Dawat vs Minted
Short answer: as of September 2026, Minted charges by the head — $234 (100 Classic 7x5 cards at $2.34 each) for 100 guests, ~$585 (250 Classic 7x5 cards at the published 100-qty rate) for 250. Dawat charges nothing at any guest count. Minted is still the better pick if you need large juried design library from independent artists, not generic templates.
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.
Design-marketplace stationery printer selling independent-artist wedding invitations, plus free wedding websites and free online invitations. This page compares it with Dawat on cost per guest, on what happens after the cards are in the post, and on the part printed stationery cannot do: tell you who is coming.
Minted pricing checked 2026-09-16 against its own published pages. Sources · Method
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Side by side
| Dawat | Minted | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Free | Priced per printed card |
| What the free tier gives you | Everything except Signature: all card designs, party pages, unlimited guests, sends, RSVP tracking and analytics. | Free wedding website with online RSVP, free online invitations sent by text or email, free recipient addressing and free samples. |
| Cost for 100 guests | Free | $234 (100 Classic 7x5 cards at $2.34 each) |
| Cost for 250 guests | Free | ~$585 (250 Classic 7x5 cards at the published 100-qty rate) |
| Charges per recipient | No | Yes |
| Guests need an account | No | No |
| Ads shown to guests | No | Not published |
Where Dawat is different
- What the guest list costs. On Minted, every additional guest has a price. On Dawat the hundredth guest costs what the first one did: nothing.
- Free to send. Dawat includes sending invitations without paying in the free product. On Minted it is limited or sits behind a paid tier.
- Per-guest fees. Minted does this. Dawat never does.
- Unlimited guests. Dawat includes an uncapped guest list in the free product. On Minted it is limited or sits behind a paid tier.
- Custom RSVP questions. Dawat includes asking your own questions. Minted does not publish whether it supports this.
- Per-guest personal links. Dawat includes a personally addressed link per guest. Minted does not publish whether it supports this.
- Open tracking. Dawat includes seeing who opened the invitation. Minted does not publish whether it supports this.
- Animated envelope. Dawat includes an animated envelope opening. Minted does not.
Create your invitation — free →No card required. Unlimited guests. 53 designs.
When Minted is the better choice
Dawat does not print anything, so this section is not a close-run thing. Where Minted is better, it is comprehensively better: Couples who want distinctive designer paper invitations and will use the free matching wedding website for RSVPs.
- Large juried design library from independent artists, not generic templates
- Free recipient addressing and coordinating printed envelopes included on orders
- Free wedding website with online RSVP and registry links, matching the paper design
- Free online invitations can be sent by text or email at no cost
- Free paper samples before committing to a full order
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 Minted will cost you something:
- Priced per printed card, so cost scales directly with guest count
- Postage is not included and is paid separately
- Premium formats such as letterpress cost substantially more, from $485 per 100
- Per-card price at quantities above 100 is not published on the site
- Discount programs require a paid Minted More membership
What Minted costs, in dollars
As of September 2026: Printed wedding invitations start as low as $2.34 per card in Classic 7x5 and $2.00 per card in Petite 6x4.25 at quantity 100; letterpress from $485 per 100.
7 of the 33 invitation, stationery and event platforms tracked in this dataset charge per guest or per printed card. Minted is one of them.
| Dawat | Minted | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Free | Priced per printed card |
| 100 guests | Free | $234 (100 Classic 7x5 cards at $2.34 each) |
| 250 guests | Free | ~$585 (250 Classic 7x5 cards at the published 100-qty rate) |
| How that is worked out | Dawat has no per-guest or per-send charge, so the guest count does not change the price. | Based on Minted's published Classic 7x5 per-card price at quantity 100; Minted publishes no 250-qty rate. Postage is extra. |
Dawat is free to send. Minted has no equivalent free path at a real guest count.
The guest experience compared
A printed card is a wonderful thing to receive and a terrible thing to reply to. Whatever the envelope looks like, the reply has to happen somewhere, and that somewhere is what this section is about.
| Feature | Dawat | Minted |
|---|---|---|
| Guest account required | No | No |
| Ads shown to guests | No | Not published |
| Animated envelope | Yes | No |
| Per-guest personal links | Yes | Not published |
| Open tracking | Yes | Not published |
| Calendar file | Yes | Not published |
| 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. Minted does not publish whether it addresses each guest individually.
