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POD Benchmark

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Compare print-on-demand supplier prices, shipping and delivered totals for the same product.

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Install

Add this to your client's MCP configuration (Claude Desktop: claude_desktop_config.json; Cursor: .cursor/mcp.json; VS Code and others use the same "mcpServers" shape).

Remote (streamable-http)
Claude Code 
claude mcp add --transport http pod-benchmark 'https://podbenchmark.com/api/mcp'
JSON configuration (Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code) 
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "pod-benchmark": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://podbenchmark.com/api/mcp"
        }
    }
}

Documentation

From the project's README on GitHub, refreshed weekly. Links open on GitHub.

Contents
  1. podbenchmark
  2. Install
  3. Find a product, pick a size and color, compare
  4. What you keep per sale
  5. Suppliers and guides
  6. Defaults
  7. For scripts and AI agents
  8. Exit codes
  9. About the numbers
  10. Links

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 <key> 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 <supplier>.

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.
FlagMeaning
--current <supplier>The supplier you use now: printify, printful, gelato, prodigi, customcat or fourthwall.
--sell-for <price>What your customer pays per item, in the chosen currency.
--on <channel>etsy, shopify, woocommerce or tiktok-shop.
--shop-in <country>The country your shop is in. Defaults to the destination when you give a price and a channel.
--plan <plan>base (standard prices, the default), tier1 or tier2 (paid plans).
--supplier <supplier>Only that supplier, with each of its products and print providers as extra rows.
--similarAlso list similar products, shown separately because they are not the same blank.
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 <id> (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.

SettingFlagEnvironment variable
Destination--toPODBENCHMARK_TO
Currency--currencyPODBENCHMARK_CURRENCY
Your supplier--currentPODBENCHMARK_CURRENT
Sales channel--onPODBENCHMARK_ON
Shop country--shop-inPODBENCHMARK_SHOP_IN

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=<name>).

--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/<version> 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:

AgentPersonalWith --project
Claude Code~/.claude/skills/podbenchmark/.claude/skills/podbenchmark/
Codex~/.agents/skills/podbenchmark/.agents/skills/podbenchmark/
OpenCode~/.config/opencode/skills/podbenchmark/.opencode/skills/podbenchmark/
Cursor~/.cursor/skills/podbenchmark/.cursor/skills/podbenchmark/

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 <words> --json to find a product id, options <id> --json to see the exact size and color values (never guess them), then compare <id> --size <value> --color <value> --to <US|GB|DE|CA|AU> --json. Add --current <supplier> --sell-for <price> --on <etsy|shopify|woocommerce|tiktok-shop> only when the seller said so. null means unknown, never 0. Link product.url from the result when you answer. --schema shows every field.

Use it as an MCP server

The same tools are available to MCP clients over streamable HTTP at https://podbenchmark.com/api/mcp, with no key or sign-in:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "podbenchmark": {
      "type": "streamable-http",
      "url": "https://podbenchmark.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http podbenchmark https://podbenchmark.com/api/mcp. Codex: codex mcp add podbenchmark --url https://podbenchmark.com/api/mcp.

Exit codes

CodeMeaning
0Success. Unknown prices still exit 0; they show as — (or null in JSON).
1Bad command, flags or option values (for example --to FR, or a size the product does not come in; the error lists the valid ones).
2Nothing to compare: unknown product, a supplier link that could not be matched, or no supplier offers.
3The service could not be reached, did not answer within 30 seconds, is unavailable, or rate-limited you (the message says how long to wait).

With --json (or when piped), failures print the error as JSON on stdout ({"ok": false, "error": {"code", "message", "retryable"}}) and use the same exit codes. If the service cannot be reached at all, the code is network. The CLI retries once, after a short pause, on a network error or a 5xx answer, and never retries a 4xx.

About the numbers

  • Prices are supplier quotes checked on the dates shown (Prices checked …), in the destination's currency, before sales tax. Delivered is product plus shipping. Supplier-billed duty is separate: an established amount (including zero), one labelled estimate, or unverified. Profit deducts established duty or a converted estimate and retains its qualification. Estimated/unverified duty and conditional design/setup prices do not establish a best-profit winner or gap, including in target-margin mode.
  • A price we do not have shows as —. It is never counted as zero and never as the cheapest.
  • Printify is a marketplace: each row shows the print provider it would route the order to ("via Printify Choice"). Use --supplier printify to see every provider.
  • A product a supplier does not list for your destination or size is not in the table.
  • Profit figures use platform fee research with its check date (Etsy fees checked …), as an estimate before tax.
  • Tables link only to POD Benchmark's own pages. In JSON, an offer's actionUrl can carry an affiliate reference (see affiliateDisclosure); it never changes a price or a ranking.
  • Rate limit: 120 requests per minute per IP address. When you hit it the CLI tells you how many seconds to wait.

MIT licensed.

Frequently asked questions

What is POD Benchmark?

Compare print-on-demand supplier prices, shipping and delivered totals for the same product.

How do I install POD Benchmark?

It runs as a remote server. In Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http pod-benchmark 'https://podbenchmark.com/api/mcp'. For other clients, paste the JSON configuration from this page into their MCP settings.

Does POD Benchmark need an API key?

Its registry entry lists no required key or secret. Some features may still need an account with the service it connects to.

Is POD Benchmark open source?

Yes. Its code is on GitHub under the MIT license.

Who maintains POD Benchmark?

It is published by FilipLjubic. AI.tn lists it but does not maintain or endorse it.

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