Repax vs Complir is a comparison of two platforms that both produce something called a declaration of conformity. The words are identical, the laws behind them are not, and that is what decides which one you need.
For Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) reporting and the packaging declaration the EU requires from 12 August 2026, Repax is the better choice, because that is the whole of what it does.
Complir is the better choice when the job is getting a product legally sellable in a new market, which covers safety files, labels, translations and the conformity paperwork behind CE marking.
The two declarations that share a name
Both companies sell software to the person who owns compliance, and both hand you a signed document at the end of the work. The documents answer different laws.
Complir's declaration says the product is safe to sell
Complir's workflow ends at what they call market-ready. Translations, label content, declarations of conformity and technical files come out of it, and their own wording is that the product is now cleared for launch.
That declaration belongs to product law. It is the manufacturer's statement that a product meets the safety and labelling rules of the market it is entering, which is the paperwork sitting behind CE marking.
Repax Declare issues the one that packaging law asks for
The other declaration is about the packaging rather than the product. It comes from the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR), formally Regulation (EU) 2025/40.
From 12 August 2026 that regulation requires anyone placing packaging on the EU market to draw up an EU Declaration of Conformity for it, under Article 39.
It says the packaging itself meets the regulation's requirements. It is signed under the manufacturer's sole responsibility, a market surveillance authority can demand to see it, and Repax Declare is the part of our platform that issues it.
So the two platforms share a vocabulary, not an obligation. One document gets a product onto a shelf. The other answers for the packaging around it, and for what happens to that packaging afterwards.
What each platform hands you
Comparing features gets confusing here, because both sides describe monitoring, data and documentation. Comparing outputs does not. The table below is ordered by what you actually end up holding, and pricing is as it stands in August 2026.
| What you end up holding | Repax | Complir |
|---|---|---|
| A risk assessment and safety file per market | Not covered | Audit-ready risk assessments with hazard, severity and probability matrices |
| Label content, warnings, symbols and translations | Not covered | Generated per market, and pushed into Illustrator and InDesign through their own plugins |
| A market-entry declaration of conformity and technical file | Not covered | Generated once a product passes its checks |
| A check on marketing claims | Not covered | Product descriptions scanned for claims that need regulatory substantiation |
| A current list of which rules apply to a product | Per-market presets apply the fields each scheme's report asks for | Their core job. Monitoring down to the individual product across 40+ markets, EPR schemes included, re-run when a rule changes |
| Structured product and packaging data | Product, assembly, component and material with real weights, built for the arithmetic | Structured from the product and supplier systems you already run |
| The EPR report a scheme accepts | Core builds it in the shape each market wants | No published feature |
| The PPWR packaging Declaration of Conformity | Declare issues a signed one with a unique number and a QR code | No published feature, and their own PPWR guide does not mention this declaration |
| Scheme registration and the submission itself | Outside the platform today. Comply is coming in 2026 | No published feature |
| Reach | 16 EPR waste streams from packaging to textiles and tyres, EU-built and EU-hosted | More than 40 markets, including the EU, the UK, the US, Japan and Brazil |
| What it costs | Free at €0 a month, then €29 and €59, enterprise on quote, ex VAT | No published price. The route in is a demo |
| Best for | Producers who owe an EPR return or a packaging declaration | Teams launching products into many markets under safety and labelling rules |
Read down the two columns and the overlap is one row deep. Both platforms want structured product data. What they do with it afterwards points in opposite directions.
Complir clears a product for sale
Their promise is launching compliant products without the bottleneck, across every market you sell in.
Complir monitor regulations at the level of the single product. When a rule changes, the affected products are flagged, the risk assessment runs again, and every flag traces back to the paragraph it came from.
What their platform watches
The authorities on their list are the ones that decide whether a product may be sold at all. ECHA in the EU, ANSES in France, BfR in Germany, the FDA and CPSC in the United States, and OPSS in the United Kingdom.
Underneath those sit rules like the General Product Safety Directive, the EN 71 toy safety standards and Article 33 of REACH. On the American side they name Proposition 65, TSCA, the CPSIA and the toy standard ASTM F963. They cover more than 40 markets in total.
What it produces
Three things come out the other end, and Repax produces none of them.
- Label content in the language of the market. Warnings, symbols and approved translations, delivered through native Adobe Illustrator and InDesign plugins, so a designer never has to leave the artwork file.
- A risk assessment you can put in front of an auditor. Structured matrices covering hazards, severity and probability, plus a checklist of what is still missing before a launch.
- A market-entry declaration and technical file. Generated once a product passes its checks, which is the point their workflow calls cleared.
Their customer list is consumer goods with fast catalogues. They name Flying Tiger Copenhagen, moving more than 500 products a month across 44 markets, and Konges Sløjd at 2,000 product lines a year across 27 languages.
Two of their own guides reach further into our ground than their homepage does. The EPR guide says Complir maps every product to the applicable regulations, EPR schemes included, and keeps that mapping current as new schemes come online. The PPWR guide promises the same for packaging data.
What no page of theirs publishes is a feature that calculates an EPR fee, registers you with a national scheme, submits the return or issues the packaging declaration.
One thing to raise in procurement. Their trust page lists SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 and GDPR compliance all as in progress rather than achieved.
Repax settles what the product owes after the sale
Repax starts where a product is already on sale and the obligations attached to it come due. It is also our own product, so we lead with it, though we would rather be straight about where Complir wins than pretend the two overlap more than they do.
An EPR return is arithmetic before it is paperwork. Somebody has to know that a 750ml wine bottle is 350g of glass, 12g of cork, 3g of aluminium and 7g of paper.
