Easy Vite vs Minted
Minted is a stationery company first and an online invitation product second, and that order explains everything about the comparison. Its designs come from a juried community of independent artists and they are genuinely distinctive, which is why people pay per piece for them, digital as well as paper. Digital invitations are commonly priced in the region of $1 to $3 per guest, so a 150-guest wedding lands somewhere near $300. Easy Vite is free at any guest count. This page is honest about the fact that Minted's designs are better and about what you are paying for them.
Minted details checked 2026-08-25. Pricing and plans change, so verify anything that matters to you on their site before deciding.
Side by side
| Feature | Easy Vite | Minted |
|---|---|---|
| Price to send digitally | Free at every guest count | Priced per piece like paper stationery, commonly around $1 to $3 per guest |
| Cost for 50 guests | $0 | Roughly $50 to $150 depending on the design |
| Cost for 150 guests | $0 | Roughly $150 to $450, with $2 per piece landing near $300 |
| Free online invitations | All of them | A free online invitation range exists as an entry point to the paid catalogue |
| Ads shown to your guests | None | None |
| Guest cap | No cap | No cap, but the price rises with every guest |
| Guest needs an account to RSVP | No | No |
| Designs | 1,332 free designs across 22 categories | A juried catalogue from independent artists, the most distinctive in the category |
| Printed stationery | No | Yes, this is the core business |
| Foil, letterpress and specialty printing | No | Yes |
| Matching suite across paper and digital | No | Yes |
| Languages | 99 | Not published |
| Adults and children counted separately | Yes | Not published |
| Headcount cap with automatic cut-off | Yes, per event and per invitation | Not published |
| Automatic reminders | Yes | Available with online invitations |
| Wedding website | No | Yes |
Where Easy Vite is different
- Minted prices digital invitations per piece in the same way it prices paper, commonly in the region of $1 to $3 per guest, so a 150-guest send at $2 each is about $300. Easy Vite charges nothing at any guest count. (source, checked 2026-08-25)
- Because the price is per guest, a larger celebration costs proportionally more to invite people to. On Easy Vite the cost of inviting 30 people and 300 people is identical. (source, checked 2026-08-25)
- Minted is print-first. Its online invitations function partly as an on-ramp to the paper catalogue, which is why the digital pricing follows stationery logic rather than software logic. (source, checked 2026-08-25)
- Minted's designs come from a juried community of independent artists, which is a real and defensible reason for the price and something no free catalogue can replicate. (source, checked 2026-08-25)
- Neither product shows advertising to guests. The difference is entirely in what the invitation costs and what happens after it is sent. (source, checked 2026-08-25)
When Minted is the better choice
They genuinely do these better
- The most distinctive design catalogue in the category, because it comes from independent artists through a jury process rather than an in-house template team.
- Print quality that is genuinely at the top of the market, including foil, letterpress and specialty finishes.
- One design can run across the whole suite: save the date, invitation, menu, place cards, thank-yous, in paper and on screen.
- A wedding website is included in the ecosystem, so the digital and paper sides of a wedding hold together.
- Buying from Minted supports the artist whose design you chose, which is a real difference from stock template libraries.
Choose Minted when the stationery is part of the event and you want something nobody else will have: a wedding, a significant anniversary, a formal celebration where the invitation will be kept. The per-piece price is the price of original artwork and printing at that standard, and it is fair. Choose Easy Vite for the ordinary run of parties, where a good-looking free design and an accurate headcount matter more than an artist's name on the back, and where paying $2 a head to tell people about a barbecue makes no sense.
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Pick a design and customize it first. You only make an account when you are ready to send.
Browse 1,332 free designsWhy a digital invitation costs money here
It is a fair question. A digital send has no paper, no ink and no postage, so why is it priced per guest at all?
The answer is that Minted is a stationery house and it prices like one. The design is the product, the artist is paid per piece, and the digital version is the same design delivered another way. Whether you find that reasonable depends on whether you think you are buying artwork or software.
