Paperless Post Pricing: What Coins Cost in 2026
Paperless Post pricing is one multiplication: the Coins your design costs per guest, times the number of guests. As of October 2026 the pricing page lists four per-guest rates, which apply to Cards and Flyers. For a list of 50, Free is $0.00 per guest, Basic is $0.50, Premium is $1.05 and All Access is $1.44. A Premium Card for 50 guests comes to $52.50. The rates are higher for a shorter list and lower for a longer one.
I read Paperless Post's pricing page, its Buy Coins page, its promo codes page and four help-center articles this week, then priced five ordinary events in the pricing page's calculator. Beside each one is the cost of the same event on Lemonvite, the invitation platform this blog belongs to, which charges $5 per event. Paperless Post is the cheaper of the two for some of them, and I say where.
If all you want to know is whether you can send without paying, I answered that separately in is Paperless Post free?.
How do Paperless Post Coins work?
Coins are prepaid credits. You buy them on the Paperless Post site and you can only spend them there. Every design shows a price in Coins per recipient, and your total is that number multiplied by your guest list.
The help center and the promo codes page add the rules that decide what you pay:
- Coins come in preset packages. Once your guest list is attached to an event, you can instead buy exactly the number that list needs.
- Coins use bulk pricing, so a bigger purchase has a lower price per Coin.
- Unused Coins stay in your account for a later event. Purchased Coins are non-refundable, and the help center says they may be forfeited if the account is inactive for five years.
- A new account earns 10 free Coins, according to the promo codes page. Free Coins expire a year after they're granted.
Paperless Post retired its older Plus add-on on July 14, 2026. A draft created before that date may still show Plus as an optional add-on. The help center also says feature sets are still being rolled out, so some designs may not use them yet.
On Lemonvite the design never changes the price. Publishing an event is $5.
Paperless Post pricing by tier, and what a Coin costs
Paperless Post calls its tiers feature sets. The Coin counts below are from its promo codes page. The dollar rates are what the pricing page's calculator showed me for 25, 50 and 150 guests.
| Feature set | Coins per guest | Per guest at 25 | At 50 | At 150 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | 0 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.25 for each guest past 50 |
| Basic | 2 | $0.74 | $0.50 | $0.38 |
| Premium | 5 | $1.25 | $1.05 | $0.80 |
| All Access | 8 | $1.84 | $1.44 | $1.12 |
The rate falls as the list grows because of the bulk pricing on Coins. The Buy Coins page lists seven packages:
| Package | Price | Per Coin |
|---|---|---|
| 25 Coins | $12.00 | 48 cents |
| 100 Coins | $25.00 | 25 cents |
| 200 Coins | $46.00 | 23 cents |
| 300 Coins | $57.00 | 19 cents |
| 450 Coins | $77.00 | 17 cents |
| 600 Coins | $96.00 | 16 cents |
| 1,000 Coins | $140.00 | 14 cents |
So a Paperless Post Coin costs between 14 and 48 cents, depending on how many you buy at once.
The Free set has a limit. There's no Coin charge for the first 50 guests you send to by email or text through the site. Every guest after the 50th costs 1 Coin. That's why the Free row isn't $0.00 at 150 guests. The first 50 are still free, and the calculator charges $0.25 for each of the other 100, which is $25.00 in total.
What adds Coins to a Card
A design becomes paid in one of two ways.
The design has a starting price. The help center's example is a design partner Card that starts at 2 Coins, which is the Basic set. A Card like that can't be brought down to Free. To send for nothing you have to pick a different template.
You add a paid element. Features are bundled, so adding one feature from a higher set moves the whole invitation to that set's per-guest price, and the rest of that set then costs nothing extra. The pricing page lists the backdrop and the envelope, with its liner and stamp, under Premium. Premium Page Styles are there too, along with the Photo Gallery and Video blocks. So are Guest Questions for a short answer or a mailing address. A custom URL for your link is an All Access feature.
Sending by text or email, RSVP tracking, broadcasts and private messages are included in every set. Paperless Post's site also says "No distracting ads, ever."
On Lemonvite there's a single set. Custom RSVP questions and co-hosts are part of the $5, so asking guests for a meal choice doesn't change the price.
Flyers versus Cards
A Card is the stationery-style invitation: a card image on a backdrop, often with an envelope and liner. A Flyer is an event page with a photo or video beside the details. Both use the same four feature sets.
