Evite Pricing in 2026: What Every Guest Count Costs
Evite pricing has three levels as of October 2026. A basic invitation is free and shows ads to your guests. Premium is a one-time charge per event, set by the size of your guest list: $17.99 for up to 12 guests, $36.99 for up to 30, $68.99 for up to 75 and $99.99 for up to 750. Evite Pro is a subscription at $249.99 a year.
Those numbers are from Evite's help centre and its Pro page, which I read on October 9, 2026. Below is what each package includes and which choices in the editor turn a free invitation into a paid one. After that come the costs of four typical parties. Next to each I've put the cost of the same party on Lemonvite, the platform this blog belongs to, which charges $5 per event.
Evite pricing by guest count
| Package | Guest list | Price | Per guest if the list is full |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | up to 750 | $0, with ads | $0 |
| Silver | up to 12 | $17.99 | $1.50 |
| Gold | up to 30 | $36.99 | $1.23 |
| Platinum | up to 75 | $68.99 | $0.92 |
| Diamond | up to 750 | $99.99 | $0.13 |
| Evite Pro | up to 2,500 per invitation | $249.99 a year | depends on how often you host |
Silver, Gold, Platinum and Diamond each cover one event. Evite says they can't be transferred to another invitation, so a package bought for a party that gets cancelled doesn't carry over to the next one. The price depends on the guest count and nothing else.
The last column is the best case, with every slot in the package used. The worst case is a list that sits just past a boundary. Thirteen guests need Gold, which works out to $2.85 each. Thirty-one guests need Platinum at $2.23 each, and 76 need Diamond at $1.32 each.
I couldn't find a statement on Evite's pages about whether a guest's plus-ones count toward the package limit. Check the total at checkout before you pay if your list is close to 12, 30 or 75.
Lemonvite has one price instead of four. Publishing an event costs $5 and covers up to 150 guests, so there's no boundary at 13 or 31 to plan around. You can start an invitation without paying and see the cost before you publish.
What Evite Premium includes
Evite's comparison of the two versions lists seven things that Premium has and Free doesn't:
- no ads on the invitation
- animated effects and reveals
- Premium-only designs
- envelopes, stamps and stickers
- a host photo gallery
- the option to remove gift guides
- double-sided invitations
Both versions have customizable designs, a shareable link and read receipts. The read receipts don't apply to guests who came in through the shareable link.
The item your guests will notice is the first one, because a free Evite shows them ads. If removing the ads is the reason you're looking at Premium, compare it with Lemonvite before you buy. Lemonvite shows no ads on any invitation, and its $5 also covers read receipts, co-hosts, your own RSVP questions and delivery by text.
The two products make invitations differently. Evite has a gallery you browse. Lemonvite has no gallery: you describe the event and the design engine makes an invitation for it, or you upload your own image. If you've found a specific Premium design on Evite that you want, that is a fair reason to pay for it. I compared the two in more detail in Evite vs Lemonvite.
Which upgrades trigger the Premium charge
You can start from a design marked Free and still be charged. Evite's pricing article names six upgrades that apply the Premium price to a free design:
- an envelope or a stamp
- a sticker
- a background
- ad removal
- text on the back of the invitation
- removal of the gifting suggestions
That list is incomplete. Other Evite help articles add four more: effects and reveals, an envelope liner, the host photo gallery and an RSVP By Date.
Adding any one of them makes the whole invitation Premium at the package price for your guest count. It also unlocks every other Premium feature for the same money, so a second or third upgrade costs nothing more. Evite puts a crown icon at the top of the screen when this has happened.
If a design you meant to send free asks for payment at checkout, Evite's help centre says to select "Downgrade to free" on the checkout page. That removes the upgrades and returns the invitation to the free version.
Designs that already carry a crown in the gallery are Premium from the start and always have a charge.
If your aim is to pay nothing, the free plan has its own rules, and I covered them in Is Evite free?.
In Lemonvite's editor nothing you add changes the price. Designing is free and a new account gets five design generations. The $5 is charged when you publish, so you can build the whole invitation first.
