22 Jun 2026 in Corporate planting · Updated 8 Oct 2026
Evertreen and Tree-Nation differ mainly on what a tree costs and what it comes with: Tree-Nation offers trees from about €0.35 with basic per-tree tracking, while Evertreen starts at £1.5 with each project's location, photos and updates, site monitoring that varies by partner, branded field videos and certified Verra or Gold Standard offsets available alongside. If the goal is the largest possible tree count, Tree-Nation. If the planting has to be evidence you can show, Evertreen.
Low-cost volume versus full traceability: how Evertreen and Tree-Nation compare for businesses in 2026.
You want provable impact: project location, photos and updates plus site monitoring, Verra & Gold Standard offsets available, branded forest and field videos, gift-a-tree with custom certificates, and PR visibility for your brand.
You mainly want maximum tree count per euro (from €0.35/tree) and are fine with basic per-tree tracking.
| Evertreen | Tree-Nation | |
|---|---|---|
| Based in | UK (Brentford) | Spain (Barcelona) |
| Carbon verification | Verra & Gold Standard available | VCS/GS/Plan Vivo on select projects |
| Tracking & monitoring | Project location, photos & updates + site monitoring | Basic vs GPS/satellite providers |
| Typical price | From £1.5 per tree | €0.35–15 per tree |
| Branded forest | Yes — your own named forest | Yes — company forests |
| Branded field videos | Yes — filmed with your brand | No |
| Gift a tree | Yes — custom certificate + project updates | Yes — certificates |
| PR & media for your brand | Yes — across 300+ outlets | No |
| API / e-commerce | Yes — Shopify app + API | Yes — Shopify app |
Tree-Nation wins on raw price — if the goal is the biggest tree count for the budget, it's hard to beat €0.35 trees. But cheap trees you can't trace are hard to defend in ESG reporting. Evertreen shows each project's location, photos and updates, monitors its planting sites, films the planting, and can add Verra- or Gold Standard-certified offsets — so your claims stand up to scrutiny, and your brand gets forests, videos and PR out of it.
For credible corporate impact, Evertreen is the safer investment; for volume-first campaigns on a tight budget, Tree-Nation has its place.
A tree at €0.35 and a tree at £1.5 are not the same product, and the gap is not margin. Cost per planted tree is driven by four things, and cheap programmes economise on the last two:
Seedling and labour costs vary enormously by country, and a genuinely low price can simply reflect where the planting happens.
Site preparation — clearing, fencing and protection from grazing.
Maintenance for the first three years, which is when survival is actually decided.
Monitoring and verification — the GPS records, imagery and field inventory that let anyone check the result.
This is why the honest comparison is not cost per tree planted but cost per tree still alive and demonstrable in five years. A thousand cheap seedlings with no maintenance budget can easily deliver less than three hundred maintained ones, and only one of those outcomes survives a customer asking for proof.
None of that makes a low price wrong. It makes it a question worth asking — of any supplier, including this one.
Volume is the right goal when the number itself is the point: a campaign built around a headline figure, a match-funding drive, or a cause where scale communicates commitment. Tree-Nation is well set up for that, with company forests and its own certificates.
Verifiability is the right goal when the trees will appear in ESG reporting, a customer-facing claim or a procurement questionnaire. There, an unverifiable tree has negative value: it invites a question you cannot answer.
If you are unsure which you are doing, write the sentence you intend to publish first. It usually settles the argument.
These six questions apply to every platform on this page, this one included. A supplier who answers all six without hesitating is doing the work; one who deflects is selling a number.
Can you show where the trees are planted? A country is not traceability; a named project with its location and updates is.
Who maintains the site, and are they paid for it? The first three years decide survival, and maintenance is where cheap programmes quietly economise.
What is the measured survival rate, and how was it sampled? Planting counts are easy to publish; survival is the number that reflects whether a forest resulted.
Are the species native and suited to the site? The wrong tree in the wrong place can damage the ecosystem it was sold as helping.
Is the carbon methodology published? A single flattering per-tree figure with no method behind it is the clearest warning sign in this sector.
What exactly may you claim in public? Particularly relevant now that EU rules restrict offset-based carbon-neutral product claims to consumers from 27 September 2026.
How Evertreen answers the first three is set out in how planted trees are verified, and the absorption assumptions are published in how we estimate tree CO₂.
This page is written by Evertreen, so treat the verdict as ours and check the claims. Everything stated about our platform is demonstrable on request — the coordinates of the planting sites for companies in custom partnerships, the survival sampling behind a site, and the published carbon methodology.
Tree-Nation is a long-established platform with a large project network and genuine reach. If maximum trees per euro is the goal you have chosen deliberately, it does that job, and we would rather be useful than dismissive.
Is Tree-Nation cheaper than Evertreen?
Per tree, yes — Tree-Nation runs from about €0.35 to €15, while Evertreen starts at £1.5. The more useful comparison is cost per surviving, verifiable tree, since maintenance and monitoring are what the difference pays for.
Which has better tracking and monitoring?
Evertreen shows each project's location, photos and updates, with monitoring that varies by site (such as drone imagery, geotagged photos or satellite data), plus branded field video; Tree-Nation's per-tree tracking is more basic than GPS and satellite providers.
Do both offer certified carbon credits?
Evertreen can supply Verra and Gold Standard offsets alongside planting. Tree-Nation has VCS, Gold Standard or Plan Vivo certification on selected projects rather than across the board.
Why do tree prices vary so much between platforms?
Country, seedling type, site preparation, maintenance and the amount of monitoring included. The first three years of maintenance and the verification layer are the usual difference between a very cheap tree and a documented one.
Which is better for a corporate ESG programme?
Whichever can evidence its claims to your auditor. If reporting or customer-facing claims are involved, site-level evidence and published survival data matter more than the headline count.
Can both create a branded company forest?
Yes, both offer company forests. Evertreen adds branded field videos filmed with your brand and PR visibility across 300+ outlets.
Does a bigger tree count mean more carbon removed?
Not necessarily. Carbon depends on surviving trees, species and growth over decades, so planting numbers without survival data do not tell you the outcome.
Monitored projects, certified offsets and a branded forest — from £1.5 per tree.
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