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Bambu Lab A1 Mini running cost
The Bambu Lab A1 Mini has an example price of $299.00 (entered by us, verify with the vendor) and draws roughly 90 W while printing. Amortized over an assumed 4,000-hour service life, that is $0.07 of machine allocation per hour; at the 2024 U.S. average electricity price of 16.32¢/kWh, energy adds another $0.01 per hour, for about $0.09 per hour combined.
- Example price (verify with vendor)
- $299.00
- Average power draw
- 90 W
- Build volume
- 180 x 180 x 180 mm
- Machine allocation (4,000 hr life)
- $0.07/hr
- Energy at 16.32¢/kWh
- $0.01/hr
- Combined machine + energy
- $0.09/hr
How this is calculated
Machine allocation = (purchase price − expected resale value) ÷ service life hours; this page assumes zero resale and a 4,000-hour service life. Energy = watts ÷ 1,000 × price per kWh. Both are cost-model assumptions, not a manufacturer specification; open the calculator to use your own service life, resale value, and electricity rate.
Worked quote: 120 g, 6 hour part on the Bambu Lab A1 Mini
- Filament: 120 g at $24.00/kg
- $3.20
- Machine time: 6 hr at $0.17/hr
- $1.17
- Electricity: 90 W at $0.16/kWh
- $0.10
- Labor: 15 min setup + 20 min finishing at $30.00/hr
- $17.50
- Packaging, delivery and overhead
- $10.00
- Payment fees (9.5% + $0.25 on the suggested price)
- $6.31
- Suggested price at 40% target margin
- $63.79
The filament, machine, and electricity lines already include the 10% failed-attempt allowance, which adds $0.45 to this job. Fees use the calculator's typical Etsy profile (9.5% + $0.25); other fields are the calculator's defaults. Computed with the same calculateJob function as the calculator.
Page reviewed 2026-10-05. Data source: Purchase price and power draw are example figures entered by us; no vendor source is stored in this site, so verify the price with the vendor. Electricity: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA-861), 2024 U.S. average.
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