Then the same numbers have to come out in a different shape for every country. Denmark asks for a waste destination, Germany for a participation tier, France for a material family, and Repax Core applies each market's field bundle to data you entered once.
What Repax turns that data into
Core holds a product as an assembly of components and materials with real weights, so the figure in a report is added up rather than estimated. Four things follow from that.
- One record, every stream. The same product answers packaging, batteries, electronics and textiles, so a mixed catalogue does not turn into three systems.
- A packaging declaration you sign yourself. Declare produces the Article 39 document with a unique number, a QR code and a versioned archive, without a consultant drafting it for you.
- An audit answer built in. Every shipped order freezes the spec at the moment of sale, so a filing made in 2024 still reproduces in 2027 after the catalogue has moved on.
- A price you can read today. Core and Declare each start free, so you can size the tool before anyone calls you.
What is not in it
Repax does nothing about product safety, chemicals or labelling. No safety file, no label artwork, no CE-side declaration, no claim checking. For that half of a consumer-goods compliance programme, Complir is the better tool and we are not a substitute.
Filing is the other honest gap. Core prepares the return and you submit it, because registering with each national scheme and submitting sit outside the platform until Comply ships in 2026.
What you pay and how you find out
One of these two publishes a price list and the other does not, so the buying process differs more than the invoice might.
Repax is public. Core and Declare each start at €0 a month, then €29 on Growth and €59 on Pro, with add-ons stacking on Pro and a custom enterprise tier for high volume. Prices are ex VAT, billed in euros, as of August 2026.
Complir is quote-based. They publish no price anywhere on their site, and no pricing page exists on it. Every route in is a demo booking, which is normal for software sold to a compliance team rather than to a card.
Neither approach is wrong. A published price means you can size a tool in an afternoon and start on the free tier the same day. A quote means a conversation, a scoping call and a number that reflects your catalogue, your markets and which frameworks you switch on.
Start from the document someone is asking you for
The fastest way through this decision is to name the piece of paper that is currently missing, then read off which platform produces it.
- A retailer or a marketplace wants a safety file or a CE declaration. Complir.
- A customer wants the EU Declaration of Conformity for your packaging. Repax, through Declare.
- A national register wants last year's tonnages. Repax.
- You are entering a market you have never sold in and need compliant labels in its language. Complir.
- You report packaging, batteries, electronics and textiles and want them on one product record. Repax.
- You want to see a price and get started this afternoon. Repax.
- You need a current list of which schemes apply across a growing catalogue in 40 markets. Complir, and their EPR guide says so in as many words.
Plenty of producers of physical goods land on both sides of that list. That is a real answer rather than a fudge, and the next section says what to do about it.
Buying against the nearer deadline
For most consumer-goods businesses these two platforms are complements. One clears a product for sale, the other settles what the product owes once it is sold, and almost nobody is choosing between them on features.
When both halves apply and only one budget is open, buy against the nearer deadline. Product safety duties are continuous and you are probably already managing them somehow. The packaging declaration has a date on it, and that date is 12 August 2026.
For the EPR half, Repax is the better choice, because the entire product is built backwards from a filed return and a signed declaration. Complir publishes nothing that produces either one.
For the product-safety half, buy Complir and do not ask us to cover it. Running both is the sane setup for a business that sells physical goods into several markets, and it beats asking either platform to do the other's job badly.
Frequently asked questions about Repax and Complir
The questions producers ask most when these two names end up on the same shortlist.
Is Repax or Complir better for EPR reporting?
Repax, for the reporting itself. It is built around the product record an EPR return is calculated from, and it produces both a scheme-shaped report and the packaging Declaration of Conformity.
Complir's strength is upstream of that. They tell you which rules apply to which product in which market, and they produce the documentation that gets a product cleared for sale.
Does Complir cover EPR?
Partly, and it is worth being precise. Their own EPR guide says the platform maps every product to the applicable regulations, EPR schemes included, and flags affected products when a new scheme comes online.
What they publish no feature for is the rest of the job. Calculating the fee, registering with a national scheme, submitting the return and issuing the packaging declaration are all absent from their site, and their PPWR guide never mentions that declaration.
What does Complir cost?
They do not publish a price. There is no pricing page on their site and every call to action is a demo booking, so the figure depends on your product volume, your markets and which frameworks you turn on.
Repax publishes its pricing instead. Core and Declare each start free at €0 a month, with paid plans at €29 and €59, ex VAT, as of August 2026.
Does Repax do product safety or labelling?
No. Repax covers EPR across waste streams plus the packaging declaration that the PPWR requires.
Safety files, chemical restrictions, label artwork and marketing-claim checks are outside it. Those are exactly the areas where Complir is the stronger platform, which is why the two sit next to each other rather than replacing each other.
Are the two declarations of conformity the same document?
No, and mixing them up is the most expensive mistake on this page. A market-entry declaration says a product meets the safety and labelling law of the market it enters, and it is the document behind CE marking.
The packaging declaration under Article 39 of the PPWR says the packaging meets that regulation. Different law, different content, different signature, and holding one does not give you the other. Our guide to creating an EU Declaration of Conformity walks through the packaging one.
Can you use Repax and Complir together?
Yes, and for a consumer-goods business selling across borders that is usually the right answer. Complir handles the rules that decide whether a product can go on sale, while Repax turns product data into EPR returns and packaging declarations.
They solve different halves of the same compliance year rather than competing for the same budget line. If your shortlist is wider than these two, our roundup of the best PPWR compliance software covers the field on the packaging side.
