Laser Cutting Pricing Calculator: the true cost of your cuts
Drop a design SVG (or trace a logo) and price the cut on your real costs, not a guess.
Laser pricing hides in the details: the sheet you used, the minutes the machine ran, the slow wear on the tube or diode, and your time at the machine. Anvil HUD reads the cut length and footprint off your design SVG and prices the cut the same honest way as everything else. Only have a bitmap logo? Trace it into an SVG right here, then size and price it.
How we price laser cutting
- Material (sheet area or a whole sheet) + machine time (cut + engrave) + tube/diode depreciation + your labor make the raw cost.
- A failure buffer and overhead load it; your fees and target margin set the list price.
- Cut time is an estimate from the material's speed; tune it to your machine.
Every line is published at the math. No black box. The engine is free; you only sign in to save your work.
Built-in tools
Questions
How do I price laser-cut products?▾
Add up the material (a sheet, or the area you used), the machine time to cut and engrave, the wear on your tube or diode, and your labor, then load a failure buffer and overhead and divide by one minus your fees and target margin. Anvil HUD does it from a dropped SVG, and the formula is published at /the-math.
I only have a PNG/JPG logo, not an SVG. Can I still use it?▾
Yes. The built-in logo tracer turns a high-contrast logo or line-art image into an SVG you can size, price, and cut. It runs entirely in your browser, nothing is uploaded, and it's free.
Is the calculator free?▾
Yes. The cost engine and the logo tracer are always free. Pro unlocks the dashboards, the jobs log, the learned failure rate, and multi-shop pricing.
Know your craft.
Price your laser cutting on your real numbers, free. Sign in to save your catalog, log jobs, and unlock the dashboards.