3D printing cost & pricing calculators

Filament, resin, electricity, machine wear and your time — these calculators add it all up and, if you sell prints, tell you what to charge so the marketplace fees don't eat the margin.

Filament Cost Calculator

Cost per gram, per meter and per print from the spool price, with waste and failure allowances.

3D Print Pricing Calculator

Full cost of a print plus markup, and the list price that survives marketplace fees.

Resin Print Cost Calculator

Resin plus IPA, FEP wear, power and consumables — the real cost of an SLA/MSLA print.

3D Printer Electricity Cost Calculator

Power cost per print, per hour, per month and per year from wattage and your kWh price.

Every cost calculator

Enter what the spool cost and how much a print uses (your slicer tells you) and get the material cost per gram, per meter and for the whole print — with an honest allowance for waste and failed prints.

3D Print Pricing Calculator

Add up everything a print actually costs — filament, machine wear, power, your time, the odd failure — then set a markup and see the price to list on Etsy or eBay so the fees don't eat your margin.

Resin Print Cost Calculator

Resin prints cost more than the resin. This adds the alcohol you wash with, the FEP film you wear out, the electricity and the gloves, and gives you a per-print and per-part figure you can actually price from.

3D Printer Electricity Cost Calculator

Pick your printer or enter its average draw, add the print time and your electricity price, and see what a print, an hour, a month and a year of printing costs in power.

What a 3D print actually costs

Material is the number everyone reaches for and the smallest part of the answer. On a six-hour print the filament might be a dollar; the machine has aged six hours, drawn most of a kilowatt-hour, and needed you to slice it, watch the first layer, prise it off and clean it up. Any of those individually outweighs the plastic.

A full cost breaks into five parts, and these calculators handle them in the order that matters:

Material — grams from the slicer times your cost per gram, plus an allowance for purge, waste and the prints that fail.
Machine time — the printer's price spread over its realistic working life, typically 2,000–5,000 hours, plus nozzles, belts, plates and hotends.
Electricity — small but real, and much larger for enclosed ABS printing than for PLA on an open bedslinger.
Labour — usually the biggest line on anything under a few hundred grams, and the one most often set to zero.
Failure allowance — if one print in ten fails, every good print carries an extra 11% of machine-side cost.

If you sell prints

Two things separate a price that works from one that quietly loses money. The first is charging for your time at a rate you would actually accept. The second is that marketplace fees come off the listed price, not added to it — so to keep a given amount you have to work backwards, dividing rather than adding. A 9.5% fee on a $12 target is not $13.14; it is $13.76 once the fixed listing and payment charges are in. The pricing calculator does that arithmetic, and its Etsy and eBay presets are editable because those schedules change.

Where to start

If you just want to know what a spool is costing you, start with the filament cost calculator. If you are quoting work for someone else, go straight to the pricing calculator — it contains the others.