One calculator in your browser: a free level and 3 paid ones. Start free, move up when you need more saved quotes, file reading or reports.
A quick estimate. The calculator prices every detail from your own costs.
Profit you could have included, instead of just covering costs.
Illustration only, not a forecast or a promise of results. It assumes 5 similar orders a week, priced at cost instead of this quote, with the same costs and margin for 52 weeks.
14 days free, then the full price.
Or $120 a year.
Everything in Free, plus
14 days free, then the full price.
Or $168 a year.
Everything in Basic, plus
14 days free, then the full price.
Or $360 a year.
Everything in Plus, plus
Not ready to subscribe? The Free level is a license at no charge: one printer, 2 filaments and the customer quote PDF. You still check out through Shopify at $0, because that is how licenses are issued. Get your free license · Compare every level
What you can do
Every level prices a quote from your own costs. Each step up adds more of what a busy print shop needs.
Every level
Filament, electricity, machine wear, labor, failed prints and one-time model costs, all added up and turned into a price at your target profit margin. Round the price to a whole dollar, and charge a share of what you paid for a model. Hand customers a clean quote PDF; your costs stay private.
Basic
Price prints that use several filaments, up to 4 on Basic, 6 on Plus and 8 from Professional, each with its own material, color and spool cost.
Free and up
Save a priced order as a quote and the price stays as it was, even if your costs change. Free keeps 5, Basic keeps 25 with numbers and auto-save, Plus keeps 50, and Professional keeps 75.
Basic
Put two quotes for the same thing side by side. Every field shows the difference, green for up and red for down, and you can export it as CSV.
Plus
Drop in a sliced Bambu Studio or OrcaSlicer file. Print time and filaments fill in, and each filament is matched to yours by maker, material and color. An STL gives a rough filament weight before you slice.
Plus
Attach the 3MF, STL, OBJ or CAD files for a quote and turn the model in a 3D viewer. Plus keeps 50 saved quotes.
Plus
Keep up to 2 printers on Plus, and up to 8 from Professional, each with its own price, power and nozzle, and pick one for each quote.
Professional
See the same order priced on each of your printers, and what you would gain or lose by switching to a different filament.
Professional
See when each printer pays for itself, with PDF and CSV exports of the reports.
Professional
Bring in a Spoolman or FilaMan export file as your filament list, and edit a group of filaments at once: change their maker, material or spool cost, or delete them together.
Professional
Charge a lower margin on bigger orders, automatically. Set up to 20 brackets; from each quantity up, its margin replaces your target margin.
Professional
Keep as many filaments and printers as you need, add named users who share your quotes and costs, and pull your spool inventory straight from your own Spoolman or FilaMan server.
Every level includes everything in the levels before it. Free is the calculator you can try without paying.
| Get free | Subscribe | Subscribe | Subscribe | |
| Feature | FreeNo charge | Basic$10 / month | Plus$14 / month | Professional$30 / month |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manual print pricing | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Online support and guides | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Support tickets per month | – | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| Customer quote PDF | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Overhead in quotes | Hobbyist profile | Preset profiles | Preset profiles | Preset profiles |
| Printer profiles | 1 | 1 | Up to 2 | Up to 8 |
| Named users on one account | 1 | 1 | 1 | Unlimited |
| Filaments per job | 2 | Up to 4 | Up to 6 | Unlimited |
| Saved quotes | Up to 5 | Up to 25 | Up to 50 | Up to 75 |
| Share a quote by link | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Customer directory | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Auto-save changes to a saved quote | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Files kept with saved quotes | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Backup and restore | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Read sliced 3MF and STL files | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Several models in one quote | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| ROI charts and payback reports | – | – | – | ✓ |
| Printer and filament comparisons | – | – | – | ✓ |
| What if... pricing scenarios | – | – | – | ✓ |
| Reports PDF and CSV exports | – | – | – | ✓ |
| Export to Excel, Google Sheets and Excel Online | – | – | – | ✓ |
| Spoolman / FilaMan export-file imports | – | – | – | ✓ |
| Bulk edit and delete | – | – | – | ✓ |
| Live Spoolman / FilaMan server imports | – | – | – | ✓ |
| Quantity price brackets | – | – | – | ✓ |
Support
Every level comes with online support and guides. Paid levels add support tickets each month, and the number grows with the level.
31 guides with screenshots. Every tab is covered (Order, Filaments, Printers, Quotes, Reports and Compare), plus backup, exports, licenses and troubleshooting.
Browse the guides →Section headings in the calculator carry a help icon that opens the guide for what you are looking at, so the answer is one click away.
Send a ticket from the support form with your name, email and a description of what you need. Paid levels include a set number of tickets each month.
Guides for locked features, what each license level includes, and what to check before you write in, so most questions are answered without waiting.
Troubleshooting guides →Did you know?
