Repax vs Lizenzero comes down to what happens when you add a country. Lizenzero sells a packaging licence, priced per country. Repax is one platform your whole product range reports from, priced as a plan.
Repax is the better overall choice for producers reporting on more than packaging, or in more than a couple of countries, because one product record feeds every market.
Lizenzero is the stronger buy when a German packaging licence is the whole job, or when you want someone else to hold the contracts with the recycling schemes and be your legal contact abroad.
Who does which job
A year of EPR (Extended Producer Responsibility) work is not one task. It is six or seven separate jobs, and these two tools cover different ones.
That is the real difference between them, so the table below splits the year into jobs and names who does each.
Lizenzero runs two separate services, and the table covers both. Lizenzero.de sells a German packaging licence. Lizenzero.com, their Europe-wide service, handles packaging compliance in 31 countries, the 27 EU states plus the UK, Norway, Serbia and Switzerland.
| The job | Lizenzero | Repax |
|---|---|---|
| Work out where you are obliged | Free Obligation Check, country by country, with a forecast of the scheme fees | Not something Repax does. You tell Repax which markets you report in |
| Register with the national register, such as Germany's LUCID | You register yourself in Germany. Lizenzero gives you a volume file to upload. On the Europe service they handle registrations for you | You register yourself. Comply, which would do this for you, is not live yet |
| Hold the contract with the recycling scheme | Yes. That contract is what you are buying | No. Repax is not a recycling scheme, so the contract is never with us |
| Be your legal contact in a country that demands one | Yes, on the Europe service, through a standard power of attorney | Not offered |
| Turn your products into reportable weights per material | You type your quantities into their calculator | Yes. Products, then packaging assemblies, then materials, computed from your own data |
| Produce the figures each scheme asks for | Yes on the Europe service, where they file your volume reports. In Germany you get a LUCID file | Yes, as a report shaped to each market's own fields, which you then file |
| Cover batteries, electronics or textiles | Packaging only | Yes, more than 30 EPR categories |
| Produce your PPWR Declaration of Conformity | Not offered | Yes, self-serve in Declare |
| Keep a filing you can reproduce years later | Contracts and reports stay in your customer account | Yes. Each shipped order locks in its spec, so an old filing reproduces exactly |
What Lizenzero takes off your plate
Lizenzero is a licensing service, and it is genuinely good at being one. Here is what you never have to touch if you buy it.
- The licence itself. German law makes you join one of the country's packaging recycling systems, a dual system, before you sell. Lizenzero sells that contract online from 39 euro a year, which covers the smallest sellers under the VerpackG, Germany's packaging law, for less than most software costs in a month.
- Standing in for you abroad. Several countries will only accept your packaging report through an authorised representative, a local entity that carries your obligations on paper. On their Europe service Lizenzero takes that role through a standard power of attorney. Repax does not offer this, and for a producer with no local presence it is worth real money.
- Finding out where you are obliged at all. Their Obligation Check is free. You answer a few questions per country and get a straight yes or no, plus an estimate of what the local scheme will charge on top.
- The correspondence. Picking the right scheme in each market, signing the contracts, filing the volume reports, chasing invoices and watching for law changes all sit with them, not you.
- A checkout you can finish in one sitting. Their calculator lets you price reference packaging in three sizes rather than weigh everything first, and they are an official eBay partner for the German Packaging Act, so a marketplace seller can tick the job off in an afternoon.
One honest limit on the German service. They supply the file, but they do not register you with LUCID. You still create that account and upload the figures yourself.
How Repax puts you in charge
Where Lizenzero hands you a finished licence, Repax hands you the data work underneath it. It is also our own product, so we lead with it, though we are straight about where Lizenzero wins.
- One product record that every market reads from. In Repax Core you describe a product once, break it into packaging assemblies and materials, and reuse that record across more than 30 EPR categories worldwide. Change a component and every report that uses it updates.
- Data that arrives from your shop, not your keyboard. Core connects to Shopify, WooCommerce, PrestaShop and Magento, and takes CSV, Excel or a REST API. Nobody re-keys quantities into a calculator each year.
- Reports shaped to each scheme's own fields. Every market asks for the same tonnages under different names and dimensions. Core carries a preset per market so the report comes out in the shape that market wants.
- Your PPWR (Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation) paperwork, self-serve. Declare generates your EU Declaration of Conformity on demand, with QR-code traceability and an audit archive. Lizenzero lists no Declaration of Conformity product, so that document is not something you can get there.
- A price that does not multiply per country. Core and Declare each start at a free tier of 0 euro a month, then 29 euro for Growth and 59 euro for Pro, with a custom tier for high volume. Adding a market does not add a line to the invoice.
- A filing you can defend in three years. Each shipped order locks in the spec it was sold with, so when an auditor asks about a 2026 return, the numbers rebuild exactly rather than approximately.
There is a real trade-off on the other side of that list. Repax produces the numbers and the documents. It does not sign the scheme contract for you, it does not pay the scheme's fees, and it will not act as your authorised representative.
If you want all of that handed over, Lizenzero's Europe service does it today, and the Repax product that would, Comply, is not live yet.
