Contrado vs Printify
Compare Contrado and Printify on the products they share, with base costs, shipping assumptions and source dates together.
Contrado (In-house fulfillment)·Printify (Print network / marketplace)
Printify is cheaper on the one matched product.
Cheaper means the lower listed total for one item, base price plus first-item US shipping, where Contrado and Printify list the same product with the same print method (for printed apparel, on the same blank).
The typical gap is $24.83 per item (median). The largest is $24.83 on All-Over-Print Tee.
- Printify's biggest leads: All-Over-Print Tee ($24.83)
If you pay for a plan
Every total here is a free-plan price. Printify states the Premium price of every product, and Premium itself costs $39 a month, or $24.99 a month billed yearly. With Premium, Printify would be cheaper on 1 of 1 matched product; Contrado's free-plan price would be lower on none. What Premium takes off each product.
Sizes, colors and print providers can differ within a match: open a row's source before choosing.
Supplier overview
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| Compare | Contrado In-house fulfillment | Printify Print network / marketplace |
|---|---|---|
| Fulfillment model | In-house fulfillment | Print network / marketplace |
| Produces in | UK (in-house, Park Royal, London NW10) | USA; UK; EU; China; Australia; Canada (70+ print providers in 140+ facilities) |
| Products compared | 116 more | |
| Strengths | UK in-house web-to-print manufacturer built around a proprietary cut-and-sew 'web-to-print-to-make' system, premium fabrics and hand inspection. The world's largest custom-fabric collection, no minimums (order one or twenty), 1-2 day production, ethical/sustainable sourcing, global shipping and dropshipping. Premium positioning means notably higher base costs than marketplace POD. | Marketplace/aggregator connecting merchants to 70+ third-party print providers, so merchants can shop the lowest base cost and compare providers per product; largest catalog; free plan. Quality varies by chosen provider. |
Coverage is limited to the offers we track. It is not a measure of total catalog size or quality. Prices above are ordered by supplier, without a partner ranking boost.
What these numbers tell you
- Coverage counts describe our sourced records, not the suppliers’ entire catalogs. A missing offer means we have no comparable listing, not that a supplier cannot make the product.