Filament Prices: July 2026 Report

This is the baseline edition of a monthly series. The index started collecting on June 29, 2026, so month-over-month narratives begin with the August edition; everything below is the state of the market as of July 17, 2026, with movement since the base date where it already tells a story. The interactive version of every number here lives on the Filament Price Index, updated daily.

The index so far

One line per market, base 100 on June 29, 2026. Each market's basket is priced in its own currency, so the lines show pure price movement and are directly comparable. Hover a market to isolate it; day-by-day drill-downs live on the index page.

Prices by market

Median price per kilogram for a standard single spool (750 g to 1.25 kg), in each market's own currency. The widest gap is Nylon (PA): 64% between the cheapest and most expensive market, currency-adjusted.

Spread = gap between the cheapest and most expensive market, converted at daily ECB reference rates. Currency labels are validated at ingest, so a USD price can never masquerade as a CAD one.

Material by material

Single-spool medians per material, every market pooled in EUR. Hover a material to isolate its line; the axis switches to log scale when one material would squash the rest. The arrow on each card below is the material's move since the June 29 base.

Grades and composites

Beyond plain spools: performance grades and fibre-filled variants, separated properly instead of blended into their base material. Median per kg with every market pooled in EUR, and the change over the last 7 days.

Do special finishes cost extra?

Compared inside PLA, where nearly every specialty finish lives, so the answer is like-for-like; every market pooled in EUR. The July read: silk and matte sit at or near parity with standard PLA, and the real premiums are glow and metallic.

The purchase size that actually saves money

Pooling singles, bundles and minimum-order listings across every market (in EUR), and keeping to realistic order sizes of 10 kg or less, the best per-kg price lands at:

• PLA: about 8 kg per order (€9.29/kg)
• PETG: about 9 kg per order (€10.57/kg) (true bulk at 50-100 kg only shaves it to €7.85/kg)
• ABS: about 5 kg per order (€11.86/kg) (true bulk at 50-100 kg only shaves it to €10.99/kg)
• ASA: about 5 kg per order (€12.35/kg) (true bulk at 50-100 kg only shaves it to €11.77/kg)
• TPU: about 5 kg per order (€14.73/kg)
• Nylon (PA): about 3 kg per order (€45.99/kg)
• Polycarbonate: about 5 kg per order (€19.89/kg)

The full bulk curves, with every size from 1 kg to 100+ kg, are on the index page.

How much of the market is on sale?

Share of standard single spools currently priced at least 20% below their material's market median: Europe 19%, United States 12%, United Kingdom 16%, Canada 25%, Australia 23%. That is the honest way to ask "is now a good time to buy": it measures today's shelf against today's market, not against marketing anchors.

Beyond the core seven

Materials tracked outside the seven ranked families, every market pooled in EUR. Thin cells (under 5 listings) are excluded as noise rather than reported as findings.

Methodology

Live prices behind every number: today's filament deals · the daily index