TermsFeed vs WPLP 2026: Buy Documents or Rent the System?

These two solve the same problem from opposite directions, and the price difference is smaller than the philosophical one.

TermsFeed sells you legal documents as a one-time purchase, priced by the individual provisions your store needs. You own them. Nobody can switch them off.

WPLP Compliance Platform rents you a running system inside WordPress: generated policy pages, a cookie consent banner, consent logging, scanning that finds the trackers on your site, and the request-handling machinery that comes with it. Stop paying and it stops working.

Which is right depends almost entirely on one question about yourself, and I will get to it.

The Numbers Side by Side

	TermsFeed	WPLP Compliance Platform
Documents	One-time, $10 to $82 per provision	Included in subscription
Consent banner	$10/mo or $100/yr subscription	Included in subscription
Entry price	Free tier with credit link	$8/mo or $48/yr
Sites covered	Per document purchase	3, 10, or 25 to 100 by tier
Tracker scanning	No	Yes, 50/mo on entry tier
Consent Mode v2 and IAB TCF	Not advertised	Included all tiers
Platform	Any	WordPress only
Documents survive cancellation	Yes, you own them	Confirm with vendor

Notice that WPLP at $48 a year for three sites is cheaper than TermsFeed’s consent subscription alone at $100 a year, before you have bought a single TermsFeed document. On pure annual cost for a store that wants both halves, WPLP is the cheaper option and it is not close.

The one-time purchase only wins over a long enough horizon, and only on the documents.

Documents you own, with no recurring bill

Pay per provision for exactly what your store does. Cancel anything you like later and the policies stay yours.

See TermsFeed pricing →

The Question That Actually Decides It

Will you review your policies again?

Be honest, because the whole comparison turns on this and most people answer optimistically.

If you will genuinely revisit your legal pages once a year and whenever you add a tool that touches customer data, buying documents outright is the better deal. You pay once, you own the output, and your diligence keeps them accurate. Over five years that is dramatically cheaper.

If you will install compliance once and never think about it again, which describes most store owners including some who are certain it does not describe them, then a live platform is the safer default. Its templates and consent tooling are maintained centrally, and its scanning keeps flagging trackers you add later, so the system notices some of the drift you would not. Worth checking before you rely on it: WPLP lists automatically updated policies as a Business and Agency feature marked coming soon rather than something the entry Professional tier does today, so do not assume the $48 plan rewrites your pages for you. A document you bought and never touched is a written statement about your business that gradually stops being true, and an inaccurate policy is arguably worse than a generic one because you have made specific claims you no longer honour.

That is the trade. Ownership rewards attention. Subscription forgives neglect.

What WPLP Does That TermsFeed Cannot

It scans your site. This is the underrated feature. WPLP checks what cookies and trackers your site actually sets, which matters because almost nobody can name everything running on their checkout page. A theme, three plugins, an ad pixel and an analytics tool all set things, several of which nobody deliberately added. A generated document describes what you told it. A scan tells you what is actually there, and those two are frequently different.

It handles consent as a working system. Google Consent Mode v2 and IAB TCF 2.3 are the standards that determine whether your ad and analytics tags actually behave when a visitor declines. Google sets out the expectations in its Consent Mode documentation. Having the banner, the categorisation, and the tag signalling in one plugin removes a class of misconfiguration.

It covers multiple sites cheaply. Three sites at $48 a year is $16 per store. For a portfolio operator that is a much better deal than buying document sets repeatedly.

It handles data subject requests. When someone asks what you hold on them, or asks you to delete it, there is machinery for that. Buying a document does not give you a process.

What TermsFeed Does That WPLP Cannot

It works on any platform. WPLP is a WordPress plugin. If you run Shopify, or might, this comparison resolves itself immediately.

You own the output permanently. No renewal risk, no vendor dependency, no scenario where a lapsed card takes your policy pages offline.

You pay for exactly what applies. A simple domestic store buys a few cheap provisions. A subscription charges the same whether your compliance surface is large or trivial.

