Tiered passport allowance — never per-scan

The two biggest variable costs are the PEF (Product Environmental Footprint) study — a one-off €8,000–€25,000 via an external assessor — and GS1 membership for a Digital Link resolver at €500–€1,500/year. Internal compliance-team time runs 240–400 person-hours for the first passport. TracePass plans start at €49/month (Basic, ~9 AI extractions included) and €350/month (Starter, ~130 AI extractions a month). The software is the line that reduces the person-hours; it is not an extra layer on top of the PEF study or the GS1 cost.

A consulting gap-analysis-plus-implementation engagement typically runs in the four-to-five-figure range per project and recurs per product line — most of the cost is the data-collection work. A platform is a flat monthly fee you keep and re-run for every product. Consulting is the better choice when you need source data created from scratch (a PEF study, a conformity assessment); a platform is the better choice when the data exists and the bottleneck is assembly and maintenance. For the full breakdown, see our DPP consulting vs software comparison.

Enterprise serial-volume pricing is available. Battery, EV, tyre, and high-volume electronics manufacturers with serial-level mandates routinely run into the 100K – 10M+ passports/year range, and the standard overage rates make those deals economically untenable. We have a serial-volume bundle with marginal-cost pricing that makes the unit economics work at scale; the contract is annual or multi-year with custom SLA. Drop us a line at info@tracepass.eu.

None of the above — we charge per published passport, the one unit you control. Scan volume is set by your customers, not you: a viral product spike can 10× your invoice overnight, while a slow week halves it. Per-passport tiers map to a number a procurement team can actually budget for.

Only published passports count against your plan: drafts, passports in review, suspended and expired ones are free, so you can build a whole catalogue and pay only for what you actually place on the market. Every paid plan includes GS1 Digital Link QR codes and the public passport viewer (HTML + JSON-LD content negotiation) at no extra charge. Data export (the full-account ZIP, plus JSON-LD and EPCIS downloads) is on every plan, including Free, and so is forwarding your passports to a new provider if you leave. The custom-domain QR resolver ships on all paid plans too, making the URL on your printed QR portable forever — no vendor lock-in on the physical asset. AI extraction and the supplier portal are included on every plan, including Free — what scales with the tier is the monthly AI budget and the number of supplier requests, not whether you can use them. Every plan, Free included, includes the Do I need a DPP? check: whether a product type needs a passport, under which act and from when. Some features unlock at higher tiers: unlimited supplier requests, scan analytics, catalogue scope check and regulatory alerts from Growth, compliance PDF reports from Scale, and NFC tag linking from Pro.

Annual saves about 15% versus monthly (14.3% on Basic, about 15% from Starter up). Annual subscriptions are billed upfront for 12 months, which covers the 3-, 6-, and 12-month minimum terms on Scale, Pro, and Enterprise. You can still leave an annual plan early, at the end of any billing month: the unused whole months are refunded, less the early-exit fee. You can switch annual ↔ monthly at renewal time without penalty.

30-day grace at no charge. You can cancel at any time, and your plan ends at the end of the current billing month. If a commitment is still running then (the minimum term on monthly Scale, Pro, or Enterprise, or a prepaid annual year), an early-exit fee applies: the commitment months left after that date, up to 3, times the monthly fee. Example: Pro at €2,000 per month, cancelled in month 1 of its 6-month term, has 5 months left, so the fee is capped at 3 × €2,000 = €6,000; on annual billing the fee is deducted from the refund of unused whole months. Once the commitment has ended, there is no fee. Your published Digital Product Passports then remain publicly resolvable for 30 days after the subscription ends so QR codes printed on physical products don't brick mid-migration. If you operated on a custom domain (every paid plan), the grace window is the time to re-point your DNS at another vendor — the URL on the printed QR is yours forever because the domain is yours. Moving to another provider? On every plan, an owner or admin can forward your passports to it free of charge in Settings → Data export, and scans of the printed codes then go straight there; passports you do not forward stop resolving after the 30 days. On every plan, including Free and after cancelling, you can export the whole account from the dashboard at no fee: one ZIP with every passport, document and history file, plus quick JSON-LD and EPCIS downloads; the REST API reads your data on every plan too. Resubscribing later brings expired passports back online, as many as the plan allows. See the Terms of Service, sections 10 and 10a.

Yes. On Scale, Pro, and Enterprise, a downgrade made inside the minimum term takes effect when the term ends, or at the end of the paid billing period if that is later; until then you stay on, and are billed for, your current plan. Downgrades that reduce the passport cap below your active count may trigger an overage charge on the remaining passports at the new plan's per-passport rate; we warn you before you confirm. Upgrades apply immediately with prorated charges. A downgrade is not leaving: you can still cancel at any time (see "What if I cancel?").

Yes — the Free tier lets you create three passports end-to-end, including AI extraction, GS1 QR code generation, and the public passport page. The account has no time limit and needs no credit card; a passport published on Free stays live for 30 days, then expires. When you need more passports or passports that don't expire, you upgrade to a paid plan — and passports that expired on Free come back online, as many as the plan allows.

EPCIS 2.0 — export, capture and query — is included on every plan, Free included. Tiers differ by event volume per month (Free 10, Basic 1,000, Starter 10,000, Growth 100,000, Scale 1,000,000, Pro 10,000,000, Enterprise unlimited). On paid plans, overage past the included allowance is opt-in at a per-1,000-event block rate that decreases as the tier grows. Free hitting its cap requires an upgrade to keep capturing. No add-on, no "talk to us" — see the price table on /pricing for the exact event quotas and overage rates.

Yes — TracePass ships a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, listed on the official MCP Registry as eu.tracepass/tracepass. AI assistants like Claude or Cursor can manage products, passports, and EPCIS events directly. It's included on every plan, Free included, at no extra cost — authenticate with an API key or OAuth 2.0 Connect. Use the hosted endpoint or the local npm package.

Yes — TracePass ships a free, open-source (MIT) n8n community node (n8n-nodes-tracepass), built to n8n's verification guidelines. Install it on any self-hosted n8n instance via Settings → Community Nodes (on n8n Cloud, community nodes need n8n's Enterprise plan), authenticate with your existing TracePass API key, and wire products, passports, and EPCIS events into workflows alongside Shopify, Slack, Schedule, and 400+ other integrations.