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Cue vs. typical QR code platforms
We won't invent a competitor feature table. Here's what you can verify about Cue today, and the questions worth asking any QR vendor before something with their redirect on it goes to print.
Verifiable
What you can check about Cue
Each of these traces to our public pricing page or to how the product behaves — not to a promise.
Codes never stop redirecting
Downgrade, cancel, or blow past your scan limit — printed codes keep working. Plan limits apply to creating new codes and to analytics, never to the redirect itself.
All prices are public
Free (£0), Pro (£15/mo), and Business (£49/mo) are on the pricing page in plain GBP — the same numbers the billing system enforces. Only custom Enterprise agreements involve a conversation.
No per-scan charges on redirects
Scans over your plan's tracking limit simply aren't recorded in analytics until the next month — they are never billed, and the redirect always happens.
Static codes are free and unlimited
Static codes encode your URL directly, don't route through Cue, and never expire — on every plan, including free, with no watermark.
Privacy-first analytics
Scan events store salted, rotating visitor hashes — never raw IP addresses. Geography is coarsened to city level and raw user agents are discarded after parsing.
3 dynamic codes on the free plan
The free plan includes 3 editable dynamic codes and 1,000 tracked scans a month — no credit card, no trial countdown.
Numbers come straight from the pricing page; privacy details are documented on the security page.
Due diligence
Questions to ask any QR vendor
A printed QR code is a long-term dependency on someone else's redirect server. These answers matter more than any feature grid.
- Do printed codes stop redirecting if I downgrade, cancel, or hit a scan cap?
- Is the full price list public, or does the real number only appear on a sales call?
- Am I charged per scan — and what happens to the person scanning when I exceed a quota?
- What exactly do you store about the people who scan? Raw IP addresses? For how long?
- Are static codes really static, or do they route through your servers and expire with my account?
- Can I export my codes and analytics and leave without breaking what's already printed?
Frequently asked questions
Why don't you name specific competitors on this page?
Because we can't verify other vendors' pricing and behaviour on your behalf, and comparison tables built on a competitor's worst day are marketing, not information. We publish what's verifiable about Cue and give you the questions whose answers actually differentiate QR platforms.
Will my Cue QR codes stop working if I stop paying?
No. Codes you've created keep redirecting even if you move to the free plan or cancel entirely. Limits apply to creating new codes and to analytics tracking, not to codes already in the world.
Does Cue charge per scan?
No. Plans include a monthly tracked-scan allowance for analytics. Scans beyond it are not billed and are not recorded — the redirect itself always works.
What does Cue store about people who scan my codes?
A salted, rotating visitor hash, coarse geography (city level), and parsed device/OS categories. Raw IP addresses are never stored, and raw user agents are discarded after parsing.
Are static QR codes free?
Yes — unlimited, on every plan, with no watermark and no expiry. You can generate one right now on our homepage without an account.
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Put us through the same questions
Try the sandbox on the homepage, read the pricing page, or email support@scancue.co with the hard questions — we'd rather answer them before you print.