Four questions, and we win all four
Five tools people weigh us against, with every figure sourced and dated — and the four things that decide it, every one of them ours.
A grid of ticks persuades nobody, so here is the argument first. Four things decide whether a code platform is worth having once something is out in the world, and we built the product around all four.
1. Success never breaks the code
Every plan includes a generous monthly scan allowance, and going past it never breaks your code. A cap on scans is a cap on how well your campaign is allowed to do, and you meet it on the day it works. Exceeding an allowance here means a paid plan is billed simply at a flat rate per extra million scans, and the free plan pauses new analytics until next month — either way, what the public sees never changes, because the alternative is breaking something you have already put in front of people.
2. What you deploy keeps working
Downgrading is read-only, never destructive. Everything you already made carries on resolving and carries on recording; what stops is making more. Nearly a third of people say they have scanned a code and reached an expired or dead link. That never happens because of a plan change here.
3. The analytics identify nobody — and that is why they get approved
Country and region, the hour, the device, which code. No cookies on a scan, no IP address stored, nothing sold. In healthcare, legal, education and the public sector that is the difference between a tool that is approved and one that starts a six-week review. The detail is here.
4. One account, not four subscriptions
Codes are where this starts and not where it stops: short links, landing pages, forms with submissions, digital business cards, GS1 Digital Link and a media library, with the analytics and campaign grouping running across all of them. The campaign that needs a code this week needs a page and a form next week, and here that is the same account and the same report.
The comparisons
Lynkarr vs Bitly
A link shortener that also issues QR codes, priced by how many of each you make per month.
Read the comparisonLynkarr vs QRCode Monkey
A free generator for static codes — the destination is fixed in the pattern and cannot be changed afterwards.
Read the comparisonLynkarr vs QR TIGER
A QR platform that prices by how many dynamic codes you hold, and caps scans on its free tier.
Read the comparisonLynkarr vs Uniqode
A QR and digital business card platform aimed at larger organisations, with a static-only free tier.
Read the comparisonLynkarr vs Canva
A design tool with QR code generation built in, where the useful parts of a code sit on its higher plans.
Read the comparisonThe short answer
Free to start with no card, a generous scan allowance that never breaks your code on any plan, unlimited codes on Business and up, your own domain from $45 a month, and everything the campaign needs after the code — in one account. Every figure on these pages is sourced and dated, ours included, so you can check the lot before you spend anything.
How these pages are kept honest
Every competitor figure names the page it came from and the day it was read (31 August 2026), and our own column is checked against the running product rather than against our marketing. We do not use adjectives about other companies and we do not state anything about them we could not show them. If you find something out of date, tell us and we will correct it.