Free pricing calculators for makers
The math behind every piece.
Piece Math works out what one piece really costs you, then what to charge for it on Etsy, on your own site, at a craft fair and wholesale. Free, no sign-up, every formula shown. The first tools are for laser engraving and cutting.
| Material 30 per sheet | $0.355 |
| Hardware | $0.180 |
| Machine 2.7 min | $0.087 |
| Labor 5.33 min attended | $2.222 |
| Failures, packaging, overhead | $1.188 |
| Unit cost | $4.03 |
Etsy
$8.99
Own site
$7.99
Fair
$9.99
Wholesale
$5.77
40% margin · $25/h labor · fees checked 2026-10-27
Laser engraving & cutting
Calculators
Laser engraving pricing calculator
Cost per piece from sheet yield, machine time and attended labor, then prices for Etsy, your own site, craft fairs and wholesale, and what each hour earns you.
$4.03 cost → $8.99 on Etsy
Pieces per sheet calculator
How many parts fit on a sheet with spacing and edge margin, normal or rotated 90°, the offcut percentage and material cost per piece. Inches or mm.
30 pieces per 12×20 sheet · 25% offcut
Laser engraver cost per hour
Your machine's running cost per hour and per minute from price, tube or module life, maintenance and electricity, and how many months until it pays for itself.
$1.944/h · paid back in 2.1 months
Method
How Piece Math does the math
The same rules run through every calculator, and each tool page shows its formulas and a worked example you can check by hand.
- Your time is a cost, not the profit
- Labor goes into the unit cost at your hourly rate. Profit is what's left after you've been paid.
- Attended run time is labor
- A laser must never run unattended, so the minutes it runs count as your minutes by default.
- Each channel gets its own price
- Fees differ, so prices do too: the same keychain is $8.99 on Etsy and $7.99 on your own site at the same margin.
- Round up, never down
- Retail prices round up to the next .99 and wholesale to the next cent, so rounding never eats your margin.
- Dated, editable figures
- Platform fees were last checked on 2026-10-27, and every one is an input you can change. Results are estimates, not tax or legal advice.
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Laser Engraving Pricing & Quote Toolkit
The calculators price one product at a time. The toolkit prices your whole catalog: 11 sheets covering shop settings, a materials library, product costing for up to 24 products, prices on four channels, quantity breaks for custom orders, a printable quote builder, what-if and machine payback. English and Spanish editions in one download.