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Free 3D printing cost calculator

Estimate filament, electricity, labor, packaging, shipping and extra-component costs for a repeatable plate layout with multiple filaments. Choose your currency, enter your own costs and check your target margin or selling price. No account needed.

Estimate / unit$9.21View result ↑

Your print economics

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Your order & plates
About Finished units in this order
Number of finished items in this order. Batch costs are shared across these items.

Enter slicer values for one run of each plate layout. Plate runs repeats that layout, multiplying its print time, filament and handling labor. Finished units is the total number of items you will sell across the order.

Plate 1
About Plate 1 print time per run (hours)
Print time for one run of this layout, taken from your slicer.
About Plate 1 runs
How many times you’ll print this layout. Each run repeats its filament, print time and handling costs.

Filament 1

About Plate 1, filament 1 grams per run
Filament used per run, including supports, purge and waste.
About Plate 1, filament 1 cost ($/kg)
Your cost for one kilogram of this filament. Each filament row can have a different price.
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Free includes one repeatable plate layout. Maker unlocks additional layouts and saved cost profiles. Up to 10 filaments per plate.

1 plate runs · 3 total printer-hours

Printer & energy
About Printer purchase price ($)
What you paid for the printer. Maker spreads its cost, minus residual value, across its expected working hours.
About Average printer power (W)
Average electricity draw while printing, including the heated bed. Use measured power if available, rather than peak rated power.
About Electricity ($/kWh)
Your electricity price per kilowatt-hour (kWh), usually shown on your power bill.
Printer details

Depreciation and maintenance spread your machine costs across its useful life.

Maker adds printer depreciation, maintenance and failed-print reserves. Free estimates exclude these costs. Unlock printer costing with Maker

About Printer residual value ($)
What you expect the printer to be worth at the end of its service life. This amount is subtracted before calculating depreciation.
About Printer service life (hours)
Total printing hours you expect from the machine over its working life, not its age in calendar years.
About Maintenance ($/hour)
An allowance per printing hour for repairs, replacement parts and routine maintenance. It is separate from depreciation.
Extra materials

Keyrings, clicker mechanisms, glue, magnets and other non-printed components. Include the cost across the entire order.

About Additional materials total for this order ($)
Total cost of non-printed parts for the whole order, such as magnets, keyrings, glue or clicker mechanisms.
Track components individually

Add keyrings, magnets or glue with their own costs and quantities. Reuse saved component prices and choose whether each quantity is per item or per order.

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Components or consumable portions used after a successful print. Choose quantities per finished unit or for the whole order. These replace the quick total and are not added to failed-print retries.

Extra material 1
About Extra 1 cost per component ($)
Cost of one non-printed component, such as one magnet or keyring. Quantity and scope control how often this cost is included.
About Extra 1 quantity
Number of this component needed. Choose whether this quantity applies to each finished item or once for the whole order.
Extra material 2
About Extra 2 cost per component ($)
Cost of one non-printed component, such as one magnet or keyring. Quantity and scope control how often this cost is included.
About Extra 2 quantity
Number of this component needed. Choose whether this quantity applies to each finished item or once for the whole order.
Labor & finishing

Hands-on time, separate from the hours your printer runs.

About Labor rate ($/hour)
The hourly value of your hands-on work. Printing time is not automatically charged as labor.
About One-time setup (minutes)
Preparation time charged once for the whole order, such as slicing or getting the job ready.
About Labor per plate (minutes)
Hands-on time for each plate, such as starting the print, removing parts and cleaning the bed. Retries may repeat this work.
About Finishing per unit (minutes)
Hands-on finishing time for each successful item, such as sanding, assembly or cleanup.
Selling costs & margin
About Target net margin (%)
The share of customer revenue you want left as profit after costs and selling fees. Margin is different from adding a markup to cost.
About Sales channel fee (%)
The percentage a marketplace or payment processor takes from each sale. Use the fee basis below to decide whether shipping revenue is included.
About Fixed fee per order ($)
A flat selling fee. The scope below controls whether it is charged once for the order or for each finished item.
About Failed plate probability (%)
Chance that an individual plate needs another attempt. Maker adds a reserve for repeated material, printer time, energy and plate labor.
Packaging, shipping & other costs$0.35 order costs · $0.00 shipping charged
About Packaging per unit ($)
Packaging used for each finished item, such as an individual bag or protective sleeve.
About Packaging per order ($)
Packaging charged once for the whole order, such as a shared shipping box. Avoid counting the same packaging twice.
About Your shipping cost ($)
What you pay to deliver the order, such as postage or a carrier label. Packaging is entered separately.
About Shipping charged to customer ($)
Shipping money collected from the customer. This is revenue, separate from what delivery costs you.
About Other overhead per order ($)
Other costs charged once for the order that are not already included, such as a job-specific consumable.
Pricing safeguardsMaker

