Best Printify Alternatives in 2026
Eight suppliers for a store leaving Printify, compared on the monthly seat, the store cap, and who prints the order, with vendor prices checked on 17 October 2026.
Printful is the best Printify alternative in 2026 when the print changes from one provider to the next and you want one company to make the goods. Growth is $24.99 a month until sales pass $12,000 in a year, and the free plan already includes unlimited connected stores, set against Printify Premium from $39 a month.
Gelato+ billed yearly is $19.99 a month when one design must reach buyers in several countries. Gooten, Spreadconnect, and Teelaunch publish no monthly fee, so the Premium invoice can stop. CustomCat fits a US shop that can cover a discount seat.
Key facts8 tools compared: Printful, Gelato, CustomCat, Gooten, Spreadconnect, Teelaunch, Apliiq…
- 8 tools compared: Printful, Gelato, CustomCat, Gooten, Spreadconnect, Teelaunch, Apliiq, Printed Mint
- Gelato (best for: Shops that ship one design to buyers living in several countries): Free for 2 stores. Gelato+ is $29.99/mo or $19.99/mo billed yearly. Platinum is a custom quote.
- CustomCat (best for: US sellers whose monthly item count can cover a discount seat): Lite is free. PRO is $30/mo or $300/yr. The plan page's t-shirt is $9.58 on Lite and $6.90 on PRO.
- Gooten (best for: Sellers who will drop Premium and can accept another routed network): Free to use, no upfront or hidden fees. You pay when a customer orders. No paid plan is published.
Leaving Printify is a production choice: the account is already free, and Premium is the bill for a discount or a store past the free cap. The goods still come from a provider you pick inside a network of 70+.
If that provider lottery is the complaint, Printful is the switch that changes who holds the press.
The seat does not get cheaper than a year of Premium until Printful waives Growth.
A shop that only wants the monthly charge to disappear should open Gooten, Spreadconnect, or Teelaunch before it takes another paid plan.
Named shirt prices live in the t-shirt print-on-demand guide, and this page prices the platform you would move to.
The Printify review stays on Printify itself, and Printful vs Printify is the head-to-head on one blank.
How we ranked: we read eight suppliers on their own pages on 17 October 2026.
We ordered them by whether they replace the provider network, what the seat costs beside Premium, and whether a free account removes the store cap (the Gelato link may be an affiliate link).
Top Picks
Based on features, real-world fit, and value for money.
One company's factories, a free account that does not stop at a store cap, and a seat that can fall away after the sales waiver.
Free plan with unlimited stores, Growth at $24.99/mo until the sales waiver, Enterprise by quote.
Stores leaving Printify because print quality changes with the provider
Local production in 32 countries, a yearly seat under Premium, and a migration tool for Shopify and Etsy listings.
Free for 2 stores. Gelato+ is $29.99/mo or $19.99/mo billed yearly. Platinum is a custom quote.
Shops that ship one design to buyers living in several countries
A single US printer whose paid seat is close to a year of Premium, with the t-shirt discount printed on the plan page.
Lite is free. PRO is $30/mo or $300/yr. The plan page's t-shirt is $9.58 on Lite and $6.90 on PRO.
US sellers whose monthly item count can cover a discount seat
| Tool | Pricing | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| Printful | Free plan with unlimited stores, Growth at $24.99/mo until the sales waiver, Enterprise by quote. | Stores leaving Printify because print quality changes with the provider |
| Gelato | Free for 2 stores. Gelato+ is $29.99/mo or $19.99/mo billed yearly. Platinum is a custom quote. | Shops that ship one design to buyers living in several countries |
| CustomCat | Lite is free. PRO is $30/mo or $300/yr. The plan page's t-shirt is $9.58 on Lite and $6.90 on PRO. | US sellers whose monthly item count can cover a discount seat |
| Gooten | Free to use, no upfront or hidden fees. You pay when a customer orders. No paid plan is published. | Sellers who will drop Premium and can accept another routed network |
| Spreadconnect | No setup fee and no monthly fee. You pay product and shipping. A calculator example uses a $9 base price. | Apparel shops that want a zero platform fee and one production system |
| Teelaunch | No monthly fee. The Gildan unisex page lists $6.90 to $11.90, and first-item US shipping is $5.49. | Sellers who want the parcel rate on the shirt page and no monthly seat |
| Apliiq | No monthly fee on the public guide. A digital print is $7.49, plus $1 per item to fulfill the order. | Apparel brands that sell a private label and can price the print apart from the blank |
| Printed Mint | No published monthly fee. Free continental US shipping on orders of $299 or more, except a holiday blackout. | US brands ordering enough units that a shipping waiver matters more than a software seat |
Pricing read from each vendor's own pricing page, checked Oct 2026. 2 of 8 publish prices for some plans and quote the rest.
