Katla vs Pandectes
A GDPR app for Shopify, built around the Shopify Customer Privacy API, checkout blocking and the app store. Flat monthly price per store, not metered on traffic.
Pandectes pricing taken from their pricing page, verified . Weight and LCP are our own measurements — how they were taken.
Why teams move.
These solve different shapes of the same problem. Pandectes is a Shopify app and a good one: installed from the app store, tied into checkout and Shopify’s own privacy API, priced flat per store. Katla is platform-agnostic, so the case for it starts when the storefront is not the only thing you run — a marketing site, a docs site and an app all need the same cookie inventory and the same consent records, and Pandectes only covers the store. If Shopify is all you have, install theirs.
The consent layer, without the UI you did not ask for.
- Guard-only mode with no bundled interface
- window.KatlaConsent plus a katla:consent event on every change
- A React and Next.js SDK with hooks, or plain DOM if you prefer
- The hosted banner is still one line away when you want it
5 KB headless, 15 KB with the banner — and it runs before the trackers do.
- About 5 KB over the wire in headless mode
- About 15 KB with the full hosted banner and your cookie data
- Served from a CDN and cached at the edge
- The guard runs ahead of trackers, so blocking is not a race
Cookies classified and described without you writing a word.
- Automatic classification of newly discovered cookies
- Descriptions generated per locale, overridable when you want your own wording
- Cookie and privacy policies generated from your real scan data
- An MCP server, so Claude or ChatGPT can audit cookies and query consent for you
One consent layer across everything you run.
- Script tag, React and Next.js SDK, or a WordPress and WooCommerce plugin
- A CLI, so onboarding thirty sites is a script rather than an afternoon
- A full API, and an MCP server on top of it
- Per-locale policies and descriptions from the same source of truth
A price on the website and a script tag to start.
- Published pricing — no quote, no call, no procurement cycle
- Flat per site, per month, with no usage overage charges
- A free tier that scans and generates a policy without a card
- One script tag from nothing to a working banner
$9–$49 / month per store
- Charged on
- Flat per store, by feature tier — not metered on pageviews
- Free tier
- Free forever on Basic: banner, consent tracking and one store scan
From Pandectes's own pricing page, verified .
Moving from Pandectes.
If Shopify is the whole estate, Pandectes is the closer fit — it wires into checkout and the Customer Privacy API in ways a platform-agnostic tool does not. This comparison is for teams whose storefront is one property among several.
- Add each domain in Katla and verify it by DNS or meta tag
- Run a scan — every property gets one inventory, classified automatically
- Install the Katla widget or SDK alongside, and keep Pandectes on the storefront while you compare
- Move the storefront across last, once the rest of the estate is settled
Try it on one site.
The free plan scans a domain and generates a policy without a card. Keep Pandectes running while you compare.