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3D print pricing calculator

Type the grams and hours that your slicer shows and what your filament costs, and you get the cost of the print and a price that keeps your markup after fees.

The print
The grams that your slicer shows for the print, with supports and purge.
The time that your slicer shows. Half an hour is 0.5.
What it costs you
The net weight on the label, without the spool: 1000 for a 1 kg spool.
What the printer draws on average while it prints, which is far below the peak on its label. A plug-in meter shows it.
On your bill, in the currency above: 0.16 for 16 cents.
What the printer and its worn parts cost you for each hour it prints: its price divided by the hours you expect from it, plus nozzles, plates and belts.
Out of every 100 prints of this kind, how many end in the bin.
Slicing, removing supports, cleaning up and packing one print.
The price
What you add on top of the cost: 50 makes the price, before fees, one and a half times the cost.
The share of the sale that the marketplace and the payment keep. Leave it at 0 for a sale in person.
A fee that does not grow with the price, such as a listing fee or a payment fee per order.

Result

Price to ask$15.01

Filament
$2.40
Electricity
$0.16
Machine wear
$1.95
Failed prints
$0.50
Your time
$5.00
Cost of one print
$10.01
Marketplace fees
$0.00
Profit after fees
$5.00

These are example numbers. Change any box to see your own.

Failed prints add the filament, power and machine time of the prints that do not sell, spread over the ones that do. The price to ask is set so that what the marketplace leaves you is the cost plus your markup.

What a print costs you

The filament is the grams your slicer reports for the whole print, supports and purge included, times the price of a spool over the grams on it. A 120 g print from a $20 spool of 1,000 g uses $2.40 of filament. A filament tracker keeps that figure for every print and takes the grams off the spool they came from.

Power is the printer’s average draw in watts, times the print time, divided by 1,000 and multiplied by your price for a kilowatt hour. A plug-in power meter shows the draw. An eight-hour print at 200 W and $0.12 a kilowatt hour uses about $0.19 of power.

Machine wear is the share of the printer’s life that a print uses. Divide what the printer cost by the hours you expect from it, then add what you spend on nozzles, plates and belts over that time.

Your time covers slicing, removing supports, cleaning the part and packing it. In the example in the boxes, 15 minutes at $20 an hour is the largest line of the cost.

The price after fees

A marketplace takes a share of the sale and often a fixed amount on top. If you only add the fees to your cost, the share is taken from the fees too and your margin shrinks. The calculator works back from what you want to keep: it divides your cost plus markup, plus the fixed fee, by what is left after the share.

With the example in the boxes, the print costs $10.01 and a 50% markup makes $15.01. With a fee of 9.5% and $0.45 a sale, the price becomes $17.08, and the $5.00 profit stays the same.

Fees on Etsy

In the United States, Etsy charges $0.20 to list an item, a 6.5% transaction fee on the order total with shipping, and 3% plus $0.25 for payment processing. The shipping you charge pays fees as well, so a high shipping price raises them. A sale in person has none of this: leave the two fee boxes at 0.

Sharing a quote

Share these numbers sends a link that opens the calculator with your boxes filled in, which is handy when a customer or a partner wants to see how you got to the price.

Asked often

How much should I charge for a 3D print?
Start from what the print costs you: the filament, the power, the wear on the printer, the prints that fail and your own time. Add the markup you want on top, then let the calculator raise the price until the marketplace’s fees leave that markup intact.
What fees does Etsy take on a sale in the United States?
Etsy charges $0.20 for each listing, whether the item sells or not, and a transaction fee of 6.5% of the total order, shipping and gift wrap included. Payment processing in the US adds 3% plus $0.25, taken from the total with shipping and sales tax.
How do I enter Etsy’s fees in the calculator?
Type 9.5 as the marketplace fee, which is the 6.5% transaction fee and the 3% processing fee together, and 0.45 as the fixed fee: $0.25 of processing and the $0.20 listing fee, if each listing sells once.
How do I count the prints that fail?
Think of the last 100 prints of the same kind and how many ended in the bin. At 10%, about 11% more filament, power and machine time go into each print that sells, and the calculator adds that for you.
What should the machine cost per hour include?
The price of the printer spread over the hours you expect it to print, plus nozzles, build plates and other worn parts. Prusa’s own price calculator asks for the printer’s cost, the years to pay it back, the hours it prints a day and repairs as a share of its price.

Where the numbers come from

  1. Etsy Help Center: Etsy Fee Basics (opens in a new tab), read on 2026-11-04.
  2. Etsy Help Center: Etsy Payments processing fees (opens in a new tab), read on 2026-11-04.
  3. Prusa Blog: 3D Printing Price Calculator (opens in a new tab), read on 2026-11-04.

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