3D Print Cost and Selling Price Calculator
Estimate 3D-print production cost and a transparent selling price from slicer mass or STL volume, filament, energy, labor, machine wear, reprint risk, packaging, fees, and target gross margin.
Production inputs
Professional quote inputs
For production quoting, slicer-reported filament mass is normally better than solid STL volume because shells, infill, supports, purge, brims, modifiers, and multi-material waste change real consumption. Margin is calculated on selling price—not as a simple markup.
A useful print quote separates real production inputs and then solves backward from target gross margin. This calculator accepts slicer filament mass when available, keeps each cost visible, and avoids confusing margin with simple markup.
Enter your actual printer economics
- Upload an STL to prefill geometric volume when useful, or enter slicer/manual volume directly.
- Enter the correct material density and real spool price/mass.
- Add a waste/support allowance and the printer's approximate wattage/time.
How OpenFileTools processes it
Local processing, explicit choices.
An optional STL is topology-checked before its enclosed volume is auto-loaded. Slicer filament mass can override geometric mass; the calculator then adds waste, filament, energy, labor, machine wear, packaging and expected reprint cost, and solves a selling price that targets the entered gross margin after platform/payment fees.
Questions, answered.
Can I use this to set a customer price?
Use it as a direct-cost baseline, then add your real labor, overhead, risk, fees, and desired margin.
Does it fetch filament prices?
No. You enter your own spool economics so the calculation stays current and transparent.
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