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Filament Length and Cost Calculator

Your slicer tells you the grams a print uses. Enter it with your spool price to get length and cost.

Result

Filament length
40.2 m
Material cost
$2.4
Full spool length
335 m

Densities are typical values and vary slightly by brand and colour. Add failed prints and purge lines to your real cost.

How this calculator works

Length = mass / (density x cross-section area). The cross-section of a filament is pi x (diameter / 2) squared. Cost = grams used / spool grams x spool price.