Printful
One company's factories, a free account that does not stop at a store cap, and a seat that can fall away after the sales waiver.
- Pricing
- Free plan with unlimited stores, Growth at $24.99/mo until the sales waiver, Enterprise by quote.
Best for: Stores leaving Printify because print quality changes with the provider
Pros
- The free plan removes the store cap that pushes a sixth store onto Premium.
- Catalog prices include the blank, one placement, and fulfillment, and 86 percent of orders ship in the customer's region, which you lose when the provider changes.
- Growth adds product, branding, and sample discounts, and the fee can stop after the sales waiver, so the seat need not be permanent.
Cons
- An outside apparel label is $2.49, and embroidery digitization runs $2.95 to $6.50 on a new design, so branding sits on top of the base price.
- A full year of Growth does not undercut yearly Premium until the sales waiver applies, and Quick Stores still stop at 10.
Gelato
Local production in 32 countries, a yearly seat under Premium, and a migration tool for Shopify and Etsy listings.
- Pricing
- Free for 2 stores. Gelato+ is $29.99/mo or $19.99/mo billed yearly. Platinum is a custom quote.
Best for: Shops that ship one design to buyers living in several countries
Pros
- The free plan has no upfront fee and no commission, with local production in 32 countries, so routing does not require the paid seat.
- Gelato says the yearly seat saves $120 against paying the monthly Gelato+ bill for a year, and you collect it only by finishing the year.
- Velocity Switch moves Shopify or Etsy listings onto Gelato, so an existing catalog does not need a rebuild.
Cons
- The free plan connects 2 stores and 2 users, so an account that outgrew Printify's free store cap still needs Gelato+.
- Discounts can differ by market, so the 33 percent ceiling is not a rate you can bank on every order.
CustomCat
A single US printer whose paid seat is close to a year of Premium, with the t-shirt discount printed on the plan page.
- Pricing
- Lite is free. PRO is $30/mo or $300/yr. The plan page's t-shirt is $9.58 on Lite and $6.90 on PRO.
Best for: US sellers whose monthly item count can cover a discount seat
Pros
- PRO is the paid seat when you want one US production system instead of a provider menu.
- The plan comparison prints a t-shirt at the Lite rate and the PRO rate before you subscribe, so you can see the gap before you pay.
- CustomCat's guidance is that 10 to 15 items in a typical month usually covers PRO, which you can test against orders you already ship.
Cons
- Enterprise is the tier that adds a minimum order volume, while Lite and PRO do not, so a small shop is not blocked from the discount.
- Below the monthly item count they name, PRO is rent on a discount the store has not earned.
Gooten
No platform rent at any volume, with orders still routed across a manufacturing network rather than one factory.
- Pricing
- Free to use, no upfront or hidden fees. You pay when a customer orders. No paid plan is published.
Best for: Sellers who will drop Premium and can accept another routed network
Pros
- Gooten says the platform is free, with no upfront or hidden fees, and charges you when a customer orders, so leaving Premium does not buy another seat.
- Orders route across 70+ locations, so production can sit nearer the buyer than a single building would.
- Gooten states a 99 percent accuracy rate and an under-3-day production SLA, a published clock you can plan a ship date around.
Cons
- There is no paid tier, so volume does not buy a published percentage off the catalog.
- It is still a network of manufacturers, so a provider you did not want on Printify can show up here too.
Spreadconnect
Spreadshirt's fulfillment arm, free to run, with a 48-hour claim and a catalog far smaller than Printify's.
- Pricing
- No setup fee and no monthly fee. You pay product and shipping. A calculator example uses a $9 base price.
Best for: Apparel shops that want a zero platform fee and one production system
Pros
- Spreadconnect's FAQ calls the service free of charge, with nothing due to open or keep the shop, so Premium does not return as a new seat.
- The bill is the product plus shipping, and that base price already includes a print area, so there is no platform cut on top.
- They say 95 percent of orders are fulfilled in less than 48 hours, from over 250 products, a speed claim on a much smaller catalog.
Cons
- The earnings calculator's base price is an illustration, not a named blank you can line up against another catalog, so it is not your shirt cost.
- Listed connections are Shopify, WooCommerce, Squarespace, and Amazon and eBay through Order Desk, so an Etsy-only shop should look elsewhere on this page.
Teelaunch
No subscription, a published Gildan range, and a US shipping rate printed beside the shirt.
- Pricing
- No monthly fee. The Gildan unisex page lists $6.90 to $11.90, and first-item US shipping is $5.49.
Best for: Sellers who want the parcel rate on the shirt page and no monthly seat
Pros
- The start guide lists no setup fee, no monthly fee, and no subscription, and you pay only when an order comes in.
