UseQR vs QRFY
A genuinely capable dynamic-QR product with hosted microsites — sold through a 7-day trial that deactivates your printed codes when it ends.
Prices and claims verified 2026-08-21 from qrfy.com. Vendors change pricing — check theirs before deciding.
What “free” means at QRFY
There is no free tier. After the 7-day trial, dynamic codes stop redirecting and are held pending a subscription, and billing is quarterly or longer — so the practical entry price is roughly $117 per quarter.
Ten dynamic codes cost about $468/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 | ≈ $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 | 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.
Source: QRFY pricing & trial termsAnnual-only billing
Monthly billing is removed or surcharged, so the real entry price is a year (or a quarter) up front.
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
- 26 content types where every dynamic type is a full hosted microsite — multi-PDF, image gallery, audio, ISO-keyed multi-language menus. UseQR's equivalents are planned, not shipped.
- 19 module styles, 33 corner styles, and 31 frames, plus per-QR GA4 / Meta Pixel / GTM fields.
- The market's cleanest bulk API shape: one POST with a shared style plus per-item overrides.
What your codes would cost elsewhere
Dynamic, editable codes kept alive for a year.
- UseQR$0 / year
- qr-code-generator.comno published plan this large
- Bitlyno published plan this large
- QR Tigerno published plan this large
- Uniqodeno published plan this large
- Flowcodeno published plan this large
- ME-QRno published plan this large
- QRCodeKIT≈ $1,800 / year
- QRFY≈ $900 / year
Cheapest published plan that covers this many codes, annualized. Prices verified 2026-08-21 — 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. After the 7-day trial, dynamic codes stop redirecting and are held pending a subscription, and billing is quarterly or longer — so the practical entry price is roughly $117 per quarter.
- 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?
- 26 content types where every dynamic type is a full hosted microsite — multi-PDF, image gallery, audio, ISO-keyed multi-language menus. UseQR's equivalents are planned, not shipped. 19 module styles, 33 corner styles, and 31 frames, plus per-QR GA4 / Meta Pixel / GTM fields. The market's cleanest bulk API shape: one POST with a shared style plus per-item overrides.
Sources
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