QR Tiger costs $15/mo — and unlike a tool you buy once, that bill never stops. Over three years that's roughly $540 for software doing a job your own hardware could just as easily do.
Where the subscription actually goes
$15/month, forever is the sticker price. It compounds: cancel and you typically lose access to your own history, and most plans ratchet the price up as you add usage, seats or storage — the bill rarely stays flat for long.
Scantrail: the pay-once alternative
Scantrail does the same core job for $24, once. Self-hosted dynamic QR codes with scan analytics, a design studio and batch CSV generation.
| Scantrail | QR Tiger | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $24 once | $15/month, forever |
| Dynamic (editable) QR codes | Unlimited | Capped by plan |
| Codes if you stop paying | Always work — you host them | Die with your plan |
| Scan analytics | Included | Included |
| Custom colors, dot styles, logo | Included | Included |
| Batch CSV generation | Included | Higher tiers |
| Redirect domain | Yours | Theirs (qrco.de) |
| Scan data | Your SQLite file | Their cloud |
Under two months of QR Tiger pays for Scantrail — and your printed codes can never be held hostage again.
Is the subscription ever still worth it?
If you need QR Tiger's specific ecosystem, integrations or managed infrastructure and that's genuinely load-bearing for you, the subscription earns its keep — that's a real trade-off, not a trick. Scantrail is for everyone else: people paying every month for a job that runs fine on hardware they already own.
Try Scantrail — $24, once
Self-hosted dynamic QR codes with scan analytics, a design studio and batch CSV generation.