Etsy Profit Calculator
Calculate real profit margins for selling 3D prints on Etsy — fees, shipping, materials, discounts and returns, all in one place.
Product pricing
What you charge and how many you sell.
Production costs
What you actually pay to make one unit.
Shipping
What buyers pay vs what the carrier charges you.
Etsy fees
Where every $1 of revenue goes
Per unit- Etsy fees$2.8311%
- Production$7.9032%
- Your profit$14.2857%
Three pricing rules for Etsy 3D-print shops
The ones that separate profitable shops from ones losing money on every order.
Aim for 50%+ margins
After every fee and cost, you should still keep at least half. Anything less and a single return or a botched print wipes out the order.
Factor in your time
Sanding, packing, photography — every minute counts. Watch your effective hourly rate. If it's under $15/hr, raise prices.
Offer free shipping
Etsy's algorithm boosts free-shipping listings. Set shipping to $0 and bake the cost into your price — most successful shops do.
Selling 3D prints on Etsy
Etsy runs ads for your listings on Google, Facebook, Instagram, etc. When a buyer clicks one of those ads and purchases, Etsy takes an extra 15% (or 12% if your shop does over $10k/yr — at that point you're auto-enrolled and can't opt out). It only applies to attributed sales, not every sale.
A real fee Etsy charges sellers in the UK, France, Italy, Spain, Turkey and India to cover regulatory and compliance costs in those markets. Rates range from 0.25% to 1.1% of the total order. We auto-apply it when you pick those regions.
If you subscribe to Etsy Plus ($10/mo), yes — divide that $10 across your monthly orders for a true per-unit cost. At 30 orders/mo it's only $0.33/unit; at 5 orders/mo it's $2/unit. Toggle it above to see the impact.
When a buyer returns an order, Etsy refunds them — meaning you lose the sale revenue but already paid for production, packaging, the listing fee, and some unrecoverable payment processing. We approximate that as: each returned unit costs you the production cost plus 30% of the payment fee.
Aim for at least 50% net margin after ALL costs and fees. Many successful sellers hit 60–70% on customizable items. Anything below 40% and you're likely underpriced.
Yes — 100% free, no limits, no signup. It runs entirely in your browser.
Don't know your real cost per print? Start there.
Profit math is only useful if your cost-of-goods is honest. Use the 3D Print Cost Calculator to get filament, electricity, machine wear, and labor for every part you print — then plug that number in here.
Open Print Cost Calculator