Pageview Pricing

Last updated on January 13, 2026

A pageview is every instance when someone views a page on a website. Each time a webpage is loaded or reloaded on your website, we count it as a pageview.

CookieYes registers a pageview every time a webpage containing the CookieYes code loads during a browsing session. It automatically filters out malicious bot traffic, such as bot attacks, ensuring these events do not inflate the pageview count. All valid traffic is counted, regardless of whether a visitor interacts with the cookie banner.

Yes, we count all pageviews on a website, whether or not a website visitor clicks or interacts with the cookie banner.

Pageviews refer to the number of times the web pages have been loaded or reloaded, regardless of the time spent by users on them. On the other hand, user sessions refer to the time spent by users on a website before exiting it. User sessions may also include multiple pageviews as the users navigate through different pages on the website. 

Pageview-based pricing scales with your website’s size and traffic, ensuring you only pay for what you use. Each plan includes a set number of pageviews per month, with the option to add extra pageviews to maintain uninterrupted service during unexpected traffic spikes.

The pageview count resets automatically at the start of each month, regardless of whether you’re on a monthly or annual plan billing cycle. Your selected plan and billing amount remain unchanged unless you upgrade or downgrade.

Extra pageviews refers to any pageviews you use beyond your plan’s monthly limit. These additional pageviews may incur extra charges.

For example, the Basic plan includes 100,000 pageviews per month and the Pro plan includes 300,000. Once your website exceeds these limits, extra pageviews are billed at $0.30 for every 1,000 extra pageviews. The Ultimate plan includes unlimited pageviews, subject to our fair usage policy.

Extra pageviews lets your account automatically handle pageviews beyond your monthly limit without interrupting your cookie banner service.

• New users (signing up after December 23, 2025):
  Extra pageviews is enabled by default. Any usage beyond your plan’s quota is billed at the standard extra pageviews rate of $0.30 per 1,000 extra pageviews.
  
• Existing users (signed up before December 23, 2025):
  Extra pageviews remains optional and disabled by default. You can enable it anytime from your Billing & Invoices page under Extra Usage.

Extra pageviews billing ensures your cookie banner stays active even if your website traffic exceeds your monthly pageview limit. When your website goes beyond the included pageviews in your plan, CookieYes automatically tracks the extra usage and adds a small additional charge to your next invoice.

For Monthly Plans

If you’re on a monthly subscription, your pageview count resets every billing cycle. When your website’s traffic crosses the plan’s monthly limit, extra pageviews billing applies.

How charges are calculated

• Extra pageviews are billed in blocks of 1,000 pageviews at $0.30 per block.
• Billing starts only after you exceed your plan limit by the first 1,000 extra pageviews.
• Extra usage beyond the first 1,000 is rounded up to the next 1,000 pageview block.
  Example: If your website exceeds the limit by 2,500 pageviews, you’ll be billed for 3,000 extra pageviews ($0.90).

How billing works

• Extra pageviews charges are automatically added to your next monthly invoice.
• You’ll receive a single invoice that includes your regular monthly subscription fee and any applicable extra pageviews charges.
• Each domain’s usage is tracked separately and shown in your invoice.
• You’ll also see a clear breakdown of your extra usage and total extra pageviews cost.

For Annual Plans

If you’re on an annual plan, you pay once per year for your subscription, but your pageview count resets every month. CookieYes still monitors your usage monthly to calculate any extra pageviews.

How charges are applied

• Extra pageviews charges are tracked monthly for each domain, even on an annual plan.
• You’ll only be billed when your total extra pageviews cost reaches $10 or more.
• If your monthly extra pageviews is below $10, it simply rolls over and combines with future extra pageviews.
  For example, if you incur $8 in one month and $5 in the next, you’ll be billed $13 in the following month.
• All usage is itemised per domain for transparency.

At renewal

When your annual plan renews, any extra pageviews charges (including amounts under $10) will be added to your renewal invoice. You’ll receive one detailed invoice showing your annual renewal fee, any pending extra pageviews charges and a summary of your monthly extra pageviews usage.

If your website reaches the monthly pageview limit included in your plan, what happens next depends on whether extra pageviews is enabled for your account.

If extra pageviews is enabled

Your website will continue to function normally and your cookie banner will remain active. Any additional pageviews beyond your plan limit will be automatically tracked and billed as extra pageviews at a rate of $0.30 per 1,000 extra pageviews.

