The best Complir alternatives for EU producers in 2026

Frederik Kiel Frederik Kiel
11 min read

Complir keeps product safety, chemical and labelling documentation in order across more than 40 markets, and their own framework list names neither EPR nor packaging waste. Here are six Complir alternatives, what each one really covers, and how to choose by the category you sell into.

The Complir logo on a deep green background, marked as the benchmark this comparison measures alternatives against

Complir is a Copenhagen software company that keeps product compliance paperwork in order across more than 40 markets. Their platform tracks product safety, chemical and labelling rules, and their AI agents draft the documentation a market wants to see before a product can go on sale.

This guide compares six Complir alternatives on what each one actually covers. Four of them do a similar job to Complir. Two of them cover the obligation their framework list never names, which is Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR).

What Complir covers and what it leaves to someone else

Complir describe themselves as the AI infrastructure for product compliance, and the promise on their homepage is launching compliant products without the bottleneck.

The Complir homepage, headed The AI infrastructure for product compliance, showing a product list with market and status columns

They monitor rules across more than 40 markets, from the EU, the UK and the US to Japan, Brazil, Saudi Arabia and Singapore. The authorities they name are the ones that decide whether a product is safe and correctly described.

Their list runs to the chemicals and safety regulators, ECHA, ANSES and BfR in Europe, the FDA and CPSC in the US, and OPSS in the UK. The rules underneath are things like the EN 71 toy safety standards and Article 33 of REACH.

The platform does three jobs with that.

  1. It watches the rules. Compliance monitoring, risk assessments and checklists per product and per market.
  2. It produces the paperwork. Translations, label content and declarations, drafted by AI agents rather than typed by a compliance manager.
  3. It plugs into the artwork. Native Adobe Illustrator and InDesign plugins, so label changes land where the design actually lives.

Their homepage counts 114,591 products monitored. Named customers include Flying Tiger Copenhagen, moving more than 500 products a month across 44 markets, plus Konges Sløjd, Matas and COOP.

SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 are both listed as in progress. There is no published price, so the route in is a demo.

The rulebook Complir's own list does not name

Here is the thing worth checking before you shortlist anyone. Complir's framework list covers product safety, chemicals and labelling, and it does not name EPR or packaging waste anywhere.

EPR is the rule that starts after the product is on sale. You report the packaging, batteries and electronics you put on each national market, and you pay a fee towards collecting and recycling them.

So an EU producer is really carrying two rulebooks, and most of the tools below sit in one of them or the other.

Two tools for the obligation Complir does not name

Neither of these two does product safety or chemical work, so neither is a straight swap for Complir. They come first because they finish the job that Complir's framework list leaves open, and a producer selling physical goods in the EU will need that job done by someone.

1. Repax

Repax is an EPR platform you run yourself. You describe each product and its packaging once, and that single record answers whatever the next scheme or market asks for.

It is also our own product, so we lead with it, though we are straight about where each rival wins. Two parts are live today.

Core is the product spec database and the report builder. Per-market presets apply the right fields for each country, so one catalogue produces a Danish report and a French one without being rebuilt.

Declare issues signed EU Declarations of Conformity for packaging under the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation, with unique numbers, QR codes and a versioned archive.

Try Repax Core for free - no card required Describe your products once and Core builds the report each market and scheme expects. Try it free

The Repax Core presets screen, showing per-market compliance field bundles for batteries, electronics and packaging with an apply-fields action

More than one waste stream sits on that same product record, packaging, batteries and electronics included, so a producer with a mixed catalogue is not running three systems. Each shipped order also locks in the spec at the moment of sale, which keeps old filings correct when the catalogue moves on.

The Repax Core dashboard, showing mass placed on the market year to date as a monthly bar chart, alongside year-to-date orders, active markets and products in the catalogue

Two honest limits belong here. Repax does no product safety or chemical compliance at all, so it sits next to a tool like Complir rather than replacing it.

Core also prepares the filing rather than sending it, since submission to each scheme happens outside Core. The product that takes that over is Comply, which files for you across EU markets.

What you get in exchange is depth on the reporting and a price you can read before you talk to anyone. Repax pricing is public, which is rare in this market.

Core and Declare each start free at 0 EUR a month, then Growth at 29 EUR and Pro at 59 EUR, with a custom enterprise tier for high volume (ex VAT, as of August 2026).

Choose it over Complir if the compliance you are behind on is the EPR return and the packaging declaration, because Complir's list covers neither.

2. Recyda

Recyda is the packaging specialist of this group, a German platform that centralises packaging data and takes it all the way to a filed-ready declaration.

Recyda's packaging recyclability assessment platform, showing portfolio-wide recyclability results scored by country across Europe

Their EPR side calculates costs automatically against country-specific rules in more than 20 countries, then produces declaration reports carrying the data a given scheme expects.

