Get a 3D Printing Quote in Seconds, Not a Sales Call
Drop in a file and the per-part price comes back while you are still looking at the screen — at the quantity you actually sell.
Most 3D printing quotes arrive after a form, an account and a wait. Ours arrives while you are still looking at the screen: drop in an STL, OBJ, 3MF or STEP file and the per-part price comes back in seconds, at the quantity you actually sell. This is how that works, what the number is built from, and why being able to price a product in the same minute you design it changes what you can sell.
Live quote · same maths as checkout
PLA Basic
Your slicer’s two numbers in. The price out, before you blink.
Read the weight and the print time off your own slicer and put them in. This is what it costs us to make, and what you pay.
How many
Per unit
$6.24
10 units · $62.40 the lot
Shipping is bought separately at the cheapest USPS rate. Assembly and hardware fitting add nothing — you pay for the parts.
Price your real fileWhy speed matters more than it sounds
A price you cannot get until you have signed up is not just an inconvenience. It arrives after the decisions it was supposed to inform: whether the product is worth designing, what to charge for it, whether to make it taller or split it in two. By the time a quote lands in your inbox, you have already committed to the design that generated it.
Pricing in seconds puts the cost back where it belongs — next to the design decision. Thicken a wall, drop the height, split a part in two, and you can see what each change does to the price before you list anything. When a job needs a written quote instead, here are the eight things to include.
What actually changes
When a price takes a day, you design first and find out later. When it takes ten seconds, cost becomes a design tool.
In practiceThicken a wall, drop the height, split a part in two — and see what each change does to the price before you list anything.
What happens when you drop in a file
01
It is sliced
The real file, STL, OBJ, 3MF or STEP — not an estimate from its bounding box.
02
It is measured
Sliced weight, print time, and whether two copies share a bed.
03
It is priced
Through the same pass the checkout charges with. Not a rate-card guess.
04
You read it
The per-part price, and the price at the quantity you sell, in seconds.
Because it is a real slice, the number respects the things that actually drive cost: how long the part occupies a machine, how much plastic it uses, and whether two copies fit on a bed together. It is not a rate card guess applied to a volume figure.
What the number is made of
Copies of one file in one colour that share a plate take a graduated discount on their labour, so the per-part price falls as the run grows: that same part is $5.48 each at a hundred. The whole curve is here, and the calculator runs it on your numbers.
What it does not include
- Shipping. The label is bought at the cheapest USPS rate, and depends on the destination.
- Hardware. Magnets, threaded inserts and screws are charged at the part’s price.
- Assembly. Tick it on a product and we put it together and fit the hardware for $1 a part; otherwise the pieces ship loose.
- Painting and smoothing, which are not processes we run.
- Your marketplace fees, which come out of what your customer pays you.
And two things it does include: a person’s check of every part before it ships, and failed prints, which we remake at our cost so they never become a line on your invoice. No monthly fee, no minimum run: one part is a valid order.
Price it against your own numbers
You do not have to take the quote on faith. Read the weight and print time out of your own slicer, apply the rates above, then upload the file and compare. The two should agree — and if they ever do not, tell us, because that is a bug.
- Price a finished design
- Drop the file in and read the per-part price.
- Choose between two options
- Upload both. The shorter machine time wins.
- Quote a customer for 200
- Set the quantity and read the per-part price at that volume.
- Check our arithmetic
- Put your slicer’s numbers in the panel at the top first.
FAQ
Seconds. Drop an STL, OBJ, 3MF or STEP file into PrintPort3D Parts and we slice it and return the weight, print time and price per part straight away — no account, no sales call, no minimum order.
Material by the gram (from $0.02/g for PLA) plus $3.00 per print-hour, pro-rated on shorter prints, with a $2.00 minimum per order and volume pricing as copies add up. Shipping is separate. There is no monthly fee.
Yes. It runs through the same pricing pass the checkout charges with, from a real slice of your file rather than an estimate, so the quote and the charge agree.
No. You need an account to place an order, not to see what something costs.
Yes. Set the quantity and the per-part price updates with the volume discount included, so you can see what a run of any size costs before you commit to it. For a large production run, send the quantity and the date you need it by and we schedule it.
Drop a file in. Count to ten.
STL, OBJ, 3MF or STEP. No account, no form, no sales call — the per-part price at the quantity you sell.
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