Carbonfact vs Plan A

Plan A and Carbonfact both offer carbon accounting platforms. Plan A is an all-in-one climate solution serving many sectors, while Carbonfact is purpose-built for apparel and footwear product footprints and regulations.

3 reasons to choose Carbonfact

The largest fashion dataset
150k+

Carbonfact has 150,000+ impact factors, covering materials, processes, and regions specific to apparel and footwear.

Real supplier data
7000+

Primary energy data, gathered from over 7,000 factories helps brands move away from generic assumptions to accurate product footprints.

Materials and processes
650+

650+ material categories, 200+ textile-specific processes, and data across 144 countries ensure LCAs reflect how products are actually made.

Compare Carbonfact with Plan A

Comparison based on public website information.

 
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Plan A
Carbon Accounting
GHG Protocol reporting
Reporting
Activity-based Scope 3
CDP, ISSB, CSRD, TCFD, SFDR, GRI, SECR reports
Fashion-reports (BCI Cotton, Textile Exchange Material Benchmark)
French Textile Eco-Score calculation
Textile Digital Product Passport
Product Impact
Product LCA (product-level footprint / PCF)
Partial
Per-SKU, season-by-season product footprints
EU PEFCR for apparel & footwear - aligned
Enterprise features
Third-party reviewed methodology
SOC 2 / ISO 27001
Audit trail and support
Decarbonization
SBTi target-setting
Eco-design simulations
Data
AI-assisted data ingestion & cleaning
Fashion-specific emission factors (fibres, dyeing, finishing)
Partial
Factory-level energy modelling (beyond corporate bills)
Next gen materials & process library
Integrations with fashion-specific ERP, PLM, traceability
Expertise
In-house climate scientists for apparel/footwear methodology
Partial
Named fashion/apparel brands as customers
300+
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Compare Carbonfact with other vendors

Official comparison report from research firm Verdantix , breaking down the features and differences between LCA Software vendors.

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What makes Carbonfact different?

Insights from 1000+ customer calls in 2025 across 300+ brands and suppliers

Industry-Specific Expertise and Guidance

Customers consistently highlight Carbonfact’s deep understanding of the fashion industry as a core advantage. They value working with Carbonfact’s Science department, a team that “speaks the same language” and understands how garments and footwear are actually made. This expertise allows Carbonfact to provide tailored guidance on processes, materials, and regulations, rather than generic advice. Many customers mention that this “felt like working with a partner, not just a software provider,” especially when navigating PEF, Eco-Score, or SBTi requirements.

Product-level LCA EnGINE

Corporate and Product in One Place

Users emphasize the benefit of managing both corporate and product-level emissions in a single system. They describe this integration as “a relief after juggling multiple tools and spreadsheets” for different reporting scopes. Having one consistent methodology and platform for products and operations gives teams a unified view of their footprint and simplifies audit preparation. Customers note that this combination helps them connect product changes directly to company-wide reduction targets ,“something we couldn’t do before.”

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Smart Handling of Missing Data

Customers frequently point to Carbonfact’s ability to fill missing data as a major differentiator. When supplier or material information is incomplete, the platform applies smart heuristics derived by running more than 50 million LCAs. Several teams said this allows them to move forward even when data quality varies across collections or regions. They describe it as “a practical way to stay accurate without waiting for perfect data.”

Product-level LCA EnGINE

CHOSEN by 300+ BRANDS AND SUPPLIERS

"Shoes can consist of up to 1500 components. Before Carbonfact, we asked our developers to weigh every single piece but such a manual approach is not scalable. Carbonfact helped us  in deriving rules to overcome data gaps by creating accurate assumptions."

Philipp Engels
Product Sustainability Lead at On
Philipp Engels

"With Carbonfact we can do full product LCAs on all of our products. Thanks to measuring things early on, we can simulate how a new product is going to have a different impact compared to the current version. For example, one of our new products is expected to decrease its footprint by a fourth just by designing it differently."

Jessica Genta
Strategy & Sustainability at La Sportiva
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"We needed a solution that could handle the complexities of the apparel supply chain, provide year-to-date insights, and support with detailed scenario analyses for our supply chain. For us Carbonfact is not just a Carbon Management Software, but an extension of our sustainability team."

Florence Degoy Vacher
Secrétaire Générale at A.P.C.
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"What's really special about Carbonfact is the way that it can work alongside the VF brands to help identify where there are gaps in our product impact data. But also helping us bridge towards improving that data. So it's much more of a partner to solve the challenges we have."

Julian Lings
Senior Sustainability Manager, The Northface
Julian Lings

"The Explorer is, for sure, my favorite feature. I love the ability to look at the breakdown of the carbon footprint per product line, for processes or on a material basis. That's so dynamic that we're able to leverage it in different ways depending on the projects that we're working on or the teams that we're engaging with."

Emily Foster
Director of Planet & People Impact at Burton
Emily Foster

"Carbonfact's offerings, particularly its product-level focus for footwear and apparel, ensures we can both measure our carbon footprint and actively find ways to reduce it. Carbonfact has been instrumental in helping us model different scenarios and make informed decisions that align with our sustainability goals."

Aileen Lerch
Sustainability at Allbirds
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"We have moved from spend-based carbon accounting into Carbonfact to prioritize primary data and get more accurate calculations. The main reason for us to choose Carbonfact is that we now not only get our company's total carbon footprint but also break it down for each of our products."

Malin Bosaeus
Global Sustainability Manager at Happy Socks
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Frequently Asked Questions

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What is Plan A?
Plan A is a climate and ESG software provider offering carbon accounting, ESG reporting, and decarbonization planning for companies across multiple sectors. Its platform helps organizations collect sustainability data, measure emissions, report on ESG, and create reduction strategies. Plan A provides modules and templates tailored to different industries such as services, manufacturing, and fashion but remains broadly cross-sector. It positions itself as a partner for regulatory readiness around emerging climate and sustainability policies.
How do Carbonfact and Plan A compare?
Both Plan A and Carbonfact support data collection and corporate-level carbon accounting. Plan A’s strength lies in broad, cross-industry coverage and an integrated ESG stack for consolidating sustainability data, generating ESG and climate reports, and planning high-level reduction roadmaps. Carbonfact is tightly focused on the apparel and footwear value chain, ingesting product and supply-chain data from PLM and ERP systems to generate automated, catalog-wide product LCAs, Eco-Scores, and apparel-specific regulatory outputs. Brands that migrate from Plan A to Carbonfact typically do so to obtain season-by-season visibility, detailed per-SKU LCAs, textile-specific regulation coverage, and access to a science team dedicated to apparel and footwear methodologies.
What is the source of the comparison?
The comparison is based on Plan A’s public product, ESG reporting, and regulatory pages, Carbonfact’s product and methodology materials, and feedback from textile and apparel brands that previously used Plan A and later implemented Carbonfact.

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