Termly review

Termly is a privacy compliance suite for websites, apps, and businesses. It combines cookie and data-collection consent tools with generators for privacy policies, terms, cookie policies, and other legal documents. The cookie scanner identifies and categorizes website cookies so teams can review them.

The product is aimed at ongoing compliance, not just producing a document and moving on. Termly’s homepage says it supports privacy requirements across regions and automatically updates policies as laws and regulations change. The listed frameworks include GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, PIPEDA, and POPIA. Termly also offers solutions for Google Consent Mode and IAB TCF 2.3.

That makes the key buying question practical: do you need consent management, cookie scanning, and policy maintenance, or only a small set of policies once? Termly’s plans and recurring per-website pricing make more sense for the first case.

Termly’s strongest fit is a business that needs consent tools and policy maintenance together. The suite includes cookie consent, preference centers, data-collection consent, policy generators, and cookie scanning, rather than only generating a privacy policy. Its listed regional coverage includes GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, PIPEDA, and POPIA; it also offers Google Consent Mode and IAB TCF 2.3 implementation solutions.

The pricing page lists a free plan at $0 per website per month, with one user, one basic legal policy, 10,000 banner views a month, and quarterly cookie scans. Paid plans are priced per website, with annual billing listed at 25% off monthly rates. Starter costs $10 per month per website annually, or $14 month to month. Pro+ is $15 annually or $20 month to month, and adds unlimited policies, edits, users, and banner views, plus weekly cookie scans.

That gives small teams a low-cost way to start and a clearer upgrade path if they need more capacity and more frequent scans.

The plan limits matter if your needs are narrow. Free is capped at one basic policy, one user, 10,000 banner views a month, and quarterly cookie scans. Starter raises the caps to two policies, five users, 10 edits, and 50,000 banner views a month, but still covers only one website. Weekly scans and unlimited policies, edits, users, and banner views require Pro+.

The pricing page lists monthly and annual per-website billing, but no one-time license for generating a few documents. That is a poor match for buyers who expect to create policies once and leave them unchanged. In one Reddit thread, a website owner questioned paying a recurring fee for policies they did not expect to update; another commenter suggested looking at Complianz, which they said offers consent management for free. Agency pricing is custom, starts at 10 websites, and Termly does not publish the price for extra website licenses. Get a quote if you manage multiple sites or need a precise total.

Termly has a free plan, but paid prices are per website per month. Starter costs $14 monthly or $10 per month with annual billing. It covers one website and five users, with two legal policies, 10 policy edits, and 50,000 banner views per month. Pro+ costs $20 monthly or $15 annually, a $6 monthly or $5 annual increase per website. It removes the listed policy, user, and banner-view limits and adds weekly cookie scans.

The free plan is limited to one website, one user, one basic policy, 10,000 monthly banner views, and quarterly cookie scans. Annual billing is listed as 25% off, so compare the annual commitment with paying month to month. Agency pricing is custom and starts at 10 websites; no price is published. Additional website license prices are also not published. Termly says bulk discounts are available for five or more licenses, with custom offers, but does not list the discount.

The published information doesn’t explain how to import existing policies, consent settings, or cookie data, or whether Termly supports exporting them. Treat migration effort and data portability as unconfirmed: before switching, check what you can export and plan to review your policies, cookie scan, and consent setup on the new service. Termly’s listed plans are priced per website, so include every site when comparing costs; Agency starts at 10 websites but has custom pricing.

Switching away means arranging a replacement for any Termly consent tools or generated policies you rely on. The published sources don’t document cancellation effects or lock-in terms. They also include no Reddit posts or comments, so we can’t responsibly describe a pattern of users leaving or why they leave. If you need to migrate several sites, get the export process and full multi-site price in writing before committing.