Best Print on Demand Supplier for Magnets (2026): Printful vs Printify vs Gelato
Quick answer: Printful is the best print on demand supplier for magnets if you want prices you can plan around. It carries two magnets, die-cut magnets from $3.39 base and car magnets from $3.12, and every size shows its cost up front. Printify has the wider range, nine magnet products including square, porcelain, button, custom shape and car magnets, but it doesn't publish base cost in its catalog feed, so you see the real number once you build. Gelato doesn't carry magnets today. Every number below came from the live catalogs on November 4, 2026.
Magnets are one of the cheapest products you can add to a print on demand store, and one of the most useful. They sit next to stickers as an impulse add-on, they make a natural bundle with a mug or a tee, and car magnets open a whole local business and fan market that apparel never reaches. They're also easy to underprice, because a low base cost hides how much shipping and fees matter on a small order.
We run all three suppliers. ApparelHub connects to Printful, Printify and Gelato, all three are live for our merchants, and we don't take a cut of anyone's print margin, so we've got no reason to push you toward one.
Which print on demand supplier is best for magnets?
It depends on what you're selling.
- Known costs and a short, simple list: Printful. Two products, three sizes each, every price published.
- The widest choice of shapes and formats: Printify. Square, die-cut, porcelain, round and rectangle button magnets, custom shapes up to 18 by 24 inches, and two kinds of car magnet.
- Magnets from Gelato: not an option today. A keyword search of Gelato's catalog for "magnet" returned nothing.
If Gelato handles the rest of your range, your magnets have to come from Printful or Printify. Worth knowing before you plan a bundle around a Gelato product.
What do print on demand magnets actually cost?
These are live base costs from Printful's catalog. They're production cost only, before shipping, tax and channel fees.
| Magnet (Printful) | Size | Base cost |
|---|---|---|
| Die-Cut Magnet | 3 by 3 in | $3.39 |
| Die-Cut Magnet | 4 by 4 in | $3.91 |
| Die-Cut Magnet | 6 by 6 in | $5.99 |
| Car Magnet | 7.5 by 4.5 in | $3.12 |
| Car Magnet | 5 by 5 in | $3.20 |
| Car Magnet | 10 by 3 in | $4.11 |
On Printify, every magnet variant comes through the catalog feed with a cost of zero, so there's no published number to put in this table. That isn't a bug, Printify just doesn't share base cost with platforms until a product is built. More on that below.
Two things stand out on Printful. First, the cheapest magnet in the catalog is a car magnet: the 7.5 by 4.5 inch size costs $3.12, a few cents less than the 5 by 5 and less than the smallest die-cut. Second, the die-cut range jumps sharply at the top. Going from 4 by 4 to 6 by 6 adds $2.08, more than the whole step from 3 inch to 4 inch.
Which magnets can you get on Printify?
Printify's range is where the choice is. Leaving out phone cases and power banks that show up in a "magnet" search because they're magnetic, its catalog lists nine magnet products:
- Magnets (square, generic): 3 by 3, 4 by 4 and 6 by 6 inches.
- Die-Cut Magnets: five sizes from 2 by 2 up to 6 by 6 inches, so it goes smaller than Printful's die-cut.
- Square Magnet by Magnum Magnetics: 3 by 3 and 5 by 5 inches.
- Porcelain Magnet, Square: one size, 2 by 2 inches, white. A different material and feel from the flexible magnets above.
- Button Magnet, Round by Tecre: 2.25 inch round, offered as a single or a pack of ten.
- Button Magnet, Rectangle by Tecre: 2 by 3 inches, also as a single or a pack of ten.
- Custom Shape Magnets: eleven sizes from 2 by 3.5 inches up to 18 by 24 inches.
- Car Magnets: 5 by 5, 10 by 3 and 7.5 by 4.5 inches, the same three sizes Printful offers.
- Round Car Magnet: one size, 6 inches across.
That's a real advantage if your product idea depends on a format. A pack of ten button magnets for an event, a porcelain fridge magnet for a gift shop, or an 18 by 24 inch magnet for a vehicle door are all things Printful's two products don't cover.
Why can't you see Printify's magnet costs up front?
Printify doesn't include base cost in the catalog data it publishes to platforms. Every variant, on every magnet, arrives with a cost of zero.
It doesn't mean typing costs in by hand. Printify returns the real per-variant cost when a product is created on its side, and building the product through ApparelHub, mockup included, does exactly that, so the cost lands on every size as part of the build. What you can't do is sort Printify's nine magnets by price before building anything. To compare its die-cut magnet against Printful's, build it, read the numbers off the variants, and compare like for like.
Same product, two suppliers: the car magnet
Car magnets are in both catalogs in the same three sizes, which makes them a useful test.
Price. Printful publishes $3.12 to $4.11 across the three sizes. Printify's cost appears when you build.
Print area shape. The two suppliers publish very different templates. The Printful car magnet template we read is a wide panel about three times as wide as it is tall (2972 by 990), the shape of the 10 by 3 size. Printify's is square (1650 by 1650). That doesn't tell you how each size is cut, so build the size you plan to sell and check its mockup, rather than assuming one file fits all three.
Extra shapes. Printify also has a 6 inch round car magnet. If your design is a circular badge or logo, that's the one to look at.
How big is the print area on a magnet?
Each supplier measures at its own template scale, so compare shapes rather than raw pixel counts.
- Printful's Die-Cut Magnet has a square area (518 by 518) with a recommended image size of 728 by 728.