You weighed the filament, did the quick math, and sent the quote. It felt fair. Then the printer ran all night, one print failed, you lost an hour to supports and packing, and the margin you thought you had quietly disappeared.
Filament
Filament is only part of what a print costs. Quote from grams alone and everything else comes out of your pocket.
Color changes
Switching colors mid-print purges material that never ends up in the part. It's real filament you paid for, so it belongs in the quote.
Electricity
It draws electricity for every hour of every print, including the long overnight ones. That cost rides along on every order and grows with print time.
Machine payback
It had a purchase price, and every hour of printing wears it and its nozzles a little more. Price only the plastic and you're borrowing from your future self.
Failed prints
A failed print still used material and machine time. If the price only covers the ones that worked, the failures come straight out of your profit.
Your time
Setup, support removal, finishing, packing, replies and any design work all happen when the printer isn't running. Labor counts even when no one is watching a clock.
Margin and fees
No, and mixing them up shaves your profit. Marketplace and payment fees come out of what you charge, so the margin you want has to cover them too.
None of this is complicated. It's just spread across places nobody checks while a customer waits for a quote. The Print Calculator puts your own numbers in one workbook, so the price follows your costs and your target margin.
A quote that only covers the filament is a gift.
In the price
These are all inputs in the workbook, and you set them. Change a cost and the price follows.
Electricity
Every print draws power for as long as it runs. The workbook prices electricity from your printer's draw and your own rate.
Asset depreciation
Your printer is a business asset that loses value with every hour it runs. The workbook spreads its purchase price over its useful life, so each print carries its share.
Wear and nozzles
Machine wear and nozzle replacement are priced in for every hour of printing, so the repair is already in the quote when it comes due.
Failed prints
A failure allowance spreads the cost of failed attempts across the parts that work, so the cost of a failure isn't left on you.
Labor
Labor is its own line in the quote, so setup and finishing time is priced in, not donated.
Design and licenses
Design hours and the cost of a licensed model are added to the order, so they're in the price, and in the per-piece price too.
Many filaments
Add several filaments to one order, each with its own grams and cost. Running an AMS? Enter its purge waste too, and it's priced at that material's rate.
Printer profiles
Keep a profile for each printer and pick the one you're using. Each carries its own settings, so the quote matches the machine.
Packaging
Packaging and consumables go into the order, so the tape and boxes aren't paid for out of your margin.
Tax and shipping
Enter a sales tax rate and a shipping cost. Shipping is part of the order cost, and tax is added after your profit.
Currency
Enter your own exchange rate and the quote converts to your customer's currency. Your costs stay in USD.
Target margin
Set the margin you want and the price is worked out from it, instead of adding a guess on top.
It's easy to leave a dozen things to luck.
This one asks about each.
And there's more
The Scenarios and ROI sheets use the numbers you already entered, so you can plan as well as quote.
Scenarios
Compare up to 15 printer and filament combinations for the same order, each priced at your target margin, with charts.
ROI over time
See payback over time from your own assumptions: orders per month, growth, and what the printer and license cost. It's an illustration, not a sales forecast.
Your catalogs
Save up to 200 printer profiles and 50 filaments, then pick them by number when you quote.
Inside the web calculator
A look at the actual app, from matching a sliced file’s filaments to comparing the numbers behind an order.
Plus reads a Bambu Studio or Orca 3MF, fills in time and filaments, and matches each one to yours. Plus also keeps more than one printer, with a choice for every quote.
Plus keeps the files with each quote and opens them in a 3D viewer with a view cube. 3MF, STL and OBJ.
Export a customer quote: your logo and details, the item and total, the model and its filaments, payment terms, and a signature block. Costs and margin stay private.
Quantity brackets let you set a lower margin from any quantity up, and the price follows. A live chart shows exactly where the price steps down, and where your quote sits. Every level below sees this locked.
Professional prices the same order on each of your printers, at your margin, and shows what you would gain by switching filament.
Actual app screens with sample data. Results depend on your inputs; feature access depends on your license level.
More of the calculator:
Profit and payback
Set a target margin and the calculator prices the quote to match. At Professional and above, ROI charts show how long each of your printers takes to pay for itself, on your own assumptions.
The chart animation is illustrative, not a forecast. Your results depend on the numbers you enter.
Why I built it
I was trying to figure out how to make a profit from my 3D printing. I went looking for a cost calculator and kept finding gaps. I wanted to make it mine. So I did what any engineer would do: I spent too much time building a better spreadsheet. Then I made it a web app.
The gaps
The tools I tried meant bending my workflow around someone else's process. Currency was one gap. The technology was another.
The itch
So I built the knobs. Printers, filaments, labor, overhead, margin and currency rate are all yours to set.
The fix
I like knowing what's going on behind the scenes. Building it myself meant I knew where each number comes from.
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