Uniqode ranks second and Scanova fifth, with different strengths: detailed analytics and team features for Uniqode; a smaller commitment and longer entry-level history for Scanova. The table uses our shared data and scoring method.
Where they overlap
Both are dynamic-first platforms sold on subscription, with codes resolving through the vendor’s redirect so destinations stay editable and scans get logged. Both publish real prices, run 14-day trials instead of free tiers, leave scans unmetered on every plan, and list serious compliance work (SOC 2 and GDPR on both sides, ISO on both, HIPAA on Uniqode’s list). Both offer bulk generation, templates, white-label domains, team seats and vector exports. On the basics, a team could run its QR program on either without noticing the difference for months.
The differences sit in four places: what entry costs, what happens to your analytics history, how deep the analytics go, and how each company tells you about the end of a trial.
Entry pricing: $60 against $108, and what each buys
Scanova’s Basic tier costs $5 a month, billed annually only, so $60 a year for 3 dynamic codes with unlimited scans and 30 days of basic analytics. Uniqode’s Essential costs $9 a month, also billed yearly only, so about $108 a year for 15 dynamic codes, 60 days of analytics history and one seat.
Which entry wins depends on the unit you count. Counting total commitment, Scanova’s $60 is the smallest paid entry between the two. Counting per code, Uniqode’s 15 codes work out to about $0.60 each, among the lowest per-code entry figures in our pricing index, against $1.67 at Scanova. A solo user printing two or three codes will not care; a small chain printing one code per location will.
Above the entry tier the billing shapes diverge. Scanova publishes both periods for Lite, Standard and Pro: $9, $35 and $75 a month billed annually, or $15, $50 and $100 billed monthly, a 33 to 67 percent premium for staying month to month. Uniqode publishes no monthly option anywhere; every tier through the $399 Business+ is yearly. If a monthly exit door matters to you, only one of these platforms sells it at all, and only above its entry tier.
Scanova also sells the oddest item on either page: Ultra Lite, a single dynamic QR code with lifetime validity and Lite-tier features for $150, paid once. Two vendors in our index sell any lifetime option, and this is the only single-code one. The break-even against its own Lite annual plan sits around month seventeen; for a code that must outlive a subscription decision, it is a genuinely distinct product.
Analytics: depth on one side, retention on the other
Uniqode retains a provisional 9.0 for analytics. Our October 21 trial reconciled 11 known accesses with 11 scans, including three real iPhone scans. Device CSV matched; daily/city CSV had escaping defects. GPS, Una AI insights and retention remain untested. API and MCP capabilities are documentary.
Scanova’s analytics score 8.0, with event tracking, Google Analytics, webhook and Zapier integrations, and exact GPS coordinates on the Pro tier. The number that stands out is not depth but retention: analytics history is unlimited from the Lite tier, $9 a month billed yearly. Uniqode meters retention up its ladder, 60 days on Essential, 90 on Core, 180 on Plus, and lifetime history only on the $399 Business+.
Put concretely: a marketer on a $9 Uniqode plan cannot see last quarter’s campaign in January. A marketer on a $9 Scanova plan can. A team paying $399 gets everything either way, along with the deeper toolset on Uniqode’s side. Depth against retention is the real analytics trade here, and which one costs you depends entirely on how far back you need to look and how much you pay to look at it.
Trials, expiry and what each vendor tells you
Both platforms run 14-day trials instead of permanent free dynamic plans. Trial codes can still stop working after printing, so the expiry policy matters on either side.
Scanova’s FAQ states that trial dynamic codes stop working when the trial ends while static codes keep working. Uniqode’s own FAQ, re-read October 21, says trial dynamic codes become inactive without a subscription. These are documented policies; we have not tested either account through expiry.
Correction, September 11, 2026: this section previously treated Uniqode’s policy as unknown and implied that having no permanent free plan removed the expiry risk. The policy applies to trial codes, which can be printed before the trial ends.
On identity, both platforms are the products of companies with history. Uniqode is the former Beaconstac, renamed in January 2024; our Uniqode review documents the rebrand and what we verified of its promises. Scanova is operated by Trycon from India and has run under its own name throughout; its grid has been our reference example of published pricing since we started scoring.
The verdict
The grid puts Uniqode ahead, 8.0 to 7.6, and for the buyer the grid has in mind, an analytics-driven team with procurement requirements, that order holds: deepest analytics in the index, the strongest compliance list, the broadest dynamic feature set, and a per-code entry cost almost nothing beats.
Scanova wins the buyer the grid weights less: whoever wants the smallest committed spend, a monthly exit above entry, analytics history that does not vanish on a budget plan, and a vendor that writes its expiry rules in plain sentences. It is the rare tool whose cheapest-tier customer is treated as well, proportionally, as its biggest.
Full findings, scores and evidence for each: our Uniqode review and Scanova review. The ranking shows both against the other fifteen tools.