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Your Time
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Profit Goal
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Electricity
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Printer Wear
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3D Print Cost Calculator
Enter your filament, time, and a few settings — get a price that actually covers your costs and earns you a real profit.
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What it does. This calculator turns the raw inputs of a print, filament weight, print time, electricity, printer wear, into a real price: break-even, a fair price with margin, and a suggested sell price, with a live breakdown of where each dollar goes.
Why it exists. "How much should I charge?" comes up the moment students start selling what they print, whether that's a school maker fair, a fundraiser, or just a side hustle. Filament cost is the obvious number, but time, electricity, and printer wear are real costs too, and skipping them is how kids (and adults) end up pricing their work at a loss without realizing it.
The lesson underneath it. Simple mode covers the basics for a quick answer. Advanced mode breaks out electricity rate, printer depreciation, failure rate, and marketplace fees, which turns the calculator into a walkthrough of real cost accounting: fixed costs, variable costs, and margin, using numbers a student can see and adjust themselves.