Free to join. Pay only when you accredit or issue at scale.

    Hold badges, verify credentials and follow trust lists at no cost. Issuers and authorities pay by use — 90 days free from your first billable credential.

    Currency
    • Hold & verifyFree forever, by invitation
    • Issue$15/mo 90 days free
    • Accredit$4,500/yr 90 days free

    Founding Members — 50% off list for life for plans signed before June 30, 2027.

    90-day free trial on every plan.

    20 of 20 free White Glove spots left

    Start issuing
    Most teams start here

    Issuer

    For organizations that issue credentials at scale.

    90 days free$15 /month

    then 50% off list for life for Founding Members · card at first billable usage · + usage

    ≈ $85 / month at list · first 90 days of billable usage free

    • Unlimited sources (Entra, HR, SCIM, REST, CSV) and issuance rules in plain words
    • All credential types, custom claims, your branding on cards and badges
    • API, webhooks, destinations (IGA / SCIM)
    • Publish a trust list of up to 25 accredited organizations
    • Active individual credentials billed by band
    Start issuing

    Authority

    For registries, regulators, programs and institutions that accredit many organizations.

    90 days free$4,500 /year

    then 50% off list for life for Founding Members · card at first billable usage · + usage, billed annually

    ≈ $1,331.25 / month at list · first 90 days of billable usage free

    • Everything in Issuer
    • Trust lists of any size: automatic invitations, source-driven membership and revocation
    • Spaces for every accredited organization included
    • Organization badges and individual credentials billed by band
    • SSO, SLA, data residency in Canada, the US or the EU, audit exports, dedicated support

    Data residency options

    • Canada
    • United States
    • European Union
    Talk to us

    Prices in USD; sales tax extra where applicable.

    Compare all features

    Issuer

    • Unlimited sources (Entra, HR, SCIM, REST, CSV) and issuance rules in plain words
    • All credential types, custom claims, your branding on cards and badges
    • API, webhooks, destinations (IGA / SCIM)
    • Publish a trust list of up to 25 accredited organizations
    • Active individual credentials billed by band
    • Everything an invited space can do
    • Card at first billable usage: your 51st active credential or 26th listed organization

    Authority

    • Everything in Issuer
    • Trust lists of any size: automatic invitations, source-driven membership and revocation
    • Spaces for every accredited organization included
    • Organization badges and individual credentials billed by band
    • SSO, SLA, data residency in Canada, the US or the EU, audit exports, dedicated support
    • Procurement-ready: annual invoicing, security documentation, bilingual onboarding
    • Launch White Glove included for the first 20 Founding Authorities

    Public Good program — Authority tier, free.

    Publish an open trust list and get the Authority tier with no platform fee and no organization-badge fees, plus individual credentials at half the band rates after the first 5,000 free.

    Eligibility: public institutions, regulators, professional orders, universities, accredited non-profits publishing an open list.

    Apply

    Invited to QuartzPass? Your space is free, forever.

    Verifiers

    An issuer invited you to trust its credentials, or an authority invited you to follow its trust list.

    • Verify any credential from trusted issuers
    • Request presentations by email link or QR
    • Follow and share trust lists
    • Integrate verification in your systems (API, webhook, SCIM)
    • Keep an audit trail

    Check your inbox for your invitation

    Want to issue or accredit? See Issuer and Authority above.

    Accredited organizations

    An authority added you to its trust list and issued you an organization badge.

    • Display your badge on domains you verify
    • Verify credentials from issuers you trust
    • Issue up to 50 active credentials to your own people from one source (e.g. Verified Employee for your consultants)
    • Wallet for your people

    Check your inbox for your invitation

    Want to issue or accredit? See Issuer and Authority above.

    Any invited space can become an Issuer or an Authority at any time; your badges, trust and history come with you.

    Two roles, two meters. Verifying is outside both.

    Every space can receive badges, issue credentials and verify. Your bill depends on two things only: how many organizations you accredit on your trust lists, and how many people you issue credentials to. Receiving a badge, following a list and verifying cost nothing.

    ↑ People you issue to

    Issuer

    Credentials at scale

    Authority — both

    One fee, both meters

    Invited spaces — free

    Verify, display badges, issue up to 50

    Free

    Authority

    Lists of any size

    Organizations you accredit →

    Verify, follow lists, hold badges: free for everyone, always.
    1. The authority

      $5,156.25 / month

      plus the $4,500/year Authority fee

      A registry publishes “Verified suppliers” with 20,000 organizations. It pays the Authority fee plus badge bands on 20,000 badges. Each accredited organization gets a free space and its badge the same day.

    2. An accredited organization becomes an issuer

      $70 / month

      plus the $15/month Issuer fee

      Acme Consulting, on that list, issues Verified Employee to its 400 consultants. Acme pays the Issuer fee plus individual bands on 400 credentials. The registry’s bill does not change; Acme’s bill does not depend on the list.

    3. A verifier

      $0

      Pays nothing

      A department follows the registry’s list and verifies Acme’s consultants at onboarding, by portal or API. It pays nothing. The only thing the list changes is trust: every follower trusts every accredited organization’s credentials automatically.

