Best Print-on-Demand Services 2026: Dropshipping Fulfilment Compared
We rank print-on-demand and dropshipping fulfilment services, which print your designs on products and ship each order to your customer, using only facts from their own sites: whether you can sell without a monthly subscription, a stated discount on sample orders, the number of products in the catalogue, the number of countries where orders are produced, eco products, integrations with Shopify, Etsy and WooCommerce, a public API, a mockup generator, branding options such as custom packing slips and labels, a written promise to reprint or refund misprinted and defective items, and the year the company started. Every fact links to an official page with a check date. We do not compare base product prices, which differ for every item and region, and we do not use reviews or print-quality tests that we cannot repeat. Paid placements never change the Score. Marketplaces that sell to shoppers under their own brand are a different niche and are not included.
| # | Company | Who it serves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Inkthreadable | 79 | Yes | Not verified | 250 | 1 | Yes | Yes | No fee Eco products Etsy integration Branding |
| 2 | Printify | 78 | Yes | $39.00 | 2,000 | Not verified | Yes | Yes | No fee Eco products Etsy integration Branding |
| 3 | Prodigi | 74 | Yes | Not verified | 250 | 10 | Yes | Not verified | No fee Eco products Etsy integration Branding |
| 4 | JetPrint | 66 | Yes | Not verified | 706 | Not verified | Yes | Yes | No fee Etsy integration Branding |
| 5 | Contrado | 64 | Yes | Not verified | 450 | 1 | Yes | Not verified | No fee Eco products Branding |
| 6 | Dreamship | 64 | Yes | Not verified | 250 | Not verified | Not verified | Yes | No fee Etsy integration |
| 7 | TPOP | 60 | Yes | $22.42 | Not verified | 1 | Yes | Yes | No fee Eco products Etsy integration Branding |
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- No monthly fee
- Yes
- Optional paid plan per month
- Not verified
- Products in catalogue
- 250
- Production countries
- 1
- Your branding on orders
- Yes
- Free reprint of misprints
- Yes
Pros
- Free to use: you pay only per order
- Written promise to reprint or refund defective items
- Organic, recycled or eco-certified products
- Native Shopify integration
Details Visit site ↗ 93% backed by facts
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- No monthly fee
- Yes
- Optional paid plan per month
- $39.00
- Products in catalogue
- 2,000
- Production countries
- Not verified
- Your branding on orders
- Yes
- Free reprint of misprints
- Yes
Pros
- Free to use: you pay only per order
- Written promise to reprint or refund defective items
- Large catalogue
- Organic, recycled or eco-certified products
Details Visit site ↗ 81% backed by facts
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- No monthly fee
- Yes
- Optional paid plan per month
- Not verified
- Products in catalogue
- 250
- Production countries
- 10
- Your branding on orders
- Yes
- Free reprint of misprints
- Not verified
Pros
- Free to use: you pay only per order
- Discount on sample orders
- Organic, recycled or eco-certified products
- Native Shopify integration
Details Visit site ↗ 80% backed by facts
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- No monthly fee
- Yes
- Optional paid plan per month
- Not verified
- Products in catalogue
- 706
- Production countries
- Not verified
- Your branding on orders
- Yes
- Free reprint of misprints
- Yes
Pros
- Free to use: you pay only per order
- Written promise to reprint or refund defective items
- Large catalogue
- Native Shopify integration
Details Visit site ↗ 70% backed by facts
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- No monthly fee
- Yes
- Optional paid plan per month
- Not verified
- Products in catalogue
- 450
- Production countries
- 1
- Your branding on orders
- Yes
- Free reprint of misprints
- Not verified
Pros
- Free to use: you pay only per order
- Large catalogue
- Organic, recycled or eco-certified products
- Native Shopify integration
Cons
- No Etsy integration
Details Visit site ↗ 80% backed by facts
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- No monthly fee
- Yes
- Optional paid plan per month
- Not verified
- Products in catalogue
- 250
- Production countries
- Not verified
- Your branding on orders
- Not verified
- Free reprint of misprints
- Yes
Pros
- Free to use: you pay only per order
- Written promise to reprint or refund defective items
- Native Shopify integration
- Native Etsy integration
Details Visit site ↗ 70% backed by facts
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- No monthly fee
- Yes
- Optional paid plan per month
- $22.42
- Products in catalogue
- Not verified
- Production countries
- 1
- Your branding on orders
- Yes
- Free reprint of misprints
- Yes
Pros
- Free to use: you pay only per order
- Written promise to reprint or refund defective items
- Organic, recycled or eco-certified products
- Native Shopify integration
Cons
- No sample discount
Details Visit site ↗ 76% backed by facts
Not ranked yet: not enough verified data
These services are known to us, but we haven't verified enough facts to rank them fairly.