What happens when your guest list outgrows the package
If your list grows past the package you bought, Evite's help centre says you buy the larger package at its full price. In its words, "there's no option to pay just the difference between packages." Once you've bought the larger one, you can email Evite support to ask for a refund on the original. The article doesn't say how long that takes.
Here is an example. You buy Gold for a 28-person dinner at $36.99. Five more people get added and the list is now 33. You buy Platinum at $68.99, which puts $105.98 on your card until the refund request is handled.
So settle the list before you pay. If you're a few names under a limit and expect late additions, buying the next package up at the start avoids the second purchase.
On Lemonvite, adding guests after you've paid costs nothing up to the 150-guest limit, with one exception for text messages that I explain in the next section.
Evite cost for four typical parties
| Party | Evite Free | Evite Premium | Lemonvite |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 guests | $0, with ads | $36.99 (Gold) | $5 |
| 40 guests | $0, with ads | $68.99 (Platinum) | $5 |
| 80 guests | $0, with ads | $99.99 (Diamond) | $5 to $10 |
| 150 guests | $0, with ads | $99.99 (Diamond) | $5 to $15 |
The Lemonvite column has ranges because of texting. The $5 covers 150 guests, and up to 50 of them can have a phone number and get the invitation by text. Each further batch of 50 phone guests costs another $5, which pays for sending the texts. Guests invited by email don't add to the price. An 80-person party is $5 if 50 or fewer guests have a phone number and $10 if all 80 do. Checkout shows the breakdown before you pay, and the pricing page has the full terms.
Both services send texts to US and Canada numbers. For numbers elsewhere, Evite says to use email or the shareable link, and Lemonvite sends the invitation over WhatsApp.
At 20 guests, Evite Premium costs $31.99 more than Lemonvite. At 40 guests it costs $63.99 more.
Evite is the better choice in two cases. Free Evite is $0 and Lemonvite has no free way to send, so a host who doesn't mind the ads pays less on Evite at every size. And Lemonvite stops at 150 guests per event, while Evite goes to 750. For 300 guests, Evite is the one that fits.
Evite Pro pricing
Evite Pro is $249.99 a year. The Pro page shows an annual price only. It mentions no monthly option and no free trial. It includes:
- unlimited Premium invitations
- up to 2,500 guests per event
- no display ads on invitations
- a school or business logo on the invitation
- unlimited greeting cards
Compared with buying packages one at a time, Pro costs less from the third Diamond-size event in a year ($299.97 in packages), the fourth Platinum-size event ($275.96) or the seventh Gold-size one ($258.93). A household with two birthday parties a year pays more with Pro than with packages.
Compared with Lemonvite at $5 per event, Pro costs less only from about 50 events a year, or fewer if your events need extra text batches. It is the better choice for a school or a business that sends to lists larger than 150, because Lemonvite can't hold those.
Lemonvite has no subscription. You pay per event and nothing renews. Credits you've bought don't expire.
Which one to pay for
Send a free Evite if the event is casual and ads on the invitation won't bother anyone. Leave every upgrade listed above alone.
Buy an Evite Premium package if you want one particular Premium design, or if your list is over 150. With 12 guests or fewer it costs $17.99. If you send large invitations several times a year for an organization, Evite Pro can cost less than separate packages, as worked out above.
Use Lemonvite if you want an invitation without ads for 150 guests or fewer. Removing the ads from a 40-person Evite costs $68.99. An ad-free Lemonvite invitation for the same 40 people costs $5.
If you're still comparing, Paperless Post charges per guest. Its pricing page lists $0.50 to $1.44 per guest on the paid tiers for Cards and says the per-guest rate falls as the list grows. I went through that in Is Paperless Post free?. The wider field is in my list of the best Evite alternatives.
Before you choose an Evite package, describe your party at Lemonvite and look at the design it makes. That step is free. If you prefer the Evite design, you now know which package it needs and what it will cost.