You’ll see these charges itemised in your next invoice and can monitor usage in your CookieYes Dashboard. Also, you can monitor your usage at any time through the pageviews trend graph on your Dashboard and the detailed pageviews Reports.

If extra pageviews is not enabled

Once your website approaches the monthly pageview limit:

• You’ll receive alerts in the Dashboard and by email at 80%,95% and 100% of your limit.
• When you reach 100%, your cookie banner will no longer be displayed on your website and no new pageviews will be tracked.
• To resume displaying your banner, you can either enable the extra pageviews option or wait until the next billing cycle, when your pageviews reset.

You can choose a CookieYes plan based on an estimated number of monthly pageviews for your website. Once the CookieYes script is added to your website, pageviews are automatically tracked and displayed on your CookieYes Dashboard in real time.

If you’d like to estimate your monthly pageviews before installing CookieYes, you can use your existing analytics tools (like Google Analytics) to check your website traffic.

To check in Google Analytics:

1. Log in to your Google Analytics account.
2. Go to Audience > Overview from the left-hand menu.
3. Set the date range to one month (preferably a high-traffic month for a realistic estimate).
4. Scroll down to view the total Pageviews for that period.

CookieYes and analytics tools like Google Analytics use different counting methods to measure activity on your site, which leads to noticeable differences in pageview data. Here’s how each system works and what that means for your reports:

How CookieYes counts pageviews

CookieYes counts every page load of your registered website URL that includes the CookieYes script. Whenever a user opens, refreshes, or navigates to a page containing the script, it’s counted as one pageview. The count includes all visitors, whether they accept, reject or ignore your cookie banner. Essentially, CookieYes records the total number of times the CookieYes script loads across your website. CookieYes automatically filters out known bots and crawlers to ensure that automated traffic doesn’t inflate your numbers.

How Google Analytics and similar tools count pageviews

Google Analytics and similar tools only start recording pageviews after a visitor gives consent for analytics cookies. Visitors who don’t interact with the banner or reject it aren’t included in Google Analytics reports. Additionally, if you’ve applied any exclusion or filter settings, like ignoring internal traffic, those views will also be excluded from the final count. This makes Google Analytics data appear lower, even though your website may have received more total page loads.

Why the numbers differ

Because CookieYes tracks total page loads while Google Analytics measures only consented visits, CookieYes will generally report higher numbers. This difference doesn’t indicate an error but reflects each tool’s distinct purpose: CookieYes tracks banner activity and consent opportunities, while analytics tools measure post-consent user behaviour.

If your banner is suspended after you reach your monthly pageview limit, it will reappear when you upgrade to a higher plan, enable extra pageviews, or when your pageview count resets at the start of the next billing cycle.

All users of the existing free and paid plans will transition to pageview-based pricing from their first billing date after January 01, 2023.

As an example, from your first billing date after January 01, 2023, your Pro monthly plan will give you 300,000 pageviews per month. 

If you are a free plan user, from your first billing date after October 15, 2024, you will get 15,000 pageviews per month.

Effective from July 01, 2025, the limit for the Free plan is revised to 5000 pageviews per month for:

• New websites created under the Free plan
• Websites downgraded to the Free plan after completing the 14-day trial
• Websites that transition to the Free plan after cancellation of a paid subscription

Websites already on the Free plan before July 01, 2025, will continue to receive 15,000 pageviews per month.

Extra pageviews for existing users

Existing users will have the extra pageviews option disabled by default. You can manually enable extra pageviews anytime from your Billing & Invoices > Extra usage. Once enabled, additional pageviews beyond your plan limit will be billed automatically at $0.30 per 1,000 extra pageviews.

If extra pageviews remains disabled, your cookie banner will be temporarily disabled and when you reach your monthly pageview limit, until you upgrade or your next billing cycle begins.

For agency subscriptions, each domain under an agency account receives its own pageview quota, based on the selected plan for that domain. Agency plans currently do not include extra pageviews billing; once a domain reaches its monthly pageview limit, the cookie banner for that domain will pause until the next billing cycle or a plan upgrade.

For standard Multi-site accounts, each website added under the same account has its own plan and individual pageview allocation.

Extra pageviews settings are controlled at the account level, so enabling or disabling the extra pageviews option automatically applies to all websites within that account. Each website’s pageview usage, including any extra pageviews (if enabled), will appear itemised by domain in your billing summary.