Quick Answer: In 2025, Printify t-shirt base prices start at about $7.49 for a Gildan 5000 and top out around $13.50 for a Comfort Colors 1717, before shipping. The most-used blank — Bella+Canvas 3001 — sits in the middle at $10.98 on the Free plan.
Printify Premium subscribers get roughly 20% off most base prices, dropping the same Bella 3001 to about $8.77. Premium also applies to most other blanks in the catalog.
Add US shipping (~$4.45 first shirt, ~$2.30 each additional) and you're at a landed cost of roughly $11.94–$17.95 per tee depending on blank, plan, and provider.
What "base price" actually means on Printify
The Printify base price is the cost of the blank shirt plus the print, charged to you by the print provider. It's the number listed on the product page next to each variant inside the Printify catalog.
It is not the price you pay at checkout. Shipping is added per order. Tax is calculated at checkout in regions where Printify is registered. Branded packaging, neck-label print, and second print locations are optional add-ons with their own fees.
Three variables move the base price on the same shirt: the size (S–XL share one price, 2XL and up upcharge), the color (most stay at base, a handful of heathers and tie-dyes upcharge), and the print provider you route the order through. Printify's own t-shirt pricing calculator gives the same range we see across the catalog: roughly $7 to $27 per shirt depending on which blank you pick.
2025 Printify t-shirt base prices: reference table
The cleanest way to compare Printify t-shirts is by blank model. These are the most commonly stocked unisex tees in the 2025 catalog, with the standard US provider base price for size S–XL in a base color.
| Blank | Free plan base | Premium base (~20% off) | Weight / feel |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gildan 5000 | ~$7.49–$8.80 | ~$5.99–$7.04 | 5.3oz heavy cotton, classic fit |
| Gildan 64000 | ~$8.30–$9.50 | ~$6.64–$7.60 | 4.5oz softstyle, modern fit |
| Bella+Canvas 3001 | ~$10.98 | ~$8.77 | 4.2oz airlume cotton, fashion fit |
| Bella+Canvas 3001CVC | ~$11.50–$12.20 | ~$9.20–$9.76 | Heathered colorways, slight stretch |
| Next Level 3600 | ~$10.20–$11.30 | ~$8.16–$9.04 | 4.3oz cotton, premium feel |
| Comfort Colors 1717 | ~$12.79–$13.50 | ~$10.23–$10.80 | 6.1oz garment-dyed, vintage |
All prices are the floor for size S–XL, standard color, cheapest US provider with stock. 2XL and 3XL run higher. We break down those upcharges below.
The $5+ spread between a Gildan 5000 and a Comfort Colors 1717 is the difference between a $20 retail tee with healthy margin and a $30+ premium-feel tee where you have to charge more to keep the math working. Picking your blank is one of the most consequential pricing decisions in your store, so it's worth running the numbers before you commit a whole catalog to one model.
What changed in 2025 vs prior years
Three things moved on Printify t-shirt base pricing in 2025 worth knowing about.
Bella+Canvas 3001 held flat. The headline price stayed at $10.98 on Free / $8.77 on Premium across most US providers. After two years of small step-ups, the 2025 plateau is a quiet win for sellers who anchor on this blank.
Gildan blanks dropped at some providers. A handful of US print providers shaved $0.30–$0.70 off the Gildan 5000 and 64000 base in early 2025 to stay competitive with the softstyle category. The change isn't catalog-wide — it's provider-by-provider — so the floor moved without the headline number changing.
International provider gaps narrowed. European print providers used to charge $1.50–$3.00 more than US equivalents for the same Bella 3001. In 2025 the gap is closer to $0.50–$1.50 for most variants, making local-region fulfillment more viable for EU sellers.
None of those moves were announced as a pricing change. They showed up as quiet repricing inside the Printify product editor. If you launched a campaign in 2023 or 2024 and never re-pulled the variant pricing, your unit economics today may be off by a few percent in either direction.
Same shirt, different price: provider variation
Printify is a marketplace. The same Bella+Canvas 3001 fulfilled by Monster Digital in the US can cost $0.80 less than the identical shirt fulfilled by Textildruck Europa in Germany. The shirt is the same. The provider's wholesale cost from Bella+Canvas, their labor cost, their print method, and their ink markup all differ.
What changes between providers on the same blank:
- Base price — the floor before plan discounts, varying $0.50–$3.00 across US providers for an identical S–XL standard variant
- Print location surcharges — back print, sleeve print, oversize print are all priced per-provider
- Production time — fast providers ship in 2 business days, slow ones take 5+
- Premium eligibility — not every provider participates in the Premium 20% discount program
- Shipping rates — providers in different states ship at different per-order rates to different destinations
If you're optimizing for pure cost on a S–XL standard-color tee with one front print, sort providers by base price ascending in the Printify product editor and pick the cheapest with stock. If you're optimizing for fulfillment speed, the cheapest provider is usually not the right call — a defective reprint or a 7-day production delay costs more than the $1–$2 saved on base.
