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3D printing business

Start, run and grow your 3D printing business

OrcaCostPrint brings together what a maker needs to turn printing into a business: practical content to learn, tools to calculate and a system to run it — from the cost of a part to the delivered order.

Free to start. No credit card.

Calculating 3D printing costs shouldn't be a side project

  • Manual spreadsheets that eat hours and still get it wrong
  • Amateur-looking quotes that don't build client trust
  • No real visibility into what each printer, client or order actually earns

How OrcaCostPrint solves this

  • Automatic, precise calculations in seconds, using your business's real variables
  • Branded PDF quotes, ready to send to your client
  • Full history of calculations, clients and quotes to track what's actually profitable

Four fronts, one business

Start with the one that solves today’s problem. The others are here when you need them.

  • Learn

    Straight guides on cost, price and operations — the whole math, no magic formula.

    Read the guides
  • Tools

    An open cost and price calculator, no sign-up, to answer “how much should I charge?” right now.

    Open the calculator
  • Management

    PDF quotes, orders, filament stock and finances: the software that runs what the guides teach.

    Create free account
  • Recommendations

    What Orca recommends in filament, resin, tools and supplies: a curated selection worth knowing.

    See recommendations

From the first calculation to the delivered order

The path the software walks with you — each step builds on the last, nothing is typed twice.

  1. 1

    Calculate the real cost

    Material, energy, machine time, labor and fees — with your printers, your filaments and your energy rate.

  2. 2

    Price with margin

    Cost is not price. Set your margin and, on PRO, negotiate within price bands without going below cost.

  3. 3

    Send the quote

    A calculation becomes a quote in one click. On PRO, the PDF carries your logo, colors and contacts.

  4. 4

    Run and track

    On PRO: an approved order deducts stock and shows up in your finances.

PRO FDM

What you unlock with Pro FDM

Real features for makers who take 3D printing seriously

  • Quotes with your brand

    Custom PDFs with your logo, color and footer - professional on every send

  • Unlimited clients and history

    Manage unlimited clients and track your full quote and calculation history

  • Advanced calculator and diagnostics

    Price with every variable in your business and see automatically where cost weighs the most

  • Finance without leaving Orca

    Log expenses, receive installments and see your real cash balance - no spreadsheet needed

  • Your client tracks it themselves

    A branded public link: your client checks order status without another "is it ready yet?" text

  • Know when your printer pays for itself

    Enter the machine's cost and Orca calculates payback and ROI, piece by piece, no spreadsheet

Start free. Grow when you're ready.

No catch: see exactly what changes between plans

Free

Ideal for getting started and testing the platform

Free

No credit card required

  • 3 printers
  • 5 materials
  • 5 active quotations
  • 5 clients
  • 3 orders in progress
  • Basic FDM calculator
  • 1 tariff profile
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Pro FDM

For makers who live off 3D printing

From$12/month

Final price depends on your country.

  • Unlimited printers, materials, quotations and tariffs
  • Unlimited clients
  • Advanced calculator with cost diagnostics
  • Full finance: bills, receivables and cash flow
  • Finished-goods stock, supplies and tracked losses
  • Printer maintenance by run-hour meter
  • Full daily overview with cash, sales and stock
  • Negotiation with price tiers right on the quote
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Frequently asked questions

Straight answers about the math, the plans and your data.

About the calculation

What does OrcaCostPrint calculate?

The real cost of a 3D-printed part (material, energy, machine hour, labor, fees and taxes you configure) and a suggested selling price from the markup you choose. The basic calculator covers the essentials; the advanced one (PRO) uses full cost profiles, price bands and your printer payback.

How is the suggested price formed?

We add every cost of the part (or batch) and apply your profile markup on top. Fees and taxes are part of the cost, before markup. You see the breakdown line by line and can edit the final price by hand — the suggestion is never a lock.

Is the result reliable?

As precise as the data you enter: filament/resin price, printer power, energy tariff and the slicer print time. We do not invent numbers. Quotes and orders keep a snapshot of the values used, so changing a tariff today does not alter yesterday’s quote.

Do I need to convert print time to minutes?

No. Enter hours and minutes as the slicer shows (e.g. 9 h 30). We do the conversion.

Plans and PRO

What is the difference between FREE and PRO?

FREE has the basic calculator and the essentials to run a small operation: printers, materials, quotes, clients and orders, with usage limits. PRO removes those limits and unlocks the advanced calculator, stock, catalog, finance, reports and branded PDFs.

What changes in practice when I subscribe?

You stop calculating part by part and start operating: cost profiles per type of job, price bands to position yourself, stock debited automatically when an order goes to printing, and a PDF quote with your business name, logo and contacts.

How do I cancel?

In Settings › Subscription, at any time, no need to talk to anyone. PRO access continues until the end of the paid period and your data stays in your account.

How does payment work?

Monthly subscription through Stripe, by card. We never store card data — it stays with Stripe. Invoice and receipt arrive by e-mail.

Data and security

What happens to my data?

It lives on cloud servers (Google Cloud) and is used only to run the service. We do not sell or share data with third parties for marketing. You can export it and request deletion at any time — see the Privacy Policy.

Is the data mine? Can I take it out?

Yes. Quotes, clients and catalog can be exported, and the quote PDF is yours to send however you like. No lock-in.

Do you see my customers’ data?

Your customers’ data is yours and isolated in your account. Any recommendation or statistic the app shows uses only your own usage data — never your customers’.

Does it work in other currencies and languages?

Yes. The interface is in Portuguese, English and Spanish, and values follow the currency and number format you choose. It is not just translation: numbers, dates and currency follow.

Find out what your next part really costs

It takes less than two minutes to create the account and run your first calculation with your own numbers.

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