prices follow before it opens. Complianz Premium costs €59 a year for one WordPress site, €179 for 5 and €399 for 25, billed yearly. Gatelamp will charge monthly per workspace, never per pageview, and everyone on its waitlist gets the early price.
- Can I move from Complianz to Gatelamp?
- Gatelamp isn’t open yet. Its WordPress plugin is planned, and until then the plain script tag works on WordPress too. When Gatelamp opens, the scanner lists what each site loads, and common tools are already described in the shared library. Ask us in the chat about your setup.
- Do both run from my own site?
- Yes, in different ways. Complianz is a WordPress plugin, so the banner and every stored record stay on your own server. Gatelamp serves a web component of around 12 kB from your own domain and keeps consent records in an EU database, without IP addresses.
- Does Gatelamp support IAB TCF like Complianz?
- Not at launch. IAB TCF matters for sites that sell personalised ads through Google AdSense or Ad Manager, and Complianz includes it in every premium plan today. Google Consent Mode v2 for Analytics and Ads works in Gatelamp from day one.
- complianz.io/pricing/
- complianz.io/shopify/pricing/
- complianz.io/features/
- complianz.io/wordpress/
- complianz.io/pricing-subpages/
- complianz.io/help/wordpress/faq/complianz-pricing-faqs/
- complianz.io/help/wordpress/faq/is-complianz-available-for-non-wordpress-sites/
- complianz.io/help/wordpress/configuration/records-of-consent/
- complianz.io/help/wordpress/configuration/complianz-multisite-plugin/
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