The Bella+Canvas 3001 example: same shirt costs about $8.70 from Monster Digital US and about $9.90 from Textildruck Europa, per Printify's published examples. That $1.20 gap compounds across hundreds of units.
Size upcharges across the catalog
Every Printify t-shirt carries the same general size pricing pattern: S, M, L, XL share the floor, then 2XL adds a few dollars and 3XL adds a few more. The exact upcharge varies by blank.
| Blank | S–XL | 2XL upcharge | 3XL upcharge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gildan 5000 | Base | +$2.00–$2.50 | +$3.50–$4.50 |
| Gildan 64000 | Base | +$2.00–$3.00 | +$3.50–$5.00 |
| Bella+Canvas 3001 | Base | +$2.00–$3.00 | +$3.50–$5.00 |
| Next Level 3600 | Base | +$2.50–$3.50 | +$4.00–$5.50 |
| Comfort Colors 1717 | Base | +$2.50–$3.50 | +$4.50–$6.00 |
The trap is listing one retail price across S–3XL. If your Bella 3001 is at $24.99 across every size on the Free plan, your gross margin on a large is about $9.56, but only $4.56 on a 3XL. Sell enough 3XL units and your average margin collapses without you noticing.
Two ways to fix it: tier your retail by size (S–XL at $24.99, 2XL at $26.99, 3XL at $28.99), or set the floor at a retail that keeps margin positive on your largest stocked size. Most experienced POD sellers tier — customers expect it on plus sizes.
Printify Premium discount on base prices
Printify Premium costs $29/month (or about $25/month billed annually). The headline perk is up to 20% off the base product cost on most blanks across most participating providers.
On a Bella+Canvas 3001, that's about $2.21 off per shirt. On a Comfort Colors 1717 it's roughly $2.70. On a Gildan 5000 it's $1.50–$1.80. Premium does not discount shipping or any optional add-on fees — only the base product cost.
Break-even math on Premium for a t-shirt-heavy store: at ~$2 saved per shirt, you need 15 shirts per month to cover the $29 subscription. Most stores moving real volume blow past that on a single weekend campaign. The plan pays for itself the moment your average sale velocity exceeds about 0.5 units per day.
Premium is not the right call if you're still in the testing phase with no sales — the subscription bleeds while you experiment. Switch on Premium once you have a product proven to convert and you're routing real order volume through it. For the plan-by-plan side-by-side, see our Printify pricing full breakdown.
Base price vs landed cost: what you actually pay
Base price is the headline. Landed cost is the number that actually hits your bank account when Printify charges you for a fulfilled order. The gap is shipping plus any add-ons.
Typical US-to-US shipping on a single Printify t-shirt order:
- Standard, first tee: ~$4.45
- Each additional tee in the same order: ~$2.00–$2.50
- Express, first tee: ~$7.99
- Canada/Mexico, first tee from US: ~$8.50–$11.00
- UK/EU, first tee from US: ~$9.00–$13.00
Landed cost for the four most-used blanks at single-tee US shipping on the Free plan:
| Blank | Base | + Shipping | Landed total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gildan 5000 | $7.49 | $4.45 | $11.94 |
| Gildan 64000 | $8.80 | $4.45 | $13.25 |
| Bella+Canvas 3001 | $10.98 | $4.45 | $15.43 |
| Comfort Colors 1717 | $13.50 | $4.45 | $17.95 |
For sample-order specifics — including the codes and conditions that actually shave off the sample-order cost — see Printify sample order cost full breakdown, Printify sample order coupon code, and Printify sample order discount.
How base price drives your margin
The base price you pick determines how aggressive your retail can be and how much room you have for ad spend. Here's the math on the same retail price ($24.99) across three different blanks on the Free plan, US shipping, US customer, Shopify Payments at 2.9% + $0.30.
| Line item | Gildan 5000 | Bella 3001 | Comfort Colors 1717 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Retail price | $24.99 | $24.99 | $24.99 |
| Shopify Payments fee | -$1.02 | -$1.02 | -$1.02 |
| Printify base cost | -$7.49 | -$10.98 | -$13.50 |
| Printify shipping (first tee, US) | -$4.45 | -$4.45 | -$4.45 |
| Gross profit per shirt | $12.03 | $8.54 | $6.02 |
| Gross margin % | 48.1% | 34.2% | 24.1% |
The Gildan 5000 has almost double the margin headroom of the Comfort Colors 1717 at the same retail. That's the entire pricing decision in one row. If your niche needs the heavy garment-dyed feel of a Comfort Colors, the math forces you to retail at $32–$36 to keep healthy margin. If your design carries the listing and the shirt is incidental, a Gildan 5000 at $24.99 prints money.
What this table doesn't include: ad cost. Most POD sellers spend $5–$12 per customer in Meta or Google. Subtract that from the gross profit row and the Comfort Colors at $24.99 retail goes net-negative. The Gildan 5000 retains $0–$7. Base price isn't a small line item — it's the difference between a profitable campaign and a money-loser.
Picking the right blank for your niche
Three quick rules of thumb that match what works for most POD operators:
Streetwear, fashion, design-first. Bella+Canvas 3001 or Next Level 3600. Customers care about hand feel. The $10–$11 base is the price of admission to that category.