There is a real free tier. Documents at no cost with a credit link back. For a pre-launch store that is genuinely the right answer, and WPLP has no equivalent.

A running compliance system for three sites

Scanning, consent banner, Consent Mode v2 and DSAR handling from $48 a year, all inside WordPress.

See WPLP plans →

Three Stores, Three Answers

Store A: pre-launch, no traffic, WordPress. Use TermsFeed’s free tier. Real documents, no cost, and the credit link matters to nobody because nobody is looking yet. Revisit when you start taking orders.

Store B: one WooCommerce store selling into the EU and UK, moderate traffic. WPLP at $48 a year. You need working consent management rather than only documents, the scanning finds trackers you did not know about, and the price is below TermsFeed’s consent subscription alone. This is the clearest case on the page.

Store C: US-only store selling to business buyers, no EU traffic, run by someone diligent. Buy the TermsFeed documents. Your consent obligations are lighter, you do not need the full banner machinery, and owning policies you will actually maintain is cheaper over any real horizon.

The pattern: platform and geography decide it more than price does.

The Combination Nobody Mentions

These are not mutually exclusive, and for some stores the sensible answer is both.

Buy your documents from TermsFeed once, so you own them and they survive any vendor relationship ending. Run WPLP for the consent banner, the scanning, and the request handling, which are the parts that genuinely need to be live software rather than a static page.

That costs a one-time document spend plus $48 a year, which is less than TermsFeed’s own consent subscription at $100, and gets you owned documents alongside a maintained consent system.

The catch is that you are managing two vendors and you need to make sure the policy pages WPLP wants to generate do not conflict with the documents you bought. Use one source for the pages themselves. This is a slightly fiddly setup and I would only recommend it to someone who cares specifically about owning their documents while still wanting live consent tooling.

Why the Scan Is the Real Differentiator

If I had to name one functional gap rather than a philosophical one, it is this.

A document generator asks what your site does and writes a policy describing your answers. Its accuracy is therefore capped by your own knowledge of your stack, and that knowledge is usually incomplete.

WPLP scans and produces the inventory itself. TermsFeed cannot, because it is not installed on your site watching what loads.

The consequence is specific. A cookie policy is meant to describe what your site actually sets, and a consent banner is meant to gate those particular things by category. Write the policy from memory, miss a few trackers, and you have published an inaccurate description while running a banner that gates less than it claims. Neither failure announces itself.

The asymmetry matters most as a site ages. On day one you know exactly what you installed. Two years and a dozen plugin changes later, the gap between what you believe is running and what is actually running has widened, and only one of these two products notices.

You can close the gap manually if you buy documents instead. Open your browser’s network tab on a product page and read what loads, or use any of the free external scanners, then answer the questionnaire from that list rather than from memory. It takes an afternoon and it is worth doing whichever product you pick. Most people will not, which is exactly what the automated version is worth paying for.

Switching Between Them

Worth knowing before you commit, because the two directions are not symmetrical.

Moving from TermsFeed to WPLP is straightforward. You own your documents, so nothing is lost. Install the plugin, generate its pages or keep your own, and configure the consent side. Your old documents remain yours as a fallback.

Moving from WPLP to TermsFeed is the harder direction. Confirm what happens to your policy pages when the subscription ends, because if the plugin generates and serves them, cancelling may leave you with empty URLs where your legal pages used to be. Export or copy your live policy text before you cancel anything, and have the replacement documents ready to publish the same day.

In both directions, your consent logs are the thing most likely to be lost. If you have been recording who consented to what and when, that record has value if anyone ever asks, and it does not travel between systems. Export it before switching.

What Neither One Gives You

Legal advice. Both generate documents from your answers. Neither knows your business, and I am not a lawyer. For a straightforward store selling physical goods this is a reasonable starting point. For anything structurally complicated, pay a solicitor and treat these as a supplement.