What happens as the list grows
At 20 guests, the difference between Minted and Dawat is a few dollars and a matter of taste. At 250 guests it is ~$585 (250 Classic 7x5 cards at the published 100-qty rate) against nothing, and it stops being a matter of taste.
This lands hardest on exactly the people with the biggest lists: extended families, community organisations, mosques and nonprofits, and anyone whose wedding invitation list has three hundred names on it because that is simply how many people there are. Per-recipient pricing quietly asks those hosts to shorten the list.
| Guest list | Minted | Dawat |
|---|---|---|
| 50 guests | about $117 | Free |
| 100 guests | $234 (100 Classic 7x5 cards at $2.34 each) | Free |
| 250 guests | ~$585 (250 Classic 7x5 cards at the published 100-qty rate) | Free |
Based on Minted's published Classic 7x5 per-card price at quantity 100; Minted publishes no 250-qty rate. Postage is extra.
Switching, or running both
Running both is the common answer here, and a good one: post the printed card to the people for whom the object matters, and send the Dawat link to everyone, so the replies land in one place regardless of which they respond to.
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: Minted's designs, and any replies already collected there. Export your RSVPs before you switch, and send the Dawat invitation only to the people who have not answered.
Feature by feature
| Feature | Dawat | Minted |
|---|---|---|
| Free to send | Yes | Partial |
| Per-guest fees | No | Yes |
| Unlimited guests | Yes | Partial |
| RSVP tracking | Yes | Yes |
| Custom RSVP questions | Yes | Not published |
| Email delivery | Yes | Yes |
| SMS or WhatsApp | Partial | Partial |
| Per-guest personal links | Yes | Not published |
| Open tracking | Yes | Not published |
| Animated envelope | Yes | No |
| Printed cards | No | Yes |
| Guest account required | No | No |
| Ads shown to guests | No | Not published |
| Event website | Partial | Yes |
| Registry links | Yes | Yes |
| Meal choice or seating | Partial | Not published |
| Calendar file | Yes | Not published |
| AI wording help | Yes | Not published |
| Works inside ChatGPT / Claude | Yes | Not published |
| 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
How much do Minted wedding invitations cost for 100?
Minted publishes a starting price of $2.34 per invitation for the Classic 7x5 size at quantity 100, and $2.00 per invitation for the Petite 6x4.25 size. That works out to roughly $234 or $200 for 100 cards before postage. Letterpress is far higher, starting at $485 for 100 one-colour invitations.
Does Minted offer free online invitations?
Yes. Minted offers free online invitations that you customise and share by text or email to start collecting RSVPs. They are separate from the printed range and coordinate with Minted's free wedding website designs.
Is the Minted wedding website free?
Yes. Minted's wedding websites are free and include online RSVP, registry links and travel information, and they can be matched to your paper stationery design. Minted also advertises a $50 credit towards wedding stationery for using one.
Does Minted include envelopes and addressing?
Yes. Minted states that coordinating envelopes with recipient addressing are included on its orders, along with free samples and photo or QR-code customisation. Postage itself is not included.
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 Minted?
Minted has the larger catalogue, and on breadth of artwork it wins. Dawat's 53 designs are animated rather than static: the envelope opens, the card settles, the type is set for the occasion. Different thing, honestly judged.
Can I send printed invitations from Dawat?
No. Dawat is digital only. Minted 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.
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How these figures were checked
Every figure above was read from Minted's own published pricing or help pages on 16 September 2026, and each source is linked below. Where a vendor publishes a rate at one quantity and not another, the published rate is multiplied out and marked as an upper bound rather than presented as a quote. 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. Minted does not publish one.
Sources
- Minted: How much do wedding invitations cost — checked 2026-09-16
- Minted wedding invitations — checked 2026-09-16
- Minted free online invitations — checked 2026-09-16
- Minted wedding websites (free with online RSVP) — checked 2026-09-16
- Minted letterpress wedding invitations — checked 2026-09-16