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Print Cost Calculator

Know exactly what every 3D print costs — and exactly what to charge for it.

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Price any print in seconds.
Filament, electricity, printer wear & labor — true cost plus your retail markup.

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Track the filament shelf.
Every spool with its real landed cost (tax, shipping, fees), grams remaining & receipts — shared across the team.

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Save jobs & send quotes.
Job history with profit tracking, plus clean customer-ready quotes you can print or text.

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🖨️ Print Cost Calculator

FDM 3D Printing · Cost & Pricing · synced to your account

🖨️ Printer & AMS

PRINTER MODEL

AMS / MULTI-MATERIAL

Printer + AMS = a Bambu "Combo". Heated/drying units (AMS 2 Pro, AMS HT) add the most wattage.

🎨 Filament

WEIGHT (g)

COST PER KG ($)

FROM INVENTORY

Pick a spool to use its real cost/kg (after tax, shipping & fees), then deduct this print's grams.

Filament cost: $44.00

⚡ Electricity

PRINT TIME (h)

+ MINUTES

RATE ($/kWh)

PRINTER WATTS

Electricity cost: $1.26

🔧 Wear & Tear

PRINTER COST ($)

AMS / ADD-ONS ($)

LIFESPAN (h)

Wear & tear cost: $10.67

🤵 Labor (optional)

LABOR HOURS

HOURLY RATE ($)

Labor cost: $0.00

🧩 Pieces per Print

PIECES THIS PRINT

Full plate? Enter how many items this one job prints — cost & price break down per piece automatically.

📊 Catalog Loaded Cost

Use catalog assumptions— built-in defaults

Same math as the Print Catalog: print cost (live spool price, power, wear + maintenance, waste on grams) grossed up for misprints — then only the extras you tick, as exact dollars per piece. Your Cost below matches the catalog. Untick for the bare print cost.

Filament type · live $/kg from inventory

Maintenance ($/hr)

Waste / purge (% of grams)

Misprint rate (% scrapped)

Round cost / piece up to ($) · 0 = exact

Extras for this print · per piece · added only when ticked

Labor$

Packaging$

Hardware (rings, magnets) comes from the per-piece add-on cost in Service Fees below, also only when ticked.

Extras save with the quote and carry into the catalog on import as the same exact amounts. The Labor card above is ignored while this is on. Filament uses the picked spool's price if one is chosen, otherwise the live average for the type. Extras are added after the misprint gross-up — a scrapped print doesn't burn labor, bags or hardware.

Filament

$44.00

Electricity

$1.26

Wear & Tear

$10.67

Labor

$0.00

YOUR COST

$55.93

💰 Pricing Tier & Markup

Tap a tier or set your own multiplier. Wholesale runs the thinnest margin but wins on volume; direct-to-consumer earns the most per piece.

MULTIPLIER (x)

Standard retail

💼 Service Fees & Add-ons

Per job · charged once

Per piece · × pieces this print

ADD-ONS TOTALnone selected$0.00

Tick a box to add it — it goes straight into Charge Customer below, on top of the tier price (add-ons don't multiply with markup). Per-piece add-ons multiply by Pieces This Print. “Cost” is what the hardware costs you — it's added to Your Cost so profit stays honest; customers never see it. Your prices and your own add-ons are remembered on this device.

Charge Customer

$139.83

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