MOO vs Vistaprint Business Cards UK: 50 Cards From £19

Quick answer

MOO suits small runs and premium card: 50 Original cards start at £19, with a different design allowed on every card at no extra cost. Vistaprint suits bigger, cheaper runs: orders start at 100 cards, with many stocks, shapes and next-day options. Both print your artwork as supplied, so the file matters more than the printer.

Prices below were checked on each printer’s UK website at the time of writing, October 2026. Both change prices and run offers often, so treat them as a guide and check the live configurator before ordering.

The short version

If you are a sole trader handing cards out at jobs and you want something that feels substantial, MOO’s smaller packs and heavier stocks make it easy to order 50 or 100 good cards without overbuying. If you have a team, a van full of leaflets and a trade counter to stock, Vistaprint’s quantity range, up to 10,000 cards, and its frequent promotions make it worth pricing up for large runs.

Neither printer will fix a blurry logo, a phone number that runs into the trim, or colours that only look right on screen. That is the part people underestimate, and it is covered further down.

MOO vs Vistaprint side by side

Sources: MOO Original business cards, MOO business card range and Vistaprint standard business cards, all checked October 2026.

Price: what MOO charges by quantity

MOO publishes its pack prices clearly. For Original cards on 350gsm stock, at the time of writing, 50 cards were £19, 100 were £34, 200 were £53, 400 were £89 and 1,000 were £212, all including VAT. The heavier stocks cost more: 50 Super (380gsm) or Eco Signature (352gsm) cards started at £25, Cotton at £26 and Luxe (600gsm) at £32.

That makes MOO easy to budget for small runs. The price per card falls as you order more, but not as steeply as many bulk printers.

Price: how Vistaprint compares

Vistaprint’s standard cards start at 100 and go up to 10,000, with 500 marked as the recommended quantity. Its prices are built in the configurator and depend on quantity, stock, finish and delivery speed, and the site runs frequent promotions, so the figure you see one week can differ the next. Vistaprint’s help centre also notes that, unless stated otherwise, prices exclude delivery and product options.

The practical way to compare: build the same order on both sites (same quantity, similar stock, same delivery speed) and compare the final basket totals, delivery included. For runs of 500 or more, that comparison usually decides itself.

Paper, finish and feel

This is where the two differ most in character.

• MOO focuses on fewer, heavier stocks: Original at 350gsm, Super at 380gsm, Luxe at 600gsm, plus cotton, Feltmark and letterpress options. A 600gsm card is noticeably thick in the hand.
• Vistaprint offers a wide spread: matte, glossy, soft touch, pearl, kraft, natural uncoated, hemp blend, bamboo, recycled matte, textured uncoated and linen. Foil and spot UV are available on the front.

For a trades business, think about where the card lives. A card tucked behind a boiler or pinned to a fridge for two years needs a stock that does not curl or scuff easily. Uncoated stocks are easy to write on, which helps if you jot a quote or appointment time on the back.

Designs, templates and your own artwork

Both printers offer online editors and templates. Templates are fine for a quick start, but they are shared by many other businesses, and they rarely handle a real logo well.

MOO’s Printfinity lets you print a different design on every card in the pack at no extra cost. That is useful for a team (one name per card) or for showing different jobs on the back of each card. Vistaprint’s strength is breadth: many shapes, sizes and finishes for the same artwork.

If you upload your own file, it needs to be print-ready for that printer’s size. Note that the two standard sizes differ by a millimetre (84 x 55mm at MOO, 85 x 55mm at Vistaprint), so a file built for one is not automatically right for the other. Our guide to print-ready artwork explains bleed, safe area and colour settings.

Which to choose, by situation

A worked example: a plumber’s first order

Say a plumber setting up on their own wants cards to leave with customers after each job. They expect to hand out a few a day, and their phone number may change once their business line is set up. Ordering 1,000 cards now would be false economy if the number changes in three months.

They order 100 Original cards from MOO at £34, using Printfinity to put a different photo of their work on the back of each card. Six months later, with the business number settled and the design proven, they build a 500-card order on both sites, compare the totals with delivery, and take the cheaper one. The design file is the same; only the size setting changes by a millimetre.

The lesson works whichever printer you prefer: buy small while details are likely to change, and buy in bulk once they are fixed.

Before you press order

Whichever site you use, run through these checks. Most reprints come from one of them being missed.

1. Read every digit of your phone number and every letter of your email and web address aloud from the proof.
2. Check that nothing important sits close to the edge, where trimming can clip it.
3. Zoom the proof to full size and check the logo edges are crisp, not fuzzy.
4. Check the colour on paper if you can. A screen preview always looks brighter than ink on card.
5. Match the stock to the use: uncoated if you write on cards, a heavier coated stock if they live in wallets.
6. Compare final totals with delivery, not headline prices.

If you are ordering for a whole team, collect everyone’s details in one document first and have each person sign off their own card. It is far cheaper than reprinting one person’s cards because of a spelling mistake.

The artwork is the bigger decision

Most disappointing business cards are not a printer problem. They are a file problem: a logo copied from a website that prints soft, text too close to the edge, a dark blue that comes out nearly black. If a printer has already sent your file back, our guide to printer-rejected artwork explains the usual reasons.

Start with the logo. A card needs a vector logo file (SVG, EPS, AI or PDF), not a screenshot. Our guide to logo file formats explains which file to send where. If you only have a JPG or PNG, it needs redrawing as vector first: our Recreate & Vectorise service is £79 for one layout, plus £39 per additional layout, through the reproduce logo files page.

Where we fit

We do not print cards. We design them and supply print-ready files that you can upload to MOO, Vistaprint or any local printer. Our business card design service covers the layout and the print files, and our Print-Ready Artwork service is £49 for preparing artwork you already have. If you are starting without a logo, Logo Design is £129 with every file format and all layouts included. Every price is on our pricing page.

Whichever printer you choose, order a small first run, check the cards in daylight, and only then order in bulk.