Set a minimum selling price or profit per unit alongside your target margin.

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Add minimum price and profit safeguards for repeat jobs. Free includes material, energy, labor, overhead, shipping, packaging, and basic selling fees. Maker adds printer wear and failed-print reserves.

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About Minimum profit per unit ($)
A minimum profit amount for each item. Maker raises the recommended price when needed to meet this floor as well as your target margin.
About Minimum selling price per unit ($)
The lowest selling price you want to recommend per item. A higher price may still be needed to cover costs and your profit targets.

Price with confidence

Recommended / unit

$9.21

Net margin after fees

45.0%

Profit / order

$4.15

Profit / printer-hour

$1.38

Estimated cost / unit

$4.49

This Free estimate excludes printer depreciation, maintenance and failed-print reserves. Maker includes these costs.

Profit per order subtracts total costs and channel fees from customer revenue. Per-unit costs exclude channel fees; the breakdown below shows order totals.

45.0% net margin after fees · 3.00 expected printer-hours including retries

Cost breakdown · $4.49 cost / unit
Where the money goes$5.06 / order
Filament & components
$1.43 · 28%
Hands-on labor
$2.67 · 53%
Electricity
$0.04 · 1%
Packaging, shipping & overhead
$0.35 · 7%
Selling fees
$0.58 · 11%

At the recommended price: order costs plus selling fees, before profit. Displayed amounts and percentages are rounded.

material
$1.43
extra Materials
$0.00
machine
Not included · Maker
energy
$0.04
Plate labor
$0.67
failure Reserve
Not included · Maker
Setup & finishing labor
$2.00
packaging
$0.35
overhead
$0.00
shipping
$0.00
Channel fees
$0.58
Product subtotal
$9.21
Shipping revenue
$0.00
Total order revenue
$9.21
Total order costs
$4.49
Order profit after costs and fees
$4.15

Check your selling price

About Your selling price per unit ($)
Your proposed price for one finished item, before the separate shipping charge. Compare its profit and margin with your target and break-even price.
Compare pricing scenariosMaker

Turn an estimate into a decision.

Compare alternative batch sizes or costs side by side without losing your baseline.

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Before you quote

  • Ready for a final review

    Check slicer totals, labor and shipping before sending a price. A good estimate still depends on current costs.

Compare bulk quantitiesMaker

Offer a quantity discount that still earns its keep.

Compare order sizes, plate runs, recommended prices and profit. Setup costs are shared across the order; per-item costs stay per item.

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Prepare a customer quotePro

Give your customer a clear, professional quote.

Add business and customer details, a reference and a validity date. Copy, download, print to PDF or open an email draft, with internal costs and profit kept private.

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Estimates in USD, based on your inputs. You choose your final price. How we calculate. Batch totals are shared across all units. Failure reserves cover material, machine, energy, and plate labor. Packaging and finishing apply once to successful units.

From print cost to selling price

Include supports and waste in filament weight, use your local electricity rate, and account for hands-on setup and finishing time. Packaging and shipping are costs even when the customer pays a shipping charge.

Free estimates exclude printer depreciation, maintenance and failed-print reserves. Maker adds those assumptions, additional plate layouts, saved cost profiles, and itemized components. Pro adds saved marketplace fee profiles and profitability insights.

Learn how much to charge for a 3D print or see the calculation formulas and worked example.

Margin is not markup

See why adding 30% to cost does not leave a 30% profit margin.

Make delivery pay its way

Separate postage costs from shipping revenue, then account for selling fees.

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