EU sovereignConsent Management (CMP)Headquarters: NL

CookieFirst: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

CookieFirst is a consent management platform (CMP) for websites. It offers customisable cookie banners, granular opt-in for third-party cookies, monthly cookie scans, an automated cookie policy generator, consent statistics and support for Google Consent Mode v2 and Microsoft UET. The platform aims to help with compliance with the GDPR, ePrivacy, LGPD and CCPA, among others. You install it with a single code snippet or a plugin; it is platform agnostic and delivered as SaaS.

The website names Digital Data Solutions BV as the publishing company, a Dutch entity. CookieFirst is part of the Italian iubenda group, which belongs to the European team.blue group. According to the company, processing and storage of consent data has been moved to European, Europe-based providers, namely OVH in France and Germany, and no data is transferred to US providers any more. The software is not open source. For European organisations this means a supplier and storage within Europe, inside a larger group structure.

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Sovereignty score

71 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-2100
Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
Data residency SOV-3100
EU-only hosting
Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-360
Key management with a European vendor
Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
Closed source: switching requires data migration
Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-655
Closed source, runtime with the vendor

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 2, 2026

Headquarters	NL (EU)Verified by hand
Ultimate parent company	BEVerified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	EUVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Hosting signal	OVH - OVH SAS, FR (FR)Technically measured
Category	Consent Management (CMP)
Type	Product
Website	cookiefirst.com ↗

The hosting signal shows the network that serves the vendor's website, often a CDN, and not necessarily where the service or your data is hosted. How we verify · Something wrong? Suggest a correction

Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to CookieFirst

The European alternatives to CookieFirst come from our knowledge base of over 6,800 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

24 European Consent Management (CMP) vendors are in the catalogue. View the whole category · Submit an alternative · View category on the map

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Why digital sovereignty matters with CookieFirst

CookieFirst is headquartered in NL and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data. The ultimate owner is based in BE, also within Europe.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so CookieFirst scores best on data residency.

CookieFirst is closed source and hosted by the vendor. The encryption keys and the runtime sit with the vendor and switching requires data migration. Ask about bring-your-own-key, export options and open standards.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs CookieFirst together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to CookieFirst?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to CookieFirst include Axeptio, Borlabs Cookie and CCM19. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to CookieFirst?

Our list of EU alternatives to CookieFirst is mostly commercial options. Browse the category on the map for open-source choices.

Is CookieFirst GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

CookieFirst is headquartered in NL (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes CookieFirst an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

Verified by handHeadquarters, owner, hosting locations and licence have been checked by us against public sources. Free of charge and for every vendor, not a paid label. Nothing in this knowledge base is taken over automatically. Last checked on October 2, 2026.

Sources

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Compliance evidence

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Digital sovereignty in Consent Management (CMP)

Consent Management (CMP): Cookie banners and consent management platforms for GDPR compliance. In this category the choice of vendor determines who has legal access to your data, where that data lives and how easily you can switch later.

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