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Resin Pricing Calculator
Work out what a resin piece costs to make, counting the epoxy, pigments, packaging, your time and your overhead, with mould costs spread across their lifetime. Then see retail and wholesale prices that leave you a profit. Free to use, no account needed.
- Spreads mould costs across every pour
- Counts sanding and demoulding time
- Builds failed pours into the price
- Recalculates as you type
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Your batch
This is a dozen coaster-sized pours. Moulds are reusable, so amortise them: an $18 mould good for ~60 pours costs about $0.30 a piece.
Count only what you can actually sell. Leave out the wonky ones.
Include prep, pouring, cleanup, labelling and photographing. Most makers undercount this badly.
What would you pay someone else to do this? That's your rate, and it isn't zero.
Overhead covers your pressure pot, sandpaper, respirator filters and workspace. Most resin makers use 10–15%.
Materials
What you paid for each package, and how much of it a batch uses.
- $16.12per batch · $0.67/fl oz
- $2.04per batch · $0.17/g
- $3.60per batch · $0.30/each
- $0.29per batch · $0.29/each
- $4.20per batch · $0.35/each
Selling & markup
Where you sell changes what you keep. Fees come off the sale price, not your cost.
6.5% transaction + 3% & $0.25 payment processing + $0.20 listing
Only changes how numbers are shown.
4× cost is the usual handmade markup. It has to cover fees, seconds, samples and the slow months.
Usually 2×, so a shop can double it and still land near your retail price.
Optional, but worth doing. Search your marketplace for pieces like yours and type a typical price. We’ll show what you’d keep at that price, and whether you’re leaving money on the table.
What one piece really costs you
$6.51
$78.18 for a batch of 12 pieces, with materials, your time and overhead all counted.
Where the money goes
Per batch, before you sell anything.
- Materials
- $22.0528%
- Packaging
- $4.205%
- Your time
- $44.0056%
- Overhead
- $7.9310%
- Total batch cost
- $78.18
Suggested retail
Selling through Etsy
$26.06
- Sale price
- $26.06
- Etsy: 9.5% + $0.45 flat
- − $2.93
- Cost to make one piece
- − $6.51
- You keep, per piece
- $16.62
You keep 63.8% of every sale.
A full batch of 12 pieces brings in $312.70 and leaves you $199.42.
Suggested wholesale
Selling to a shop, by the case
$13.03
- Sale price
- $13.03
- No selling fees
- − $0.00
- Cost to make one piece
- − $6.51
- You keep, per piece
- $6.51
You keep 50% of every sale.
A full batch of 12 pieces brings in $156.35 and leaves you $78.18.
Never go below $7.70. That is the point where this piece earns you exactly nothing once fees come out. Every cent below it comes straight out of your pocket.
Cost / piece
$6.51
Sell at
$26.06
How to price resin art
Resin makers underprice for a specific reason: the resin itself is the cheapest part of the job. A coaster might hold three dollars of epoxy and forty minutes of your attention once you count mixing, pouring, popping bubbles, waiting, demoulding, sanding the edges and polishing. If you price off the epoxy alone, you've priced a material rather than a finished piece of work.
Total the batch first: resin and hardener, pigments and micas, glitter or inclusions, the mould's share of the cost, gloves and mixing cups, then your labour for the whole pour and an overhead percentage. Divide by the number of finished pieces you can sell, then multiply. Four times cost is the usual handmade retail markup.
Count your labour across the whole cycle rather than just the pour. Mixing takes ten minutes. The finishing is where the hours go, and if you're sanding and polishing every edge by hand, that time is most of what the customer is paying for. Leaving it out of the price is the most expensive mistake in this craft.
Spreading mould costs
A silicone mould isn't a one-off cost, and it isn't free either. It wears out. The sensible way to handle it is to spread its price across the number of pours you'll realistically get before it clouds, tears or loses its shine.
An eighteen dollar mould that's good for roughly sixty pours costs about thirty cents a piece. Enter it in the calculator as a material costing $18 with a package quantity of 60, used once per piece, and the maths takes care of itself. Be conservative about the lifespan. Heat, demoulding stress and aggressive release agents shorten it faster than most makers expect.
Failed pours belong in the price
Resin fails in ways other crafts don't. Bubbles surface overnight, humidity leaves a tacky patch, a piece cures cloudy, an inclusion shifts as it sets. Those pieces cost you exactly as much to make as the good ones and earn you nothing.
Handle it through your batch yield rather than a fudge factor. If a batch of eight reliably gives you seven sellable pieces, enter seven. Your cost per piece rises to match reality, and the suggested price rises with it. That's the correct answer rather than a pessimistic one.
Questions makers ask
- How much should I charge for resin art?
- Multiply your true cost per piece by four for retail. For a typical coaster or small tray, costs usually land between $3 and $8 once you include epoxy, pigment, the mould's share, packaging and your finishing time, which puts retail around $12 to $32. Larger pieces and long finishing times push it well above that. Use the calculator above with your own supplier prices.
- How do I account for moulds in my resin pricing?
- Spread the mould's cost across the number of pours you expect to get from it. Enter it as a material: the package cost is what the mould cost, the package quantity is the number of pours it should last, and you use one per piece. An $18 mould rated for 60 pours works out at about $0.30 per piece.
- How do I price failed or wasted resin pours?
- Skip the fudge percentage and reduce your batch yield instead. If eight pours reliably give you seven sellable pieces, enter seven as the units per batch. The failed piece's cost then gets spread across the ones you can sell, which is exactly what happens in reality.
- Should I charge for sanding and finishing time?
- Yes, and it's usually the largest labour cost in resin work. Mixing and pouring takes minutes. Demoulding, sanding edges, polishing and inspecting is where the hours go. Include every one of those hours in your hours-per-batch figure at a real hourly rate.
- How much epoxy resin do I need for a piece?
- That's a volume question rather than a pricing one, and it depends on your mould's dimensions. Work the volume out with a resin volume calculator, or fill the mould with water and measure it, then bring the ounces per piece back here to cost it.
- What is a good wholesale price for resin pieces?
- Typically twice your cost per piece, which leaves a shop room to double it and still land near your retail price. Resin is labour-heavy, so check the per-batch profit before accepting a wholesale order. A thin margin across a large order can mean many hours of sanding for very little money.
- How do I know if my resin prices are too low?
- Compare your cost-based price against what similar pieces actually sell for. Finished resin work often sells for well above what the materials suggest, because buyers are paying for the hours of finishing rather than the epoxy. If the market pays more than your costs require, you're leaving money on the table for identical work. Type a market price into the calculator above and it will show you the gap.
- Is this resin pricing calculator free?
- Yes. There's no account, no email and no trial limit, so you can cost out as many pieces as you like. Nothing you enter leaves your own browser.
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