Paperless Post's FAQ says most of its stationery-style Cards require Coins. Every Flyer has free design options, with the paid ones marked by a Coin icon. Stay with the free options and your first 50 Flyer invites are free by text or email.
Here Paperless Post is cheaper than Lemonvite. A free Flyer or a free Card design sent to 50 guests or fewer costs $0 and carries no ads. Lemonvite costs $5. If that's your event, use the free design.
Shareable Links are priced separately. For a free Card or Flyer the link is free, though Paperless Post can't show you who opened it. For a paid design that collects RSVPs, you pay for the number of RSVPs you expect, multiplied by the Coins per invite: 20 expected RSVPs on a 5-Coin design is 100 Coins. A paid design that doesn't collect RSVPs costs a flat 200 Coins to share by link.
How much does Paperless Post cost for a typical event?
The Paperless Post figures are the calculator's totals for that feature set and guest count.
| Event | Paperless Post | Lemonvite |
|---|---|---|
| 25-guest birthday, free Flyer | $0 | $5 |
| 40-guest baby shower, Premium Card with an envelope | 200 Coins, $46.00 | $5 |
| 60-guest rehearsal dinner, Basic design partner Card | 120 Coins, $30.00 | $5, or $10 if all 60 get a text |
| 80-guest holiday party, free Flyer | 30 Coins, $13.80 | $5, or $10 if all 80 get a text |
| 120-guest engagement party, Premium Card | 600 Coins, $96.00 | $5 to $15 |
Lemonvite's price depends on how many guests get a text. The $5 covers up to 150 guests, and up to 50 of them can be phone guests who get the invitation by text. Each further batch of 50 phone guests is another $5, which goes toward the cost of sending texts. Guests invited by email add nothing. So 120 guests who all get a text cost $15. The same 120 with 50 on text and 70 on email cost $5. Lemonvite sends texts to US and Canada numbers. Guests elsewhere get the invitation by WhatsApp or email.
The free Flyer is the cheaper choice for the birthday. At 80 guests it depends on your account and on how you send. The 30 guests past the free 50 cost 30 Coins, and the calculator prices those at $13.80, because a small Coin purchase pays the highest price per Coin. A new account's 10 free Coins cut the need to 20, and you can buy exactly 20 at checkout. The calculator prices 20 Coins at $9.60. That's 40 cents under Lemonvite's $10 if all 80 get a text, and $4.60 over Lemonvite's $5 if 30 of them are fine with email.
Every paid Card in the table costs more than Lemonvite: $41 more for the Premium Card at 40 guests, $20 to $25 more for the Basic Card at 60, and $81 to $91 more for the Premium Card at 120. If you were about to pay for a Card, make the same invitation on Lemonvite first. A new account gets five design generations free, and you pay only when you publish.
Lemonvite has two limits to weigh against that. Its cap is 150 guests per event, and Paperless Post's help center gives a sending limit of 5,000 email addresses or phone numbers per event. The other limit is the design: Paperless Post has a catalog of Cards and Lemonvite's design engine makes the invitation from your description, which I compared in Paperless Post vs Lemonvite.
Paperless Pro: the subscription price
Paperless Pro replaces Coins with an annual fee. The plan on the pricing page is $250 a year for 250 guests, which is $1.00 per guest, and Paperless Post says that saves 25% against paying per event.
What to check before buying:
- A guest counts once per event. The same person invited to three events uses three of your 250.
- Subscriptions are non-refundable. The pricing page's FAQ says you can cancel at any time, and that you stay a subscriber until the term expires and then return to paying with Coins per event.
Five events of 50 guests each use up the whole 250-guest Pro allowance, for $250. Five events on Lemonvite are $25. Lemonvite has no subscription, and a balance you've bought doesn't expire.
Which one I'd pay for
For a casual party of 50 or fewer, I'd send a free Paperless Post Flyer and pay nothing.
I'd only buy Coins for a Card if I wanted that exact design. In that case I'd finish the design and the guest list first, then buy the exact number of Coins the list needs.
Most showers and milestone birthdays of up to 150 people fall between those two cases, and for them I'd pay Lemonvite's $5. A baby shower invitation for 40 costs the same as one for 140, as long as no more than 50 guests are on text.
If you're still choosing between platforms, there's also Evite vs Paperless Post and a list of the best Paperless Post alternatives.
Before you check out with a Coin package, open Lemonvite and type in the same event. Generating the design costs nothing, and checkout shows the full breakdown before you pay.