Printie Alternative: PrintPort3D vs Printie, Compared Honestly
Pricing, platforms, materials, finishing and turnaround side by side, including every row where Printie comes out ahead.
Printie and PrintPort3D do the same job: your customer orders, the product is printed, packed and shipped under your name. Where they part ways is everything around the print — how fast you get a price, how many storefronts feed the floor, and whether a product that comes off the printer in five pieces leaves as one.
Your margin · same maths as checkout
PLA Basic
Your listing sells. Here is what is left after we are paid.
Your listing price, and the weight and print time from your own slicer. We charge the make cost when the order is placed; the rest of what your customer paid is yours.
You keep, per sale
$16.80
70% of the $24.00 your customer paid
Before shipping and your marketplace’s fees, which your customer’s payment also has to cover. Assembly and hardware fitting add nothing — that is the whole make cost above.
Price your real fileSix reasons sellers pick PrintPort3D
01
A price in seconds, before an account
Drop in an STL, OBJ, 3MF or STEP file. We slice the real geometry and the per-part price comes back in seconds — or work it out from your slicer’s grams and hours with the panel above.
PrintieQuotes from an uploaded file through its calculator; per-plate and per-colour rates are not published.
02
Assembly at a flat $1 a part
Tick it on a product and every unit that prints as several pieces is assembled before it is boxed, with magnets, threaded inserts and screws fitted, following your own steps and photos. The price is on the receipt before you list.
PrintieAssembly is an optional upgrade, billed per request.
03
Eleven storefronts, one floor
Shopify, Etsy, Amazon, TikTok Shop, eBay, Walmart, WooCommerce, Wix, Squarespace, Magento 2 and BigCommerce. Orders arrive, print and ship without you touching them.
PrintieLists seven: Shopify, Etsy, Amazon, TikTok Shop, WooCommerce, eBay, Walmart.
04
No design? Studio makes one
Describe the product and Studio returns a printable, dimensioned design you can order the same day. Everyone else in this category starts at “upload your file”.
PrintieNot described on its site.
05
Any CAD file you have
STEP and OBJ as well as STL and 3MF, up to 500 MB — converted and sliced by us, so nobody asks you to re-export.
PrintieLists 3MF and STL.
06
Move some listings, keep the rest
Orders are matched by SKU, so only the listings you build with us come to us — the rest keep printing on your own machines.
Printie lines from printie.com (home, /pricing, /how-it-works), re-checked 25 September 2026. If one is out of date, tell us at support@printport3d.com and we will correct it.
Two ways of charging for the same work
Both services are paid for the same two things — plastic and machine time — and divide them differently, which is what decides who is cheaper on a given product.
- PrintPort3D
- Material by the gram, plus $3.00 per print-hour (pro-rated for shorter prints). A $2.00 floor per order. Quantity pricing takes up to 30% off labour on repeat copies. Nothing monthly; assembly a flat $1 a part when you want it.
- Printie
- Material by the gram, a setup charge per plate, a colour charge for every colour on every plate, and a flat fee per order. Its published examples: a flexi fish at $0.30 a unit in bulk, a multicolour wall piece at $12.70, a PETG caddy at $11.20.
Printie’s per-plate setup makes a tray of tiny parts very cheap, and its per-colour charge makes multicolour parts dear. For a mid-size, single-colour product — the bulk of what sells — the panel at the top gives you our exact number from your own slicer; upload the same file to both to get theirs.
Where Printie fits
Printie prints multicolour parts — up to eight colours on one part — and sells finishing: sanding, painting, smoothing and dyeing, plus custom packaging. If a product needs one of those, that product belongs there.
Read the shelf like for like, though. Printie’s “250+ materials and colors” counts colour variants. We hold 65 colours across ten materials on the rack today, and buy any other FDM filament in against your first order at no surcharge.
Find out with one unit
01
Pick your best-seller
Your real product, not a test cube — the one whose margin matters.
02
Price it in seconds
Drop the file in. No account, no form, no sales call.
03
Order one to yourself
Nothing monthly, so the whole trial costs one unit and a label.
04
Hold it
Check the finish, the assembly, the packaging and the day it arrived against what you ship today.
The wider field — Slant 3D, 3D Vikings, Shop3D, Shapeways — is in the full fulfilment comparison.
FAQ
PrintPort3D, Slant 3D (Teleport), 3D Vikings and Shop3D all print and ship 3D-printed products for online sellers. PrintPort3D prices your file in seconds with no account, assembles multi-part products and fits hardware for a flat $1 a part, and connects to 11 store platforms through Shippo. Printie offers multicolour printing, painted and smoothed finishes, and custom packaging, which PrintPort3D does not.
It depends on the product. Printie charges per plate, per colour and per order, so small parts batched many to a plate can be very cheap, while multicolour parts cost more. PrintPort3D charges by weight and print time with a $2.00 order minimum. Printie does not publish its rates, so upload the same file to both and compare.
Printie’s pricing page gives an example where one fee covers printing and shipping, and its FAQ says shipping is finalised separately once the destination and package size are known. Ask Printie for a landed quote on your own product.
Shopify, Etsy, Amazon, TikTok Shop, eBay, Walmart, WooCommerce, Wix, Squarespace, Magento 2 and BigCommerce. All of them connect through Shippo, so you need a free Shippo account.
Yes. Both route orders by product or SKU, so you can send some listings to one and some to the other. Keep each listing’s ship-from location and production partner accurate, especially on Etsy.
Price your best-seller. It takes seconds.
A price per part in seconds, no account needed. Assembly $1 a part if you want it, nothing monthly, eleven storefronts.
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