The honest short answer: for an individual optimising for free cards, HiHello is the better pick — four free cards to our one. The gap is at the team end: HiHello's Business plan is sold from five users, while CompanyCard has no seat minimum.
HiHello makes a good product and its free tier is one of the most generous in the category. As of September 2026 it gives four cards, an email signature, virtual backgrounds and wallet support at $0. If free card count is your deciding factor, it wins that column.
Two limits push people to look elsewhere. The free plan caps HiHello's paper-card and badge scanner — the feature that captures other people's cards and event badges into your contacts — at five scans per month, which matters if you collect leads at events. And the Business plan is sold for five to one hundred users — so if your team is you and two others, you cannot buy it at the size you actually are.
CompanyCard is aimed squarely at that second gap: no seat minimum, so a two- or three-person business pays for exactly the seats it has.
| What to check | HiHello (verified September 2026) | CompanyCard |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan card count | 4 cards | 1 card |
| Card & badge scanner on free | Capped at 5 scans per month | No scanner on free — lead capture is a Pro feature |
| Team plan minimum | Business sold for 5-100 users | No seat minimum |
| Published pricing | $6 Professional · $5 per user Business, billed yearly ($8 · $6 billed monthly) | $7.99 Pro ($5.99/mo billed yearly) · $12 per user Business ($10 billed yearly) |
| Branding on free card | Not stated on hihello.com/pricing | Carries a small CompanyCard credit |
Read from hihello.com/pricing in September 2026. Plans change — check before deciding. CompanyCard figures are our published rates.
It depends which limit is bothering you. HiHello's free plan is generous on card count — four cards as of September 2026, including an email signature and virtual background. But its Business plan starts at five users, and the free tier caps HiHello's paper-card and badge scanner — the feature that captures other people's cards into your contacts — at five scans a month. CompanyCard has no seat minimum on team plans, which is what matters when your team is two people. If you are an individual optimising for free cards, HiHello is the better pick.
Yes — as of September 2026 HiHello's Personal plan is free and includes four cards, a personal email signature, virtual backgrounds and wallet support. Its paper-card and badge scanner — the feature that saves other people's cards and event badges as contacts — is capped at five scans per month on the free plan. We would rather point you at their pricing page than characterise it second-hand: check hihello.com/pricing for the current terms.
Free forever for one card. Pro is $7.99 per month (or $5.99 a month billed yearly) and removes the CompanyCard credit while adding unlimited links, custom branding, lead capture and analytics. Business is $12 per user per month for admin controls, brand lock, CRM sync and SSO — with no minimum number of seats.
With CompanyCard, yes — there is no seat minimum. This is the specific gap worth checking elsewhere: as of September 2026 HiHello's Business plan is sold for 5-100 users and Blinq's Business plan bills a minimum of five team cards, so very small teams are structurally excluded from both.
Be aware of the trade-off rather than surprised by it: CompanyCard's free plan is one card and carries a small CompanyCard credit, where HiHello's free plan gives you four cards. If free card count is what you optimise for, HiHello wins that column and we will not pretend otherwise.