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 as of May 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.
ENVRT publishes an entry tier at £149 per month (around £1,790 per year). The licence includes Life Cycle Assessment, supply chain traceability and Digital Product Passport rendering natively, with no add-on modules required for these capabilities.
tex.tracer publishes a Medium tier at €15,000 per year (750 orderlines, five users, 25 partner accounts) and a Pro tier at €28,800 per year (1,500 orderlines, ten users, 50 partner accounts). The Enterprise tier is custom. LCA is a separately priced add-on module on all tiers.
Five major platforms do not publish pricing.
Carbonfact, Renoon, Fairly Made, Retraced and TrusTrace all operate on a quote-on-request basis. Their websites describe capabilities and customer logos but do not state entry-tier prices, mid-market prices or enterprise prices. Brands need to request a quote and complete a sales process to obtain specific figures.
This is not unusual in enterprise software. It is unusual in a category where the buyers include SMEs trying to understand whether the technology is affordable for them 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 January 2026 market analysis of DPP solution costs. The analysis (from a vendor in the category, describing the market it operates in) defines three tiers.
Small brands. Emerging SaaS tools priced between €50 and €300 per month (€600 to €3,600 per year), with per-QR-code pricing as an alternative.
Mid-sized brands. Entry-level DPP solutions starting under €10,000 per year, with more advanced traceability and compliance capability typically falling in the €15,000 to €70,000 range.
Enterprise. Solutions exceeding €100,000 per year for full-coverage capability 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. Traceability-led platforms (which include Retraced, TrusTrace and Fairly Made in different shapes) focus on supplier data structuring. LCA-led platforms (Carbonfact most prominently) focus on environmental calculation. Few platforms combine both natively 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 publicly positions itself as an LCA platform and does not provide native supplier traceability data collection at the level the DPP framework requires.
- tex.tracer lists LCA as a separately priced add-on module across all published tiers.
- Renoon includes some LCA capability but describes its environmental data depth as lighter than methodology-led platforms.
- 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 £149 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.
