Repax vs rePurpose Global is an unusual head-to-head, because one of the two decides whether you qualify as a customer before anything else happens. rePurpose Global asks for more than $5 million in global annual revenue, or more than $1 million in California.
Repax is the better overall choice for producers selling into Europe or reporting on more than packaging, because one product record feeds every market and you can start for nothing.
rePurpose Global is the stronger pick for a US consumer brand above that line that wants its state filings handled by people.
Who each company will sell to
Most comparisons start with features. This one starts with the door, because rePurpose Global publishes who it is for and the criteria are strict.
To use their packaging compliance platform they ask that you are "above $5 million in global annual revenue or above $1M in annual revenue in California", and that you "commission single-use packaging, paper products, or food serviceware" carrying your own brand.
That is not a criticism, it is a deliberate choice to serve established brands. But it tells you something useful in one line. Under those numbers, this is not a tool you can buy yet.
Repax sets no revenue floor. Core has a free tier at 0 euro a month, so a producer with 40 orders a year can run the whole thing without talking to anyone.
The trade-off runs the other way. Nobody at Repax reviews your submission before it goes in, and for a brand facing seven state deadlines that hand-holding is worth paying for.
The duties themselves and what each one sells on top
A year of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) work splits into two very different piles. There is the work the law makes you do, and there is everything a vendor can sell you alongside it.
These two products are strongest in different piles, so it is worth taking them one at a time.
The work the law makes you do
This is the cycle behind every packaging obligation, and it barely changes from one market to the next. What changes is how much of it lands on your own desk.
| The duty | rePurpose Global | Repax |
|---|---|---|
| Work out where you are obliged | Yes. Obligation assessment with automatic deadline tracking across the states they cover | Not offered. You tell Repax which markets you report in |
| Register you with the scheme or authority | Handled as part of their service | You register yourself. Comply, which would do this for you, is not live yet |
| Turn products into reportable weights per material | Yes. Data compilation and categorisation into more than 140 material categories | Yes. Products, then packaging assemblies, then materials, computed from your own data |
| Produce the report each scheme asks for | Yes, described as audit-ready and mapped to each specific state | Yes, shaped to each market's own fields through per-market presets |
| Submit the filing | Their compliance experts review everything and walk you through submission | You submit. Repax produces the numbers and the export |
| Produce a PPWR Declaration of Conformity | Not offered | Yes, self-serve in Declare |
| Keep a filing you can reproduce years later | Reports and deadlines live in their platform | Yes. Each shipped order locks in its spec, so an old filing rebuilds exactly |
Read down that table and the pattern is straightforward. Both products do the middle of the list, the data work and the report itself.
They split at the two ends. rePurpose Global also registers you and stands beside you at submission, where Repax hands you finished numbers and leaves the filing in your hands until Comply ships.
The extras that sit on top
Everything in the second pile is optional. None of it is required by law, which is exactly why it is easy to buy by accident when it arrives on the same invoice as the duties.
| Sold alongside the duties | rePurpose Global | Repax |
|---|---|---|
| Verified plastic recovery claims | Yes. Their original business, with recovery projects in Indonesia, Colombia, India and Kenya | Not offered, and not planned |
| Modelling a lighter pack before you change it | Yes. Their Packaging Simulator builds a California source reduction plan | Not offered |
| Batteries, electronics or textiles | Packaging, paper products and food serviceware only | Yes, more than 30 EPR categories on the same product record |
| Markets named as covered | Oregon, California, Colorado, Minnesota, Maryland, Washington and Maine, plus Canada in their reporting dashboard | Europe first, and any market you report in |
| European filing | Not named as something the platform handles | Yes, the core of the product |
| Published price | No figure. "Pay one flat price" | Yes. Free tier, then 29 and 59 euro a month |
| A revenue floor to get in | Yes | No |
This is the half where the two stop being substitutes for each other. Two of those rows are things only rePurpose Global sells, the recovery claims and the packaging simulator.
Three are things only Repax does, the streams beyond packaging, the European filing and a price you can look up without asking. A producer who needs both halves is looking at two suppliers, not a choice between them.
rePurpose Global is built for the US consumer brand
The clearest way to see who a product is for is to look at who already bought it. rePurpose Global names its customers openly, and the list is consistent.
Tillamook, Blueland, Curology, Ilia, Nordic Naturals, Ancient Nutrition, Yumearth, Organic India, Medik8, Prose, Serenity Kids and Savencia Fromage & Dairy are all mid-size to large consumer brands, most of them American, all of them selling physical products in retail.
That profile explains the whole design of the product. Here is what they do genuinely well for it.
