Stamps.com publishes three plans, at $14.99, $29.99 and $49.99 a month, with a 30-day risk-free trial (per stamps.com/pricing, checked 2026-07-28). A monthly charge is only expensive relative to how many labels it covers, so the honest way to compare it against buying labels one at a time is to do the division and look at the answer.
Fourteen dollars a month is cheap across forty labels and eye-watering across one. Everything on this page follows from that single observation.
Read from stamps.com/pricing on 2026-07-28. The allowances matter as much as the headline prices here, because the entry plan is capped rather than unlimited.
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The stamps side is genuinely distinctive. If part of your week is franking envelopes rather than boxing parcels, that is a job we do not do at all and no amount of parcel pricing changes it.
Straight division, with the sum printed so you can check it. Note the third row: Basic caps at ten shipping labels a month, so twenty labels means moving up to Professional and the calculation changes plan.
| Labels that month | Plan needed | Calculation | Fee carried by each label |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 label | Basic, $14.99 | $14.99 ÷ 1 | $14.99 |
| 5 labels | Basic, $14.99 | $14.99 ÷ 5 | $3.00 |
| 10 labels | Basic, $14.99 | $14.99 ÷ 10 | $1.50 |
| 20 labels | Professional, $29.99 | $29.99 ÷ 20 | $1.50 |
One label a month is the case that makes the point. The fee alone would be larger than the postage on most of the parcels priced further down this page. Ten labels a month brings it to a dollar fifty each, which is a defensible price for address checking, reporting and phone support if you use them.
Both of these went through our calculator on the same afternoon, on the same lane, and the prices shown are the complete checkout amounts. Neither purchase would start a subscription or set a renewal date.
| Carrier | Service | Price | Transit window returned |
|---|---|---|---|
| USPS | Ground Advantage | $9.91 | 8-9 business days |
| UPS | Ground | $10.31 | 2-3 business days |
| UPS | 3 Day Select | $15.13 | 5-6 business days |
| UPS | 2nd Day Air | $16.58 | 2-3 business days |
| FedEx | 2Day | $21.90 | 2-3 business days |
| Carrier | Service | Price | Transit window returned |
|---|---|---|---|
| USPS | Ground Advantage | $8.48 | 8-9 business days |
| UPS | Ground Saver | $10.52 | None returned |
| UPS | Ground | $11.07 | 2-3 business days |
| FedEx | Ground Economy | $12.42 | 6-7 business days |
| UPS | 2nd Day Air | $19.93 | 2-3 business days |
Something counterintuitive fell out of these two runs. The heavier parcel priced lower, $8.48 against $9.91, because the 2 lb box lands in a different rate cell rather than because it weighs less. Weight ladders are not straight lines, which is a good reason to quote the box you actually have.
Postage meters, Certified Mail and Registered Mail belong to the mail side of the business, not the parcel side. Stamps.com covers all three. We sell parcel labels, so if letters are half your volume this comparison is not close.
Thirty days risk-free is a fair offer, and cancelling is described as available at any time. The failure mode is never the offer, it is the calendar. Put the end date somewhere you will see it before it renews.
There is no monthly line item here. Our charge is already contained in every price on this page, so the figure you see beside a service is the figure the card gets billed. The pricing page lays out where the paid tiers add value.
Three plans are published: Basic at $14.99, Professional at $29.99 and Multi-Location at $49.99, checked at stamps.com/pricing on 2026-07-28. Basic covers up to 25 stamps and up to 10 shipping labels; Professional lifts both to unlimited.
Divide the fee by your label count. At five labels the $14.99 Basic plan adds $3.00 to each one, and at ten it adds $1.50. Below roughly ten labels a month the fee is usually larger than what the tooling saves you.
Whatever the live rate says. A 1 lb book box from Newark to Atlanta quoted $9.91 with USPS Ground Advantage on 2026-07-28, and a 2 lb carton on the same lane quoted $8.48. Both figures include our charge and neither starts a subscription.
No. We do not sell stamps, meter mail, Certified Mail or Registered Mail. Our scope is US domestic parcel labels from USPS, UPS and FedEx, and mail-side products are outside it.