What does a personalised gift cost?
A personalised gift costs anywhere from €10 for an AI-generated song to €750 and beyond for a studio recording with session musicians. Most categories sit between €20 and €150. The price gap almost always comes down to one question: how much human work goes into the personalisation?
8 categories · €10 to €750 · As of 2026
Eight categories compared by price
All ranges are list prices without shipping, as of 2026. Every category gets one strength and one limit, ours included.
Engraved gifts
€20 to €60
Delivery: a few days
Strength: Sturdy and lasting, a keyring with a date survives decades.
Limit: The personalisation comes from a machine and rarely goes beyond a name and a date.
Photo mugs and photo gifts
€15 to €40
Delivery: a few days, express at a surcharge
Strength: Cheap and in use every morning, the right photo carries a long way.
Limit: Given millions of times over, and print quality decides the impression.
Photo book
€30 to €80
Delivery: usually 4 to 10 days
Strength: Room for a hundred shared moments in a single object.
Limit: The real cost is your evenings: selecting and laying out photos takes longer than you think.
Personalised jewellery
€30 to €150
Delivery: days to weeks
Strength: Worn daily and kept close.
Limit: A matter of taste, and the engraving rarely fits more than a name.
AI-generated songs
€10 to €30
Ready instantly
Strength: The cheapest route to a song of your own, generated in minutes.
Limit: Nobody reads your story, the lyrics stay interchangeable.
Individually written songs (Liedify)
€49 to €149
Ready in 24 to 72 hours
Strength: A person reads your story and writes the lyrics from it by hand.
Limit: It arrives as a file, not a parcel: no shipping, but also nothing to unwrap without the lyric card.
Full disclosure: this is our own offering.
Studio recording with session musicians
from €750
Takes several weeks
Strength: Hand-played instruments and studio sound, the top tier.
Limit: The price of a weekend away, and the date sits weeks out.
Experience vouchers
€50 to €200
Printable straight away
Strength: Gives shared time rather than an object.
Limit: Often the only personalised part is the name on the voucher.
Where the price differences come from
Behind almost every price tag sits the same sum: machine time is cheap, human time is not. An engraving machine needs less than a minute for a name, which is why the keyring costs €20. Someone who reads your story, finds the best anecdote and turns it into lyrics needs hours. That is why an individually written song costs €49 to €149 rather than €10.
At Liedify those hours break down like this: the Herzlied (€49) is ready in 72 hours, around two minutes of song as an MP3. The Lieblingslied (€79, 48 hours) runs three to four minutes and includes a lyric card, cover artwork and one lyric revision. The Meisterstück (€149, 24 hours) goes up to five minutes, with a lyric video, three revisions, a Spotify option, commercial rights and an instrumental version. The lyrics are always written by hand and produced with modern production techniques. The full details are on the pricing page.
And to keep the comparison honest: Liedify offers no money-back guarantee. Instead you hear the song first, before the person it was written for, and from the Lieblingslied upwards you can have lines changed.
Hidden costs: shipping and surcharges
The ranges above are list prices. Physical products almost always add shipping, usually under €10 depending on the provider, and anyone running late pays express surcharges that can quickly double the price of a photo mug. A photo book also needs 4 to 10 days in most cases, express or not.
Digital gifts have neither. A song, an experience voucher or a donation arrives without shipping costs and without surcharges, the song after 24 to 72 hours, the voucher straight away. The honest flip side: there is nothing to unwrap. With a song that can be solved, since the printable lyric card comes included from the Lieblingslied upwards, and how a file becomes a moment is covered in the handover guide.
Which price is worth it also depends on the occasion: a wedding song can justify the top package, while a milestone birthday song is usually well served by the middle one. Both are ordered through the same questionnaire.
Questions about prices and costs
Because three different products share one name. AI generators (€10 to €30) produce the song in minutes, and nobody reads your story. At Liedify (€49 to €149) a person writes the lyrics by hand from your story, ready in 24 to 72 hours. Studio productions with session musicians start at around €750 and take weeks.
More answers
The two questions that usually come next.
The price is settled, the story is waiting
A song from your story starts at €49, ready in 24 to 72 hours, with no shipping costs. The one thing Liedify needs comes from you: the story.
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