How we compare

Verifycate's Pro plan is $54 a year and includes 1,200 credits, so 1,000 certificates fit inside one plan year. Comparable self-serve platforms run from $99 to $900 for the same volume — Give My Certificate's Basic is $99 and Virtualbadge.io's Plus is $900 — while Certifier and Certopus price by annual volume rather than a fixed fee. Credly doesn't publish issuer pricing, and Accredible publishes only its entry Launch plan, at $45 a month for 50 recipients.

First, verification: a QR code and a public page anyone can open, not just a downloadable PDF. Then bulk sending, self-serve name corrections, whether credits expire, whether a custom domain costs extra, and whether issued links stay live if you stop paying. Every alternatives page on this hub covers all of these side by side.

Yes. Verifycate includes 300 free credits on signup — no card required. Certifier has a free tier of 250 credentials a year, Certopus 50, and Give My Certificate 10 a month. A free tier is the cheapest way to test a platform on a real event before paying anything.

For a fest issuing hundreds to a few thousand certificates once or twice a year, the decisive factors are price per certificate, name corrections, and whether pages stay up after the event. Verifycate is built for exactly that case: Pro at $54 a year, corrections that never spend a credit, and issued pages that stay live forever. Credly and Accredible are built for ongoing enterprise credentialing programmes, not one-off events.

We sell Verifycate, so read them accordingly — but every price on these pages is the competitor's own published price for 1,000 certificates a year, checked on a stated date, and every page names the features where the other platform leads us. If a capability we don't have is the point for you, the page says pick them.