- Printful's Car Magnet has the wide 2972 by 990 panel described above.
- Printify's square Magnets, Die-Cut, Magnum Square, Porcelain and Round Button are all square templates.
- Printify's Rectangle Button is landscape (1132 by 832).
- Printify's Custom Shape Magnet is portrait (694 by 1144).
Die-cut magnets are cut to the outline of your design, so the edges of your artwork become the edge of the product. That makes background removal matter far more than it does on a square magnet. A stray halo or a soft edge turns into an odd shape once it's cut. Our print ready file guide covers resolution, format and clean transparency, and the same rules apply to stickers, which use the same die-cut idea.
What goes wrong with magnet listings?
Three problems come up again and again.
Artwork that's too detailed for the size. A 2 or 3 inch magnet is small. Fine text and thin lines that read well on a poster disappear. Check the mockup at actual size and keep the design bold.
Reusing one file across every size and shape. A square design on a wide car magnet panel either shrinks to a strip or gets cropped. Make a version for each shape you sell.
Pricing from base cost alone. A $3.39 base looks like a huge margin at $9.99. Once shipping, your channel's transaction fee and any free shipping threshold come in, a single magnet order can be close to break even. That's the case for bundles.
How do you price a magnet so it makes money?
Start from the base cost of the size you picked and work forward.
Take Printful's 3 by 3 inch die-cut magnet at $3.39. At a $8.99 retail price, you've got $5.60 left before shipping and your channel's fee. The 6 by 6 at $5.99 leaves $6.00 at $11.99. The 7.5 by 4.5 car magnet at $3.12 leaves $9.87 at $12.99. A car magnet is a bigger, more visible product, so test a higher price on it rather than matching your fridge magnets.
A few habits protect that margin:
- Sell magnets as add-ons or bundles. A magnet added to a tee or mug order shares that order's shipping, which is where it earns its keep. Our guide to the best print on demand supplier for mugs covers a natural pairing.
- Price the biggest size separately. On Printful, the 6 by 6 die-cut costs 77 percent more to make than the 3 by 3.
- Re-check after building on Printify. Once the real cost lands on your variants, compare it with your planned price before the listing goes live.
For the wider method, see how to price print on demand products, and for watching margin across a whole catalog, how to track profit margins in a print on demand store.
How many magnets does each supplier carry?
| Supplier | Magnet products (Nov 2026) | What stands out |
|---|---|---|
| Printful | 2 | Published prices, die-cut from $3.39, car magnets from $3.12 |
| Printify | 9 | Porcelain, button packs of ten, custom shapes up to 18 by 24 in, round car magnet; costs appear once you build |
| Gelato | 0 | No magnets in its catalog |
If you're building out a range of small add-ons, our guides to the best print on demand supplier for ornaments and for stickers cover the products that usually sit next to a magnet. For the supplier picture beyond one product, see Printful vs Printify vs Gelato.
Where ApparelHub fits, and where it doesn't
ApparelHub runs the pipeline around these suppliers rather than replacing them. Printful, Printify and Gelato are all live today, you connect your own accounts, and whatever margin you have with them stays yours. We don't take a percentage of print cost.
For magnets, that means browsing both magnet catalogs side by side, real Printify costs landing on your variants when you build, mockups rendered by the supplier that would actually print the magnet so you can check the cut and the print area before listing, and margin guardrails that can hold an order instead of fulfilling it at a loss when a cost moves. Listings sync to Shopify, WooCommerce, Wix and TikTok Shop.
What it doesn't do: we don't make the magnet, we can't add magnets to Gelato's catalog, and we can't make Printify publish a base cost it doesn't publish, so price shopping its catalog before building still happens in Printify. A mockup isn't a sample either, and for a die-cut shape, ordering one to check the cut is worth it. We don't integrate Etsy, and we've explained why.
If you'd rather not do the comparison by hand, you can connect your own AI agent, Claude or any assistant that supports connectors, and have it compare magnet formats, build the sizes you want so the real costs land, fit your design to each print area and review the mockups through ApparelHub. Agent access is on every plan, including Free, and setup is at apparelhub.ai/agents.
Frequently asked questions
Which supplier has the cheapest print on demand magnet? Of the published prices, Printful's 7.5 by 4.5 inch car magnet is the cheapest at $3.12 base, with its 3 by 3 inch die-cut magnet at $3.39. Printify may be cheaper on some formats, but you'll find out by building the product, since its costs aren't in the catalog feed.
Does Gelato sell print on demand magnets? Not as of November 2026. A search of Gelato's catalog for "magnet" returned nothing, so magnets need to come from Printful or Printify.
Can I sell magnets in packs? Yes, on Printify. Its Tecre round and rectangle button magnets are offered as a single or a pack of ten. Printful's magnets are sold one at a time.
What's the best design for a die-cut magnet? A bold design with a clean, simple outline and a properly transparent background. The cut follows your artwork, so soft edges and stray pixels become part of the shape.
Can I sell the same magnet through more than one supplier? Yes. Car magnets come in the same three sizes on both Printful and Printify, and both carry a die-cut magnet. Having a second supplier ready is a sensible backup plan for when a print provider runs out of stock.
Where to start
If you're adding magnets to an existing store, start with one die-cut magnet of your best selling design and offer it as an add-on to your apparel. Create a free ApparelHub account, connect the supplier you already use, and compare the real costs before you list. If you'd like your agent to do the comparing, start at apparelhub.ai/agents.