PolicyStack
by OpenPolicy · Open-source consent and privacy policy primitives for developers
BenchRank score
Screenshots of PolicyStack
Homepage
Overview
PolicyStack is a set of Apache-2.0 packages for privacy and consent in application code. Consent is a headless consent state machine with adapters for React, Vue, Solid, Svelte and Angular, plus a Vite plugin that flags ungated cookies at dev time; Policy turns a typed TypeScript config into a rendered privacy and cookie policy. An optional hosted Cloud adds policy versioning, audit trails and consent analytics.
- Best for
- Development teams that want consent handling and privacy policies defined as typed code in their repo.
- Pricing
- No prices are shown: Consent and Policy are Apache-2.0 open source, and the hosted Cloud is early access with no published pricing.
Strengths and trade-offs
Strengths
- Consent and Policy are Apache-2.0 and free to use
- Consent core under 4kb gzipped; Policy renders zero JS by default
- Adapters for React, Vue, Solid, Svelte and Angular
- Policy changes go through PR review, type checks and tests
Trade-offs
- Hosted Cloud control plane is early access, not generally available
- Generates documents and manages state; gives no legal advice
- Policy edits need a code change, not a dashboard legal staff can use
- No pricing published for the commercial Cloud piece
How PolicyStack markets itself
A structured read of the promise, proof and page design on PolicyStack’s captured homepage.
Homepage capture
“Privacy & consent, as primitives.”
- Angle: Developer-first
- Hero: Code snippet
Pricing
Published plans and prices from PolicyStack’s own pricing page.
How this score is made up
Each dimension is scored out of 100 and combined into the headline score using fixed weights.
MCP support
Whether an agent can drive the product through the Model Context Protocol, and how much setup that takes.
API quality
Public API surface: machine-readable spec, official SDKs, documented auth, errors, rate limits and versioning.
Documentation
Publicly reachable docs — coverage, freshness, code samples and machine readability.
Agent friendliness
How readable the site is to an automated client: llms.txt, structured data, server-rendered content, crawler access.
Changelog
A public, dated record of what shipped and when — the clearest signal that a product is still alive.
Marketing site structure
Whether the site answers a buyer's questions: clear positioning, the pages that matter, and accessibility.
Page speed
How fast the site loads for real visitors: Chrome UX Report 75th-percentile LCP, INP and CLS, with a Lighthouse mobile run standing in where a site has too little traffic for field data.
Operational trust
Status page and incident history, security disclosure, compliance and data-processing documentation.
Measured, but not part of the score
Useful to know, but not a mark for or against the product — so these do not affect the ranking.
Openness
Source availability, self-hosting, data export and open standards. Scored and shown, but not part of the composite — paid SaaS is not worse for being paid SaaS.
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Where this comes from
The PolicyStack pages BenchRank reads when it scores the product — its documentation, release notes, status and security pages, and its repository where there is one.
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