QR TIGER alternative, and the line on their free tier worth reading
Their ladder starts cheaper than ours and holds more codes for the money in the middle, and this page says so in its own section rather than burying it. What it argues about instead is the metering: a free dynamic code on their price list stops at 500 scans, and scans here are uncapped on every plan. Their figures were read from their own price list on 21 September 2026.
3 editable codes, no scan cap, no card.
- Their price list read 21 September 2026
- No scan cap on any plan here
- No logo popup, ever
On this page
Two free tiers, one of them metered
Both free tiers offer three dynamic codes and unlimited static ones, which makes them look interchangeable. They are not, and the reason is a single cell on their price list.
A dynamic code on their free tier is listed at 500 scans. That is not a trial length or a monthly refill on their page — it is a number attached to the code. Their free tier is also listed as carrying their logo popup, which the paid tiers describe as removed.
Five hundred scans sounds generous until you have watched a code go out on something people actually pick up. A café table card in a busy week, a conference badge, a poster in a station: any of those can pass five hundred in days, and a code that has stopped counting is a code whose numbers you can no longer trust, on the exact campaign that was working. The honest version of that sentence is the awkward one: you find out afterwards.
Scans are never counted against a plan here, free included. Not capped, not charged for, not rate-limited — a single code can take a million and cost the same as a code nobody scans. It is a deliberate choice about where the money comes from rather than a headline limit, and it is the one difference on this page that changes what you can safely print.
Their monthly prices, and what we could not read
Their half is copied from their price list on 21 September 2026; ours is read from the file the product enforces. Prices are US dollars, and "not stated" means their page gives no figure, which is not a zero.
| Plan | Price | Codes | Scans | People | Also listed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| QR TIGER — its own figures, monthly | |||||
| Free | $0 | 3 dynamic, unlimited static | 500 per dynamic code | Not stated | Basic scan analytics, with their logo popup |
| Regular | US$7 a month | 12 dynamic | Unlimited | 1 | Ads-free, 500 API requests, uploads to 5MB |
| Advanced | US$16 a month | 200 dynamic | Unlimited | 2 | 3,000 API requests, 3,000 a batch, white label |
| Premium | US$37 a month | 600 dynamic | Unlimited | 2 | 10,000 API requests, 3,000 a batch, uploads to 20MB |
| QRSalt — live at once, scans uncounted | |||||
| Free | Free a month | 3 editable, unlimited static | Unlimited | 1 | 90 days of history, 0 custom domains |
| Starter | $12 a month | 100 dynamic, unlimited static | Unlimited | 1 | 365 days of history, 1 custom domains |
| Pro | $39 a month | 600 dynamic, unlimited static | Unlimited | 10 | Unlimited of history, 10 custom domains |
| Business | $99 a month | 2,000 dynamic, unlimited static | Unlimited | 25 | Unlimited of history, 50 custom domains |
Two gaps in that table are ours, not theirs. Their price list has a switch between monthly and annual billing that our reading of the page could not turn, so no yearly figure of theirs appears here; and one article on their own site refers to a tier above Premium that the price list did not show us. Both are left blank rather than guessed, because a number printed beside a company’s name has to have come from that company.
One more thing worth saving you a trip: their price list is at /payment, not /pricing, which answers 404, and the older qrtiger.com address redirects somewhere else entirely. Check the figures there rather than trusting a rival’s summary, this one included.
Where QR TIGER is the better buy
Four of them, and the first is about money. If one describes the work in front of you, buy theirs.
A cheaper first step, and more codes in the middle
Their cheapest paid tier is US$7 for 12 dynamic codes; ours is $12 for 100. Their US$16 tier holds 200 against our 100 at $12, and their US$37 holds 600 — the same number our Pro plan holds at $39. Counted purely as codes per dollar, their middle is better than ours and no reading of the grid changes it.
An API on the cheapest paid tier
Their price list gives every paid tier a monthly request allowance, starting at 500 on the US$7 plan. Ours begins higher up, with Pro and Business, so anyone whose first requirement is programmatic creation on a small budget is looking at their list, not ours.
A much longer list of code types
Their homepage offers WhatsApp, Instagram, TikTok, Pinterest, Google Review, Google Form, MP3 and video among two dozen or so types. Ours covers thirteen and has no WhatsApp, TikTok, Pinterest or Google Review type at all — a link to any of those is a website code here.
A bigger file behind a code
Their tiers name upload ceilings of 5MB, 10MB and 20MB, and their types include audio and video. Here the only file you can put behind a code is a PDF. If the code has to open a video you host with the same company, theirs does that and ours does not.
Where this side is the better buy
Each of these is enforced by the product today, on the plan named beside it.
- Scans are never counted against you. Not on any plan, and not on the free one. Their price list caps a free dynamic code at 500 scans; the 3 free codes here have no ceiling at all, so a code that unexpectedly does well does not go quiet halfway through a campaign.
- Nothing of ours appears on the code. No logo popup, no interstitial and no account, on the free plan or without one. Their free tier is listed with their logo popup, removed from the US$7 tier upwards.
