7 Best Jello Shot Cups of 2026

Two and a half inches across and an inch deep — Amazon Basics’ mini cup is wider and shallower than most of the cups in this guide, and that shape is the reason to pick it. A shallow shot is easier to get at with a spoon, sits flatter on a plate, and doesn’t skid when someone sets a drink down next to it on a crowded table.

We treat it as the small-batch cup. Fifty is a realistic number for a dinner party or a first run at a flavor, and the lids seat squarely enough that we never had to re-seat one mid-tray. The plastic is basic and thin — nobody will mistake it for the heavy restaurant-grade cups — but a cup that gets used once and tossed doesn’t need to be tough.

The leftover half-box is the sleeper benefit. These are the same 2 oz cups people buy for salad dressing, ketchup and yogurt, and they disappear into lunchboxes fast. For a big crowd, though, 50 runs out quickly, and that’s the whole trade: buy this one for the guest list, not for the pantry.

Three hundred and sixty sets is an absurd number of jello shots until you’re the one catering a wedding. This is the biggest box in the guide and it’s built for exactly that job: one purchase, no reorder, enough cups that you stop counting them somewhere around the second tray.

The lids are the good part. They snap with a click and hold a real seal, so a full box stacks in a fridge and travels in the trunk without weeping onto its neighbors. The cup itself is a plain round 2 oz, wide and shallow at about 1.2 inches tall, which keeps them stable on a tray and easy to eat from. In a box this size, expect the odd cup and lid not to line up on the first try; square it before you press.

Where this earns its place is the arithmetic of a big event: 360 sets covers a 200-guest party with seconds and still leaves spares for the next one. It’s the largest single purchase here, and what you’re buying is volume rather than a nicer cup. If your party is thirty people, take a 100-count instead and put the difference into better liquor.

TashiBox’s lids are the one thing to know before you buy. Most seat with a clean snap, and some need a hard, square press before they’ll go down — and if you press with the cup in your hand, the wall flexes and the lid cocks sideways. Set the cup on a counter and press from the center. That trick solves most of it, and knowing it in advance solves the rest.

Past the lid it’s a sensible cup. Two hundred sets, 2 oz each, BPA-free, and around 1.7 inches tall — deeper than the shallow cups here, which gives a layered shot more visible stripes and takes less tray footprint per serving, at the cost of a little more fridge height when they’re stacked.

The leftovers are the quiet argument. Two hundred cups is more than most people use in a year of parties, and they’re just as good for salad dressing, salsa and freezer portions, so the box doesn’t sit idle. Ours has been raided for lunch prep far more often than for shots.

On balance this is the 200-count to buy for a casual party where the cups get used up in one night and nobody counts them back in at the end. If a lid that goes on first try matters more to you than volume, GUSTO’s 100-count is the safer box at a smaller size.

If the cups are going in the bin at the end of the night, this is the box that asks the least of your wallet: 100 lidded 2 oz cups, food-grade and BPA-free, with plain snap lids rather than anything engineered. That’s the right call for a one-off party — you’re buying the portion, not the hardware.

The shape is the wide, shallow kind at 2.37 inches across and 1.12 inches tall. That makes them quick to fill from a pitcher, stable on a sheet pan, and easy to get a spoon into, and the stack stays low in a crowded fridge. The lids are a basic snap fit and do the job of covering a tray overnight.

One habit worth adopting with any budget snap lid: seat one on an empty cup and give it a shake before you fill all 100. It takes two seconds, it tells you whether this batch needs a firmer press than the last, and it saves you finding out with a tray of set shots in your hands.

Where our top pick uses a soft polypropylene lid, Freshware pairs a PP cup with a PET lid — a stiffer plastic that answers with a sharper, higher click. That stiffness is the whole story of this box: it’s why the seal feels so positive, and why a fair number of lids take real force to get down.

We file it as a cheap bulk buy with a chore attached. Two hundred sets for less than most of the 200-counts here, crack-resistant cups, and a lid that stays where you put it — as long as you’re ready to work them on one at a time. Filling 200 cups the night before a party, budget your hands as well as your evening.

The cup is taller and narrower than the shallow picks, about 1.7 inches tall and 1.5 wide, which suits a layered shot and takes up less tray space. It’s a bit more work to spoon out at the end of the night, which is the trade for that stackability.

One hundred and thirty is a strange number of cups, and it’s exactly why this box exists: 100 starts to feel short once you’re filling dessert cups as well, and 200 is a lifetime supply for someone who hosts twice a year and has one shelf to give it.

The build is the same recipe as the big boxes — crack-resistant polypropylene cups, PET lids, an airtight snap, everything BPA-free and stackable. Nothing about it reads like a corner was cut to hit the price, and the lids have that reassuring click that tells you the seal is on before you look.

While we haven’t had this box through a full party season, the specification and the sizing make it a sensible middle buy: it covers a fifty-guest party with spares and doesn’t leave you storing cups you’ll never open. If a click you can hear matters more than a few extra cups, GUSTO’s 100-count is still the safer pick.