Print Bench 3D print job cost & pricing
FDM printer laying orange parts on the bed

For 3D print sellers and makers

Price the print.

Print Bench is a free US job-cost calculator for FDM prints — figurines, fixtures, and shop parts. Enter the job, and get material, power, fail waste, fees, and a suggested list before you hit print. You own the listing price. This is not a quote, warranty, or inventory tool.

Your print

01

Filament

g

Weight the slicer reports, or what you actually used.

$

Typical US PLA 1 kg spool.

g

Net filament on the spool, not the box.

02

Printer time & power

hr

Slicer time, or the clock on the machine.

W

Average draw while printing, not the PSU rating.

03

Electricity

$ /kWh

US residential default (EIA-style ~16¢/kWh). Edit to match your utility bill.

04

Fail buffer

10%
0%50%

Applied to material + electricity only — the filament and power you would burn on a failed reprint. Packaging is not re-bought when a print fails on the bed.

05

Packaging

$

Box, mailer, tape, card. Not shipping you charge the buyer.

06

Pricing & profit

100%
0% · 1.00×300% · 4.00×

100% margin is a 2.00× markup: net twice your make cost, same language as Pour Bench.

Markup

2.00×

make cost × 2.00

Suggested list

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You set the listing. This is not a quote.

%

Etsy-like US take (transaction + payments), seller-editable. List is grossed up so you still net the target after this cut. Offsite ads, if enrolled, are extra and not modeled here.

How the math works

Deterministic. No hidden multipliers. Zeros and negatives are not invented — those lines show n/a.

  1. Material = (filament grams ÷ spool grams) × spool price. If spool grams is 0 or less, material is n/a.
  2. Electricity = (printer watts ÷ 1000) × print hours × $ per kWh.
  3. Fail buffer = (material + electricity) × (fail % ÷ 100). Expected reprint waste on filament and power only.
  4. Make cost = material + electricity + fail buffer + packaging.
  5. Target net = make cost × (1 + margin ÷ 100). A 100% margin is a 2.00× markup.
  6. List = target net ÷ (1 − fee % ÷ 100) when the fee is under 100%. That gross-up leaves the target after the platform take. If the fee is 100% or more, list is n/a.
  7. Fees = list × (fee % ÷ 100).
  8. Total cost = make cost + fees. Suggested list price = list. You can ignore it.

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Make cost · suggested list · full ticket

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