If you are buying artwork, $2 a guest is roughly what a nice card costs and the comparison to make is against paper, where you would also be paying postage.
If you are buying software, $2 a guest for a web page is difficult to justify, and every free product in this comparison is doing the same technical work for nothing.
Easy Vite takes the software view. The design library is 1,332 strong, it is free, and the money question never arises.
What $300 buys, and what it does not
A 150-guest wedding invitation at $2 a piece is about $300. For that you get a design nobody else at your venue will have, an artist paid for their work, and a suite that can carry through to menus and place cards in paper.
What it does not buy is better RSVP tooling. The guest list, the counts, the reminders and the chasing are broadly similar to what free products do, and in some respects less developed, because they are not the point of the business.
Easy Vite puts its effort in exactly that half: adults and children counted separately on every reply, a running headcount, a cap that stops accepting yeses when the venue is full, a cap per invitation so a plus-one stays a plus-one, automatic reminders you can retime, and messages that can go only to the people who have not answered.
The hybrid that most people actually want
For a lot of weddings the sensible answer is to buy the paper from Minted and run the replies somewhere else.
Paper invitations for the guests who expect them, an artist's design you are proud of, and a free digital invitation for the satellite events, the engagement party, the rehearsal dinner, the brunch, the hen and stag weekends.
Easy Vite accepts uploads, so if you want the digital invitation to match the paper one, export the artwork and upload it as a PNG, JPG or WebP. It becomes the invitation that comes out of the envelope, and it detects existing text on the image so its own text layers stay switched off and nothing prints twice.
Design honesty
This page will not claim Easy Vite out-designs Minted. It does not. A juried artist catalogue is a different kind of thing from a template library, and the difference is visible.
What Easy Vite offers is a large free catalogue, 1,332 designs across 22 categories, and a studio that lets you make one of them yours: fonts, movable text layers, colour, and 20 opening effects for the moment the invitation clears the envelope.
For a barbecue, a christening, a leaving do or a fortieth, that is enough and then some. For a wedding you want photographed, it may not be, and that is a legitimate reason to spend the money.
A note on guest lists that grow
Per-piece pricing has a quiet social cost that is worth naming. When every additional guest has a price, the guest list becomes a budget decision, and people get cut for $2.
That is fine for paper, where the cost is real. It is odd for digital, where sending one more email costs nothing to anybody.
Easy Vite has no cap and no per-guest cost, which means the question of who to invite can go back to being about who you want there.
Questions
How much do Minted online invitations cost?
They are priced per piece like paper stationery, commonly around $1 to $3 per guest. A 150-guest send at $2 each is roughly $300. Checked 2026-08-25; verify on minted.com.
Does Minted have free online invitations?
There is a free online invitation range, which functions as an entry point to the paid catalogue. The designs most people want are in the paid range.
Is Easy Vite as well designed as Minted?
No, and this page will not pretend otherwise. Minted's juried artist catalogue is the most distinctive in the category. Easy Vite has 1,332 free designs and a studio to customise them.
Can I print a Easy Vite invitation?
No. Easy Vite is digital only. Minted's core business is printing, including foil and letterpress.
Can I use my Minted design on Easy Vite?
You can upload artwork you have the right to use as a PNG, JPG or WebP and it becomes the invitation. Check the licence terms of anything you bought before reusing it elsewhere.
Which is better at tracking RSVPs?
Easy Vite. Adults and children are separate counts, there is a headcount cap per event and per invitation, reminders are automatic and retimable, and you can message only the non-responders.
Does Easy Vite do wedding websites?
No. Minted does, and so do several dedicated wedding products. Easy Vite is an invitation and RSVP tool.
How current is this comparison?
Minted's digital invitation pricing model was checked on 2026-08-25. Per-piece prices vary by design, so check the specific design on minted.com.