Easy Vite vs Paperless Post
Paperless Post is the design-led end of online invitations: fine stationery aesthetics, envelopes that open, liners and stamps, and a reputation good enough that a Paperless Post invitation reads as an occasion in itself. It is also the product whose pricing confuses people most, because you do not pay in dollars, you pay in Coins, and Coins are charged per recipient. Easy Vite is at the opposite end: one free tier, no currency, no per-recipient charge. This page converts the Coins into real numbers and is honest about the fact that Paperless Post's designs are better than ours.
Paperless Post 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 | Paperless Post |
|---|---|---|
| Price to send | Free at every guest count | Coins, charged per recipient. Free designs cost nothing; Basic is 2 Coins per recipient, Premium 5, All Access 8 |
| Free allowance | Unlimited | The first 50 invitations sent by email or phone number through the site can be sent without purchase, on free designs |
| Cost per guest, roughly | $0.00 | About $0.50 per guest on Basic, $1.05 on Premium, $1.44 on All Access, per Paperless Post's own pricing page |
| Subscription option | None needed | Paperless Pro from about $250 a year for 250 guests, scaling with guest count |
| Ads shown to your guests | None | None. Paperless Post is paid, not ad supported |
| Guest cap | No cap | No hard cap, but every additional recipient costs more Coins |
| Card required to start | No | Not to browse or use free designs; yes to buy Coins |
| Guest needs an account to RSVP | No | No |
| Designs | 1,332 free designs across 22 categories, nothing locked | A large catalogue, much of it Coin-priced, including collaborations with well known stationers and artists |
| Envelope and stamp treatments | Envelope opening with 20 effects, free | Envelope liners, stamps and backdrops, each of which raises the Coin cost per recipient |
| 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 | Yes |
| Printed stationery | No. Digital only | Yes, Paperless Post sells printed cards as well |
| Nonprofit discount | Not needed | 25% off Coins and subscriptions for nonprofits, charities, schools and universities |
Where Easy Vite is different
- Paperless Post charges per recipient in Coins, so the price of your event scales directly with the size of your guest list. Easy Vite charges nothing at any list size. (source, checked 2026-08-25)
- Paperless Post's own pricing page puts Basic at roughly $0.50 per guest, Premium at $1.05 and All Access at $1.44. A 150-guest Premium send is therefore in the region of $155. (source, checked 2026-08-25)
- The design decisions that make a Paperless Post card look expensive are the ones that cost Coins: envelope liners, backdrops and stamps each move the card up a tier. On Easy Vite every design option is included. (source, checked 2026-08-25)
- The free allowance on Paperless Post is the first 50 invitations sent through the site on free designs. After that, or on any paid design, Coins are required. Easy Vite has no allowance to run out. (source, checked 2026-08-25)
- Coins are sold in packs and the per-Coin price varies with pack size, so the real cost of a send depends on which pack you bought. Easy Vite has one price to understand, which is nothing. (source, checked 2026-08-25)
When Paperless Post is the better choice
They genuinely do these better
- The best design catalogue in the category by a wide margin, including collaborations with real stationers and artists. If the invitation itself is part of the occasion, this is the product that shows it.
- The envelope, liner and stamp treatments are beautifully executed and give a digital card the ceremony of a paper one.
- Paperless Post also prints. If you want a digital save-the-date and a paper invitation in the same visual language, you can get both in one place.
- Flyer, its lighter free product, is a genuinely good way to send a casual event without spending Coins.
- A 25% discount for nonprofits, charities, schools and universities is meaningful for exactly the organisations that send the largest lists.
Choose Paperless Post when the invitation is part of the event: a wedding, a milestone birthday, a formal dinner, anything where guests will notice and remember the card. The catalogue is worth the Coins if the aesthetic matters to you, and the printed range means one design can carry across paper and screen. Choose Easy Vite when what you want is for people to see the details and reply, when the guest list is large enough that per-recipient pricing gets uncomfortable, or when you simply do not want to think about a currency to send a birthday invitation.
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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 designsCoins, translated into dollars
Coins exist because they smooth over the fact that you are being charged per person. A card is described as 2 Coins, and 2 Coins sounds small until you multiply it by 150 guests and then work out what the Coin pack cost.
Paperless Post's own pricing page does the translation: Basic works out at about $0.50 per guest, Premium at about $1.05 and All Access at about $1.44. Free designs are $0. Coins are sold in packs from small to large and the per-Coin rate improves with pack size, which is why the effective price of a send depends on how much you bought at once.
