Free Embroidery Pricing Calculator
Embroidery is priced by the stitch. Build a per-piece price chart from what your machine actually costs to run — then add garment, digitizing, and 3D to price the whole job. No signup.
1. Build your stitch chart
Your capacity is heads × speed × the hours the machine actually runs — heads matter most, because they sew in parallel (a 6-head shop puts out six pieces in the time a single-head does one). Divide your monthly costs by the stitches you sew and you get your cost per 1,000 stitches. Your price is that cost divided by (1 − your margin) — margin isn't markup, so keeping 45% means dividing by 0.55. Bigger runs cost less per piece; the chart prices each stitch band across your quantity breaks.
| Stitches \ Qty | 12 | 24 | 48 | 72 | 144 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under 5K | $3.43 | $3.09 | $2.84 | $2.66 | $2.52 |
| 5K–10K | $6.43 | $5.79 | $5.32 | $4.98 | $4.73 |
| 10K–15K | $10.71 | $9.64 | $8.87 | $8.30 | $7.88 |
| 15K+ | $15.43 | $13.88 | $12.77 | $11.96 | $11.34 |
Per piece, run price — before digitizing and garment. Click a cell to price that combination below.
2. The full price
The chart is the stitching. Three things stack on top: garment markup, a one-time digitizing fee, and specialty stitches like 3D / puff. Click a chart cell above to load it here, or set the job yourself.
Digitizing is one-time per design — you pay it on the first run, not on reorders, which is why re-running a logo is so much cheaper per piece. Garment markup slides down as blanks get pricier (40% on a cheap tee, ~15% on a $30 jacket). The stitching and garment scale with quantity; digitizing doesn't.
Stop rebuilding this by hand
This is the free version of the embroidery pricing built into InkTracker — it holds your stitch-count tiers, digitizing fee, and specialty add-ons and stacks them on every quote automatically. Start a 14-day free trial.
Start your free trialWant the full method in a printer's own words? Read how to price embroidery. Also print screens? Try the screen printing price calculator. More free tools on the tools hub, and see what InkTracker does for print & embroidery shops.