- Apliiq (site closed to automated checks, )
- CustomCat (site closed to automated checks, )
- Gearment (54% backed by facts)
- Gelato (site closed to automated checks, )
- Gooten (50% backed by facts)
- Merchize (63% backed by facts)
- Printed Mint (site closed to automated checks, )
- Printful (58% backed by facts)
- Spreadconnect (40% backed by facts)
- Subliminator (68% backed by facts)
- teelaunch (50% backed by facts)
Sites marked as closed refuse automated reading (403 error, captcha or a robots.txt ban). We don't bypass such protection, so we can't verify their facts and they are not ranked. This says nothing about their quality. A company can send links to its official pages to [email protected].
How we calculate the Score
20%
Cost to start
Whether you can connect a store and fulfil orders without a monthly or annual subscription and pay only per order (weight 2); a free trial of a paid plan does not count. Also whether an official page states a discount on sample orders (weight 1). Optional paid plans are shown on the page but not scored, and base product prices are not compared.
30%
Catalogue and production
The number of products in the catalogue as the company states it, on a logarithmic scale up to 1,000 (weight 2); the number of countries where the company or its partner network produces orders, as stated or listed by the company, on a logarithmic scale up to 30 (weight 2); a region such as "EU" is not counted as a number of countries. And whether the catalogue includes products the company calls organic, recycled or eco-certified (weight 1).
30%
Store tools
Whether the service has a native integration with Shopify, Etsy and WooCommerce (weight 1 each), a documented public API for orders (weight 1), a built-in mockup generator (weight 1) and branding options such as custom packing slips, inserts, labels or branded packaging (weight 1). The fact shows that a tool exists, not that it is free: some branding options cost extra.
20%
Reliability
Whether an official policy says that misprinted, damaged or defective items are reprinted, replaced or refunded at no cost to you (weight 2), and how long the company has been running: 20 years or more scores 100 (weight 1). We record the written promise; we do not test print quality.
How to choose a print-on-demand service
Price your own products
Compare the base price plus shipping of the exact products you will sell, not the cheapest item in the catalogue. Your margin depends on these two numbers.
Order samples first
Print quality and sizing vary between products and production partners. Order samples of your best designs before you launch, and check whether the service gives a discount on them.
Produce close to your customers
Production in or near your customers' country means faster delivery and fewer customs fees. Check where each product in your shop is actually made.
Read the reprint policy
Know the deadline for reporting misprints and damaged parcels, the photos you need and who pays for a reprint. You will be the one answering your customers.
Frequently asked questions
Which print-on-demand service is best?
The service in first place has the highest Score under our open method, but the Score does not measure print quality or how well a catalogue fits your designs. Order samples from two or three services and compare the base price of the products you plan to sell.
Is print on demand free?
Most services let you connect a store and list products without a subscription: you pay the base price and shipping only when a customer orders. Some sell optional monthly plans with product discounts; we show their price but do not score it.
Why don't you compare product prices?
Base prices differ for every product, size, print method and shipping region, and catalogues hardly overlap. A single price would favour whoever is cheapest on that item. Check the prices of your own products in each catalogue.
Why is a well-known service not ranked?
Some sites closed to our automated checks, so facts that we could not confirm stay empty. An empty fact scores zero and lowers data completeness; a service with too little confirmed data is listed below the ranking.
What happens if an item is misprinted?
Services that score on this fact promise in writing to reprint, replace or refund misprinted, damaged or defective items, usually if you report it with photos within 30 days. Read the policy for deadlines and what counts as a fault.