How PeekWell compares with other compliance tools
Peeky opens your site in a real browser, tests it against the laws of each market you sell in and tells you exactly what to fix. Here’s how that stacks up against the tools you might use instead.
The short version
A website scanner built on real laws, for small and medium companies that want to know what’s wrong and how to fix it.
- More than ten checks for each jurisdiction, such as the EU, UK and US, run in a real browser.
- Every finding names the law it touches, with the cases where regulators acted on it.
- A fix your developer can use as it is, and a prompt for your AI coding assistant.
- A scan every month and a badge that shows it, for €79 once, per company, and €19 a month.
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More than a cookie scanner
A cookie scanner tells you a banner looks wrong. PeekWell tells you why, under which law, and how regulators have treated the same thing, because every check is written from the rule itself. Then it goes on testing the rest of your site in the same visit.
- Consent, four ways
Peeky visits with the banner left alone, then rejected, then accepted, then with the Global Privacy Control signal on, and records every request and cookie each time.
- Your privacy policy against your site
It reads the policy you link to and checks it against the companies your pages really send data to.
- Reviews, prices and subscriptions
Countdowns that restart, reviews with no word on how they’re checked, renewal terms hidden at checkout, a missing withdrawal button.
- Accessibility
Automated WCAG tests on the pages it visits: buttons with no name, missing labels, text too pale to read.
- Security basics
HTTPS, redirects and the security headers your server sends. A look at the surface, never an attempt to get in.
- Each market’s own rules
You pick the jurisdictions you sell in, such as the EU, UK and US, and each scan applies their rules, not one blanket policy.
Each check has a page in the Handbook with the law, the cases and the fix. Reject that doesn’t stop the tracking is a good one to start with, and a real finding shows what a report looks like.
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GDPR compliance tools, side by side
One tool from each kind a small company usually buys, marked by what its own website says it does.
- Yes
- Partly
- No
- Not stated
| Tool | Consent, tested both ways | Policy against the site | Accessibility | Reviews, prices, subscriptions | Security basics | Law and cases per finding | Fix and AI prompt | Public badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PeekWellWebsite scanner built on the law | Yes | Yes | Partly | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| CookieInspectorCookie scanner | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| CookiebotConsent banner | Partly | No | No | No | No | No | Partly | Partly |
| iubendaPolicy and banner suite | Partly | Partly | Partly | No | No | No | Partly | No |
| SiteimproveAccessibility suite | Partly | No | Yes | No | Partly | Partly | Yes | Partly |
| OneTrustEnterprise privacy platform | Partly | Partly | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Trusted ShopsTrustmark for online shops | Not stated | Not stated | No | Partly | Partly | Not stated | Partly | Yes |
What it costs next to other tools
| Tool | Entry price | What it covers | Free option |
|---|---|---|---|
| PeekWellWebsite scanner built on the law | €79 once, per company, then €19 a month | Checks cookies, consent, tracking, your privacy policy, reviews and pricing, accessibility and surface-level security. Detail technical breakdown as well as simple language brief. Offers Codebase-tailored one-click fix for each finding. Plus a badge that shows your score. | Trial: one website, one finding in full |
| CookieInspectorCookie scanner | $11.99 a month, or $119.99 a year | Only checks cookies setup. Offers generic fix guides | One scan per domain |
| CookiebotConsent banner | €7 a month | Simply the banner for one domain. Could still be non-compliant if you don't set it up right | One domain, up to 50 subpages |
| iubendaPolicy and banner suite | €4.99 a month, billed yearly | Creation of generic policies and a banner for one site | Under 5,000 pageviews a month |
| SiteimproveAccessibility suite | Quoted per customer | Accessibility across large sites and PDFs, with people testing | Free checkers |
| OneTrustEnterprise privacy platform | Quoted per customer | Consent, data requests and vendor risk for large companies | None |
| Trusted ShopsTrustmark for online shops | From €119 a month, paid yearly | A trustmark, buyer protection and test orders (Germany, turnover up to €100,000) | None |
| PeopleAn outsourced DPO or a privacy lawyer | A DPO from €125 a month or £150 an hour; lawyers quote per job | Advice on what the law asks of your business | None |
Before VAT, as each tool published it on 15 October 2026.
