Our Tributes Alternatives: An Honest Comparison

Our Tributes lists a marine-grade stainless plaque at $99.99 with a written minimum 50-year hosting guarantee, the most concrete commitment we found in this category. Their pages are public only, videos must be hosted on YouTube or Vimeo, and photo storage is capped at 50. Lumestone is $39.99 plus $29.99 a year.

Updated July 27, 2026 · Written and checked by the Lumestone team

Our Tributes sells a stainless steel QR plaque for a cemetery headstone, with a memorial page and a written hosting guarantee included. Of every company we have compared, they make the most specific and the most checkable promise about how long the page will stay online. That is worth taking seriously.

Everything below was read from Our Tributes' own website on July 27, 2026, and every claim links to the page it came from. Prices, stock and policies change without notice, so confirm anything that matters on their site before you order.

We sell a competing plaque, so treat this as what it is. We have restricted ourselves to statements you can verify, and we have put the cost comparison in plain figures rather than burying it, because on sticker price they win and there is no sense pretending otherwise.

What Our Tributes sells

The Stainless Steel QR Plaque for Cemetery Headstone is listed at $99.99 on their product page, in black or silver. Both finishes are the same price. Stock and prices change without notice, so check the page before you order.

The specification is the strongest we have seen at this size: 2 × 2 in by 0.8 mm, marine-grade 316 stainless steel, permanently annealed, with a UV protective coating. Our Tributes states that independent UV and salt-spray testing confirms a 100-year-plus durability outdoors, and they back it with what they call a 100-year plaque durability guarantee that includes free plaque replacements for vandalism or weather-related damage. Replacements carry a small fee plus shipping, which their page notes without giving the amount. We should be clear that this is the company's own account of the testing: their page does not name the laboratory, the test standard or a published report, so it is a claim you are taking on trust rather than a result you can look up.

Marine-grade 316 stainless is a step up from anodized aluminum, which is what most plaques in this category are made from, including ours. It is the alloy specified for boat fittings in salt water. If sheer material quality is your first criterion, they win that comparison and it is not particularly close.

They state free standard shipping to all US locations, and a 100% Satisfaction Guarantee — Free Returns At Any Time If Unsatisfied. An unlimited return window is genuinely rare. Most companies, ourselves included, put a boundary on it.

They also sell headstone cleaning products alongside the plaque, and publish wholesale tiers for funeral homes and monument dealers at $69.99 for 5 to 19 units and $59.99 for 20 to 50.

Price and hosting model, side by side

Here is what each company states on its own site. The useful column is the last one, because that is where the models genuinely differ.

One correction worth making, because it circulates in comparison articles: the Our Tributes Legacy Assurance Program is included free with the plaque. It is not a separate purchase, and anyone telling you it costs extra has it wrong.

On our side, the plaque is $39.99 with a two-pack at $69.99 and a three-pack at $95.99, and Lumestone Care is $29.99 a year for the entire order rather than per plaque. If you want the pricing models worked through in more depth, our QR headstone cost guide does that across the whole market.

The 50-year guarantee, and why it is unusual

Their product page states it this way: Minimum 50-year Page Hosting Guarantee: Through our Legacy Assurance Program, every memorial page remains active for a minimum 50 years with no required subscriptions, renewals, or hidden fees.

Read that against the language everyone else uses, ourselves included, and the difference is real. Lifetime is a warm word that means nothing you could ever hold a company to. Fifty years is a number. It has a start date and an end date, and it is the kind of statement a family could point to in twenty years and say, you wrote this down.

We think that is the most credible hosting commitment in the category, and we would rather say so than pretend our open-ended language is stronger. If the question that keeps you up at night is what happens to the page after you are gone, a documented minimum term answers it more squarely than most marketing does. We work through the whole question in our guide on what happens if a memorial website shuts down, including what to ask any company before you upload anything irreplaceable.

The one thing a written term cannot do is guarantee itself. No company, ours included, can promise what the world looks like in 2076. What a specific number does is set expectations honestly and give a family something to point at, which is more than a vague word does. The practical protection, whichever company you choose, is keeping your own copy of the photographs and the text somewhere you control. Anything you would grieve losing twice should exist in at least two places.

Storage, video and privacy limits

Three things in their terms are worth knowing before you buy, and all three are stated openly on their own site rather than hidden.