High-volume niche, design-carries. Gildan 5000 or 64000. Customers buy the design more than the shirt. The $1.50–$3.00 saved on base goes straight to ad-spend headroom and breakeven cushion.
Vintage, premium, art-print aesthetic. Comfort Colors 1717. The garment-dyed look commands $32–$45 retail in the right niche, which makes the higher base sustainable. Don't pick this blank if you're competing on price.
Test one blank against another with the same design and the same campaign before committing your catalog. The conversion-rate gap between a Bella 3001 and a Gildan 5000 on the same listing is usually small enough that the base-cost gap dominates the unit economics decision.
Mistakes that quietly inflate your t-shirt cost
The base price isn't where most POD sellers lose money. The leaks are downstream of it.
1. Sticking with last year's variant pricing. Provider repricing happens quietly inside the Printify editor. Pull fresh variant prices before relaunching any campaign over 60 days old.
2. Switching providers without re-checking 2XL upcharge. A provider swap can shift the 2XL bump from $2 to $3.50 and silently shrink your plus-size margin.
3. Adding back print without repricing the listing. Most providers charge $2.00–$5.00 extra for a second print location. Keep your retail flat and your margin drops by that amount per unit.
4. Routing international orders through US providers. A UK customer fulfilled from a US provider pays $5–$8 more in shipping than the same customer fulfilled from a UK provider. Set up regional providers so each order routes locally.
5. Listing 3XL at the same retail as XL. Either tier the retail by size or don't stock the size at all. Absorbing the upcharge silently is the most common margin-leak in POD.
6. Forgetting Premium break-even. If you're moving 15+ shirts a month, you're leaving money on the table by not subscribing. Conversely, if you're still pre-sales, Premium bleeds $29 a month against zero saved.
Once your storefront, fulfillment, and ad accounts are connected into a single source of truth — usually a data warehouse like Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Databricks, or equivalent — these leaks show up as variance in average margin per SKU. They're catchable before they compound. For storefront-side setup, see how to connect Printify to Etsy step by step or how to connect Printify to Squarespace step by step.
FAQs
What is the cheapest Printify t-shirt in 2025?
The Gildan 5000 is consistently the cheapest unisex tee in the 2025 catalog, starting around $7.49–$8.80 base on the Free plan and dropping to roughly $5.99–$7.04 on Premium. Cheapest exact variant depends on which US provider you route through.
What is the average Printify t-shirt base price?
Across the most common unisex tee blanks in 2025, the average base price is roughly $9.50–$11.00 on the Free plan and $7.60–$8.80 on Premium for size S–XL in a base color. The range runs from about $7.50 (Gildan 5000) to $13.50 (Comfort Colors 1717).
Do Printify base prices include shipping?
No. The base price is the cost of the blank shirt plus the print, charged by the print provider. Shipping is added per order at checkout, typically $4.45 for the first US shirt and $2.00–$2.50 for each additional shirt in the same order.
How much does Printify Premium save on t-shirt base prices?
Premium subscribers get up to 20% off the base product cost on most blanks across most participating providers. On a Bella+Canvas 3001 that's about $2.21 off per shirt. On a Comfort Colors 1717 it's about $2.70. Premium does not discount shipping or optional add-ons.
Why does the same Printify shirt have different prices?
Each Printify print provider sets its own base price for the same blank. The shirt is identical, but the provider's wholesale cost, labor, and ink markup vary. Expect a $0.50–$3.00 range across US providers for an identical S–XL standard variant.
Do all sizes cost the same on a Printify t-shirt?
S, M, L, and XL share the same base price. 2XL typically adds $2.00–$3.50, and 3XL adds $3.50–$5.50. 4XL and 5XL, where stocked, add $5.00–$7.00. The upcharge varies by blank and print provider.
What is the most popular Printify t-shirt blank?
The Bella+Canvas 3001 unisex jersey short sleeve tee is the most-listed blank across Printify stores. It sits in the middle of the price range at $10.98 Free / $8.77 Premium, with strong availability across US and EU print providers and a fashion-fit cut customers recognize.
How often do Printify t-shirt base prices change?
Provider repricing happens periodically — usually a few times a year, quietly, inside the product editor without a public announcement. Bella+Canvas, Gildan, and other shirt makers reprice their wholesale rates less often. Always re-pull variant pricing before relaunching any campaign over 60 days old.
Are Printify t-shirt prices higher in 2025 than 2024?
The headline Bella+Canvas 3001 price held flat at $10.98 in 2025. Some Gildan blanks actually dropped $0.30–$0.70 at certain US providers in early 2025. European providers narrowed their gap to US pricing on most variants. There was no catalog-wide price hike.
Can I get a bulk discount on Printify t-shirts?
Yes. Printify applies an automatic bulk-quantity discount when you order enough units of the same exact variant — same shirt, size, and color. The discount stacks with Premium. Mixing sizes or colors usually breaks the bulk threshold because each variant is its own line item.
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