On PPWR they generate the Declaration of Conformity and a summary of the Annex VII technical documentation behind it.

Recyclability is where they are unusual. Every pack is scored against the German and European yardsticks, the ZSVR minimum standard and EN 18120. That matters because EPR fees are increasingly modulated by how recyclable a pack is.

The trade-off is focus, since packaging is all they cover, and pricing is demo-only.

Choose it over Complir if packaging is the part of your portfolio under pressure and you want recyclability scoring feeding the fee work.

Four platforms that cover the same ground as Complir

The next four sell a version of the same promise, which is one place for the rules a product has to satisfy. They differ on who they are built for, how the data gets in, and how much of the work they take off your desk.

3. prduct.com

prduct.com is the closest like-for-like, another Danish platform selling one home for product and supplier compliance data, built in Aarhus and working in both Danish and English.

The prduct.com homepage, headed Time. Transparency. Trust. Know your value chain and products, for strategic, sustainable and responsible sourcing

The platform has three parts. Supplier relationship management handles the people who owe you data, product information management holds the records, and compliance and risk management maps those records to twelve named regulations.

That list is wider than Complir's on the supply chain side, carrying the EU Deforestation Regulation, the due diligence directive and the German Supply Chain Act.

It also names EPR and packaging waste, which Complir does not. The catch is depth, because their pages describe collecting the data and generating audit-ready documentation.

No published feature calculates the fee, registers you with a scheme or files the return.

Customers are Danish manufacturers and retailers, among them BoConcept, BOLIA, REMA 1000 and Søstrene Grene. There is a free way in, then a demo.

Choose it over Complir if your bottleneck is suppliers who never send the data, and deforestation and due diligence rules matter as much to you as product safety.

4. Assent

Assent is the enterprise version of this idea, aimed at manufacturers whose compliance answers are scattered across hundreds of suppliers.

The Assent product compliance page, headed Product Compliance Solutions, The Foundation For Deeply Sustainable Enterprises

The rule coverage is the widest here. REACH, RoHS, TSCA, Proposition 65, PFAS, SCIP, the EU Medical Device Regulation, the EU Batteries Regulation, CBAM, CSRD, conflict minerals and packaging EPR all sit on one platform.

What makes them different is the method rather than the software. Assent run supplier engagement in eleven languages, chasing the suppliers who ignore a survey and pulling back the attributes you need.

The audience shows in who they name, which is electronics, medical devices, industrial equipment, aerospace and defence, and automotive. If you sell simple consumer goods, a lot of that machinery is not for you.

Their EPR packaging page is anchored in North American law, naming California SB54, Oregon SB582 and Canada's Federal Plastics Registry, and it produces fee estimations and jurisdiction-specific reports. Pricing is demo-only.

Choose it over Complir if you make complex assembled products and the hard part is getting straight answers out of a long supplier list.

5. Source Intelligence

Source Intelligence run a configurable supply chain compliance platform called C-Map, and EPR is one module inside it rather than the whole product.

The Source Intelligence EPR solution page, headed C-Map Sustainability, EPR, Simplify Extended Producer Responsibility compliance

On the product side they cover the same chemical and safety ground as Complir, naming REACH, RoHS, TSCA, PFAS, Proposition 65, SCIP and the EU Medical Device Regulation. Responsible sourcing and component obsolescence sit alongside it.

Their EPR module goes further than most platforms of this shape. It collates the data automatically, tracks tariff changes and reporting schedules in real time, evaluates eco-modulation fees and generates the report, across packaging, batteries and electronic waste.

Two things to check. Registration with each scheme is not described on that page, so ask about it, and there is no published price.

Choose it over Complir if you want product compliance and EPR running on one platform and your obligations already stretch across several regions.

6. Sphera

Sphera is the largest suite in this comparison, and product compliance is one room in a much bigger building.

The Sphera product stewardship page, headed You need more than Product Stewardship Software, noting more than 650 companies across 18 countries

Their product stewardship suite bundles chemical management, hazardous material management, life cycle assessment, product compliance software and a full SDS operation, including authoring, hazard evaluations and poison centre notifications.

The EPR side is a separate product called EC4P, covering more than 360 compliance schemes worldwide across packaging, electronics and batteries. Textiles are not listed.

Delivery is what really separates them. Sphera's own experts carry out the registration and the reporting, and they can pay the recycling fees on your behalf and send one invoice for the whole programme.

The price of that is a consultant-led implementation and a sales conversation. No software-only tier is advertised and no figure is published. They say more than 650 companies across 18 countries use them.

Choose it over Complir if you want chemical, safety and recycling obligations under one roof and you would rather buy an outcome than run a workflow.

