Free tool
Your price list. Built on your costs.
Enter what each case type costs you and the margin you want. Download a PDF with your lab's name, ready to send to your clinics.
Free, no account. No market prices: every number comes from what you type.
Step 1
Your bench hour.
Add up what the lab pays each month and divide it by the hours you can bill.
Pay (including yours), rent, utilities, equipment, software, insurance and accounting.
Add up the whole team. Leave out vacation, admin and idle time.
Your bench hour
$0.00
Enter your costs and your hours.
Rather see it before you type?
Step 2
What you want to earn.
Margin is calculated on the price, not on the cost. You decide it.
Step 3
What each case type costs.
Per unit. Minutes are all the technician's time, from receiving to delivery.
- Price—Cost —
Milling or design you send out.
- Price—Cost —
Milling or design you send out.
- Price—Cost —
Milling or design you send out.
Or add one of these:
Step 4
The details on your list.
They appear on the PDF exactly as you write them.
The math
Four sums, in order.
These are what the tool does with your numbers. You can check them on a calculator.
- Bench hourMonthly costs ÷ billable hours per month
- Cost per unitMaterial + outsourced + (minutes ÷ 60 × bench hour)
- Cost with remakesCost per unit × (1 + remakes and waste)
- PriceCost ÷ (1 − margin), rounded up
Margin is the share of the price left after cost. That is why you divide instead of multiply.
What you won't find here.
- Market prices.Not from other labs, and not from any country. Your list comes from your costs.
- Benchmark margins.We don't tell you what a good margin is. You choose it.
- Taxes or invoices.It doesn't calculate tax or issue invoices. If something must be stated, write it under Terms.
After the list
From your list to your quote.
With a lab account, the CSV goes into your price list and every case type is one tap away when you quote.
The figures on these screens are sample data, not market prices.
Questions
Before you send your list.
What people ask the first time they price their own work.
First, what one bench hour costs you: monthly costs divided by the hours you can bill. Then the cost per unit: material, outsourced work and technician minutes. The price is that cost divided by one minus the margin you choose.
See the four sumsWe don't give a number. We have no reliable data that fits your lab, and another lab's margin says nothing about your costs. Try a few and see what price comes out on your list.
Try a marginNo. The tool contains no prices from any lab or any country. If you are looking for a specific lab's list, you will need to ask that lab.
Start with your costsIt is free and works without an account, including the PDF and the CSV. You only need an account to save the list, bring it into your quotes and invoices, and send them with your logo.
See lab plansThe milling calculator compares zirconia and lithium disilicate for a single job, using estimated values. This tool starts from your lab's costs, covers all your case types and ends in a price list.
Open the milling calculatorNo. The tool doesn't calculate tax or issue invoices. If your list needs to say something about tax, write it under Terms. Your accountant can tell you how it applies to your business.
Go to TermsThey are not sent to any server. They are calculated in your browser, and the PDF is generated there. Close the tab and they are gone.
Back to the toolKeep going.
Other TrazaLab pages on lab costs and billing.
Take your list into every quote.
Once it's ready, create your lab account and import it.