Actual compliance. A policy describes what you do. It does not do it. If your page says you honour deletion requests, someone has to honour them. The European Commission’s data protection framework sets out obligations that sit with you rather than with any tool, and GDPR can reach a non-EU business that offers goods or services to people in the EU. The threshold generally turns on whether you are targeting that market rather than on where your company is registered, so a US store deliberately selling into Europe is in a different position from one that ships there occasionally. Where you fall is a question for a solicitor.

A tested decline path. Everyone tests the accept button. Open a private window, decline everything, and check whether your analytics still fires. That two-minute test finds more real problems than either product’s feature list, and neither vendor will run it for you.

The Five-Year Arithmetic

Since the ownership argument rests on a long horizon, it is worth doing the sums rather than asserting them.

Take a WordPress store selling internationally that wants documents and working consent management.

On WPLP, that is $48 a year on the entry tier, so $240 over five years, covering three sites throughout. If traffic pushes you to the Business tier at $72, call it $360.

On TermsFeed with its own consent product, that is a one-time document purchase plus $100 a year, so $500 in subscription alone over five years before the documents. For a store needing the GDPR and CCPA provision at $82 plus several cheaper clauses, the total lands meaningfully above WPLP.

So over five years, for a store that wants both halves, WPLP is cheaper. The ownership argument does not rescue TermsFeed here, because TermsFeed’s consent product is itself a subscription and it costs more than WPLP’s entire plan.

Where TermsFeed wins on cost is the store that does not need a consent banner at all. Buy the documents once, spend nothing recurring, and you are ahead permanently. That is a real scenario for a domestic B2B store, and it is the case where ownership genuinely pays.

Be sceptical of anyone presenting one-time pricing as automatically cheaper. It depends entirely on which half of the product you actually need.

Which One to Pick

Pick WPLP if you are on WordPress and sell internationally. Working consent management, tracker scanning, and DSAR handling for $48 a year across three sites is strong value, and it is cheaper than the competing consent subscription on its own.

Pick TermsFeed if you are not on WordPress. WPLP is a plugin and that settles it.

Pick TermsFeed if you want to own your documents and will maintain them. Over five years the one-time purchase is far cheaper, provided you actually review the output annually.

Pick TermsFeed’s free tier if you have not launched. Real documents at no cost. Upgrade the week you start taking orders, because a footer credit advertising a free generator is a small trust leak on a store asking for five-figure payments.

Pick WPLP if you run several WordPress stores. Ten sites at $72 a year is $7.20 per store and nothing else here approaches it.

A closing note on how to think about this category generally. The spread between every option on this page is under $100 a year, which on a store selling four-figure products is not the decision worth agonising over. What matters far more is whether the policy you publish is accurate, whether your consent banner actually gates what it claims to gate, and whether anyone reviews either of them again. Pick a tool in an evening, then spend the real effort on the decline-path test and the annual review, because those are the parts that decide whether any of this protects you.

Common Questions

Can I use both? Yes, and the section above explains when that makes sense. Buy documents from one, run consent from the other, but make sure only one of them is generating your live policy pages or you will end up with two versions saying different things.

Which is better if I sell only in the US? Your consent obligations are lighter, which weakens WPLP’s strongest argument. Buying documents outright is the more sensible spend, with the caveat that US state privacy law is expanding and the picture in three years may not look like the picture today.

Do either handle cookie consent for ad platforms properly? WPLP includes Consent Mode v2 and IAB TCF support, which is the machinery ad platforms expect. TermsFeed’s Privacy Consent product covers the banner side. Either way, test the decline path yourself rather than assuming the integration works.

What if I am on Shopify? WPLP is out, since it is a WordPress plugin. TermsFeed works anywhere, and so do the hosted subscription platforms.

How much of this can I skip if I am pre-revenue? Use the free document tier, publish a privacy policy and terms, and revisit properly once money is moving. Do not spend on consent infrastructure for a store with no customers.

TermsFeed vs WPLP Compliance Platform: Buy the Documents or Rent the System?