The self-hosted Sertifier alternative
Certora: Self-hosted certificate verification for training providers and awarding bodies: every certificate carries a unique code an employer can check on a verify page you host yourself. Own it once, run it on your own server, and stop paying Sertifier every month.
Stop renting Sertifier.
Sertifier The free plan covers up to 25 people; at the page's default — credentials for 500 people a year, billed yearly ("2 months free") — $750 per year; issued credentials stay valid after you cancel, by the vendor's own FAQ Certora is $79 once, runs on your own server, and never invoices you again.
Sertifier meters by recipients per year: the plan you need is the one whose recipient allowance covers your cohort, and that allowance resets every year.
“choose the plan that matches your recipient volume and support needs”, their own page, read 2026-09-03
Sertifier is the whole issuing platform — a large template library, LMS and CRM integrations, digital badges and a hosted recipient portal.
“access to 1,000+ certificate & badge templates”, their own page
Stay with Sertifier if you want the hosted recipient portal, the badge wallet and the LMS/CRM integrations running on their infrastructure. Certora is single-tenant and issues from your own server — PDFs, a public /verify/{code} page and an expiry register — and its verification is a database lookup on your machine, provenance rather than cryptography.
What Certora deliberately doesn't do is on its product page.
Why owning beats renting Sertifier.
No monthly, per-seat or per-location fees. The license is perpetual.
It never lives in Sertifier's cloud.
Records and users are limited by your hosting, not by a pricing tier.
Self-hosted software can't be sunset or repriced out from under you.
The fair trade-offs: you host it, back it up and apply updates yourself. See the product page for its limits, and the full Certora vs renting comparison.
Questions about moving off Sertifier.
Is the verification cryptographic?
Can verification codes collide?
What stops someone brute-forcing the verify page?
Can I revoke a certificate?
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- Sertifier: price checked 2026-09-24, source“I'll send credentials to 500 people this year. I'll pay monthly / yearly · 2 months free $750 per year ... The free plan covers up to 25 people ... Issued credentials will remain valid and accessible to recipients even if you cancel your subscription.”
Competitor prices change, so always confirm on the linked page. We only print figures we could verify on the date shown. This vendor is tracked in the Price Observatory: every figure verbatim, dated, re-checked quarterly.