What does that 3D print actually cost you?

Six free calculators for filament, machine time, power and pricing. Every formula is printed on the page, and nothing you type leaves your browser.

Filament cost calculator

Enter the numbers from your own receipt and slicer.

Calculates as you type
USD
Include tax and shipping for the true landed cost.
g
Net weight, not the shipping weight of the box.
g
Your slicer's material estimate.
%
Purge, brim, supports, failed starts.
pcs
For batch runs and small orders.
▾
The maths is currency-neutral.
Cost per print
Filament only, waste included $1.11
45 g model, 50.4 g with waste
Cost per gram$0.022
Cost per kilogram$22.00
Prints left on spool19
Total for batch$1.11
Material cost only. Machine time, power, packaging and selling fees are separate.

The defaults above are the calculator's own example values — a $22 spool of 1000 g, a 45 g model and a 12% waste rate. Replace every one of them with your own figures. Figures from the defaults, not market data.

How these calculators are built

Four rules that decide what is on every page. They are the reason the numbers here can be checked instead of trusted.

The formula is printed on the page

Each calculator shows the arithmetic it uses, in plain text, directly above the result. If a figure looks wrong you can work out why without filing a support ticket.

Defaults are labelled as assumptions

A $22 spool and a 12% waste rate are plausible starting examples, not market averages we claim to have measured. Filament prices, tariffs and platform fees move, so anything you did not type yourself is an example.

Nothing is uploaded

The arithmetic runs in your browser. There is no account, no server round trip and no analytics on the input fields. You can open a calculator, disconnect from the network and still use it.

Sources instead of invented numbers

Where a figure depends on a supplier, a utility tariff or a marketplace fee, the page says so and points you at the official source rather than guessing a number and presenting it as fact.

A part-used spool of filament sitting on a digital kitchen scale
A part-used spool on a kitchen scale. Weigh it, subtract the empty spool, and you have your real cost per gram — not the sticker price divided by an assumed number of prints. Photo: Creative Tools, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
A vernier caliper measuring a part against a white background
Calipers and a scale will improve your costing more than any spreadsheet formula. Wall thickness and part weight are the two inputs people guess wrong most often. Photo: Simon A. Eugster, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

What these calculators are not

They are arithmetic with editable inputs, not a market price list. Every default is a starting assumption you are expected to overwrite with your own receipt, your own electricity tariff and your own slicer estimate. Treat any figure you did not enter yourself as an example.