Why the price holds up
- A year of PeekWell with monthly scans is €307. A cookie scanner such as CookieInspector is $119.99 a year for consent on five sites. PeekWell covers consent, your privacy policy, accessibility, consumer rules and security basics, on up to ten websites in each of three jurisdictions.
- A specialist accessibility audit starts in the thousands. AbilityNet lists £4,950 for ten pages. PeekWell’s automated tests run in every scan, so a slip shows up the month it happens, between audits.
- An outsourced DPO starts at €125 a month. The website is a small part of their job. PeekWell hands them, or you, the evidence for it every month for €19.
When you need more than a scan
- You need a cookie banner. PeekWell doesn’t run one. It tests the one you have, four ways, and tells you which setting to change.
- You want a scan every day. Each PeekWell scan is a full visit in a real browser: it answers your banner four ways, reads your policies, follows your pages and signs in where you let it. That’s far deeper than checking a page’s response against a list, and a month is about how long a development cycle takes. With Plus, you can also ask for a scan whenever you ship.
- You need legal advice or a full audit. PeekWell tells you what’s wrong, which law it touches and how to fix it. The legal opinion stays with your lawyer, who gets the evidence ready-made.
- You need your privacy policy signed off. PeekWell gets you most of the way. It reads your policy against what your site really sends, suggests wording for the missing companies and purposes, and the fix prompt makes the change. A lawyer should still read the final text before it goes live.
Questions
Is PeekWell an alternative to Cookiebot or CookieYes?
They do different jobs, and they work well together. Cookiebot and CookieYes run your banner. PeekWell tests that banner from the outside, four ways, and checks the rest of your site in the same visit.
A banner from a well-known provider can still be set up in a way that misses one market’s rules. A setup that suits US visitors, with tracking on until someone opts out, falls short in the EU and the UK, where nothing should load before a yes. If your site serves visitors there, the gap is yours, whoever supplied the banner. PeekWell scans against the rules of each jurisdiction you choose and shows you where your setup misses, and the fix is usually a setting in your banner tool.
Isn't the cookie scanner in my consent tool enough?
It’s enough to build your cookie list, which is what it’s for. Cookiebot’s own help pages say its scanner flags two things: cookies that aren’t blocked before consent, and data sent to countries without an adequacy decision. PeekWell also clicks Reject and watches what keeps running, then reads your privacy policy against what your pages really send.
Can PeekWell replace OneTrust?
For a small or medium company’s website, it can be. OneTrust runs privacy programmes for large organisations: consent, data requests and vendor risk, priced by quote. If the website is what you needed it for, PeekWell checks it end to end for €79 once, per company, and €19 a month, next to a low-cost banner tool.
Is a free checker like WAVE enough for accessibility?
WAVE is a good free check, one page at a time. PeekWell runs automated accessibility tests on the pages it visits in every scan, next to everything else, so a regression shows up the next month. For a full audit with screen-reader testing, bring in a specialist.
Do I still need a privacy lawyer?
For legal advice, yes. PeekWell tells you what it found, which law it touches, how regulators have treated it and how to fix it, down to suggested wording for your privacy policy. Take the report to your lawyer and the evidence is already there.
Would an outsourced DPO do this for me?
A DPO advises you, trains your team and deals with the regulator, and the website is a small part of that job. PeekWell gives a DPO, or you, the evidence for that part every month.
Which GDPR compliance tools does a small company need?
Usually three: a consent banner if your site uses analytics or ads, a privacy policy that matches what you do, and a regular check that the site behaves the way both say. PeekWell is that check, and it covers accessibility, reviews, prices and subscriptions too.
The home page shows how that looks for four kinds of team.
How we compared
We read the pricing, product and help pages of more than thirty tools on 15 October 2026 and picked one from each kind for this page. The marks show what each tool’s own website says it does. Where a website said nothing, we searched its help pages, reviews and forums on 17 October 2026, and marked it “No” if nothing turned up. Prices change, so check a tool’s current price before you buy.
For information only. Not legal advice.
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The checks
Every check has a page of its own: the rule, the cases and how to fix it.
Open the HandbookA real finding
One finding from a real report, with its evidence, fix and prompt.
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