POD Benchmark

podbenchmark

Compare the same print-on-demand product across suppliers from your terminal: product cost, shipping, delivered total and delivery time for Printify, Printful, Gelato, Prodigi, CustomCat, Fourthwall and Inkthreadable. Built for sellers, developers and AI agents.

npx podbenchmark compare bella-canvas-3001 --size m --color black --to US

Prices come from POD Benchmark, which checks each supplier's price and shipping for the destination you pick. Full interactive comparison: https://podbenchmark.com.

Install

npx podbenchmark          # run without installing

npm i -g podbenchmark # or install the podbenchmark command

Needs Node.js 22 or newer. No other dependencies.

Find a product, pick a size and color, compare

Three steps. Each step prints what to run next.

$ podbenchmark search "bella canvas 3001"

Products for “bella canvas 3001” · 138 found · delivered to the US in USD

ID PRODUCT FROM SUPPLIERS bella-canvas-3001 Bella+Canvas 3001 Unisex Jersey Short Sleeve Tee $15.38 6 of 6 bella-canvas-3001u Bella+Canvas 3001U USA-Made Unisex Jersey Tee $23.54 1 of 1 bella-canvas-3001rcy Bella+Canvas 3001RCY Unisex Recycled Organic Tee $22.95 1 of 1 FROM is the lowest delivered price (product + shipping) for the usual size and color. Compare a specific one with compare.

next: npx podbenchmark options bella-canvas-3001

options lists the sizes, colors and other choices a product comes in. Add words or flags to narrow the list:

$ podbenchmark options bella-canvas-3001 m black

bella-canvas-3001 · choices for the US in USD · 5 matching combinations

size m color black, black-heather, oxblood-black, solid-black-blend, vintage-black

Opens on Adult M · Black

SIZE COLOR SUPPLIERS m black 6 m black-heather 4 m oxblood-black 3 m solid-black-blend 1 m vintage-black 5

next: npx podbenchmark compare bella-canvas-3001 --size m --color black --to US

$ podbenchmark compare bella-canvas-3001 --size m --color black --to US

Bella+Canvas 3001 · Adult M · Black · delivered to the US in USD

SUPPLIER PRODUCT SHIPPING PRODUCT + SHIPPING ARRIVES VS CHEAPEST Gelato Premium Unisex Crewneck… $4.99 $15.68 4–6 days cheapest Fourthwall Bella+Canvas Unisex Sup… $4.29 $16.04 6–8 days +$0.36 Printify via Printify Choice Unisex Jersey Short Sle… $4.95 $16.24 3–7 days +$0.56 CustomCat Bella + Canvas Unisex J… $4.99 $16.46 3–9 days +$0.78 Printful Unisex Staple T-Shirt |… $4.69 $16.61 6–9 days +$0.93 Prodigi Bella+Canvas 3001 $10.75 $22.75 3–8 days +$7.07

Product + shipping excludes duty and sales tax; duty is shown separately. Prices checked 2026-09-30 to 2026-10-21.

Full comparison https://podbenchmark.com/t-shirts/bella-canvas-3001?destination=US&currency=USD&configuration=size%3Dapparel%253Aadult%253Am%26color%3Dblack

Every picker on the site has a flag with the same name: --size, --color, --capacity, --page-count, --device-fit… (podbenchmark compare --help lists them all). --option takes an exact key from options --json.

Start from a supplier link instead of an id. The CLI finds the product, the color the link selects, and treats that supplier as yours:

podbenchmark compare https://printify.com/app/products/12/bella-canvas/unisex-jersey-short-sleeve-tee

Use the product page's own address, as you'd copy it from the supplier's catalog; tracking parameters such as utm_… are fine, and a Fourthwall selectedColor picks the color. Links with other options selected, editor links and referral paths aren't matched yet: open the plain product page and copy that, or pass the product id with --current .

Other destinations and currencies:

podbenchmark compare bella-canvas-3001 --size m --color black --to GB             # prices in GBP

podbenchmark compare bella-canvas-3001 --size m --color black --to DE --currency USD

Destinations: US, GB, DE, CA, AU. Currencies: USD, EUR, GBP, CAD, AUD. The currency defaults to the destination's own.

