Dub is the strongest developer-first product in this category — open source, well-documented, with a genuinely excellent webhook system. We compete with respect. The honest difference is focus and price point: Dub is building a conversion-attribution and partner-programme platform; xengo makes every click and scan a real-time event for operations — alerts in the tools you already run, at self-serve prices, with QR as a first-class citizen.
Facts below cite Dub's own pricing and documentation. Spotted something out of date? Tell us and we'll fix it.
| Feature | xengo | Dub |
|---|---|---|
| Real-time click/scan webhooks | Included from Pro (£39/mo) — signed, retried, delivery-logged | Excellent — signed, retried, typed events — from the Business plan ($90/mo) [source] |
| Webhook event types | Click/scan events (with source, tags, device); more event types on the roadmap | Nine typed events including link.clicked, lead.created and sale.created [source] |
| Notification channels beyond webhooks | 24 built-in: Slack, Teams, Telegram, PagerDuty, Opsgenie, email and more — no code | Webhook-centric (plus Slack via webhooks and a Zapier app) [source] |
| Product focus | Links + dynamic QR as real-time events for operations and alerting | Conversion attribution and affiliate/partner programmes (“turn clicks into revenue”) [source] |
| Open source | No — managed service | Yes — AGPL, self-hostable, strong developer community [source] |
| Displayed self-serve pricing | £15 / £39 / £119 per month, all tiers public | Pricing page leads with Business $90/mo and Advanced $300/mo [source] |
| QR codes | Dynamic QR is a first-class product (styling studio, scan analytics, ops use cases) | QR generation included as a feature of each link [source] |
| Company & data home | UK company; details on the trust page | US company (Delaware), VC-backed, open-source-led [source] |
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Dub's webhook system is excellent and offers more event types today (including lead and sale events) — we say so plainly. xengo's difference is price point (£39 vs $90 for webhook access), 24 no-code notification channels alongside the webhook, and a per-attempt delivery log you can read in the console.
No. xengo is a managed service; Dub has an AGPL open-source core you can self-host. If self-hosting matters to you, Dub is the better choice — it's in our 'when Dub is better' list for a reason.
Dub generates a QR per link; xengo treats dynamic QR as a first-class product — a styling studio, scan-source analytics, and operational use cases like assets, sites and print campaigns.
Every Dub fact links to Dub's own pricing page, docs or GitHub, verified on the date shown above. Spotted a change? Email us and we'll update the page.
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