₵Craft Pricing Calculator

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What should you charge for what you made?

Materials, your hours, your overhead, and a markup that leaves you an actual profit. Pick your craft and change the numbers — the answer updates as you type, and you never have to give an email address to see it.

What are you making?

Materials

$14.41

Resin

$

Total mixed volume including what stayed in the cup. Roughly $0.45–0.95/oz depending on brand and volume — a $60 gallon works out near $0.47, premium food-safe brands and small bottles cost more.

Mold

$

Molds wear out. Typical life is anywhere from 50 to 300 pours — it is resin heat and wall thickness that decide it, not a fixed number. That range swings this line sixfold, so put in your own if you know it. Counts as $0.19 on this piece.

$

Mica, alcohol ink, dried flowers, glitter.

Gloves, cups and sticks

$

Single-use every pour, cheaper by the box. Counts as $0.72 on this piece.

Your time

$70.00
$

Count mixing, pouring, demolding and sanding. Curing time is not labor — you were elsewhere.

Overhead and markup

$

Ventilation, pressure pot, heat gun, workspace.

×2.2

Allows for the pours that fail. Some always do. ×2.2 is a 54.5% profit margin — not 120%, which is the mistake that quietly costs makers money.

Charge at least

$203.30

$110.89 profit · 54.5% margin

Materials
$14.41
Your time
$70.00
Overhead
$8.00
What it costs you
$92.41

At this price your hours earn $72.36/hour after materials and overhead.

Built for how each craft actually costs

A generic calculator asks for “materials” as one number. That is the part people get wrong, so each craft here asks for its own inputs instead.

Resin and epoxy

Resin by volume, molds spread over their life, and cure time you can't rush.

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Laser engraving

Machine time, material sheets and design time — including the setup nobody bills for.

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Woodworking

Board feet, finish, hardware and shop time — priced properly.

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Why this exists

“By these calculations, I'd price this out to about $210! It just seems absurd and way too high to expect anyone to actually purchase it. However, that is what it's worth in my time and materials.”
u/New_Use683, r/somethingimade

That is the moment this is built for: someone does the maths by hand, gets a number that feels impossible, and has nothing to tell them whether the number is wrong or their expectations are. Usually the number is right.

The bit most calculators get wrong

Doubling your cost is a 50% margin, not 100%. Adding half again is a 33% margin, not 50%. It sounds like pedantry until you discount: take 20% off a doubled price and you have handed over nearly half your profit. This calculator shows you the real margin next to the markup, every time you move the slider.

What costs money

Nothing you have used so far. The calculator, all three crafts, and every answer it gives are free and always will be — there is no watermark on the number and no email wall in front of it.

$15 once, if you want it to remember your work: saved projects you can reopen, a price sheet PDF you can send a customer, and your own overhead and markup saved so you are not retyping them every time.