    • Authority includes Issuer; the two platform fees never stack.
    • A list of up to 25 organizations is included in Issuer; the 26th moves you to Authority.
    • The organization-badge meter counts badges on your lists; the individual meter counts credentials you issue. Badges you receive and credentials your people hold are never counted against you.
    • Public Good: Authority fee and badge bands waived; individual bands at 50% after 5,000 free.

    How we count

    We bill active credentials at the end of each month. A credential is active once it has been claimed by its holder and is neither revoked nor expired; an organization badge is active once the organization has accepted it. Issued-but-unclaimed credentials, revoked, expired and pending items are never counted. Verifications, badge checks, verification requests, API calls and list follows are never metered.

    • Issued and claimedCounted
    • Revoked mid-monthNot counted
    • ExpiredNot counted
    • Issued, never claimedNot counted

    Issued but never claimed: not counted, and expires after 90 days.

    Organization badges

    Paid by the list publisher

    Active badges on your listsPrice per badge / month
    1 – 25included
    26 – 500$0.75
    501 – 5,000$0.40
    5,001 – 50,000$0.20
    50,001+$0.08

    Individual credentials

    Paid by the issuer

    Active individual credentialsPrice per credential / month
    1 – 50included
    51 – 1,000$0.20
    1,001 – 10,000$0.08
    10,001 – 100,000$0.03
    100,001+$0.015

    Bands are marginal, like tax brackets: each unit is charged at the rate of the band it falls in.

    Data residency options

    • Canada
    • United States
    • European Union

    Worked examples

    Estimate your bill

    What you expect to have active at month end. Verifying is never counted.

    Start from an example
    Offer

    Issuer

    $0

    $0 for your first 90 days of billable usage

    then $42.50 / month (Founding) · $85 / month (list)

    Platform fee
    $15 / month
    Organization badges
    $0
    Individual credentials
    $70
    Monthly total
    $85
    Annual total
    $1,020
    Talk to us about this estimate

    Prices in USD; sales tax extra where applicable.

    Add-ons

    • Verified Organization

      Documentary due diligence on the legal entity (registry extract, officers, domain and address checks), renewed annually and shown on your public verification page. Performed by our team with our own due-diligence tooling.

      from $399/year
    • Launch White Glove

      We configure your sources, rules, credential types, trust list, branding and wallet, run your first issuance and first verification with you, and train your admins. Up to 5 consultant-days, delivered within 30 days of signing.

      Free

      Free for the first 20 Founding Authorities and Issuers on an annual plan who agree to a short case study.

      20 of 20 free White Glove spots left

      thereafter from $3,900

    • Dedicated instance

      Single-tenant deployment in your cloud account or ours.

      Quote
    • Implementation services

      Connectors, rules, migration and training beyond the White Glove scope.

      Day rate

    White Glove, signature to first issuance in 30 days

    1. Day 0signed
    2. Day 10sources & rules
    3. Day 20list & branding
    4. Day 30first issuance & training

    Have a member directory, a registry or an approved-supplier list?

    1. Your directory or registry
    2. A trust list
    3. Badges on every member’s site

    Publish it as a trust list. Every organization on it gets a free space and its badge the same day, and anyone who follows your list trusts all of them at once. Associations, chambers of commerce, professional orders, certification programs and public registries start free.

    Publish a list

    Frequently Asked Questions

    Never. People receive credentials in the QuartzPass wallet or any compatible wallet; if your organization has no identity provider, we provide accounts for your holders as part of your plan.

    Yes, for everyone, without limits, including API verification. Trust grows when verifying costs nothing.

    Only Issuer and Authority spaces are self-service. Verifier and accredited-organization spaces are created from an invitation sent by an issuer or an authority — that is what makes the trust behind them real.

    You move to your plan’s list price, or to 50% of list for life if you signed before June 30, 2027. The trial starts at your first billable usage, not at signup, so integration time is never counted. Invited spaces never pay.

    When billable usage starts: your 51st active credential or your 26th listed organization. Verifier and accredited-organization spaces never need one.

    One that has been claimed by its holder and is neither revoked nor expired, counted at month end. Issued-but-unclaimed credentials are never billed.

    W3C Verifiable Credentials with did:web identities, OpenID for Verifiable Credentials (OID4VCI / OID4VP) and SD-JWT, all in production; ISO/IEC 18013 mdoc in development. Your credentials work in any conformant third-party wallet.

    Data residency options are Canada, the United States and the European Union.

    Yes; every space can receive, issue and verify. Pricing follows what you issue and the lists you publish, not what you verify.

    A named QuartzX consultant configures your space end to end, runs your first issuance and verification with you and trains your administrators, up to five consultant-days within 30 days of signing. Free for the first 20 Founding Authorities and Issuers on an annual plan; the counter on this page shows remaining spots.

    Public-sector and education pricing available; annual invoicing and security documentation on request.

    Holders never pay. Invited spaces are free forever. Usage billed monthly in arrears on active credentials at month end. Prices in USD; sales tax extra where applicable.

    Security and compliance

    • SOC 2 Type IIAudited by Sensiba LLP.
    • ISO/IEC 27001Certified by Sensiba LLP, an ANAB-accredited certification body.
    • GDPRCompliant with the EU General Data Protection Regulation.
    • PIPEDAReady for Canada's Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act.

    Reports available upon request