VCardForever vs Blinq: What Each One Costs You Per Contact
Blinq is a polished product with a genuinely useful free tier. The part worth reading the pricing page for is lead capture, which it bills per contact captured and enriched. Here is how the two compare, and when Blinq is the better answer.
Blinq is one of the better digital business card products, and this comparison is not going to pretend otherwise. It has a free tier that is actually usable, a clean sharing flow, and SOC 2 Type II and GDPR compliance listed across every plan. If you want a digital card and nothing else, it does that well. The difference that matters shows up once you want the contact details to come back to you, because that is the point where the two products take very different positions.
What Blinq costs, as listed on its own pricing page
Checked on 29 October 2026. Prices change, so treat this as an observation with a date on it rather than a fact, and check the page before you buy.
- Free: two digital cards, unlimited sharing, personal email signature.
- Premium: $9.99 per month billed monthly, or $7.33 per month billed annually. Up to five cards, contact scanner, branded QR code, contact export.
- Business: $6.99 per user per month billed monthly, or $4.99 per user per month billed annually. Team cards, admin controls, native CRM integrations, team analytics.
- Enterprise: custom pricing, adds SSO and SCIM.
Pro Tip
Blinq’s FAQ says Business billing is per card with a minimum of five at signup, while the pricing card says per user. Those are not the same unit. Ask them which applies to your team before committing.
The line most people miss: lead capture is billed per lead
On Blinq’s pricing page, lead capture and enrichment is listed at $9.99 per lead captured and enriched. That is on top of the Business seat, not instead of it. It is a defensible model, and the enrichment is doing real work, but it changes the arithmetic completely once the feature works.
What that means at a trade stand
A conference where a hundred people scan your card and send their details back is a hundred captures. At the listed rate that is a four figure line item from a single event, separate from what you paid for the seats. If the feature works well, you pay more. That is worth knowing before you build a process around it.
How VCardForever handles the same thing
Lead capture is part of the card, not a metered add-on. A visitor who scans your card can send their name, email, phone, company and a message back to you. You get an email for each one with the reply address set to theirs, so you can answer from your inbox, and the contact can be posted to a CRM. There is no per contact charge, because the contacts are the point of the product.
Where the contacts actually end up
Both products can get a captured contact into a CRM. The difference is what it takes to get there and what it costs once it works.
- Blinq lists native CRM integrations under Business. Its pricing card and its own comparison table disagree about whether CRM integration is Business only or available on every tier, including Free. We could not resolve that from the page, so ask them.
- VCardForever posts each captured contact to a URL you choose, as signed JSON. Zapier, Make and n8n all accept that shape, which is how it reaches HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive or a spreadsheet without waiting for a native integration to be built.
- Every captured contact is also stored and exportable as a CSV, so the data is yours whether or not any integration is working.
When Blinq is the better choice
Three cases, and they are real rather than polite. Pick Blinq if any of these describe you.
- You need two cards and nothing else, forever. Blinq’s free tier covers that and costs nothing.
- You need enforced SSO and SCIM provisioning today. That is an Enterprise conversation and Blinq has a mature answer to it.
- You want AI contact enrichment as part of the product rather than something you wire up. Blinq builds that in, and if the per lead price works for your volume, it saves you assembling it.
When VCardForever makes more sense
The case is narrower and more specific: you want the contacts that come back, you want to know what collecting them will cost before you start, and you want them to land somewhere you control. A card that updates after you change jobs is table stakes at this point, and both products do it. Who owns the contact data, and what each one costs, is where they actually differ.
Conclusion
Blinq is a good product and the free tier is genuinely free. If you only need a card, it is a reasonable place to stop reading. The question worth asking before you commit a team to it is what happens when lead capture starts working, because that is the point where a per contact price stops being a line on a pricing page and becomes your largest invoice. Check the current numbers yourself: they were accurate on 29 October 2026 and they will not stay that way.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Blinq actually free?
Yes, for two cards. Blinq lists a free forever tier that includes two digital business cards, unlimited sharing and a personal email signature. Paid tiers add more cards, branding and team features. Checked 29 October 2026.
How much does Blinq charge for lead capture?
Its pricing page lists lead capture and enrichment at $9.99 per lead captured and enriched, on top of a Business seat. At event volumes that becomes the largest part of the bill, so work out your expected number of scans before committing.
Does Blinq include CRM integration on the free plan?
Its own page is contradictory. The Business pricing card lists native CRM integrations as a Business feature, while the comparison table further down shows them across all tiers including Free. Ask Blinq directly rather than relying on either version.
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