- Ten people, then twenty-five. Their US$16 and US$37 tiers each list 2 users. Pro here holds 10 at $39 and Business holds 25, with 10 separate workspaces. A marketing team of five is a different shape of purchase on the two lists.
- A spreadsheet at the first paid step. Bulk creation appears on their US$16 tier. It is on Starter and up here, so the job of turning a list into a hundred named codes with their own short links costs $12 rather than more than twice that.
- Your own hostname at the same step. Their white label sits on the US$16 tier. A verified domain such as go.yourbrand.com is included from Starter here — 1 of them, rising to 10 and 50.
- Codes that keep redirecting after you stop paying. Every code goes on working for 90 days past its last scan, so one still in circulation is never switched off, and an email comes before anything pauses. Their pricing page states nothing about what happens to a code when a subscription ends, which is not the same as nothing happening.
Reading two price lists without fooling yourself
Worth two minutes before you put the two grids beside each other, because the arithmetic that feels obvious is the wrong arithmetic.
Tier names carry no information across companies. Their Premium is a US$37 plan and our plan at the nearest price is called Pro; nothing follows from the words. The same trap catches the word “white label”, which on their list is the ability to serve codes from a hostname of yours, the thing we call a custom domain.
The comparison that does hold is a shopping list. Count the printed things that must be working at the same time — not the codes you expect to create, which is a different and usually larger number. Add the people who need to log in. Add how far back you will be asked to report. Then read both price lists for the cheapest row that covers all three.
Run that on a team of four keeping eighty codes alive and wanting a year of history and the answer is Starter on codes but Pro on people, because their mid tiers list two seats. Run it on one person with twelve codes and theirs at US$7 is the cheaper answer, plainly. Which is the point: the grid does not decide it, your shopping list does. Ours is set out feature by feature so that list can be checked against it.
Choosing between them, answered
What is the catch on QR TIGER’s free plan?
Their price list states two things about it: a dynamic code is capped at 500 scans, and the free tier carries their logo popup. Both are removed from the US$7 tier up. Read on 21 September 2026, and worth re-reading at the link below before you rely on either number.
How many free codes does each side give?
Three dynamic codes on both, plus unlimited static codes on both. The difference is what happens after the third: theirs stop counting at 500 scans each, while the 3 here have unlimited scans and 90 days of history.
Which is cheaper?
Theirs, at the bottom and in the middle: US$7 against $12 for a first paid step, and US$16 for 200 codes against $12 for 100. Ours is the cheaper answer for a team, because their two mid tiers list 2 users and Pro here holds 10.
Do the tier names mean the same thing on both lists?
No, and they should not be read across. Their Premium is a US$37 plan; our top plan is called Business and costs $99. Compare a price against a price and a limit against a limit — matching names on two price lists is a coincidence, not a mapping.
Why does this page show no yearly prices?
Because we could not read them from their own page. The price list has a monthly and annual switch that our reading of the page did not resolve, and one of their own articles mentions a tier the price list did not show us. Rather than reprint a figure from somewhere else with their name on it, this page prints the monthly prices their page did state and says the rest is unread.
Can I try both before deciding?
Yes, and it is the only sensible way to choose. Both have a free tier that needs no card. Make one code on each, print it on something real, move it once, and see which dashboard you would rather open on a Monday — Free here is 3 editable items with no expiry date.
Check it at the source
- QR TIGER prices. Every figure of theirs above, read 21 September 2026
- QR TIGER home. Their list of code types, and the batch figure
- QR TIGER API documentation. What their API does; the request allowances are on the price list, not here
- QRSalt pricing. Our half of the table, from the file the product enforces
Last reviewed , against the product as it works today.
Both sides have a free tier, so test the metering
Put one code on real print and push scans at it. Free costs nothing, takes no card, and counts every one of them; Starter at $12 is where the spreadsheet import and your own hostname begin.
Free
Free
Unlimited static codes. Three editable ones that never expire.
- Unlimited static QR codes, forever
- 3 editable items in total — dynamic QR codes, QR Menus and QR Forms share them
- Dynamic codes never expire, and each comes with a short link
- Short links on their own, no QR code needed
3dynamic codes
Starter
$12/mo
For one business with codes out in the world.
- 5 QR Menus
- QR Forms
- GS1 Digital Links we host, so a printed pack can be re-pointed
- Advanced tracking and analytics
100dynamic codes
Pro
Most chosen$39/mo
For agencies and teams running codes at scale.
- 50 QR Menus
- Unlimited analytics history
- 10 custom domains
- API access
600dynamic codes
Business
$99/mo
For organisations running codes across many brands.
- 400 QR Menus
- 50 custom domains
- Up to 25 team members and team management
- Up to 10 workspaces
2,000dynamic codes
Unlimited scans on every plan. Cancel online in two clicks. Compare every plan and feature
The rest of the toolbox
Open a row to see the screen and which plan has it.
Custom domains
Short links on your own domain, chosen code by code.Starter and up
Codes open go.yourbrand.com/menu rather than a link with our name in it, so the address under the code is yours. You add two DNS records and we check them. Then pick the domain for each code as you make it, or move a whole list of codes onto it at once.
