Best Blinq alternatives for teams and event leads in 2027

This guide is for teams that use Blinq, or got a Blinq quote, and want to compare before they set their 2027 budget. We make Swopi, so we list it first. Every other fact comes from the vendor's own pages, checked on 10 November 2026, with a link.

What Blinq costs for a team

Blinq's pricing page lists four plans. Free gives you 2 cards. Premium is $9.99 a month, or $7.33 billed yearly. Pro is $22.49 a month, or $16.58 billed yearly, and adds enrichment. Business, the team plan, is $6.99 per card a month, or $4.99 billed yearly, from 5 cards. Enterprise is a custom quote with enforced SSO and SCIM.

Event lead capture sits on Business: badge scanning, Badge Kit APIs, native CRM integrations (Salesforce, HubSpot, Dynamics 365 and more), admin email signatures and Zapier. The pricing page does not print a per-lead dollar amount. The help center, checked on 11 November 2026, says capturing a lead does not use a credit, and each enrichment is 1 credit at $5 on pay as you go, whether or not an email or phone is found. At that rate, 300 enrichments are $1,500 on top of the card fees. Bulk packages are quoted.

Why TrustFunds moved from Blinq to Swopi

TrustFunds used Blinq for event lead capture until Blinq quoted $7,000. The team runs about 6 to 10 events a year. Marketing Manager Kris Pearson reviewed five lead capture services and chose Swopi. They went from demo to set up for an event in 24 hours, and event badges scan into Zoho CRM. At one of their biggest events of the year they captured 155 leads against a target of 50 to 100. Read the TrustFunds story.

Blinq alternatives compared

Facts below come from each company's own pages, checked on 10 November 2026. Prices change, so open the linked page before you decide.

The Blinq alternatives, one by one

1. Swopi

Swopi does badge and card scanning, AI enrichment and CRM sync in one event lead capture app. Staff scan event badges, paper cards in any language and LinkedIn QR codes on their own phones. Swopi AI adds contact and company data from 20+ sources, and each lead goes to HubSpot, Salesforce, Dynamics 365, Zoho CRM, Pipedrive or monday.com in native fields. Teams also get digital business cards with templates, locked design, email signatures and single sign-on with Microsoft Entra ID.

Pricing: Event Lead Capture is one license, with unlimited users, scans and events and no per lead fees. Digital business cards for the team are a separate per user plan. We send team pricing after a short call. Where Swopi is not the best fit: if you only need digital cards and never scan at events, a card-first tool like HiHello or Mobilo may be enough. See Swopi vs Blinq for the full comparison.

2. Popl

Popl sells event lead capture and digital business cards to teams. Its pricing page says team pricing is a custom quote with unlimited users, events and leads, no per seat fees and no credits. Teams choose either the event lead capture plan or the digital business card plan. Native integrations include Salesforce, HubSpot, Marketo, Microsoft Dynamics, Zoho, monday.com and Slack. It fits larger teams that want unlimited use in one quote, with cards and event lead capture sold as separate plans. Compare more options in our Popl alternatives guide.

3. HiHello

HiHello's Business plan is $5 per user a month billed yearly, or $6 monthly, for 5 to 100 users, with a 14 day trial. It includes 4 cards per user (pooled), email signatures for Gmail and Outlook, Event Lead Capture, Salesforce, HubSpot and Microsoft Dynamics, and 50 scans per user a month (pooled). Enterprise adds SAML SSO, SCIM and unlimited scans. It fits card first teams that scan a little.

4. Wave Connect

Wave Connect's pricing page lists Teams at $5 per user a month billed yearly, from 3 users, and Enterprise with SAML SSO, SCIM and SOC 2 Type II. Event lead capture runs on credits: $2.50 each, 4 credits per badge scan ($10) and 1 per business card or LinkedIn scan, with no charge when nothing is found. Native CRMs are HubSpot, Salesforce, Dynamics 365, Zoho, Pipedrive and HighLevel.

5. Mobilo

Mobilo sells NFC business cards with a digital profile. On its pricing page, the Team option is a card price plus $4 a month per card, with unlimited team members, locked data fields, team analytics and CRM integrations. Card prices on the page are often promotional, so check them on the day. It fits teams that mainly want physical NFC cards.

6. Vendelux Lead Scanner

Vendelux Lead Scanner is a companion app to Vendelux's paid event intelligence platform, rather than a dedicated lead capture tool on its own. Vendelux's homepage presents an AI-native event marketing platform for finding events, booking meetings and attributing pipeline. On the lead scanner page, Vendelux says the scanner app has no seat minimums and no per lead fee, and that teams looking to go beyond lead scanning can use its paid event intelligence platform to plan, execute and measure event marketing. The pricing page lists Starter, Plus and Enterprise plans for that platform, and includes access to the lead scanner app as a plan feature. The App Store listing dates the scanner to September 2026. The app reads a badge or business card from a photo, then adds work email, job title, company, LinkedIn profile, location and seniority, using data from the same event-intelligence platform. Staff can tag leads hot, warm or cold and add typed or voice notes. Leads sync to HubSpot or go out by email as a spreadsheet. Event Explorer in the app is also powered by that platform, and shows where people you follow or scan plan to attend.

What to check before you rely on it: The Lead Scanner Terms of Service (effective 26 October 2026) describe the app as a companion lead-capture and event-discovery tool, separate from the Vendelux software-as-a-service platform. The same terms say the app is free as of that date, that Vendelux may add paid features, and that nothing in the app is a commitment to stay free. Because the app is free, Vendelux may also end your access for convenience, with or without notice. They let Vendelux use your lead data as an independent controller, including for event recommendations, attendance analytics and its products for event organizers, and they say lead records stay in its database after you delete your account. Lead data can also appear in the Vendelux platform if your organization has access to it. HubSpot is the only native CRM for the scanner today; the lead scanner page and the App Store listing say a Salesforce connection is in the works. The Lead Scanner app has no reviews yet on G2 or Capterra, and a 4.6 rating from 11 ratings on the App Store. Its help page says fields it cannot find stay blank, and glossy or folded badges may need manual edits. Read the terms with your legal or privacy team before you scan customer data.

It is a closer fit if you already use, or plan to evaluate, Vendelux's event intelligence platform and you only need HubSpot, after your legal or privacy team has read the terms. If you want a dedicated lead capture tool for your own CRM stack, this is a different kind of product.

Which Blinq alternative fits your team

• You scan badges at several events a year: Swopi, with no per lead fees.
• You want a quote for a large team: Popl.
• Cards first, low per user price: HiHello or Wave Connect.
• Physical NFC cards first: Mobilo.
• You already use, or want to evaluate, Vendelux's event intelligence platform and only need HubSpot: Vendelux Lead Scanner, after your legal or privacy team reads its terms.

For more event tools, see the best lead retrieval apps. For card platforms only, see the best digital business cards for teams.