Compare Your Footprint alternative: prices and features side by side

Carbon Recycling and Compare Your Footprint both help UK small businesses measure their carbon footprint at a published price. Compare Your Footprint is billed yearly by number of users and adds sector benchmarks and accounting integrations. Carbon Recycling is billed monthly from £59, and builds a PPN 006 Carbon Reduction Plan and SECR report directly from your data.

Updated 3 October 2026 by the Carbon Recycling team. Prices are as each company published them on that date; tell us if one has changed and we will correct it.

Compare Your Footprint is one of the few UK carbon tools that, like us, publishes its prices, and it has a long track record with small businesses. The differences are in how you pay, which reports come out the other end, and a few features each of us has that the other doesn't. Here they are honestly, including where Compare Your Footprint is ahead.

Side by side

	Compare Your Footprint	Carbon Recycling
Up to 3 users	£769 a year	£59 a month (£708 a year), 2 sites
Up to 10 users	£1,569 a year	£149 a month (£1,788 a year), 10 sites
More users, or a group of companies	£3,069 a year for 25 users, then a quote	£399 a month: unlimited users and sites, 5 companies included, published price cap
How you pay	Yearly	Monthly, cancel any time, 14-day free trial with no card
Emission factors	UK government factors	DESNZ factors 2019 to 2026, matched to each reporting year
PPN 006 Carbon Reduction Plan	Supported	Built in, in the government template, held as a draft until board sign-off is recorded
SECR report	Supported	Built in, with intensity ratio and methodology statement
Factor shown on every figure	Not listed	Factor ID, year and value on every line
Supplier data requests	Not listed	Yes, on Growth and Enterprise, by secure link
Sector benchmarks	Yes, against other UK businesses	Not yet
Xero, Sage and QuickBooks integrations	Yes	Not yet

Compare Your Footprint prices and features are as shown on its website on 2 October 2026. "Not listed" means we didn't find the feature on its website; check with them if it matters to you. Our prices are shown as charged.

Choose Compare Your Footprint if

you want to benchmark your footprint against similar UK businesses;
you want spend-based figures pulled from Xero, Sage or QuickBooks;
you have around 10 users and are happy to pay yearly.

Choose Carbon Recycling if

you need a PPN 006 Carbon Reduction Plan for a public sector or NHS bid, in the government template;
you want to pay monthly and stop when you like;
you want to collect figures from your suppliers through the same tool;
you run several companies and want one published price for the group.

Frequently asked questions

How much does Compare Your Footprint cost?

Its pricing page listed £769, £1,569 and £3,069 a year for 3, 10 and 25 users when we checked on 2 October 2026, with larger plans by quote.

Is Carbon Recycling cheaper than Compare Your Footprint?

For up to 3 users, yes: our Starter plan is £59 a month, £708 over a year, against £769. For 10 users Compare Your Footprint is cheaper on an annual plan: our Growth plan is £1,788 a year against £1,569. Ours is monthly, so you can stop at any time.

Does Carbon Recycling connect to Xero, Sage or QuickBooks?

Not yet. You add bills and figures by hand or by CSV upload. Compare Your Footprint lists accounting integrations, so if spend-based Scope 3 from your ledger matters most to you, it has the edge today.

Can I move my data from Compare Your Footprint?

Yes. Export your activity figures as a spreadsheet and upload them with our CSV import. We then recalculate them with the DESNZ factors for each year.

Get your figures and reports done in an afternoon

Add a year of bills and Carbon Recycling produces your footprint, PPN 006 Carbon Reduction Plan and SECR report, with every figure traced to its government factor. Prices are on the pricing page, from £59 a month.

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