- The US state maze, which is the hardest part of American EPR. Seven states are named as having active EPR laws on their compliance page, and each one asks for different things on a different date. Tracking that is real work and they automate it.
- Material categorisation at a level that changes your bill. More than 140 material categories across the states, and how a pack is classified drives what you pay. They publish a customer account of six figures saved through better classification, which is their claim rather than ours, but the mechanism is sound.
- A person who checks it before it goes in. Their compliance experts review the submission and walk you through it. Their pitch is "you bring the data, and we'll handle everything else", and they say the work drops from over two months to about two weeks.
- Fee forecasting. Knowing next year's number before it lands is a budgeting feature, and finance teams at this size ask for it.
- A recovery claim nobody else pairs with compliance. They started in plastic recovery, and a brand that wants both the legal filing and a verified environmental claim can buy them in one place.
One honest limit worth naming. Their European country pages, Germany among them, read as guides with a "Download the Guide" and "Book a Demo" call to action, not as a claim to register or file for you there. So if Europe is where your obligation sits, this is not the tool doing that job today.
Repax is built for the producer selling into Europe
Repax starts from the opposite end. Instead of a service wrapped around a set of state deadlines, it is a data platform that produces whatever the next scheme asks for. It is also our own product, so we lead with it, though we are straight about where rePurpose Global wins.
The customers this is built for look different too. They are European or European-selling producers, often mid-market, usually carrying more than one kind of waste, and they want the data in their own hands.
- One product record, every market. Describe a product once, break it into packaging assemblies and materials, and reuse that record across more than 30 EPR categories. Change a component and every report using it updates.
- More than packaging. Batteries, electronics and textiles sit on the same record. rePurpose Global covers packaging, paper and food serviceware only, so adding a stream there means adding a supplier.
- Data that arrives from your shop. Core connects to Shopify, WooCommerce, PrestaShop and Magento, and takes CSV, Excel or a REST API.
- Your PPWR paperwork, self-serve. Declare produces your EU Declaration of Conformity on demand, with QR-code traceability and an audit archive.
- A price you can read before you talk to anyone. A free tier, then 29 and 59 euro a month, with no revenue floor in the way.
- A filing you can defend in three years. Each shipped order locks in the spec it was sold with, so an old return rebuilds exactly rather than approximately.
The trade-off is real and it runs the other way. Repax produces the numbers and the documents, but you press submit, and the product that would do it for you, Comply, is not live yet.
There is no plastic recovery claim, no packaging simulator, and no US-state specialist walking you through a California filing. For a large American brand, those absences may be the whole decision.
Plastic recovery claims are not EPR compliance
This is the one thing worth being unambiguous about, because the two sit side by side on the same website and it is easy to read them as one purchase.
The two sit in completely different columns, and it is worth seeing them apart before the prices come into it.
EPR fees are a legal duty. You register, you report what you placed on the market, and you pay what the scheme charges. Skip it and you face penalties.
Plastic recovery claims are a voluntary purchase. You fund the collection and processing of a measured volume of plastic waste, and you get a verified claim about that funding. The closest familiar model is carbon offsetting.
The important part is that one never discharges the other. Funding recovery in Indonesia does not reduce what Oregon charges you, and no regulator accepts a recovery certificate instead of a filing.
To be fair to rePurpose Global, they do not claim otherwise. They sell compliance and recovery as two named offerings. The confusion tends to come from buyers, not from them, which is exactly why it is worth stating plainly before you compare prices.
A floor to clear or a ladder to climb
The two pricing models are not just different numbers, they are different shapes, and only one of them is published. Figures below are as of August 2026 and exclude VAT.
| Repax | rePurpose Global | |
|---|---|---|
| Cheapest way in | Free tier at 0 euro a month | No published figure. "Pay one flat price" |
| Paid plans | Growth at 29 euro a month, Pro at 59 euro | Quote after a demo |
| Do you qualify | No revenue requirement | Above $5 million global revenue, or above $1 million in California |
| What sits on top | The schemes' own fees, paid to the scheme | The states' own fees |
| Adding a market | Nothing. Same plan | Part of the quote |
The free tier is genuinely small, and it is worth knowing the limits before you build a plan around it. It covers up to 50 orders a year, 250 products and one user. Growth raises that to 500 orders and 1,500 products, and Pro to 2,000 orders and 3,000 products.
Both models leave the schemes' own tonnage fees outside the software price, so neither number is your total cost of compliance.
The honest difference is what you can find out on your own. With Repax you can price it, try it and see your own numbers before you speak to a salesperson. With rePurpose Global you book a demo, and if you are under their revenue line the answer may be no.
