Made for the print farm
Filament and machine time, both in the cost — and margins that stay honest.
Machine time is a material
Work out an hourly rate for a printer — power, depreciation, and maintenance over its life — and add amortized machine time to each print as its own cost line, right next to the filament. Now a twelve-hour print costs what it actually costs to make.
Filament prices move — watch your margins
Snap the receipt from a filament order and Batchnook re-costs every model at once, by the moving-average method. Set a target margin and it flags the prints that slipped under it — the ones to re-price before your next drop.
Print runs and orders, tracked
Log a run — “printed 20 dragons” — and stock plus unit cost update together. Record an Etsy or market order in a couple of taps; revenue and period COGS track themselves, never metered. Run as many printers as you like.
What a print really earns you
Fold machine time into the cost and watch the “it's basically free filament” myth fall apart. Try a typical print, then run it on your own models.
Filament + machine time per print
- Filament (≈180 g)$1.40
- Printer time — amortized (power + printer wear + maintenance)$3.30
- Failed-print allowance$0.50
- Finishing & packaging$0.60
- What one unit costs you$5.80
Typical 2026 numbers — a starting point, not a quote. In the app, these come off your receipts and update themselves.
Your margin at this price
74%
At or above your target — healthy.
Profit per unit
$16.20
Price to hit your target
$14.50
Want this to update itself?
Batchnook keeps this margin current from a receipt photo — no re-entering numbers. Leave your email and you're on the list.
This is the same margin Batchnook shows on every product — what's left after filament and machine time, as a share of price. Start free to run it on your own receipts, no card.
The long version of this arithmetic
The grams a slicer reports are not a material cost. Pricing 3D prints builds a real cost per gram by weighing a spool against the parts it produced, a machine-hour rate from four measurable parts, and a failure allowance that reflects how far a dead plate got. If your history is currently somewhere else, how to export your data from any inventory tool covers getting it out cleanly first.
When you are ready to sell it
A storefront for your prints, at your own address
Costing tells you what a print should earn. A Batchnook shop is where it earns it: your own address online, a QR code for the table, and every sale landing in the same books you priced it from.
See how a shop worksOur promises to makers
- One published price per tier, and 30 days’ notice before it changes.
- No order-line meters, ever.
- Your data walks free — export everything, always.
- Tax-ready numbers, never tax advice.
Free is real — no card, no countdown. See pricing for the whole table.