No amount is specified in the regulation, and that will not change: the legislator regulates which data must be included in a digital product passport, not what compiling and maintaining it may cost. The price you ultimately pay depends on a few factors that you largely control yourself: how many different products you bring to market, how complete your own data already is, and which party compiles and hosts the passport for you.
The most significant cost item is usually not the technology, but the number of unique product types for which you need a passport. A passport typically belongs to a product model or variant, not to each individual garment that comes off the production line. Anyone who sells a hundred different articles per season faces a different task than someone who works with ten fixed basic models. This makes the question 'what does this cost' a different question for each company.
What the regulation does and does not regulate
The ESPR (the European regulation on ecodesign of sustainable products) determines which information a passport must contain and who is responsible for it. For textiles and clothing, this is further specified in a delegated act, which according to the European Commission's work plan is expected in 2027, with clothing consisting of eighty percent or more textile fibres as the first category. That act determines, among other things, which fields are mandatory and how often data must be up to date — and this indirectly affects costs, because more mandatory fields mean more work. The legislator does not mention an amount. You can read exactly what will be in that delegated act once it is published; until then, any price quote is based on current expectations, not on a fixed text.
The factors that do determine the price
Three things determine the largest part of the costs in practice. First, the number of SKUs (the unique product variants, for example grouped by colour and size) for which a passport must be created: the more variants, the more passports, although one base passport can often serve multiple variants. Second, the state of your own source data: companies that already systematically record material composition, origin and care instructions have less work than companies that still need to extract this information from invoices, emails or a buyer's memory. Third, the service itself: compiling the passport from your data, hosting that data for ten years (a period specified in the regulation for the retention period), and providing the QR data carrier that goes on the garment or label.
In addition, practical choices play a role that have little to do with the law but do affect the bill: do you work with one supplier for all products or with multiple parties in the chain who each provide part of the data, and how often do your collections change. A company that repeats a fixed basic collection twice a year has a different cost structure than a company that introduces new articles every month.
One-time costs and recurring costs
It is useful to examine these two separately. One-off typically involves setting up: gathering and structuring data, having the product passport compiled, and having the first QR data carriers created or printed. Ongoing include hosting the data for the duration, updating passports when products change, and any adjustments if the delegated act for textiles is published and requires new fields. When comparing service providers, it is therefore worthwhile to ask what is included in the one-off price and what is in an annual or ongoing fee, and who bears the costs if the rules change in the meantime.
How you can get a more concrete picture
Because costs are so closely tied to your own product range and data structure, a general price has little value. A more concrete picture emerges by first looking at your own situation: how many product types, how complete your data, and what role you play in the supply chain. With a few questions to get an initial indication provides a starting point for that, without you needing an account straight away. For those who first want to understand how such a passport is actually compiled and where the data comes from, an explanation of the working method is a logical next step.
Anyone wishing to compare the cost structure between service providers would be well advised to ask the same questions of everyone: what is included in the one-off price, what is in the ongoing costs, and what happens if regulations change. An overview of the cost structure at texpas.eu itself is on the page with rates and subscription forms. For the broader context — which terms are precisely used and who in the supply chain is responsible for what — the knowledge base with curated background information by topic.
provides this. This text describes general factors and is not a price quote for a specific situation. For an estimate tailored to your own product range, the quick scan is a free and non-binding starting point; for questions about your specific rights and obligations, a lawyer or the competent supervisory authority remains the appropriate point of contact.