Read it off your sales map
For once, the deciding factor is not a feature. It is where your revenue comes from, and you already know that number.
The two footprints barely touch, which is what makes the choice easier than most comparisons on this blog.
Once you have that in view, the routes below read straight off your own sales split.
- Your obligations are US state EPR and nothing else. rePurpose Global, assuming you clear the revenue line. This is the case where they win outright.
- You sell into Europe. Repax. European filing is not something their platform is described as doing, and it is the centre of ours. Our best EPR software for EU compliance roundup sets it against the wider field.
- Both sides of the Atlantic, with the US as the bigger half. rePurpose Global for the states, and expect to solve Europe separately.
- Both sides, with Europe as the bigger half. Repax for the European reporting, and a US specialist for the states.
- You carry batteries, electronics or textiles as well as packaging. Repax. Those streams are outside what rePurpose Global covers.
- You are under their revenue floor. Repax, or another self-serve tool. The choice is made for you here.
- You want a verified environmental claim, not only a filing. rePurpose Global, and read it as a separate purchase from compliance.
If two lines describe you, take the one covering the wider obligation. Scope only ever grows, and the expensive part of switching later is your data, not your subscription.
Where this actually lands
The verdict is a map rather than a scoreboard. rePurpose Global is the better buy when your obligation is US state packaging EPR, you are above their revenue line, and you want experts carrying the submission.
Repax is the better buy for European obligations, for anything past packaging, and for anyone who wants to start without a sales conversation.
Because the two overlap so little, running both is a legitimate answer rather than a hedge.
A brand selling in California and Germany could keep its product and packaging record in Repax, use it for the European filings and the PPWR Declaration of Conformity, and still hand the state work to rePurpose Global.
For most producers reading this, though, the European and multi-stream side is the whole job, and that is why Repax is our pick. You can start on the free tier and see your own numbers before paying anything.
Frequently asked questions about Repax and rePurpose Global
The questions that come up most when a producer weighs a US state compliance service against a European reporting platform.
Is Repax or rePurpose Global better for EPR compliance?
It depends almost entirely on geography. Repax is better for producers selling into Europe, and for anyone reporting on more than packaging, because one product record covers more than 30 EPR categories from a plan with a free tier.
rePurpose Global is better when your obligation is packaging EPR in the US states they cover, you are above their revenue threshold, and you want their compliance experts to review and walk you through the submission.
Does rePurpose Global handle EPR in Europe?
Not as far as their platform publicly describes. Their compliance page names seven US states with active EPR laws, Oregon, California, Colorado, Minnesota, Maryland, Washington and Maine, plus Canada in their reporting dashboard.
They do publish European country pages, including one for Germany, but those read as guides with a download and a demo booking rather than a claim to register or file for you there.
Is there a minimum company size to use rePurpose Global?
Yes, and it is published. They ask for more than $5 million in global annual revenue, or more than $1 million in annual revenue in California, plus packaging, paper products or food serviceware carrying your own brand.
Repax sets no equivalent floor, and Core starts on a free tier at 0 euro a month.
How do Repax and rePurpose Global pricing compare?
Only one of them publishes numbers. Repax Core and Declare each have a free tier at 0 euro a month, then Growth at 29 euro and Pro at 59 euro a month, with a custom enterprise tier. Figures are as of August 2026 and exclude VAT.
rePurpose Global says you "pay one flat price" but publishes no figure, so pricing comes from a demo. Both leave the schemes' own fees outside the software price.
Do plastic recovery claims count as EPR compliance?
No. EPR is a legal obligation to register, report and pay a scheme for what you place on the market. A plastic recovery claim is a voluntary purchase that funds collection and processing elsewhere, closer in shape to carbon offsetting.
Funding recovery does not reduce what a state or a country charges you, and no regulator takes a recovery certificate in place of a filing. rePurpose Global sells the two as separate offerings.
Does rePurpose Global cover batteries or electronics?
No. Their EPR platform covers single-use packaging, paper products and food serviceware. Batteries, electronics and textiles are not part of it, so a producer carrying those streams needs a second supplier.
Repax carries packaging, batteries, electronics and textiles on the same product record, which is the main reason multi-stream producers land on it.
Can you use Repax and rePurpose Global together?
Yes, and for a transatlantic brand it is a sensible setup. Repax holds the product and packaging data and produces the European filings and the Declaration of Conformity, while rePurpose Global handles the US state submissions and any recovery claim.
Because the two barely overlap on markets or streams, buying both duplicates far less than it looks like at first.
