Custodian vs OneTrust & Cookiebot
Consent tooling is the purest form of resented spend: a recurring bill for a banner you didn't want, to satisfy a regulator you didn't choose. The irony is that the tool proving you handle data responsibly is itself a third party receiving your visitor data.
OneTrust & Cookiebot, as published
OneTrust is sold as an annual platform subscription, typically quoted rather than listed publicly. Cookiebot publishes per-domain monthly pricing that scales with subpage count.
Checked July 2026 · their pricing page
Custodian
$99 once, unlimited domains, sessions and consents. Optional hosting and regulation updates $9/mo.
See CustodianSide by side
| OneTrust & Cookiebot | Custodian | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Annual platform fee or per-domain monthly | $99 once |
| Where the script loads from | Vendor CDN | Your domain |
| Consent records | Vendor database | Yours |
| Regulatory tracking | Dedicated legal teams | We update rules; you own the deployment |
| Breadth | Full privacy programme (OneTrust) | Consent and cookies only |
Where OneTrust & Cookiebot is better
- Their legal and regulatory teams track changes across jurisdictions full-time — that is a real service and we are a smaller team
- OneTrust covers far more than consent: DSAR workflows, vendor risk, privacy programme management
- Pre-built scanners with very large tracker databases, refined over years
- For a large enterprise with a privacy office, the platform breadth genuinely justifies the fee
Where Custodian is better
- Served from your own domain — no third-party script and no vendor seeing your traffic
- Consent records live in your database, queryable with SQL rather than a vendor export
- Flat cost regardless of domains, subpages or sessions
- You can read exactly what gets blocked before consent, because you have the code
So which one
Choose OneTrust & Cookiebot if…
Choose OneTrust if you need a privacy programme rather than a banner — DSAR handling, vendor risk, audit workflows — or if your legal team requires a vendor that will sign an indemnity. Choose Cookiebot if you want a scanner with a big tracker database and no interest in running anything.
Choose Custodian if…
Choose Custodian if you need a compliant, honest consent banner on your own domain, want the audit trail in your own database, and object to paying a recurring fee for it.
Last reviewed 22 July 2026. If something here is out of date or wrong, tell us and we'll fix it — engineering@resolutexhq.com.
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