- The Gildan unisex page ships from Wisconsin and Kentucky, so a US order starts domestic.
- Shipping for that shirt sits on the same page, including $2.00 for each extra US shirt, so price the next shirt before you set retail.
Cons
- The shirt is a range, so the low end is not the price of every size you will actually sell.
- That product page quotes processing of 3 to 7 business days, and the carrier has not started, so add transit to any deadline.
Apliiq
A blank-plus-decoration pricer, with private labels included at first and a digitization fee on new embroidery.
- Pricing
- No monthly fee on the public guide. A digital print is $7.49, plus $1 per item to fulfill the order.
Best for: Apparel brands that sell a private label and can price the print apart from the blank
Pros
- The dropship guide prices a digital print at a flat $7.49, so add it to the blank before you set a retail price.
- Private labels and neck prints are included for the first 10 of each, and every one after that is $2.50, so a small run stays cheaper.
- Production addresses are published in Huntington Park, California, and Philadelphia, so the factory is named before you commit.
Cons
- Embroidery starts at $10, and the first order of a new design adds an $11 digitization fee, so that piece costs more than later repeats.
- California ship-to addresses add 9.5 percent sales tax, and a one-print shirt still needs the blank plus the per-item fee.
Printed Mint
US production with no order minimum, and free continental shipping only after the order clears a published subtotal.
- Pricing
- No published monthly fee. Free continental US shipping on orders of $299 or more, except a holiday blackout.
Best for: US brands ordering enough units that a shipping waiver matters more than a software seat
Pros
- The homepage states no order minimum and average production of 1 to 3 days, with printing in the United States, so one shirt is enough to start.
- Qualifying continental US orders get free shipping at checkout with no coupon, and shipments can go out white-label, once the order clears the published subtotal.
- The help center includes Comfort Colors and Bella+Canvas apparel in that shipping offer, so the waiver is not limited to one blank.
Cons
- The free-shipping offer is unavailable from 15 November through 31 December, so a holiday order pays freight or waits.
- That same article puts orders over $200 at 5 to 7 business days or longer, slower than the homepage's production average.
What it is
A Printify alternative prints or embroiders after the customer pays and then ships the parcel.
The store never buys a carton first, keeps the retail price, and pays the supplier for production and sometimes a monthly seat.
Printful, CustomCat, Teelaunch, Apliiq, and Printed Mint are closer to a single production system, which matters when the print changes with the provider.
Gelato and Gooten still route the order, and Spreadconnect sells Spreadshirt's production with no platform rent. A hosted creator shop, or a catalog of finished goods, is a different job, covered in the print-on-demand services guide.
How it works
Printify's free plan connects 5 stores and charges the catalog price when an order arrives. Premium, at the monthly rate in the pricing table or the yearly charge beside it, lifts that to 10 stores and adds Printify Connect.
It discounts most products by as much as 20 percent, with a further cut of as much as 33 percent on selected new products.
The help center prices gift messages and packaging inserts at $0.15 each on Premium, against $0.25 at the regular rate, so those extras cost less on the paid seat.
Enterprise is the quote when Premium's store cap is still too low.
That yearly fee is non-refundable, so cancel before the renewal date or the next period bills.
Uninstalling the Printify app on Shopify cancels Premium without returning a year already paid, and any other channel leaves Premium running, so take the card off first.
Gelato's Velocity Switch transfers existing Shopify and Etsy listings onto Gelato's catalog, while Printful expects a rebuild, so budget design time on that switch.
An Etsy-only store should read the Etsy print-on-demand guide before Spreadconnect, because that integration list does not name Etsy.
Why it matters
The expensive Printify problem is often the shop past the free cap, because Premium for the year is $299. Printful's free plan does not bill for another connected store, so that sixth Shopify store does not require a seat.
Twelve months of Growth come to $299.88, which is $0.88 over that yearly Premium charge, and Growth drops to nothing after $12,000 in sales in a year. Printify does not publish a sales level that cancels Premium.
Gelato's yearly seat is the one paid plan here that lands under that yearly Premium charge.
Twelve months at the yearly rate is $239.88, or $59.12 less, and Gelato says choosing yearly saves $120 against twelve monthly bills. The catch is the free plan's cap on stores and on users, so a merchant who already needed Premium for store count still needs Gelato+.
CustomCat's yearly PRO is $300, which is $1 over the yearly Premium charge.
Twelve of the plan page's example shirts at the $2.68 gap save $32.16, enough to cover the $30 month if those shirts are already selling.
Toolradar data: Toolradar tracks 11 print-on-demand tools, last updated 16 October 2026, and Printify is the highest-rated of those with at least 500 reviews, at 4.6 out of 5 from 7,640 reviews.
