Digital business card pricing: what you should actually expect to pay
A plain-language guide to free tiers, individual plans, and team pricing across the category.
Across nearly every digital business card platform on the market, pricing follows a similar shape: a free tier covering basic card creation and sharing, an individual paid tier somewhere in the roughly $5 to $10 per month range that adds lead capture and deeper analytics, and a team or business tier priced per user, typically in the $5 to $8 per user monthly range, that adds centralized branding and admin management. Understanding this general structure matters more than memorizing any one company's specific numbers, because it tells you what questions to ask when comparing options: what does the free tier actually include, what specifically triggers the jump to a paid plan, and does the team plan have a minimum number of seats before you can even access it.
The free tier is usually enough if all you want is a digital replacement for a paper card, a shareable link or QR code with your contact details, maybe one or two cards, and basic view tracking. Where free tiers typically stop is lead capture forms, meaning the ability to collect a visitor's contact information rather than just sharing your own, along with deeper analytics like geographic data or device breakdowns, and any kind of team-level branding. Those are reasonably paid features across the category, not a red flag specific to any one company, building and maintaining lead capture infrastructure, storing submission data securely, and running analytics at scale costs money to operate, so it makes sense that it sits behind a subscription rather than being free indefinitely.
On Connectiko specifically, the structure is a free Personal plan with one digital card, basic QR generation, and limited analytics; a $4.99 per month Professional plan that adds three digital cards, advanced analytics, custom QR designs, and lead capture forms in one bundle; and a $7.99 per user Business plan with unlimited cards, full team management, complete analytics, and custom branding. The thing worth checking on any platform you're evaluating, Connectiko included, is whether the team plan has a minimum seat requirement, some competitors require five or more users before their team tier activates at all, which matters a lot if you're a two- or three-person team trying to get consistent branding without paying for seats you don't have yet.