Three worked examples at Premium: 50 guests is roughly $53, 100 guests is roughly $105, 250 guests is roughly $263. The equivalent numbers on Easy Vite are $0, $0 and $0.
There is also Paperless Pro, a subscription starting around $250 a year for 250 guests, which removes the per-guest Coin cost. That is a sensible deal if you send often. It is a poor deal if you send twice a year.
Where the money actually goes
It is worth being clear that Paperless Post is not charging for nothing. The Coin tiers map to real design features: the liner inside the envelope, the backdrop behind the card, the stamp, the animated open. A card with all of them on is a genuinely lovely object and it lands as one.
The design trap is that the version you fall in love with in the editor is usually the expensive version. You add the liner because it looks better, and you have moved from 2 Coins to 5 or 8 per recipient without doing anything that felt like a purchase.
Easy Vite's answer to this is to have nothing to add. The invitation studio gives you the fonts, the text layers, the colours and 20 opening effects, and every one of them is included because there is no tier for them to sit behind. It will not out-design Paperless Post. It will not surprise you at checkout either.
The guest experience compared
Both products are good here, and both are markedly better than the ad-supported end of the category. Neither shows your guests advertising. Neither requires a guest to create an account to reply.
Paperless Post's opening sequence is the most refined in the category: the envelope, the card sliding out, the liner. Easy Vite has an envelope and 20 opening effects, from a confetti burst to a quiet fade, and a none option for people who find animation annoying.
The practical difference shows up in the reply. Easy Vite records adults and children as separate numbers, supports a headcount cap for the event and for an individual invitation, and lets you message everyone or only the people who have not answered. Those are catering features rather than design features, and they are the ones you use in the week before the party.
Large lists are where the two products diverge hardest
At 20 guests the difference between the two is a few dollars and a matter of taste. At 250 guests it is a few hundred dollars and a decision.
This is why the community groups, school parents' associations, sports clubs and religious congregations that send the biggest lists are the ones who feel per-recipient pricing most sharply. Paperless Post's 25% nonprofit discount exists precisely because of that pressure and it is a genuine concession, but a discounted per-guest price is still a per-guest price.
Easy Vite has no cap and no per-guest cost, and it will send by email, by text or as a single link you paste into a group chat, which is usually the fastest way to reach a large informal list.
Switching, or running both
Plenty of hosts use both, and that is a reasonable answer. Paperless Post for the wedding, Easy Vite for the twelve other things that happen that year.
If you are moving a specific event, start from a design in the Easy Vite gallery or upload the artwork you already have. There is no import from Paperless Post, but there is also very little to import: title, date, place and a list of people.
For the list itself you can add guests one by one, import from Google Contacts on the web, or skip the list entirely and share one link. Replies land on your dashboard with the adult and child counts, and the automatic reminder is already scheduled.
Questions
Is Paperless Post free?
Partly. Free designs cost nothing, and the first 50 invitations sent through the site on free designs can be sent without purchase. Paid designs cost Coins per recipient, from 2 Coins for Basic up to 8 for All Access.
How much is Paperless Post for 100 guests?
Using Paperless Post's own published per-guest figures, roughly $50 on Basic, $105 on Premium and $144 on All Access, plus whatever the Coin pack rate works out at. Checked 2026-08-25.
Why does my Paperless Post card cost more Coins than the one I picked?
Because envelope liners, backdrops and stamps move a card up a tier. The tier is charged per recipient, so an addition that looks like a small styling choice multiplies across your whole guest list.
Does Easy Vite have designs as good as Paperless Post?
Honestly, no. Paperless Post's catalogue is the best in the category. Easy Vite has 1,332 free designs across 22 categories and a studio to customise them, and none of it is locked, but it is not competing on stationery craft.
Do guests need an account on either product?
No. Both let a guest open a link and reply without signing up for anything.
Can I send printed invitations from Easy Vite?
No. Easy Vite is digital only. Paperless Post prints, which is a real reason to choose them if you want paper and screen to match.
Is Paperless Pro worth it instead?
If you send frequently to large lists, probably. It starts around $250 a year for 250 guests and removes the per-guest Coin cost. If you send a few times a year, the arithmetic rarely works.
How current is this comparison?
Paperless Post's published pricing was checked on 2026-08-25 and each claim links to its source. Coin rates and pack prices change, so verify on paperlesspost.com before deciding.