Termly is a genuinely useful product — a real free tier, broad regulatory coverage, and attorney-crafted documents. Here’s where we differ, stated as facts, so you can decide for your own sites.
Termly has a real free tier (a working banner plus one policy), broad regulatory coverage — it says 25+ laws across 80+ regions — and policies it markets as attorney-crafted, with legally reviewed translations of its privacy and cookie policies. Its script auto-blocker is on every plan, and its official WordPress plugin has 80,000+ active installs. For a single English-language site, it’s a capable starting point, and we’ll say so.
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We’re newer. Termly is an established brand, it supports the IAB TCF 2.3 framework on Pro+ — we don’t, by design — and its auto-blocker finds and blocks trackers without you tagging scripts. Its WordPress plugin is listed today; ours is coming soon. If you’re a publisher who needs TCF for ad partners, that’s a fair reason to choose them. If you run more than one site and want every language without a Pro+ upgrade, that’s us.
A real free tier — geo-aware banner, documents in 36 languages, no per-domain bill. Bring your sites and see the difference.
The steps are the same whether Termly runs through its WordPress plugin or a pasted script. Nothing is imported automatically: you answer our questionnaire once, and every document is generated from your answers.
Create a free account, add your site and answer the questionnaire. Each document gets a hosted URL in up to ten of 36 languages, with PDF and DOCX copies. Free covers one document; paid plans have no document limit.
Run the cookie scanner to list the cookies your server sets and the third-party services your pages load. It does not run JavaScript, so check your tag manager for anything it adds later.
Paste the MostlyPrivacy script into your page head. On WordPress, use a header-scripts plugin or your theme’s header.php — our own WordPress plugin is coming soon.
Give each analytics or marketing script type="text/plain" and a data-mc-category attribute, so the banner holds it back until the visitor allows that category. Termly’s auto-blocker did this for you; ours does not.
On WordPress, deactivate and delete the Termly plugin; anywhere else, remove Termly’s script and policy embeds. Two banners on one page ask visitors twice and compete for the same scripts.
Point footer and sign-up links at the new hosted URLs, then open the site in a private window, refuse everything and check the tagged scripts stay blocked. Consent records collected by Termly stay with Termly, so keep what you need before closing that account.
When we checked wordpress.org on 3 October 2026, Termly’s plugin was rated 3.6 out of 5 from 204 reviews, with 80,000+ active installs; it was last updated in January 2026. It connects a WordPress site to a Termly account with an API key, and the free plan’s 10,000 monthly banner views apply to it.
It is if you run more than one site. Termly sells a licence per website — Pro+ was $20 a month, or $15 billed annually, per site when we checked in October 2026 — while MostlyPrivacy Starter covers 3 sites for $15 a month and Pro covers 10 for $35. Termly is the more established product, with attorney-crafted policies.
On Termly Pro+, three website licences come to $60 a month, or $45 billed annually, before any bulk discount (Termly offers one from five licences). On MostlyPrivacy, three sites fit in Starter at $15 a month, or $12 billed annually.
No. Termly supports IAB TCF 2.3 on Pro+; MostlyPrivacy deliberately does not, and covers Google’s requirements with Consent Mode v2. If your ad partners require TCF, Termly is the better fit.
No. They are statute-cited templates generated from your answers, and they have not been reviewed by a lawyer. Termly markets its documents as attorney-crafted. Whichever you use, we recommend a lawyer’s review for unusual or high-risk processing.
Yes. Generate your documents from the questionnaire, add the MostlyPrivacy banner script, tag your non-essential scripts with their consent category, then remove Termly’s plugin or script and point your policy links at the new hosted URLs. The guide on this page goes step by step.
It is coming soon. Until it is listed on wordpress.org, a WordPress site adds the MostlyPrivacy banner with one script tag in the page head — through a header-scripts plugin or the theme’s header.php — and links to its policies at their hosted URLs.
Termly’s free plan includes 10,000 banner views a month, and its WordPress plugin’s FAQ says the banner is deactivated until the following month once that limit is reached. MostlyPrivacy does not meter banner views on any plan, including Free.
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