How we compare, and where we are the wrong choice

A grid of ticks persuades nobody, so here is the argument first. There are four things that make a difference once something is printed, and they are the four we have built around.

Scans are never metered

Not on any plan, including the free one. A cap on scans is a cap on how successful your campaign is allowed to be, and you meet it on the day it works — which is the worst possible day to discover it. Exceeding an allowance here raises a warning on your dashboard and changes nothing about what the public sees.

Codes keep resolving when you stop paying

Downgrading is read-only, never destructive. Everything you already made carries on redirecting and carries on recording scans; what stops is making more. This is the one that decides whether a printed code is safe to rely on, because a redirect that switches off turns everything you printed into dead paper.

The analytics identify nobody

We record the country and region, the hour, the device type and which code was scanned. No cookies are set on a scan, the IP address is used to compute a rotating salted fingerprint and then discarded rather than stored, and nothing is sold. That is a compliance answer rather than a feature — but it is also a real limitation, and it is stated below.

A printed code can be repointed forever

The pattern on the paper never changes; the destination behind it is a field you can edit for as long as the account exists. That is what a dynamic code is for, and it is the reason the two questions above matter at all.

The comparisons

Where we are the wrong choice

A comparison page without this section is an advert. These are real, and we would rather you read them here than find out after paying.

• You need to know who scanned. Named individuals, retargeting audiences, matching a scan to a person in your CRM: we cannot do it and will not add it. The fingerprint is salted, rotated and discarded. Anyone who needs per-person identification should choose a platform that offers it.
• You want the cheapest possible entry. QR TIGER starts at $7 a month against our $19. If a dozen codes is genuinely all you will need, they are cheaper.
• The destination will never change. Then you want a static code and no account at all. QRCode Monkey does that well and free — so do we, but if that is the whole job, nothing here is worth signing up for.
• You are already paying for a tool that does it. If you have Canva Business and the code is one element of a design you are making there anyway, two subscriptions to solve one problem is not an improvement.
• You are buying for a large organisation. Where procurement, onboarding and support commitments decide it, the enterprise QR platforms are built around that and we are not.

How these pages are kept honest

Every figure names the page it came from and the day it was read (29 August 2026), and our own column was checked against the running product rather than against our marketing. Nothing here is an adjective about a competitor: the test for each sentence is whether we would be comfortable if their team read it. If you find something out of date or unfair, tell us and we will correct it.