QR.io vs Ok1Second

QR.io's pricing page lists a single plan rather than a ladder: $39.99/month billed monthly, or $350 for twelve months, which it lists against $479 and describes as a 27% saving. Everything on the page is part of that plan — unlimited QR codes, unlimited scans, PNG and SVG downloads, custom landing pages, scan statistics, API access, bulk creation and five team members.

That is a clean thing to buy. There is no tier to outgrow, no code count to estimate and no upgrade conversation when a campaign gets bigger. The trade is that you pay the same whether you run three codes or three thousand.

Four of those inclusions are real features that Ok1Second does not offer at all. Landing pages: QR.io hosts a page for the code to land on, where this service expects a destination you already control. Bulk creation: it can generate codes in volume, where here a large run is scripted through the REST API. Team members: five people share the account, where this is a single-user product. And the API is bundled rather than being a separate concern.

If those are the reason you are looking at QR code software, QR.io's $39.99 is buying something specific, and a cheaper plan without them is not a substitute.

It is worth being clear about where the two services actually agree, because it is the part that usually costs people money elsewhere: both give you unlimited codes and unlimited scans. Neither metered per scan, neither stopping a printed code at a monthly allowance.

So the comparison is not about limits. It is about whether the bundle above is worth roughly ten times the price, and whether you need a way to try the thing before committing to either.

QR.io's pricing page lists one plan and a 7-day money-back guarantee; no free tier appears on it. A refund window is not the same as a trial: it lets you undo a purchase, not run a live test for a month on a code that is already on a wall.

Ok1Second's free plan has no expiry — three dynamic codes with unlimited scans, editable destinations, no ads. That is the practical difference for anyone who wants to put one code in front of real customers before deciding whether the rest is worth paying for.

QR.io's pricing page does not list a custom domain among the included features, so if owning the redirect host matters to you, ask them directly before buying — it is the one row in the table above that is an absence rather than a difference.

It matters because a dynamic code points at a short link that a service resolves. A custom domain puts that resolution on infrastructure you control, so a future move is a DNS change instead of a reprint for every code in circulation. Ok1Second includes one on Pro.

Choose QR.io if you want landing pages, bulk creation, an API and five seats under one invoice, and you would rather pay a flat premium than assemble those pieces. Choose Ok1Second if the job is a printed code pointing at a page you already have: a free tier to test with, a custom domain on the paid plan, and no bundle to pay for that you would not use.