Reconix vs Cookiebot
Cookiebot manages cookie consent on your own website. Reconix gives you intelligence on any website — yours or anyone else's. They're genuinely different tools built for different jobs.
What Cookiebot does
Cookiebot is a consent management platform (CMP). It manages the cookie banner on your own site, auto-categorises cookies, generates the cookie declaration page, and helps keep you compliant. It's installed on your site and manages consent for your visitors.
What Reconix does
Reconix is an intelligence platform. Look up any domain — a competitor, a vendor, a prospect, or your own site — and get a full picture of its technology stack, consent posture, AI provenance, and infrastructure. No install required on any site.
The key difference: Cookiebot manages consent on your own site. Reconix tells you what's actually happening on any site — including whether Cookiebot is installed, whether it's configured correctly, and whether trackers are still firing before consent.
Side by side
| Reconix | Cookiebot | |
|---|---|---|
| Look up any external website | Yes — no install needed | No — own site only |
| Pre/post consent comparison | Yes — browser-based | Partial — static crawl |
| Runtime behaviour (real browser) | Yes | No |
| Technology stack profiling | Yes — 500K+ technologies | No |
| AI intelligence | Yes | No |
| GDPR data vendor mapping | Yes — 208 vendors | No |
| DNS infrastructure mapping | Yes | No |
| Consent banner management | No | Yes |
| Cookie auto-categorisation | No | Yes |
| Cookie declaration page | No | Yes |
| Vendor audit (external sites) | Yes — any domain | No |
| Lookup frequency | On-demand, any time | Monthly (daily = +€99 / mo) |
| Free trial | Yes, no credit card | Yes — 14-day trial |
| Starting price | From $199 / mo | From €9 / mo per domain |
When to use each
Use Cookiebot when you need to
- Manage cookie consent on your own website
- Auto-generate a cookie declaration page
- Set up a consent banner for your visitors
- Automate per-domain cookie categorisation
Use Reconix when you need to
- Know what's running on any external website
- Check a vendor's or competitor's consent posture
- Get AI intelligence and full technology profiles
- Map infrastructure and data vendor footprint
Many compliance teams use Cookiebot to manage their own site and Reconix to audit vendors, competitors, and third parties.
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