A high score means buyers still rate the marketplace well, so leave for the seat, the store cap, or a provider you cannot control.
Method and figures are in the print-on-demand statistics and the live ranking, with profiles for Printify, Printful, and Gooten.
Key features to look for
Pricing
Prices below were checked on each vendor's own pages on 17 October 2026.
The comparison is the platform fee plus the published extras, not a full shirt-by-shirt margin, which lives in the t-shirt guide.
Printify's pricing page lists the free plan and puts Premium at $39 a month to start, the charge that ends if you move to a supplier with no seat.
The Premium help article lists the yearly charge at $299 and states that the fee is non-refundable, so a mid-year exit does not return that prepay.
Printful's pricing page keeps the account free, prices Growth at the monthly figure in the table, and waives it after the sales line also in that table.
Gelato's pricing page says there is no upfront fee and no commission, and the subscription page is where both Gelato+ rates, the free-plan store cap, and local production are published.
CustomCat's plan comparison prints Lite, PRO, and the t-shirt example.
Gooten's print-on-demand page states that the platform is free to use.
Spreadconnect, Teelaunch's start guide and Gildan page, Apliiq's dropship pricing guide, and Printed Mint's shipping article are the other primary pages.
How we compared: each fee was read on the vendor's own page, not on a rival's chart, and a sales-only tier is listed as a custom quote.
Dupple's Printify review is the product page on the main site, and the store beside these suppliers is covered in the Shopify review.
| Plan | Price | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| Printify Free | Free | 5 stores and unlimited designs, catalog price on each order |
| Printify Premium, monthly | From $39/mo | Up to 20 percent off most products, 10 stores, and Printify Connect |
| Printify Premium, yearly | $299/yr | Same Premium benefits, charged once, and the fee is non-refundable |
| Printify Enterprise | Custom quote | Unlimited stores and a dedicated account manager |
| Printful Free | Free | Unlimited connected stores, one placement included in the catalog price |
| Printful Growth | $24.99/mo | Up to 33 percent off products, waived after $12,000 in sales a year |
| Printful Enterprise | Custom quote | Dedicated success manager and custom solutions |
| Gelato Free | Free | 2 stores, 2 users, local production in 32 countries, no product discount |
| Gelato+, monthly | $29.99/mo | Up to 33 percent off products and unlimited stores |
| Gelato+, yearly | $19.99/mo | Same Gelato+ discount, billed for the year |
| Gelato Platinum | Custom quote | Custom product discounts for higher volume |
| CustomCat Lite | Free | Standard wholesale on the full catalog, including the example t-shirt |
| CustomCat PRO, monthly | $30/mo | Discounted wholesale, with no minimum order volume |
| CustomCat PRO, yearly | $300/yr | Same PRO discount, billed once |
| CustomCat Enterprise | Custom quote | Volume discounts, and this tier adds a minimum order volume |
| Gooten | Free | No upfront or hidden fees, charged when a customer orders |
| Spreadconnect | Free | Product and shipping only, with no setup fee |
| Teelaunch | Free | Product cost plus the shipping rate printed on the product page |
| Apliiq | Free | Blank plus each decoration and a per-item fulfillment fee |
| Printed Mint | Free | No order minimum, with continental US shipping waived above a published subtotal |
Who it's for
Move to Printful if the complaint is the provider and you can carry Growth until the waiver, since the free account already removes the store-count charge that Premium bills for.
Stay on Printify when you still want several printers on one design and the free store cap is enough, which is what the Printify review is for.
Move to Gelato when buyers live in several countries, or to CustomCat when US volume covers PRO.
Gooten, Spreadconnect, and Teelaunch stop the platform fee if you can accept another network, a smaller catalog, or a shirt sold as a range.
Apliiq fits a label you price apart from the blank, and Printed Mint fits a US bulk order that can use the shipping waiver outside the holiday blackout.
If you are leaving Printful rather than Printify, use Printful alternatives. If you are choosing a first supplier, start with how to start a print-on-demand business.
The bottom line
Printful is the Printify alternative to open first in 2026 when quality depends on which provider drew the order.
The free plan removes the store-count wall, and Growth can disappear after the sales waiver, which yearly Premium does not offer.
Gelato is the switch for buyers in several countries, once the free plan is too small, and CustomCat fits a US account that can cover PRO.
Gooten, Spreadconnect, and Teelaunch fit a store that wants the platform invoice to stop, Apliiq fits a label, and Printed Mint fits a US bulk order outside the holiday blackout.
Cite this: Retailpresso, "Best Printify Alternatives in 2026", October 2026.
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Sources
Prices and plan details come from each vendor's own pricing page, re-checked by the Toolradar pricing tracker.
- Printful pricingchecked Sep 2026
- Gooten pricingchecked Sep 2026
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