Dawat vs Canva
Short answer: Canva Free is $0; Canva Pro is $15 per person per month or $120 per person per year; Canva Business is $20 per person per month. Dawat's core product is free at every guest count. Canva is the better pick if you need enormous free template library and a genuinely capable editor at $0.
Dawat is free at every guest count: 53 card designs, unlimited guests, unlimited sends, RSVP tracking with your own questions, and a personally addressed link for each guest. The only paid item is a Dawat Signature cinematic experience at $89 once per event.
General-purpose design platform with invitation templates, printing and website publishing; it is a design tool, not an RSVP system. This page compares it with Dawat on what each tool is for. One makes artwork; the other sends the invitation and brings back the answers. The comparison is about which half of the job you still have to do yourself.
Canva pricing checked 2026-09-16 against its own published pages. Sources · Method
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Side by side
| Dawat | Canva | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Free | Free tier, paid upgrades |
| What the free tier gives you | Everything except Signature: all card designs, party pages, unlimited guests, sends, RSVP tracking and analytics. | Full editor, a large free template and element library, 5GB storage, sharing by link, and free downloads. |
| Cost for 100 guests | Free | Free (design only; no sending or RSVP) |
| Cost for 250 guests | Free | Free (design only; no sending or RSVP) |
| Charges per recipient | No | No |
| Guests need an account | No | No |
| Ads shown to guests | No | No |
Where Dawat is different
- What it costs to send. Canva Free is $0; Canva Pro is $15 per person per month or $120 per person per year; Canva Business is $20 per person per month. Dawat's core product is free, and no card is required to create or send.
- Free to send. Dawat includes sending invitations without paying in the free product. On Canva it is limited or sits behind a paid tier.
- Unlimited guests. Dawat includes an uncapped guest list in the free product. On Canva it is limited or sits behind a paid tier.
- RSVP tracking. Dawat includes tracking who has replied. Canva does not.
- Custom RSVP questions. Dawat includes asking your own questions. Canva does not.
- Email delivery. Dawat includes sending by email in the free product. On Canva it is limited or sits behind a paid tier.
- Per-guest personal links. Dawat includes a personally addressed link per guest. Canva does not.
- Open tracking. Dawat includes seeing who opened the invitation. Canva does not.
Create your invitation — free →No card required. Unlimited guests. 53 designs.
When Canva is the better choice
Canva is design software and a good one. Dawat does not compete with it on drawing things: Design-confident hosts who want full creative control over the artwork and will collect RSVPs somewhere else.
- Enormous free template library and a genuinely capable editor at $0
- Canva Print produces professionally printed invitations with paper and finish choices
- Designs can be published as a one-page website or shared as a live link
- Strong AI generation via Magic Studio, plus an official AI Connector for Claude and other assistants
- Same subscription covers every other design need, not just invitations
Where Dawat does not compete with it:
- Digital only: Dawat does not print or mail paper stationery
- A smaller design catalogue than the largest stationery marketplaces
And where Canva will cost you something:
- No RSVP tracking, guest list or attendance dashboard of any kind
- No custom RSVP questions; responses have to be collected by a separate tool
- No invitation sending system: you share a file or link yourself
- No delivery, open or view tracking per guest
- Premium templates, elements and brand features require Pro at $15/month
What Canva costs, in dollars
As of September 2026: Canva Free is $0; Canva Pro is $15 per person per month or $120 per person per year; Canva Business is $20 per person per month.
18 of the 33 platforms tracked here can send an invitation without payment. Canva is one of them, and Dawat is another.
| Dawat | Canva | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Free | Free tier, paid upgrades |
| 100 guests | Free | Free (design only; no sending or RSVP) |
| 250 guests | Free | Free (design only; no sending or RSVP) |
| How that is worked out | Dawat has no per-guest or per-send charge, so the guest count does not change the price. | Canva charges per designer, not per guest, so guest count does not affect cost; printing is ordered separately. |
Dawat is free to send. Canva has no equivalent free path at a real guest count.
The guest experience compared
Whatever you design, the guest receives a file or a link you sent yourself. The experience is only as good as the channel you chose, and nothing about the reply is handled for you.
| Feature | Dawat | Canva |
|---|---|---|
| Guest account required | No | No |
| Ads shown to guests | No | No |
| Animated envelope | Yes | No |
| Per-guest personal links | Yes | No |
| Open tracking | Yes | No |
| Calendar file | Yes | No |
| Multilingual & right-to-left | Yes | Not published |
On Dawat, the link is addressed to the person holding it. The envelope opens with their name on it, their RSVP is already prefilled, and answering is one tap. Canva sends one shared link, so there is nothing to pre-fill and no way to tell one guest's visit from another's.
