Approximately 3 years ago we published a video called Best Cheap Gel Pens. Tanmit gel pens won that battle. But a lot has changed since then, and we still get asked what are the best budget gel pens on Amazon in 2024? So we purchased 20 new packs of popular, high-rated & inexpensive gel pens from Amazon to test. The results were surprising–watch below.
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The Winner
We were surprised by the winner: AEN Arts Gel Pens. These are a fantastic starter set of gel pens that met all of our criteria:
- Cost less than $30US
- Had at least 48 beautiful colors (AEN has 80).
- Contained a variety of pen inks (glitter, classic, metallic, swirl, etc.)
- Came with a good case & extras.
- Came with refills (AEN has 80).
- Most Important – excellent performance!
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2nd & 3rd Place Winners
The 2nd & 3rd place winners are all great gel pen choices that you will enjoy using. (In fact, 3rd place actually contains a 4-way tie.) Here are those in winning order…
- Gotideal (2nd Place)
- Soucolor (3rd Place A)
- Daskid (3rd Place B)
- Shuttle Art (3rd Place C)
- ColorIt (3rd Place D)
All Brands Tested
Here is a list of all of the gel pen brands that we tested in order from best to worst. (As mentioned in the video, just because a brand scored low in this test doesn’t mean you can’t get great coloring results with it.)
- Aen
- Gotideal
- Soucolor
- Daskid
- Shuttle Art
- ColorIt
- Lanrenweng
- Caisexile
- Tanmit
- Reaeon
- Oficrafted
- ZSCM
- Lelix
- Gunsamg
- Castle Arts
- Typecho
- Zebra
- Arteza
- Lineon
- Smart Color Art
Testing Results
Here you can see all of the swatching and testing results. I swatched 1,600 gel pens for this! I will also include a link to our gel pen testing sheet if you’d like to download it (paid membership required).
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Wow! Thanks so much for that great video! These videos are a huge help especially since my old gel pen set needs to be replaced.
Wonderful video. I learned so much information on what to look for, etc. Thank you. I have never used gel pens but am anxious to give them a try
I have some gel pens which I find I like and don’t tend to bleed like my colour markers do and requires me to put paper or an old flyer between the pages to avoid this from happening.
I’ll be sure to go with better quality gel pens like Aen Art, Shuttle Art or ColorIt whenever I want to look for gel pens, if I’m not the winner of this giveaway. lol