Bitly acquiring QR Code Generator created the market's biggest link+QR platform. If your organization already runs on Bitly links, adding codes there is sane. The reasons people look elsewhere: per-code pricing that stacks up, trial-gated features, and paying for a link platform when all you wanted was a QR code.
The alternatives
1. QRolling: QR-first, not link-first
Built around the code and what's behind it: unlimited free building and styling with full design control and SVG, a free account at the download step, dynamic codes with scan analytics, and 30+ hosted landing-page types (menu, vCard, gallery, event…) so the QR needs no website at all. No link-platform seat pricing. [Start free](/).
2. QR Tiger: feature breadth
Wide catalog, integrations, mid-market pricing.
3. Flowcode: design + free dynamic pair
Two free dynamic codes; brand-forward.
4. Uniqode: the other enterprise door
If you're leaving Bitly for procurement reasons, you'll meet Uniqode in the same RFP.
5. QRCode Monkey: free static utility
No dynamic, no accounts, ads.
Migration note
Leaving any dynamic provider means printed codes still point at their redirect domain. You can't re-home a printed code. Plan exits by (a) letting campaigns expire naturally, and (b) printing future codes on the new platform. For codes that must survive vendor changes forever, that's what static is for: do QR codes expire?
