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3D Print Cost Calculator

Price a filament print with material, electricity, machine time, labor, waste and fees. See your break-even price, profit and margin in one local estimate.

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01 / YOUR PRINT

Use one currency throughout. Enter your actual costs; there are no preset business rates. Optional blank costs are excluded (zero).

Material
Time & power

Use measured average draw or a reasonable estimate; rated maximum power can overstate cost.

Use the cost per unit on your electricity bill. A 100-watt printer uses 0.1 kWh in one hour.

More costs: labor, packaging & allowances
Machine & labor

Enter both labor time and rate to include labor. Use decimal hours: 30 minutes = 0.5.

Allowances & overhead

Add 0–1,000% to material, electricity, machine time, labor and consumables. This is a cost allowance, not a failure probability.

Sale price

One combined rate below 100%, applied only to the suggested sale price. Tax and shipping are not modeled.

Enter a target, including 0 for break-even. Margin plus fee must stay below 100%; markup allows up to 1,000%.

Non-negative decimals only, up to six decimal places and 1,000,000 per ordinary input. Material capacity must be above zero. Results are capped at 1,000,000,000.

Enter your print details to begin.

EVERY COST EXPLAINED

Know what your print needs to earn.

Material = spool price × filament used ÷ spool net filament weight. Electricity = print hours × average watts ÷ 1,000 × electricity rate. Machine and labor costs each equal their hours × hourly rate.

Direct production costs include material, electricity, machine time, labor. Waste allowance = direct costs × allowance %. Total production cost adds that allowance plus packaging / overhead. Enter zero for a required cost you deliberately exclude.

MARGIN ≠ MARKUP

Choose one pricing strategy.

Let C be total production cost, F the fixed fee, f the percentage fee as a fraction, and t your target as a fraction. Break-even sale price = (C + F) ÷ (1 − f).

Margin: sale price = (C + F) ÷ (1 − f − t). Your profit is the chosen share of the sale price. Markup: sale price = (C × (1 + t) + F) ÷ (1 − f). Your profit is the chosen share of production cost.

Example only: with a cost of 10 and no fees, a 20% margin needs 12.50; a 20% markup needs 12.00. Sale prices round upward to cents. Other lines round independently; profit and actual margin use the rounded sale price with exact costs and fees. Actual processor rounding may differ.

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