What you keep per sale

Say who you use today, what you charge and where you sell. The table switches to what you keep after product + shipping, deducted duty and platform fees, with your current supplier first:

$ podbenchmark compare bella-canvas-3001 --size m --color black \

--current printful --sell-for 24 --on etsy

Bella+Canvas 3001 · Adult M · Black · delivered to the US in USD selling at $24.00 on Etsy · your supplier: Printful

SUPPLIER PRODUCT + SHIPPING YOU KEEP VS PRINTFUL Printful (yours) $16.61 $4.86 yours ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Gelato $15.68 $5.79 +$0.93 keeps most Fourthwall $16.04 $5.43 +$0.57 Printify via Printify Choice $16.24 $5.23 +$0.37 CustomCat $16.46 $5.01 +$0.15 Prodigi $22.75 -$1.28 -$6.14

You keep = $24.00 − (product + shipping) − deducted duty − $2.53 Etsy fees (Transaction fee $1.56 + Etsy Payments percentage $0.72 + Etsy Payments fixed charge $0.25). Before tax. Etsy fees checked 2026-08-19. Product + shipping excludes duty and sales tax; duty is shown separately. Prices checked 2026-09-30 to 2026-10-21.

The price to charge

price turns it around: give the share of each sale you want to keep and see what to charge with each supplier.

$ podbenchmark price bella-canvas-3001 --size m --color black --margin 30 --on etsy --current printful

SUPPLIER PRODUCT + SHIPPING FEES CHARGE YOU KEEP VS PRINTFUL Printful (yours) $16.61 $2.91 $28.00 $8.48 yours ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Gelato $15.68 $2.77 $26.50 $8.05 -$1.50 lowest price Fourthwall $16.04 $2.82 $27.00 $8.14 -$1.00 Printify via Printify Choice $16.24 $2.87 $27.50 $8.39 -$0.50 CustomCat $16.46 $2.91 $28.00 $8.63 $0.00 Prodigi $22.75 $3.91 $38.50 $11.84 +$10.50

Charge = the price that leaves you 30% of the sale after product + shipping, deducted duty and Etsy fees. Before tax.

Suppliers and guides

podbenchmark suppliers                                  # the seven suppliers compared

podbenchmark supplier printful # plans, fees, branding, who handles support and refunds podbenchmark supplier printify --locations --country US # where it reports printing podbenchmark supplier printify --providers # a marketplace's print providers podbenchmark supplier printify --prices --vs printful # how many products each is cheapest for, and by how much podbenchmark guide mugs --on etsy # which suppliers fit your shop, with dated reasons

guide takes t-shirts, hoodies, mugs, wall-art, stickers or phone-cases, plus --branding, --free-start and --choose-provider. supplier --prices takes --category, --within 1 (or 5%) for what counts as near-cheapest, --search and --plan.

Also: podbenchmark categories [words], podbenchmark product (specs, print methods, similar products), and --facets on search to count brands, suppliers, audiences and specs in the results. Filter search with --category, --brand, --supplier, --for (unisex, mens, womens, kids), --fit, --material, --eco, --neckline, --sleeve, --construction, --label, --capacity, --fabric, --weight 4-8, --priced and --sort cheapest|priciest|most-suppliers|name. Repeat a filter flag to accept several values.

Every list command takes --limit and --offset.

Defaults

Save what you would otherwise repeat on every command:

podbenchmark config set --to GB --current printful --on etsy --shop-in GB

podbenchmark config show podbenchmark config reset

Precedence, highest first: flag, environment variable, saved config, built-in default.

The config is a small JSON file at $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/podbenchmark/config.json (default ~/.config/podbenchmark/config.json). PODBENCHMARK_API_URL points the CLI at a different server.

For scripts and AI agents

Output is a table when you are at a terminal. It is JSON, exactly as the service returns it, when:

• you pass --json,
• stdout is not a terminal (a pipe or a file), or
• an agent harness is detected (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, Gemini CLI, Amp, Augment, Qwen Code, Pi, Copilot, Warp, or AI_AGENT= ).

--table forces the tables back. When an agent is detected the CLI also sends its name in an X-Podbenchmark-Agent header so usage by agents can be counted; it sends X-Podbenchmark-Client: cli/ always, and nothing else about you.

podbenchmark compare bella-canvas-3001 --size m --color black --json | jq '.suppliers[].offer | {supplier, delivered}'

podbenchmark compare bella-canvas-3001 --schema # exact input and output fields, as JSON Schema; no request podbenchmark compare bella-canvas-3001 --size m --dry-run # the request that would be sent; no request

In JSON, a missing price is null, never 0. Treat null as unknown.

Teach your agent

podbenchmark skills add                    # the agent you are in, else every one installed here

podbenchmark skills add --agent claude # claude, codex, opencode, cursor or all podbenchmark skills add --agent all --project # write into this repository instead of your home folder

This writes a podbenchmark skill (a SKILL.md) to each agent's skills folder and prints every path:

Running it again updates the file. It never replaces a SKILL.md that it did not write unless you pass --force.

No skill folder? Paste this into your agent instead:

Use npx podbenchmark to compare print-on-demand supplier prices. Flow: `search --js