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Certora vs renting the software.

Certificates with a unique code and a public verify page, delivered to recipients by private link.

Competitor prices on this page read between 2026-09-03 and 2026-10-11, each row dated, each one read on the vendor's own page and linked in Sources.

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The subscription math.

Yours Certora $79 once · self-hosted · your data on your server Buy once
Rented Certifier Professional $76/month billed annually, $89/month billed monthly, at the page's default position of its volume slider; Advanced $339/month billed annually ($399 monthly); Starter "$0 / free forever" with an annual issuing limit of 250 certificates/badges; Enterprise "Contact sales" [1]

2 months of Certifier costs what Certora costs once.

The fine print

How we counted. The entry PAID tier at its lowest published price, $76 a month billed annually ($89 month to month), at the default slider position (re-read 2026-10-11; the slider moves the price with the yearly allowance, and a comparison table lower on the page prints other figures than the plan cards, which are the ones recorded). A free Starter tier covers 250 certificates or badges a year. Certora: $79 once, no annual issuing limit.

Work out your own numbers.

The rented figures use the cited plan price above; per-seat plans scale by the seat count from that same cited price. This is arithmetic, not a quote.

Also in this category.

Sertifier [2] 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 Sertifier prices by RECIPIENT per year — the slider asks how many people you will send credentials to this year — and the price shown is annual, so no monthly figure is computed from this row (read 2026-09-24). Certora is $79 once for issuing and verification you host yourself, with no recipient ceiling and nothing to renew.
How their pricing grows. 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”
What Sertifier does that we don't. Sertifier is the whole issuing platform — a large template library, LMS and CRM integrations, digital badges and a hosted recipient portal.
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.
Accredible [3] Launch "starts at $45 /month" on a 12-month term billed monthly, 50 recipients to get started; Connect and Growth are "custom plans available". The page's own structured data describes Launch instead as "starting at $996.00 for a 12-month term" — both figures are on the page The vendor's page carries two prices for its entry plan that do not reconcile ($45 x 12 = $540, not $996), so this row stores no monthly figure and claims no year-one arithmetic — both numbers are quoted verbatim and left as the vendor published them. What IS unambiguous is the shape: a 12-month term, billed monthly, with the two upper plans quoted. Certora is $79 once, with no term to commit to.
How their pricing grows. Accredible bills monthly but sells a 12-month term, so the monthly figure is a commitment for a year rather than a month-to-month price, and the recipient allowance is what moves you up a plan.
“12-month term; billed monthly”
What Accredible does that we don't. Accredible gives every recipient unlimited credentials and runs the whole credential program — pathways, analytics and a hosted wallet — at a scale a single-tenant install is not trying to reach.
Stay with Accredible if you need the program layer: learner pathways, engagement analytics, a hosted wallet and badge standards on their infrastructure. Certora issues PDFs from your own server and answers /verify/{code} against your own database — one organization per installation, and provenance by lookup rather than cryptography.

Why owning beats renting here.

One payment

No per-month, per-seat or per-location fees: the license does not expire.

Your data

Your data sits on a server you choose; customer records are not held in a vendor's cloud unless you put them there.

No plan ceilings

Records, users and usage are limited by your hosting, not by a pricing tier.

If the vendor stops

It keeps working if the vendor doesn't: no one can switch your copy off, and keeping it up to date is in your hands.

The fair trade-offs: you host it, you back it up, and updates are yours to apply. The product page lists what Certora deliberately doesn't do.

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Sources

  1. Certifier: price checked 2026-10-11, source“'Starter ... $0 / free forever ... Annual issuing limit: 250 certificates/badges' ... 'Professional MOST POPULAR ... $76 ... $ 89 / month / mo billed annually' ... 'Advanced ... $339 ... $ 399 / month / mo billed annually'”
  2. 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.”
  3. Accredible: price checked 2026-09-03, source“starts at$45 /month ... 12-month term; billed monthly ... 50 recipients to get started ... custom plans available. ... pricing starts at $996.00 for a 12-month term, billed monthly”

Competitor prices change, so always confirm on the linked page. We only print figures we could verify on the date shown.

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