Many teams know they should check their site for Article 50 transparency gaps. The usual options are a slow internal review or hiring a consultant. Both often take days or weeks and cost hundreds to several thousand euros. A live-site scan is faster: free in under a minute, or €499 for a full report with ready-to-paste fixes.
This is not a claim that a scan replaces legal advice. It is a comparison of time, cost, and what each approach delivers for the public-page checks Article 50 requires.
The slow path
An internal review usually means someone has to find every chat, voice, or avatar widget, confirm a disclosure is visible on the same page (not only in the privacy policy), check how clearly it is presented, look for AI-marked images without labels, then document findings and write suggested wording. This often takes days of calendar time. Widgets added through a tag manager or disclosures on the wrong page are easy to miss.
A consultant review typically costs a few hundred to a few thousand euros. You get a human review and written recommendations, with turnaround measured in days or weeks.
The fast path
Article50.io loads your public page in a real browser and checks for the signals Article 50 looks for on websites: chat, voice, and avatar widgets without a clear AI disclosure; how any disclosure it finds is presented (visibility, size, contrast, and accessibility under Art. 50(5)); and AI-marked images with no visible label.
The free scan returns your single most severe finding in under a minute. No signup. Public pages only.
The full report (€499, one-off) lists every finding on the page scanned, with the relevant Article 50 paragraph, what the scan saw, and ready-to-paste disclosure wording plus implementation notes. It also includes an embeddable “Checked for Article 50 Transparency” badge and one free recheck within 30 days.
Side-by-side
| Internal manual review | Consultant review | Article50.io free scan | Article50.io full report | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Days (calendar) | Days to weeks | Under a minute | Minutes after purchase |
| Cost | Internal time | A few hundred to a few thousand | Free | €499 one-off |
| What it checks | What the reviewer knows to look for | Scope agreed in the engagement | Live public page | Live public page |
| Output | Notes or spreadsheet | Written recommendations | Most severe finding | Every finding + paste-ready fixes + badge + one recheck |
| Catches a widget you forgot | Only if someone knows it exists | Usually, if in scope | Yes | Yes |
| Legal judgement (role, “obvious from context”, deepfake scope) | Possible | Yes | No | No |
What the €499 buys
It is a technical check of one public page with concrete remediation steps, not a legal opinion. Teams use it to get a fast, evidence-based view of what is detectable on the live site, give developers or support exact wording and placement instructions, confirm fixes with the free recheck, and decide whether a deeper human or legal review is still needed.
When you still need a consultant or lawyer
A scan cannot tell you whether you are a provider or deployer, whether an interaction is “obvious from context,” whether AI features are actually switched on in a vendor widget, whether Art. 50(4) rules apply to specific content, or anything behind a login, in emails, apps, or contracts.
Many teams run the free scan first, buy the report if it surfaces issues, apply the fixes, then take remaining legal questions to counsel. That sequence is usually faster and cheaper than starting with a full manual or consultant review.
For a more detailed breakdown of what a live scan catches that a checklist misses (and the reverse), see Article50.io vs Manual Compliance Checklists.
Run the free scan on your main public pages. It takes under a minute and shows the highest-severity finding (or that none were detected). If you want every finding with paste-ready fixes, the full report is €499.
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Automated technical guidance, not legal advice. A clean scan is not a compliance clearance. Citations refer to Regulation (EU) 2024/1689.