Elido vs QR Tiger: Dynamic QR Codes, Limits and Expiry

QR Tiger is a QR code platform with dozens of content types, file hosting and a free plan. Our product, Elido, is a link management tool hosted in the EU, where every short link is also a dynamic QR code. So Elido vs QR Tiger comes down to what you're actually printing. Want menus, PDFs, landing pages and video codes from one QR builder? Pick QR Tiger. Do you mostly print links, and want them on your own domain with link analytics behind them? Then Elido is the cheaper and simpler fit.

I'm on the Elido team, so weigh the verdict with that in mind. Every QR Tiger fact below comes from its own pricing page, FAQ or help centre, accessed 2026-11-11. Our side was checked against the product the same day.

QR Tiger and Elido Side by Side

The table covers the rows people ask about before a print run. "Dynamic code" means a code that encodes a short link, so the destination can change after printing. Our dynamic vs static QR codes guide explains the difference if it's new to you, and the cornerstone on URL shorteners for marketers maps the wider link-tool field.

QR Tiger takes four rows outright: content types, file hosting, GPS and bulk. We take price per dynamic code, plus your own domain in the pattern at the entry tier. The last-but-one row is a draw, and it's the one most people miss.

Free Plans and Scan Caps: Where Codes Go Dark

QR Tiger's free plan is generous on static codes and tight on dynamic ones. You get three dynamic codes, and each stops at 500 scans. Its help centre is direct about what follows: the code becomes inactive at the limit, and the fix is to upgrade and generate a new dynamic code. A new code means a new pattern. If the old one is on 2,000 flyers, they're scrap.

Five hundred scans sounds like plenty until you do the arithmetic for a café table tent. Thirty tables, a few scans each per day, and the code is dead inside a fortnight, usually on a Saturday evening.

Elido's Free plan works differently. It covers 50 short links, and each link has a QR code that encodes it. There's no per-code scan cap that turns a code off. The plan includes 500 clicks a month as an allowance, and logo and colour styling is a paid feature, so free codes look plain. If you need a code that keeps working while you decide, that trade is the better one. If you need a branded menu code with a PDF behind it today, QR Tiger's free plan does more on day one.

Paid Plans: Price per Dynamic Code

On paid plans QR Tiger removes the scan cap. Prices on its pricing page, accessed 2026-11-11, in US dollars:

• Regular: US$7 a month, 12 dynamic codes, one user. It's the only plan billed monthly.
• Advanced: US$16 a month, billed yearly, 200 dynamic codes, bulk up to 3,000 per batch, your own domain.
• Premium: US$37 a month, billed yearly, 600 dynamic codes.

Regular locks a lot: bulk, Google Analytics and Zapier, password protection, expiry, your own domain and editing a code's design after it's made. Most marketing teams end up on Advanced.

We price by links instead, and every link is a dynamic code. Read from our billing catalogue on 2026-11-11: Pro starts at 3.50 EUR a month for 250 links, one branded domain and three seats. Pro with 1,000 links is 10 EUR a month with a 14-day trial. Business starts at 70 EUR a month for 50,000 links. Per dynamic code that's far cheaper than any QR-first tool. The catch is what you get per code: a link and a styled QR image, not a hosted menu or a video page.

Designing and Exporting the Code

Both tools let you change colours and module shapes, restyle the eyes, add a logo and wrap the code in a frame with a call to action. On top of that you get a choice of CTA fonts and a template gallery. It also has a Canva integration on every paid plan, which designers like.

Elido's QR studio is shown below, with a real demo workspace. You get square, rounded or dot modules, three eye styles, separate eye colours, a logo up to 512 KB with a padding option, a frame with a label of up to 32 characters, and a choice of error correction from L to H. Saved designs become workspace templates. The studio draws the standard 4-module quiet zone and flags a colour pair with low contrast.

Exports are close.

Both give PNG and SVG; I found no PDF or EPS export on either. SVG is the file a printer wants, so that gap rarely matters. If your printer insists on EPS, convert the SVG. Whatever tool you use, raise error correction when a logo covers the middle; our guide to QR code error correction levels gives the numbers, and branded QR code design covers colour and contrast.

Scan Analytics and Routing

Each QR Tiger scan is recorded with device and time, plus country and city. Higher plans add GPS location, which is stored only after the person scanning taps to consent, plus geofencing and a heatmap. It also offers retargeting pixels, scan notifications, custom UTM fields and integrations with Zapier and HubSpot, GA4 and Google Tag Manager.

Our side counts a scan as a click on the short link. You see clicks over time broken down by country and device, browser and referrer, per link and across a workspace, kept 90 days on Free, a year on Pro and two years on Business. Two gaps to be plain about. There's no GPS. And Elido doesn't yet separate a QR scan from a click on the same link typed or tapped elsewhere, so the usual workaround is one link per placement. How to track QR code scans shows that set-up.

On routing, QR Tiger's Smart Multi URL sends people to different pages by location, time, language or scan count. Elido's smart links route by country or device rules, with A/B splits, on Pro and Business. For most campaigns either is enough.

What Happens When You Stop Paying

Settle this before anything goes to print. Both tools give the same answer.

QR Tiger's FAQ says that if your plan expires it will stop working, and that you can renew within two days of expiry. Its terms add that a failed payment can suspend access without notice.

Same here.

When a paid subscription is cancelled or runs out, the links in that workspace stop redirecting, and visitors see a page saying the workspace isn't active. Nothing is deleted, and resubscribing brings the links back. Moving down to a smaller paid plan keeps them redirecting. We'd rather say this plainly than let you find out from a dead poster.

The real protection is the domain. A code that encodes your own domain can be moved to any provider that lets you recreate the paths, so a lapsed plan becomes a DNS change instead of a reprint. A branded domain comes with our cheapest Pro plan; QR Tiger's white label starts at Advanced. Do QR codes expire? walks through the five ways a printed code dies. If owning that domain is the deciding row for you, compare Elido's plans and count how many codes you'll print this year.

Verdict: Who Should Pick Which

Pick QR Tiger if QR codes are the product: restaurant menus, PDF brochures, video or MP3 codes, event pages, vCards for a sales team, or bulk runs of thousands with GPS analytics. It has types and hosting that Elido doesn't, and its paid plans have no scan cap.

Pick Elido if your codes mostly point at web pages and you also run links in emails, social posts or ads. Each link is a dynamic code at no extra cost, your own domain sits in the pattern from 3.50 EUR a month, and your click data stays in the EU. You give up file hosting, the long list of QR content types and GPS.

Weighing other QR-first tools? Elido vs Uniqode and Elido vs QR Code Generator PRO use the same rows, and QR Code Generator alternatives lines them up. For making a first code, the how to create a QR code hub starts from zero.

Related on the Blog

• Dynamic vs static QR codes
• Elido vs Uniqode
• QR Code Generator alternatives
• Are QR codes safe? Quishing explained
• What is a QR code