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3D printing cost calculator

Estimate FDM print material consumption, electricity and entered machine-time costs without rounding to whole spools. Review the method, a worked example and the limits before using your result.

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3D Printing Cost Calculator

Estimate the cost of a filament-based print job.

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Print material and optional time-based costs

Filament cost

Use the slicer's total, including supports, brim and purge.

Net filament weight, without the empty spool.

USD · Number format: 1,234.56

Example inputs — replace with your own.

Filament cost

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Enter the material for this job and its spool price.

Consumed filament only. Electricity and printer time are not included.

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Add electricity & printer time

Optional costs for this job. Enter your own measured power and rates.

Cost of consumed material, not a whole-spool shopping budget. Labor, failed reprints, tax and selling profit are not estimated.

Settings & draft

Changing the currency label does not convert amounts.

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How to use

  1. Enter the slicer’s filament mass, spool net mass and spool price. Use matching mass units and exclude the empty spool from the priced filament amount.
  2. Enter print hours and minutes. Enable electricity with measured average power and your energy price if you want to include it.
  3. Enable a machine hourly rate for the costs that rate is intended to cover. Check that electricity is not already included in it.
  4. Review included cost categories and unknown inputs, then export the estimate with the assumptions.

Calculation method

Consumed filament cost = print mass / spool filament mass × spool price. This is a proportional consumption cost, not a whole-spool purchase. Print duration combines hours and minutes. Energy in kWh = average watts × hours / 1000; electricity cost multiplies that energy by the entered rate. Machine time cost = entered hourly rate × duration. The total includes active, known categories under the tool’s stated rounding policy.

Worked example

A print consuming 100 g from a 1000 g spool priced at 25 USD uses 2.50 USD of filament. A 2 h 30 min job at an entered average 200 W uses 0.5 kWh; at 0.30 USD/kWh electricity costs 0.15 USD. A machine rate of 0.80 USD/hour adds 2 USD. Together these included costs total 4.65 USD.

Assumptions and limits

The tool estimates specified FDM costs, not a complete selling price or resin process. Slicer estimates and measured power can differ from actual use. A printer’s rated power is not automatically its average draw. Failed jobs, labor, finishing, packaging, taxes, payment fees and profit must be assessed separately unless deliberately included in a chosen rate.

Continue your plan

Check remaining material with the filament calculator, review a flow limit with the volumetric flow calculator, and examine price arithmetic with margin and markup.

Copy, download or print a valid result to keep the inputs with the estimate. Currency selections label your prices; they do not apply an exchange rate. Product-dependent examples should be replaced with data for the material or equipment you actually use.

For the measurement and planning details, read estimating fdm print cost from material, energy and time.