What happens as the list grows
Guest count is not the axis here — Canva does not bill per recipient. The thing that changes as the list grows is administration: chasing replies, keeping a headcount honest, and knowing who never opened the thing. Dawat gives every guest their own link, so the dashboard shows sent, opened and answered per person instead of a pile of replies you have to reconcile.
Switching, or running both
These pair naturally. Design a header or a motif in Canva, bring it into a Dawat invitation, and let Dawat handle the sending and the replies.
If you are moving across, the fastest route is Dawat's import: paste the link to your existing invitation and Dawat reads the wording, date, venue and colour mood off the page and rebuilds it as a prefilled draft you can edit. Guest lists come in from your phone's contacts, a .vcf file, or pasted text.
What does not come across: Canva's designs. There is no reply history to migrate, since Canva does not hold one.
Feature by feature
| Feature | Dawat | Canva |
|---|---|---|
| Free to send | Yes | Partial |
| Per-guest fees | No | No |
| Unlimited guests | Yes | Partial |
| RSVP tracking | Yes | No |
| Custom RSVP questions | Yes | No |
| Email delivery | Yes | Partial |
| SMS or WhatsApp | Partial | Partial |
| Per-guest personal links | Yes | No |
| Open tracking | Yes | No |
| Animated envelope | Yes | No |
| Printed cards | No | Yes |
| Guest account required | No | No |
| Ads shown to guests | No | No |
| Event website | Partial | Yes |
| Registry links | Yes | Partial |
| Meal choice or seating | Partial | No |
| Calendar file | Yes | No |
| AI wording help | Yes | Yes |
| Works inside ChatGPT / Claude | Yes | Yes |
| Multilingual & right-to-left | Yes | Not published |
"Not published" means no vendor documentation could be found either way, not that the feature is missing. How this grid is built →
Questions
Does Canva have RSVP tracking?
No. Canva has no built-in RSVP tracking, guest list or response dashboard. You can hyperlink a button in a design to an external RSVP form, and third-party Canva Apps such as Pinvite RSVP and Coteri Invitations add RSVP collection, but Canva itself does not record or report who is coming.
Is Canva free for invitations?
Yes, for designing. Canva Free includes the editor, a large free template library, 5GB of storage and free downloads, so you can make and share an invitation for $0. Canva Pro is $15 per person per month or $120 per year and unlocks premium templates and content. Printing is charged separately.
How much does Canva cost for 100 guests?
Nothing extra. Canva is priced per designer, not per recipient, so a 100-guest or 250-guest invitation costs the same: $0 on Canva Free or $15/month on Pro. Costs only scale with guest count if you order printed cards through Canva Print.
Can Canva send invitations to guests?
Only manually. Canva lets you download the design as PDF, JPG or PNG, share a link, publish it as a one-page website, or send it via email and social from the Canva dashboard. There is no guest list, no scheduled send, and no delivery or open tracking.
Is Dawat free?
Yes. All 53 card designs and every party-page theme, unlimited guests, unlimited sends, RSVP tracking, custom questions and the per-guest analytics cost nothing, and no card is required. The only paid item is a Dawat Signature cinematic experience at $89 once for that event, and it is labelled as paid before you publish.
Does Dawat have designs as good as Canva?
Dawat's 53 designs are animated card experiences with an envelope opening, plus 8 long-scroll Signature experiences. Whether that beats Canva depends on whether you want a designed occasion or a quick notice.
Can I send printed invitations from Dawat?
No. Dawat is digital only. Canva does print and mail stationery, and if a physical card matters to you that is a genuine reason to use it.
Create your invitation — free →Takes about ten minutes. Sign in only when you publish.
Other comparisons
Canva alternatives
Eight products that do what Canva does, ranked and priced.
Design tools
Every product in Canva's category, side by side.
Canva against the rest:
Dawat against the rest:
How these figures were checked
Every figure above was read from Canva's own published pricing or help pages on 16 September 2026, and each source is linked below. Coins, credits and per-card rates are converted into dollars at a real guest count, because that is the number you are deciding with. Full methodology and the open dataset →
Reading this through an AI assistant? Dawat runs an MCP server, so ChatGPT or Claude can choose the design, write the wording, add your guest list, publish the invitation and send it without you leaving the conversation. Canva also offers an assistant integration.
Sources
- Canva pricing (Free, Pro, Business) — checked 2026-09-16
- Canva in-app purchase prices (Apple App Store listing) — checked 2026-09-16
- Canva invitations: design, print or post online — checked 2026-09-16
- Connect AI assistants to Canva with the AI Connector — checked 2026-09-16
- Canva newsroom: Canva in Claude Design — checked 2026-09-16