Awero vs CanCred Factory

Awero provides digital tools for competence development, assessment, and recognition, along with training and consultancy. Its Cities of Learning platform helps learners and organisations map learning opportunities, combine local and digital activities into playlists, and issue or earn Open Badges. Activities can use skills from the multilingual ESCO database. Assessment can include self-assessment, peer review, or organiser assessment, while organisers can analyse data about their activities, playlists, and badges.

The Badge Wallet app lets learners earn, store, manage, and share badges, with downloads linked for Android and iOS. Personal accounts can sign in with a password, Facebook, or Google; the chosen method cannot later be changed. Awero serves not-for-profit organisations, public institutions, and businesses. Open Access costs nothing for personal and organisation accounts, and voluntary donations are welcome. Custom-look setup is listed at €1,500, paid once with Partner Access or €1,750, paid once with Standard Access. Awero says platform functions use default settings and cannot be tailored on demand, and temporary downtime or unexpected behaviour may occur.

CanCred Factory is a cloud platform for organizations to create, issue, and manage digital credential ecosystems. It supports verifiable credentials based on Open Badges 3.0, with multilingual badges, third-party endorsements, framework alignments, and evidence-based application forms. Badges can be arranged into nested milestone pathways with branching and required or elective steps. Pro adds customizable PDF badges. The platform lists plugins for Moodle, Totara LMS, WordPress, Priima, ItsLearning, Canvas LMS, and D2L Brightspace; Canvas and Brightspace integrations require Pro-level LTI. Developers can use a documented Open RESTful API, while LTI services are available on Pro. Plans include Free, Basic at C$495 a year, Premium at C$1,295 a year, and Pro at C$2,365 a year. A 60-day Pro trial is available; afterward, an account without a paid subscription falls back to Free, limited to two usable badges. The maker says issued badges remain hosted and verifiable indefinitely, guaranteed for at least two years. CanCred Passport is a free companion portfolio for recipients on web, iOS, and Android.