Photo storage is capped. Their FAQ states: This service includes lifelong storage of up to 50 photos, unlimited videos, and text for your online tribute. For those wishing to add more memories, extra photo storage is available through an annual subscription. The amount of that annual subscription is not published on their site, and we will not estimate it. Fifty photographs is more generous than most free tiers, but families who scan an album run past it.

Videos are not hosted by them. Their FAQ states that videos need to be uploaded to YouTube or Vimeo first, then the link can be embedded. That explains how videos can be unlimited. It also means the video lives on a third-party account, and if that account is closed or the video is taken down, the memorial page loses it. For a reader in their sixties or seventies who does not already keep a YouTube account, this is a practical step to think about.

Pages are public. Their own wording is that information you post should only contain photos and information you don't mind if others see or read. There is no private-page option. The page owner can delete other people's contributions and can lock the page against new tributes, but the page itself is visible to anyone who scans the code or finds the link.

We want to be fair about that last point. Stating plainly that your pages are public is more honest than burying it, and for many families a public page is exactly what they want. It only becomes a problem if you assumed otherwise.

Features compared

Three of those rows favor them: material, hosting commitment and returns. Those are not small things, and a comparison that pretended otherwise would not be worth reading.

The twenty-year arithmetic, stated plainly

Here is the number we are not going to hide. Over twenty years, a Lumestone plaque plus Lumestone Care costs $39.99 plus twenty payments of $29.99, which is $639.79. Our Tributes costs $99.99 once. On sticker price they win by a very wide margin, and no amount of framing changes that.

What we can do is explain what the recurring fee pays for, and let you judge whether it is worth it.

A hosting fee funds the thing that keeps a page alive: backups, storage for full-resolution photographs and video that we host ourselves rather than pointing at someone else's account, moderation, and someone to answer the phone in year twelve. A one-time payment funds those things too, from a pot that was collected once. Both models can work. They fail in different ways, and neither is dishonest.

Three specifics on our side. Lumestone Care is $29.99 a year for the whole order, so a family with plaques for both parents pays once, not twice. The price is locked for life, so the figure above will not drift upward. And if Care ever lapses, the page is paused rather than erased: the content stays stored, we contact you before anything happens, and reactivating restores it all. That last point is the one we would want to know about if we were the ones buying.

If the recurring-versus-one-time question is the crux for you, read our full argument on what happens if a memorial website shuts down. It sets out the failure modes of both models without picking a winner for you.

Who Our Tributes is the better choice for

• You want one payment and nothing after it. $99.99 once, with a written minimum 50-year hosting term, is a clean and defensible way to buy this.
• Material quality is your first criterion. Marine-grade 316 annealed stainless with a UV protective coating is the best-specified plaque we found at this size.
• The stone is somewhere harsh. Coastal air, road salt or heavy freeze-thaw all argue for their alloy.
• A public page is what you want anyway. Many families do want the memorial findable by anyone who scans it.
• Fifty photographs is enough, and you are comfortable with YouTube. If both are true, their included tier covers you without further cost.
• You want an open-ended return window. Free returns at any time is more generous than our 30 days.

If most of that list describes you, buy theirs. Our plaque is $39.99 and you can read the specification on the plaque page, or look at a finished memorial at our live sample page, but we would rather you chose well than chose us.

How to choose between them

Four questions settle it for most people.

Does the page need to be private? If yes, Our Tributes does not offer that, and you should look elsewhere. This is the cleanest dividing line between the two.

How many photographs will there be? Under fifty, their included storage is fine. Well over fifty, ask them what the annual subscription costs before you order, and get the answer in writing.

Do you want to hold the videos yourself? Embedding from YouTube works and costs nothing. It also means the videos live somewhere you do not control.

Which promise do you find more reassuring, a documented fifty years or an ongoing relationship? That is a question about temperament as much as about money, and there is no wrong answer.

Before you commit to either, it is worth writing down what will actually go on the page. Families often buy the plaque first and then find the page harder to fill than they expected, and the storage question only becomes real once the shoebox of photographs comes down from the loft. Our guide on what to put on a memorial page is a useful hour spent before you spend any money, whichever company you end up with.

For a wider view, our roundup of the best QR code memorial plaques covers the rest of the market, and our Scan2Remember comparison looks at the cheapest option in the category with the same sourcing rules applied.

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