What does a 3D print cost?
There is no rate card for a custom job: verified makers each send a quote with a price and a delivery time, and you pick the one you want. Ready-made products in the shop are the other half of the site; those carry a fixed price you can add straight to the cart.
How pricing works
Three steps, in this order.
Send the job
Upload your model, pick a material, and say what you want to spend.
Makers send quotes
Each quote comes with a price and a number of days. Only makers we have verified can send one — a phone confirmed by SMS code, at least one printer on file, and — for professional makers — business details reviewed by our team.
You choose
Compare the quotes and accept one. You pay at checkout and we hold the money until your print is delivered.
What we charge
One service fee on top of the maker's price: 15% of the maker's price. It is added at checkout and paid by you — never deducted from the maker, who keeps the full price they asked. It applies to that price only, never to shipping, and it is clamped: never below $0.50, never above $5,000.00.
Buying a ready-made product from the shop or the customizer studio is the other lane and works differently: those are fixed prices with no service fee. The price on the product page is what you pay, plus shipping and any sales tax.
The smallest job the marketplace takes is $10.00.
What each service usually runs
The range most jobs of each kind land in. Your own cost depends on the part, the material and the maker. Figures in USD.
What drives the price
Six things a maker is weighing when they put a number on your job.
Weight, not size
What matters is how much plastic actually goes down. Walls and the top and bottom layers print solid, and the inside prints at whatever infill the part needs — so a hollow part can come out at a third of what its bounding box suggests.
Machine hours
Print time follows weight. Our estimates assume a printer laying down roughly 20g an hour, which makes a 200g part a ten-hour job; a maker running a wider nozzle will be quicker. Machine time is usually the largest line in a maker's cost.
Hands-on time
Slicing the file, starting the print, getting the part off the bed, cleaning up supports, packing it. This is real labour, and it scales with the number of pieces rather than the length of the print.
Material
Engineering filaments and resins cost several times what PLA does, and the table below is the per-kilogram spread. Even at the top of it, filament is usually the smallest part of what you pay.
Quantity
Ten copies in one batch cost less per copy than ten separate orders — machine attention and per-piece handling amortise across the batch. The plastic does not, so the discount flattens out rather than compounding.
Lead time
Every quote comes with a number of days. Clearing a job faster can mean reordering a queue or running a coarser profile, so the quickest maker is not reliably the cheapest one.
Filament and resin prices
What the raw material costs per kilogram, for sanity-checking a price. Figures in USD.
Get a number for your part
Send the job and makers will quote it. If you only want a rough figure first, run your file through the estimate tool.