Hovercode
Business$39
The REST API and bulk codes
a month
Checked 3 November 2026 on hovercode.com
QRCTools and Hovercode, side by side
Hovercode's free plan has 3 editable codes, the kind whose link you can change after printing, with unlimited scans. Its API and bulk codes start on Business, at $39 a month, and if you cancel, only your first 3 codes keep working. Every QRCTools feature is on the free plan, and our codes don't expire.
QRCTools
Free$0
The REST API and bulk codes
every feature, no credit card
What you get, and what it costs
Editable codes on the free plan
- QRCTools
- There's no limit on how many you make. Every feature is on the free plan, and you don't need a credit card.
- Hovercode
- The free plan has 3 in total, with unlimited scans, and it isn't a trial.
When a plan or trial ends
- QRCTools
- Codes don't expire, and there's no trial to end.
- Hovercode
- You move to the free plan. Your first 3 codes keep working, the others stop, and so do codes on your own domain.
Short links on your own domain
- QRCTools
- You can add up to 5 per workspace on the free plan. We connect each one by hand for now.
- Hovercode
- Pro has 1 at $12 a month, Business 10 at $39 and Business Plus 50 at $99.
Pages without the maker's name
- QRCTools
- It's on the free plan. White-label takes our name off the pages your codes open.
- Hovercode
- Every paid plan, from $12 a month, removes “Powered by Hovercode”.
A REST API for your own software
- QRCTools
- It's on the free plan, and each key gets 120 requests a minute.
- Hovercode
- It starts on Business, at $39 a month.
ChatGPT and Claude
- QRCTools
- It's on the free plan. You connect ChatGPT, Claude or another AI app that accepts connectors by pasting one web address.
- Hovercode
- It has one, listed in Claude's connector directory, but its pricing doesn't say which plans include it.
Codes from a spreadsheet
- QRCTools
- You can make up to 500 editable codes from one CSV file on the free plan.
- Hovercode
- It starts on Business, at $39 a month.
More than one person
- QRCTools
- Team workspaces with owner, admin, member and viewer roles are on the free plan.
- Hovercode
- Free and Pro have 1 person, Business 10 and Business Plus 25.
How far back scan stats go
- QRCTools
- You can see all time, or the last 7, 30 or 90 days compared with the days before.
- Hovercode
- Free shows 3 months, Pro 12, and Business and up all time.
Checked on on Hovercode's own pages. Prices are in US dollars before tax. Plans change, so check theirs before you decide.
Hovercode is a trademark of its owner. QRCTools isn't connected to Hovercode.
What Hovercode has that we don't
- It allows up to 50 custom domains on Business Plus, and we allow 5 per workspace.
- It has GPS tracking from Business.
- It can send each scan to your own software as it happens, on Business Plus.
- It makes GS1 Digital Link codes, a standard for product packaging, on every paid plan.
- It makes PDF codes that open a file it hosts.
- You connect it from Claude's connector directory with one click, and ours takes pasting one web address.
Our limits
- There's no paid plan to buy yet. A plan for larger teams is coming, and its prices will go on our pricing page first.
- We connect each custom domain by hand for now, after you add the DNS record that proves you own it.
- Your logo comes from a link to the image, because there's no upload yet.
- We don't connect to Zapier, HubSpot or Google Analytics, and we can't send each scan to your own software as it happens.
- We don't offer single sign-on, so everyone signs in with their own email address or Google account.
- Scan stats show the country, but never the city or an exact location.
- We don't host files, so a code can open a link, a landing page or a form, but not a PDF we keep for you.
- We don't send invite emails yet, so you send each invite's sign-up link yourself.