Starter and up
QR codes on your own domain
Bulk QR code generator
A spreadsheet in, one dynamic code per row out.Starter and up
Paste or upload a list of names and links, match the columns, and get a dynamic code for every row - one per table, stall, badge or product - each with its own scans and destination.
Starter and up
The bulk generator
Change many codes at once
Tick the codes, then pause, tag, file or move them together.Pause and resume on every plan · folders and tags on Starter and up
Tick codes in the list, or pick every code with a tag, and pause or resume them, add or remove tags, move them to a folder or onto your own domain, or add campaign tags, in one go. The API does the same in one request.
Pause and resume on every plan · folders and tags on Starter and up
Short links, with your own ending
The link on its own, for a bio, an email or an ad.Every plan · custom endings on Business
Paste a link and get a short one you can change, route and count, with no QR code unless you want one. Every dynamic code already has its short link beside it, and a short link gets its QR code in one click - the same link, so clicks and scans count together. On Business you choose how the link ends, like /spring-menu, instead of random letters.
Every plan · custom endings on Business
The URL shortener
GS1 Digital Link for products
The retail code that carries your GTIN and still opens a web page.Every plan, Free included
Your domain and the GTIN from under the barcode, with batch, serial and dates if you want them, in the link format GS1 set for retail. A phone opens your page; the product data rides along in the address. The GTIN’s check digit is checked before anything is made.
Every plan, Free included
QR codes for packaging
Wi-Fi, contact cards, email, phone and SMS
Networks, contacts, calendar dates and places, not only links.Every plan, Free included
A website, plain text, a Wi-Fi network, an email, a phone number, a text message, a contact card, a GS1 Digital Link, a PDF, a location, a calendar event and more. Most download free, with no account; the few marked “Editable only” need one.
Every plan, Free included
Contact card codes
PDF codes you can update
Upload a PDF, print the code, swap the file later.Every plan, Free included
We host the file and the code opens it. Upload a new version and the same printed code opens that one, with the old file kept in its history in case you need it back.
Every plan, Free included
PDF to QR code
Your logo in the middle
Upload any image; we size it so the code still scans.Every plan, Free included
PNG, JPEG, WebP or GIF, up to 15 MB - we shrink it ourselves, so nobody has to compress a file first. Error correction goes up to make room, and the logo is never allowed to cover more of the pattern than the code can lose.
Every plan, Free included
Print-ready downloads
PNG and SVG on every plan, and a PDF for the printer.PNG and SVG on every plan · PDF on Starter and up
PNG for screens and quick jobs, SVG for anything that gets scaled, and a print-ready PDF on Starter and up.
PNG and SVG on every plan · PDF on Starter and up
Folders and tags
Keep one location’s or one campaign’s codes together.Starter and up
Put codes in a folder per shop, listing or campaign and filter the list by it. Deleting a folder never deletes a code - they move to No folder, and you can undo it.
Starter and up
Campaign presets
Saved UTM parameters, so printed scans are not “direct”.Starter and up
A printed code arrives in your web analytics as direct traffic. A preset fills in source, medium and campaign in one click, so the flyer and the table tent show up as themselves.
Starter and up
City-level scan locations
Which towns the scans came from, not only which countries.Pro and Business
Scans by city and region for each code, and towns on the live map. Coarse on purpose: the place the phone’s network reports, never a street or a precise position.
Pro and Business
CSV export
Daily scans per code, in a spreadsheet.Pro and Business
Download scans and unique visitors by day for one code or all of them - with each code’s name and short link - as CSV for your own reports, or for whoever asked how the campaign did.
Pro and Business
Webhooks
Your server hears about every scan and every change.Business
Pick the events - a scan, a code made or changed, a form answered, a QR Menu edited - and give us an address. Each one arrives as a signed POST, retried if your server is down, and every delivery is listed with the response it got.
Business
The API and webhooks
An API for your own software
Make codes, re-point them and render files from your own code.Pro and Business
A REST API for dynamic codes and short links: make them, change where they go, render SVG, PNG or PDF, add your own domains, and change hundreds of codes in one request. No-code tools like Zapier, Make and n8n call it with a plain HTTP step. Every request carries your key, and a key only ever touches its own workspace.
Pro and Business
Every endpoint, with a playground
Separate workspaces
One subscription, a workspace per brand or client.Business
Each workspace has its own codes, team and analytics, so a client never sees another client’s. Up to 10 under one subscription.
Business
Priority email support
Paid plans’ emails are answered first.Starter and up
A person reads every message. On a paid plan yours is answered before free accounts’ - an order we keep, not a promised hour. Your plan and workspace go along with it, so nobody has to ask which account is yours.
Starter and up
Your data, to take or delete
A full export any time, and deletion you can take back.Every plan, Free included
Download everything - codes, history, scans, form answers and the files you uploaded - as one .zip with spreadsheets inside. Deleting the account gives you 30 days to change your mind, and your printed codes keep working until then.
Every plan, Free included
