The most consistent question fashion brands ask when scoping a Digital Product Passport platform is what it will cost. The answer is unusually hard to find. Of the major platforms serving fashion in 2026, only two publish entry-tier pricing. The rest require a sales conversation.
This guide maps the published landscape, explains what is and is not included at each tier, and gives a framework for thinking about total cost of ownership when stacks rather than single platforms are involved. All pricing references are verified from publicly accessible vendor pricing pages, re-checked in August 2026. Where pricing is not published, vendors are described as quote-only.
The Published-Pricing Landscape
Two platforms publish entry-tier pricing on their websites. Five do not.
| Platform | Publishes pricing | Entry tier | LCA included in the licence |
|---|---|---|---|
| ENVRT | Yes | €175 per month, or €1,785 a year on annual billing | Yes, natively, alongside traceability and DPP rendering |
| tex.tracer | Yes | €9,800 per year (Basic, two users). Medium €18,800 (five users), Pro €35,200 (ten users), Enterprise on request | No, footprint data collection is an additionally charged module |
| Carbonfact | No | Quote on request | Quote on request |
| Renoon | No | Quote on request | Quote on request |
| Fairly Made | No | Quote on request | Quote on request |
| Retraced | No | Quote on request | Quote on request |
| TrusTrace | No | Quote on request | Quote on request |
The five quote-on-request platforms describe capabilities and customer logos but state no entry, mid-market or enterprise price. A brand has to request a quote and complete a sales process to find out.
This is not unusual in enterprise software. It is unusual in a category where the buyers include SMEs trying to work out whether the technology is affordable at all before investing time in a sales process.
What "Quote on Request" Typically Means
In the absence of published pricing, the most useful third-party reference is Renoon's own market analysis of DPP solution costs, published in March 2025 and updated in January 2026. The analysis (from a vendor in the category, describing the market it operates in) defines three tiers.
Basic compliance-only DPP. Under €15,000 per year. Compliance software and QR generation, with little beyond the minimum.
Premium DPP. €15,000 to €100,000 per year, adding automated workflows and consumer engagement modules.
Large enterprise and custom. From €100,000 per year, with deep system integration across complex catalogues.
This is the market frame the quote-on-request vendors operate within. Specific pricing for any individual vendor depends on a quote, but the magnitude of the range is publicly stated in their own market commentary.
Why the Stack Cost Matters
The headline platform licence is rarely the full cost. The platform either includes the capabilities a brand needs or it doesn't, and where it doesn't, the brand pays for a second platform.
The pattern across the category is consistent, though the edges have blurred through 2026. Traceability-led platforms (Retraced, TrusTrace and Fairly Made, in different shapes) focus on supplier data structuring. LCA-led platforms (Carbonfact most prominently) focus on environmental calculation, and have been extending into supplier data collection for that calculation. Few platforms combine chain-of-custody traceability and native LCA at SME-accessible price points.
The stack implications are visible in each vendor's own published partnership and integration material:
- Retraced publicly describes partner integrations with LCA platforms including Carbonfact and Bcome for the environmental measurement layer.
- TrusTrace publicly describes a partnership with Peftrust for LCA.
- Carbonfact positions itself as an environmental data platform and does collect supplier data natively, through Carbonfact for Suppliers, its public environmental-data exchange. What it gathers is environmental data from suppliers rather than chain-of-custody traceability, which is a different question from who made a garment, where, and in what order. Its own integrations page lists traceability systems as a category it connects to rather than replaces.
- tex.tracer lists footprint data collection as an additionally charged module rather than part of any published tier.
- Renoon includes some LCA capability. In our reading of its product pages, the environmental data depth is lighter than methodology-led platforms offer.
- Fairly Made includes native LCA alongside its traceability layer.
- ENVRT includes native LCA, traceability and DPP rendering in a single product.
For brands wanting a full DPP capability (traceability + LCA + DPP rendering), four of these seven platforms typically need a partner or add-on. That additional cost is part of the total but does not appear in the platform's quoted licence.
How to Compare Total Cost of Ownership
A useful procurement framework asks five questions of any DPP vendor:
Is LCA included in the licence, or is it a separate module or partner platform? If separate, what is the additional cost and which partner is involved?
Is supplier traceability data collection included, or is each supplier connection charged? Per-supplier pricing scales fast for brands with deep supply chains.
Are integrations to PLM, ERP or other systems included? Or are they charged per connection?
Is DPP rendering included, or is there a per-passport or per-QR-code charge? Per-passport pricing can be appropriate for low-volume brands and disproportionately expensive for high-volume ones.
How is the licence priced as the catalogue grows? Flat fees scale predictably; per-product or per-orderline fees scale with volume.
The answer to these five questions, combined with the headline licence, gives the total cost of ownership. The headline licence alone consistently understates it.
What ENVRT Publishes and Why
ENVRT publishes pricing because the alternative makes evaluation harder for the brands who most need to evaluate the technology: SMEs and mid-market fashion brands who do not have procurement teams dedicated to managing multi-vendor sales processes.
The €175 per month entry tier is a single line that includes the capabilities listed earlier. There are no separately priced LCA modules, no per-passport rendering charges, no partner platforms required for full DPP capability and no per-supplier connection fees. Custom pricing is available for brands beyond the entry tier, but the entry tier is published.
This is not the right approach for every vendor in every market. Enterprise-only platforms often have legitimate reasons for not publishing pricing. But for the SME and mid-market fashion segment, published pricing is the more useful starting point.
How ENVRT Approaches the DPP Platform Question
ENVRT LAB™ generates climate impact (CO₂e), water scarcity impact and a transparency score at the product level, on a cradle-to-gate basis and aligned with ISO 14040 and PEFCR methodology. Supply chain traceability, LCA and DPP rendering are native to the platform rather than offered as add-on modules or partner integrations.
The pricing is published because the buyers we work with consistently asked for it. The capability is integrated because the alternative (stacking two or three platforms to get a complete DPP) creates a total cost and an integration burden that does not match the practical needs of most fashion SMEs.
If you want a side-by-side cost view that matches your collection size and supplier base, get in touch with the ENVRT team.
