UseQR vs QR Tiger
A feature-rich mid-market tool whose free codes stop at 500 scans, the cap arrives precisely when a campaign starts working.
Prices and claims verified 2026-08-23 from www.qrcode-tiger.com. Vendors change pricing: check theirs before deciding.
What “free” means at QR Tiger
Three dynamic codes with a 500-scan limit on each, and a QR TIGER logo popup between the scan and your page. Paid plans start at $7 a month for 12 dynamic codes; QR Tiger's own FAQ says paid codes have no scan limit but “will only stop working once the plan expires.”
Ten dynamic codes cost about $84/year there. On UseQR: $0, with no account and no scan cap.
Side by side
| Capability | QR Tiger | UseQR |
|---|---|---|
| Price to keep a printed code alive | $84+ / year | $0, forever |
| Free tier | 3 codes that stop at 500 scans each | The whole product |
| Signup | Required | None, anywhere |
| Keyless API | No: account and key required | Yes, no key, no quota |
| MCP server for AI agents | No | Yes: keyless, styled, and it verifies |
| Scan-verified exports | No | Every download is decoded before it saves |
| Scan caps | 500 scans on each free code | None: caps are a thing we refuse to build |
| Branded popup on scan | QR TIGER logo popup on free codes | Never, no interstitial of any kind |
Patterns to know about before you print
A scan cap switches the code off
Free-tier codes stop working (or stop reporting), after a fixed number of scans. QR Tiger caps free codes at 500 scans each and QRCodeKIT at 100 scans per code per month. The more successful your campaign, the sooner it breaks.
Source: QR Tiger pricingSign up before you can download
The generator works right up to the download button, which is where the account wall appears.
Source: QRFY signup flow
What QR Tiger does better
- The best code-per-dollar ratio in the mid-market: 200 dynamic codes with unlimited scans for $16 a month, 600 for $37.
- A wide integration surface on those same plans: Canva, Zapier, HubSpot, Google Analytics, a 3,000-request API, and CSV batches up to 3,000 codes.
- Routing and analytics features UseQR has no answer to: password protection, retargeting, scan notifications, precision geolocation, geofenced scan zones, and an AI data chatbot.
- Publishes an llms.txt, one of the few competitors thinking about agent readability at all.
What your codes would cost elsewhere
Dynamic, editable codes kept alive for a year.
- UseQR$0 / year
- Bitlyno published plan this large
- Flowcodeno published plan this large
- QRCodeKIT≈ $600 / year
- Uniqode≈ $588 / year
- qr-code-generator.com≈ $450 / year
- QR Tiger≈ $444 / year
- QRFY≈ $228 / year
- ME-QR≈ $192 / year
Cheapest published plan that covers this many codes, annualized. Prices verified 2026-08-23, vendors change them; the linked pricing pages are the source of truth.
Questions
- Is UseQR really free compared to QR Tiger?
- Yes. Every UseQR feature is free forever with no account: static codes, bulk generation, every export format, the API, and the MCP server. Three dynamic codes with a 500-scan limit on each, and a QR TIGER logo popup between the scan and your page. Paid plans start at $7 a month for 12 dynamic codes; QR Tiger's own FAQ says paid codes have no scan limit but “will only stop working once the plan expires.”
- Can I move my QR Tiger codes to UseQR?
- Static codes need nothing: they encode your data directly, so they keep working. Dynamic codes point at that vendor's short domain, so they have to be re-created and re-printed; UseQR's migration importer and /autopsy tools land with the dynamic release.
- What does QR Tiger do better?
- The best code-per-dollar ratio in the mid-market: 200 dynamic codes with unlimited scans for $16 a month, 600 for $37. A wide integration surface on those same plans: Canva, Zapier, HubSpot, Google Analytics, a 3,000-request API, and CSV batches up to 3,000 codes. Routing and analytics features UseQR has no answer to: password protection, retargeting, scan notifications, precision geolocation, geofenced scan zones, and an AI data chatbot. Publishes an llms.txt, one of the few competitors thinking about agent readability at all.
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