A QR Code Generator Pro alternative you pay for once

What QR Code Generator Pro costs

Prices from QR Code Generator Pro's public pricing page, in USD, checked on October 10, 2026. Taxes excluded. Vendors change prices; follow the source links to see today's.

The math over 1, 3 and 5 years

Starter allows only 2 dynamic codes, so it is not a fair match for 100 codes. Advanced is the cheapest QRCG plan with a working number of dynamic codes (50) and it is billed annually only, $227.88 a year. LimeQR Solo ($19 once, 100 codes) costs about the same as one month of Advanced billed that way, and nothing after that, but it gives you 50 more codes and no second user, so check the user count before you switch.

QR Code Generator Pro Advanced at $18.99/month (yearly billing, their cheapest rate), assuming today's price never goes up. LimeQR is a single $19 payment.

What LimeQR does

Only features that exist in LimeQR today. If it isn't in this table, assume we don't have it.

What QR Code Generator Pro costs

I read QRCG's pricing page on October 10, 2026, using a US price view. It offers a 14-day free trial and three plans. Starter is $19.99 a month on monthly billing or $9.99 a month on yearly billing ($119.88 a year), with 2 dynamic codes and tracking for 10,000 scans. Advanced is $18.99 a month, billed annually ($227.88 a year), with 50 dynamic codes. Professional is $49.99 a month, billed annually ($599.88 a year), with 250 dynamic codes.

Prices on this page can differ by country, so the number you see at checkout may not match mine. The plan names and the code counts are what matter most: if you need more than 2 dynamic codes you are in Advanced territory, which is the first plan with a code count that works for a real campaign.

The pricing page's FAQ says the subscription term is flexible only on Starter: "Starter plans are billed monthly or annually. Advanced and Professional plans are billed annually. All subscriptions renew automatically until you cancel."

What happens to dynamic codes when you cancel or the trial ends

This is the question I would settle before printing anything. The pricing page FAQ on canceling says: "In case you don't want your contract renewed, an informal email would be sufficient. The notice period is always 30 days before the end of the billing cycle." On an annual plan that means planning a month ahead of the renewal date, not the day before.

For the trial, QRCG's help center has an article called "How can I reactivate my QR Codes?". It says your codes may be inactive because "Your free trial ended and your Dynamic QR Codes have been deactivated." It then explains: "To reactivate Dynamic QR Codes that were deactivated when your free trial ended, first upgrade your account." It adds that creating and upgrading a new account does not reactivate a code, and neither does creating a new code with the same content.

The same article says that if you have more codes than your chosen plan allows, you are prompted to pause codes. The article is about trials and paused codes. It does not describe what happens to the codes of a paid plan that you cancel, so I will not claim anything about that. QRCG's terms of service say you may cancel at any time and that no refunds or credits are given for early termination, and that on expiration or termination of the agreement the rights and access it grants end. Read that, and the help article, before you print a thousand stickers.

What LimeQR does today

A dynamic code in LimeQR encodes a short link, on the LimeQR domain by default or on a domain of your own (1 on Solo, 5 on Pro) once you add a CNAME and a TXT record that proves you control it. The address is random, seven characters, or one you choose, between 3 and 50 lowercase letters, digits and dashes. Once created, an address is fixed and is never given to someone else after you delete it. You change the destination whenever you like and the next scan follows it.

You can set the code and background colors, with a contrast of at least 3 to 1 enforced so the code stays scannable, pick square, rounded or dot modules, add a logo in the center, and wrap the code in a box or banner frame with up to 24 characters of text. Download it as SVG, or as PNG at 1024 or 2048 pixels. You can also download a static code that points straight to your destination. It works without LimeQR, though it cannot be edited and its scans are not counted.

Scan stats show counts per day, country and device type for the last 30 days. They are stored as daily totals only, with no IP address or user agent kept, and link previews and bots are not counted. You can create codes in bulk from a CSV, up to 100 rows per import on Solo and 500 on Pro, and export every code with its short link and destination as CSV, even without an active plan.

Solo or Pro, and what a scan quota means

Solo is $19 once and covers 100 codes and 10,000 tracked scans a month. Pro is $39 once and covers 1,000 codes and 100,000 tracked scans a month. Redirects themselves are never capped. If you go above the monthly quota, your codes keep sending people to their destination and only the counting pauses until the next month.

Against QRCG Advanced at $227.88 a year, Solo costs $19 once. Against Starter on yearly billing at $119.88 a year, Solo is still a fraction of one year, but Starter only covers 2 codes, so I do not think it is the fair comparison. If you only ever need 2 codes and 10,000 scans, check whether a free static code would do the job first.

Refunds and what lifetime means

Every F*ckSubscription purchase has a 14-day full refund. "Lifetime" means for as long as we run the app. If we ever shut LimeQR down, you get 30 days' notice and an export of your codes before it goes. I will not write "forever", because no one can promise that. What I can promise is that the printed code is not tied to a renewal date, and that the CSV export of your codes with their destinations works whether or not you have an active plan.

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