UseQR vs QRFY
A genuinely capable dynamic-QR product with hosted microsites, now sold as one unlimited plan — behind a 7-day trial that locks your printed codes away when it ends.
Prices and claims verified 2026-08-23 from qrfy.com. Vendors change pricing — check theirs before deciding.
What “free” means at QRFY
There is no free tier. QRFY sells a single plan in three lengths — $117 per quarter, $174 per six months, or $228 for a year in the US — and all three include unlimited dynamic codes. When the 7-day trial ends, QRFY's FAQ says your codes are stored for three months but you cannot access them until you subscribe; cancelling later does the same thing.
Ten dynamic codes cost about $228/year there. On UseQR: $0, with no account and no scan cap.
Side by side
| Capability | QRFY | UseQR |
|---|---|---|
| Price to keep a printed code alive | $228 / year, or $117 / quarter | $0, forever |
| Free tier | None — 7-day trial | 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 |
| Open source / self-host | No | MIT, one command |
| Hosted content pages | Extensive (PDF, gallery, menu, audio) | Planned — S18, on the same trust rails |
| Docs an agent can read | JavaScript-only SPA — fetching the pricing page returns an empty shell | Markdown, llms.txt, OpenAPI |
Patterns to know about before you print
The trial ends and your printed code dies
Dynamic codes created during a free trial stop redirecting when the trial lapses — including codes already printed on menus, packaging, and signage. QRFY's own FAQ: your codes are kept for three months, but “you will not be able to access them until you contract one of our plans.”
Source: QRFY FAQ: what happens after the trialAnnual-only billing
Monthly billing is removed or surcharged, so the real entry price is a year (or a quarter) up front. QRFY's shortest term is three months. Uniqode bills every QR plan yearly. qr-code-generator.com charges $10 a month monthly against $5 a month annually, and only sells its two upper plans annually.
Source: QRFY 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 QRFY does better
- Two dozen content types where every dynamic type is a full hosted microsite — PDF, image gallery, ISO-keyed multi-language menu, MP3, playlist, product, coupon, vCard Plus. UseQR's equivalents are planned, not shipped.
- One flat plan with unlimited dynamic codes, unlimited collaborating users, and a custom domain included — no per-code tiering anywhere in the lineup, which is rare on this list.
- A deep design surface with reusable templates, plus per-QR Google and Facebook pixel integration, and the market's cleanest bulk API shape: one POST with a shared style plus per-item overrides.
- 4.1★ across 11,559 Trustpilot reviews — the best-reviewed vendor here by a wide margin.
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 QRFY?
- Yes. Every UseQR feature is free forever with no account: static codes, bulk generation, every export format, the API, and the MCP server. There is no free tier. QRFY sells a single plan in three lengths — $117 per quarter, $174 per six months, or $228 for a year in the US — and all three include unlimited dynamic codes. When the 7-day trial ends, QRFY's FAQ says your codes are stored for three months but you cannot access them until you subscribe; cancelling later does the same thing.
- Can I move my QRFY 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 QRFY do better?
- Two dozen content types where every dynamic type is a full hosted microsite — PDF, image gallery, ISO-keyed multi-language menu, MP3, playlist, product, coupon, vCard Plus. UseQR's equivalents are planned, not shipped. One flat plan with unlimited dynamic codes, unlimited collaborating users, and a custom domain included — no per-code tiering anywhere in the lineup, which is rare on this list. A deep design surface with reusable templates, plus per-QR Google and Facebook pixel integration, and the market's cleanest bulk API shape: one POST with a shared style plus per-item overrides. 4.1★ across 11,559 Trustpilot reviews — the best-reviewed vendor here by a wide margin.
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