Security and privacy decision
Visible Privacy
A small, useful consent manager is realistic to build and run in-house (multi-week) given mature open-source alternatives exist, though enterprise features, certifications, and broad integrations are costly to replicate.
Visit website↗$7/mo
$84/yr
Read off the official pricing page.
$100one-off74 h to build
$45/mo6 h/mo upkeep
On cash alone, building overtakes the subscription at 8 seats.
Open-source builds that already do this
Every project below is open source and already does this job today. Fork one, self-host it, or take the parts you need - the build prompt further down assumes an empty file, and this is the shortcut past that. Licences differ; check the one on each card before you ship. All Visible Privacy alternatives, with the arithmetic →
What a replacement has to do
- Detect site scripts and cookies, show a customizable consent banner, block trackers until consent, record consent events, and expose integrations (e.g., Google Tag Manager/GA) for downstream analytics.
What it still won’t have
- Enterprise SLA and dedicated support
- ISO 27001 / certified infrastructure
- White-label / reseller partner programs and commercial guarantees
- Large catalogue of 50+ prebuilt integrations and on-demand scans
- Advanced analytics, server-side GTM hosting and legal/compliance assurances
What remains hard
- Product polish and ongoing maintenance
First-year cost
Keep paying
Paying is—cheaper in year one.
On cash alone, building overtakes the subscription at 8 seats.
Money you would actually spend
Time you would spend
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What you would spend
What we assumed
The verdict above measures whether you could build it. This one is only about money.
Runnable build prompt
Build a self-hosted consent-management service using Node.js (Express), React for the admin and banner UI, Postgres for consent logs, and Nginx for TLS/hosting. Core features in scope: client-side customizable consent banner with preference modal, site cookie/script scanner, script-blocking loader that defers third-party scripts until consent, a REST API that records consent events to Postgres, Google Tag Manager/GA Consent Mode integration, and a minimal admin dashboard showing consent metrics and recent logs. Out of scope: ISO27001 certification, SLA-backed uptime guarantees, white-label reseller workflows, and enterprise multi-region infra. Include server-side and client-side input validation, comprehensive error handling, unit and integration tests for the API, and deployment scripts (Docker + docker-compose).
How we checked
How the score was reached
- Partly verdict base52
- An open-source build was found+5
- 4 cited sources+3
- Price verified on pricing page+3
- Evidence score63
The base comes from the verdict. Everything under it is a check that either happened or did not, and each one is a fact frozen in this record rather than a judgement made at render time - so the same evidence always produces the same number.
How scoring works →Cited sources · 4
Every page the run actually retrieved.
- official productVisible Privacy | GDPR & ePrivacy Consent Management
- official pricingPricing Plans | Visible Privacy
- official productPrivacy Features | Visible Privacy - Complete Compliance Solutions
- open sourcekiprotect/klaro
Integrity checks
What held up, and what did not.