Seen together, the six divide on which rulebook they answer. Repax and Recyda cover the one Complir's own list never names, Source Intelligence, Sphera and Assent reach across both, and prduct.com registers and reports the EPR side per market without filing it for you.

The six Complir alternatives sorted by which rulebook they answer. EPR and packaging, the side Complir never names, holds Repax and Recyda. Both rulebooks holds Source Intelligence, Sphera and Assent. Complir's own ground, product compliance, holds Complir itself and prduct.com

Choosing by what you sell

Which tool fits depends less on your company size than on the category you sell into, because that decides which rulebook bites hardest. Find yourself below.

  1. Toys, cosmetics and food-contact goods. Product safety and chemical rules dominate here, which is Complir's home ground. Assent and Sphera cover the same rules at enterprise scale. Whichever you pick, EU packaging EPR still sits outside it.
  2. Electronics and battery-powered products. You have both rulebooks at once. Sphera's EC4P and Source Intelligence both carry electronic waste and batteries alongside packaging, and Repax holds all three streams on one product record. Our best multi-stream EPR software roundup ranks that group properly.
  3. Furniture, timber and building materials. Deforestation and due diligence are the pressure points. prduct.com names EUDR, the due diligence directive, the German Supply Chain Act and the Norwegian Transparency Act, and their customer list is full of furniture brands.
  4. Packaging-heavy consumer goods sold across the EU. Repax and Recyda are both built for this, and the best EPR software for EU compliance roundup compares the wider field.
  5. Anything sold into the United States or Canada. Assent's packaging EPR work is anchored in state law and Canada's Federal Plastics Registry, which most European tools do not touch.
  6. A small catalogue and no appetite for a sales process. Repax is the only option here with a free tier and published prices, so you can load a few products and see a report before anyone calls you. The best EPR software for small businesses roundup covers that end of the market.

Frequently asked questions about Complir alternatives

These are the questions that come up most when producers weigh Complir against the rest of the field.

Is Complir any good?

Yes, for the job it is built for. Complir is a strong product compliance platform, with real depth on safety, chemical and labelling rules across more than 40 markets, AI drafting the documentation and plugins that put label changes straight into Illustrator and InDesign.

The limit is scope rather than quality. Their framework list is about getting a product cleared for sale, so anything that starts after the sale, EPR above all, is not part of what they publish.

Does Complir cover EPR?

Not according to their own site. Complir's framework list names neither EPR nor packaging waste, and every authority they name is a product safety or chemicals regulator.

So if you sell physical goods in the EU, you will need a second tool or a service for the EPR return and the packaging declaration.

Repax, Recyda, Source Intelligence and Sphera all cover that side. prduct.com reaches as far as the weight report and the stored declaration evidence, with the module that generates the declaration still in development.

What does Complir cost?

Complir does not publish a price list, so the route in is a demo and the figure depends on your product volume, your markets and which frameworks you turn on.

Of the alternatives here, only Repax publishes prices, with a free tier at 0 EUR a month and paid plans from 29 EUR (ex VAT, as of August 2026). prduct.com has a free way to get started. Assent, Source Intelligence, Sphera and Recyda are all demo-only.

Is there a cheaper or free alternative to Complir?

On the EPR side, yes. Repax has a published free tier and public paid plans, so a small catalogue can be loaded and reported on without a sales call.

On the product safety side, no direct free equivalent exists in this group. prduct.com offers a free way in, and everything else is quote-based, which in this market usually means enterprise pricing.

What is the best alternative to Complir?

It depends which half of the compliance job you are solving. prduct.com is the closest like-for-like if you want another broad platform with Danish roots, and Assent or Sphera are the answer at enterprise scale.

If what you actually need is the part Complir leaves out, Repax is our pick, because it produces the EPR report and the packaging declaration rather than documenting the obligation. Recyda is the alternative there when packaging is your entire world.

We also put Repax head to head with Assent, Source Intelligence and Sphera if your shortlist is down to two names.

Which Complir alternatives cover both product safety and EPR?

Three of them. Assent, Source Intelligence and Sphera all name product safety and chemical rules alongside packaging EPR, so a single platform can carry both, at enterprise scale and enterprise pricing.

The narrower tools deliberately do not. Repax and Recyda cover producer responsibility properly instead of covering everything shallowly, which is why plenty of producers run one of them next to a product compliance platform rather than looking for one system that does all of it.

Written by

Co-founder of Repax.io

Frederik Kiel is Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Repax, where he architects technology solutions that bridge the gap between regulatory compliance and sustainable business practices. He focuses on building scalable infrastructure that transforms complex environmental responsibilities into actionable insights. With a commitment to better technology as a force for environmental stewardship, Frederik works at the intersection of compliance innovation and circular economy advancement.