Where the money actually goes
Both companies publish their prices, which is rarer in this market than it should be. What differs is the shape of the bill. Figures are as of August 2026 and exclude VAT.
| Repax | Lizenzero | |
|---|---|---|
| Cheapest way in | Free tier at 0 euro a month, on Core and on Declare | German packaging licence from 39 euro a year |
| Paid entry | Growth at 29 euro a month, Pro at 59 euro | Europe service at 299 euro per country, per year |
| What sits on top | The schemes' own fees, which you pay the scheme directly | The schemes' own volume-based fees, which they state clearly are extra |
| Adding a second country | Nothing. Same plan | Another 299 euro, with 5% off from three countries, 10% from five and 15% from eight |
| Adding batteries or electronics | Nothing. Same plan | Not offered |
| High volume | Enterprise, custom | Contact them |
Neither number is the whole cost. Both models leave the recycling schemes' own tonnage fees outside the price, and Lizenzero says so plainly on their pricing page.
On service fees alone, the lines cross at the third country. Three markets on Lizenzero's Europe service is about 852 euro a year after the 5% discount, against 708 euro for a full year of Repax Pro no matter how many markets you report in.
That is not a like-for-like swap, and it would be dishonest to present it as one. The 299 euro buys work done by people, including representation Repax does not sell. The 59 euro buys software you operate. But if what you actually need is the reporting, the second shape stops getting more expensive.
Count your streams and your countries
Two numbers decide between Repax and Lizenzero, and you already know both. How many kinds of waste do you put on the market, and how many countries do you sell into.
- Packaging only, Germany only. Lizenzero. From 39 euro a year, nothing else comes close on price or effort, and our best German EPR software roundup maps the rest of that field.
- Packaging only, two or three European countries, and you would rather not deal with it. Lizenzero's Europe service. You hand over the schemes, the reports and the representation.
- Packaging plus batteries, electronics or textiles. Repax. Lizenzero covers packaging and nothing else, so staying with them means adding a second supplier for the rest.
- Four or more countries, and you want the data to be yours. Repax. The per-country fee stops growing and the product record travels with you. Our best EPR software for EU compliance roundup sets that against the wider market.
- You need a PPWR Declaration of Conformity. Repax, through Declare. Lizenzero does not produce that document.
- A country insists on a local representative and you have no entity there. Lizenzero. This is the clearest case where they win outright.
- You sell on eBay or another marketplace and just need Germany ticked off. Lizenzero, and their eBay partnership makes it the shortest path there.
If you land on two different lines above, take the wider one. Compliance scope only ever grows, and the cost of moving later is your data, not your subscription.
Where the crossover happens
The honest verdict is a threshold rather than a winner. Lizenzero is the better buy while your obligation is one stream in one or two countries. Repax becomes the better buy at the second waste stream, or from roughly the third country.
That is where a per-country service fee passes a flat plan, and where a single product record starts saving more work than it costs to build.
There is also a middle answer that nobody sells you, and it is worth knowing. Because Lizenzero sells a licence and Repax manages the data behind it, you can run both. Keep your product and packaging record in Repax, use the tonnages it produces, and still buy the German licence from Lizenzero.
That is a reasonable setup for a producer who wants clean data now and does not want to change what already works.
For most producers reading this, though, one platform across every stream and market is the cheaper end state, and that is why Repax is our pick. You can start on the free tier and see your own numbers before paying anything.
Repax and Lizenzero questions producers ask most
The questions that come up most when producers weigh a licensing service against a reporting platform.
Is Repax or Lizenzero better for EPR compliance?
It depends on how wide your obligation is. Repax is better for producers reporting on more than packaging or in more than a couple of countries, because one product record covers more than 30 EPR categories worldwide from a single plan.
Lizenzero is better when packaging in Germany, or in two or three European countries, is the whole job and you want the licence and the correspondence handled for you.
How do Repax and Lizenzero pricing compare?
Both publish prices. Repax has a free tier at 0 euro a month on Core and Declare, then Growth at 29 euro and Pro at 59 euro a month, with a custom enterprise tier for high volume.
Lizenzero's German licence starts at 39 euro a year, and their Europe service is 299 euro per country per year, with 5% off from three countries, 10% from five and 15% from eight.
Both leave the recycling schemes' own tonnage fees outside the price. Figures are as of August 2026 and exclude VAT.
Does Lizenzero cover more than packaging?
No. Both Lizenzero services are packaging only. Their parent company Interzero does offer battery, electronics and textile licensing, but through separate programmes rather than through Lizenzero. If you need several streams in one place, that is what Repax is built for.
Does Lizenzero register you with LUCID?
Not on the German service. Lizenzero sells you the contract that puts your packaging into a German recycling system and gives you a file of your volumes, then you create your own LUCID account and upload it.
On their Europe-wide service they do handle registrations with the local schemes for you. Repax does not register you anywhere either, and the product that would, Comply, is not yet live.
Can Repax act as my authorised representative?
No. Some countries will only take your report through a local authorised representative, and Repax does not offer that role. Lizenzero does, through a power of attorney on their Europe service.
This is one of the clearest points in their favour, and if you have no entity in the market it may be the thing that decides it.
Can you use Repax and Lizenzero together?
Yes, and for some producers it is the sensible answer. Repax holds your product and packaging data and produces the tonnages, while Lizenzero holds the licence and deals with the schemes. The two do different jobs, so buying both is not the duplication it looks like at first.
