Zakeke vs Kickflip for a Jewelry Store (2026)

Zakeke and Kickflip are the two general 3D product configurators jewelers end up comparing. Both are well reviewed, both customize any product, and both charge a percentage of every custom order on top of the monthly fee. For a jewelry store that last part matters more than anything else on their pricing pages, because jewelry order values are high.

Ruby Kinglet is ours: a jewelry customizer with no per-order fee, connected to design, CAD, and photos. Updated September 2026. Pricing is from each vendor's pricing page as of that date.

The per-order fee decides this

Zakeke is $69.90 to $299.90 a month plus 1.5 to 1.9 percent per order, with the percentage set by tier. Kickflip is $59 a month plus up to 1.95 percent per custom product, and the percentage falls as volume rises. On a $200 custom pendant that is three or four dollars, which nobody notices. On a $4,000 engagement ring it is $60 to $78 per sale. Sell ten of those a month and the fee alone is $600 to $780, on top of the subscription. Do that arithmetic on your own average order value before you compare anything else, because it will usually settle the question.

Side by side

Which one, if it is one of these two

Kickflip is cheaper to start, has more Shopify reviews at 134, and its fee falls as you grow, which suits a store expecting volume. Zakeke supports more platforms out of the box, which matters if you are on WooCommerce or Wix, and its fee is fixed by tier. Neither is built for jewelry, so both expect you to bring your own 3D models and build the option logic yourself. If you sell furniture and jewelry and signage from one store, that generality is what you want and you should pick one of these.

What neither does

A general configurator swaps assets you supply. It has no concept of a prong style, a stone species, or a setting method, so you model and encode anything jewelry-specific yourself. Ruby Kinglet ships those as libraries: over 700 built-in jewelry components and more than 300 gemstone species and varieties, catalogued by a GIA Graduate Gemologist. On a general configurator, every one of those is an asset you commission or build. It does not touch design or CAD, so the pieces in the configurator have to exist as finished 3D models before you start, and a shopper cannot ask for something you never modeled. That suits a store selling a defined range and rules out bespoke work.

Where Ruby Kinglet fits

The customizer is part of the Studio plan at $179 a month or $125 billed annually, flat, with no fee per order and no setup fee. Pick the format that fits the store. Showcase swaps pre-rendered images on click; Builder is a full AI customizer that renders the shopper's exact piece and sends the design in as a quote request; Visualizer is a preview engine that sits behind a customization UI you already have. It runs on Shopify with cart integration and embeds on any site that takes HTML. The jewelry libraries come built in, and the same workspace covers design, CAD, and product photos.

At low volume, Kickflip at $59 plus a small fee is cheaper than $179 flat, and if you customize several product categories it is also a better fit. The flat plan wins on jewelry order values and on volume, and it is the only one of the three that connects to how the piece gets made.

The pick

Choose Kickflip for the lowest entry price and a fee that falls with volume. Choose Zakeke if you need broad platform support out of the box. Choose Ruby Kinglet if your average order value makes a percentage expensive, if you want built-in jewelry libraries, or if shoppers need to configure pieces you have not already modeled.