For CNC machine shops
Inventory and costing software for CNC machine shops. Know what every part really costs.
You buy bar stock by the foot or the kilo and cut it by the inch or the mm. Machine time, setup and tool wear decide the price, but they live in your head, not in the quote. Every feature for $19. Tell us how you work and we set it up for you, free.
- Cost per part: $25.72 in our example
- Work order
- Can make
Updated . Example prices checked on supplier sites the same month.
What CNC machine shops see on day one
From materials on the shelf to a real cost per part
01 · Cost per part
A part recipe with bar stock, machine and labour
Inches of bar from the rack, minutes on the mill at its hourly rate, and minutes of deburring. Stockria shows the cost per part before you quote.
02 · Work order
A work order that collects the real cost
Open a work order, log time on each machine and person as the job runs, and use material as you cut it. The total is what the job really cost, not the guess.
03 · Can make
How many parts can I cut from the rack?
Each part shows how many you can make from the bar stock on hand, and which stock runs out first. Check before you promise a delivery date.
A worked example
What one part really costs: $25.72
6061 aluminium mounting bracket. A small CNC shop often runs repeat parts in jobs of 10 to 100. This example machines 10 brackets from 1/2 x 2 in 6061 flat bar, 3.125 in of bar each, 20 minutes on the mill per part and one 30 minute setup.
| Material | Used | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| 6061-T6 aluminium flat bar 1/2 x 2 in$76.07 for 72 in | 31.25 in | $33.02 |
| End mill wear and coolant$0.75 for 1 piece | 10 | $7.50 |
| Labour: 50 min at $30.00/hr | $25.00 | |
| Time on the machine: 3 h 20 min at $50.00/hr | $166.67 | |
| Setup, 30 minutes once per job | $25.00 | |
| Total for 10 parts | $257.18 | |
| Cost per part | $25.72 | |
At a 30% margin the price is $36.74 per part. See every step in how to price a CNC machined part, or change the numbers below.
Where the example prices come from
- 6061-T6 aluminium flat bar 1/2 x 2 in: $76.07 for 72 in, from Metals4U, checked October 4, 2026.
- 1/4 in 3 flute end mill for aluminium: $41.22 for 1 piece, from Lakeshore Carbide, checked October 4, 2026.
- Coolant concentrate: $62.29 for 1 gal, from AllIndustrial, checked October 4, 2026.
Prices change and shipping is extra. They are here to make the example real, not as a quote. Put your own prices in the calculator.
Try it with your own cnc machining numbers
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The share of the price you keep as profit. 50% means the price is twice your cost.
Example prices, October 2026. Change them to yours.
Quote for 10 parts
$367.40
That is $36.74 per part, with a profit of $110.22 on the job.
Keep this recipe. Stockria saves it with your materials, so the cost updates when a price changes and each batch you make takes stock off the shelf.
Straight answers
What CNC machine shops ask before they switch
"I buy bar by the foot and cut it by the inch."
Set the unit you buy in and the unit you use, once. Receive a 6 ft bar, cut 3.125 in per part, and Stockria keeps the count and the cost per inch right.
"My quotes leave out setup and tool wear."
Setup is time on the machine before the first good part. Spread it over the job. Tool wear is a few cents to a dollar a part. Put both in the part's cost once, and every quote includes them.
"I never know what a job really cost after it ran."
Open a work order for the job and log machine and labour minutes as it runs. Stockria adds the material you used and shows what the job really cost next to what you quoted.
"I don't want a bill that grows every time I get busy."
It doesn't. Stockria is a flat monthly price. It does not change with your orders, your sales or your number of items. Pro is $19 a month. You only move to a bigger plan when you add more people or more locations.
"I don't want to pay extra to unlock batches or work orders."
You won't. Every feature is on every plan, Free included: recipes, work orders, work in progress, lots and expiry dates, machines and labour, purchase orders and reports. Plans only differ by items, users and locations. Free covers 250 items, and raw materials count as items.
An honest comparison
What CNC machine shops use today, and what it costs
Public prices, checked in October 2026. If something has changed, email hello@stockria.com and we fix the page. If you plan production across several factories with a full-time planner, a manufacturing platform is the better fit. Stockria is built for the small workshop.
Common questions
Questions from CNC machine shops
Look for bar and plate stock bought by length or weight and used by the inch or mm, machines and people with hourly rates, work orders that log real minutes, and a cost per part you can quote from. Stockria has all of these on every plan.
Yes. Buy bar by the foot, the metre or the kilo and use it by the inch or the mm. Tell Stockria how many inches or mm are in what you buy, once, and it converts from then on.
Yes. Add the mill, the lathe and the saw as machines, each with an hourly rate, and your people with theirs. Minutes on a recipe or a work order are costed at the right rate.
Yes. Sell the job at cost plus a margin or a markup, add a rush fee if you need to, and send it as a quote or a sales order. The job keeps its real cost so you can compare later.
Yes. Repeat parts get a recipe. One-off jobs get a work order where you log material and time as you go. Both end with a real cost.
The free plan has every feature, with limits on items, users and locations. Paid plans add more when you need them. The price is flat and does not grow with your orders.
Pricing
One flat price.
Everything included.
No surprises.
Every feature on every plan. You move up only when your team or locations grow, never for a feature, never a surprise.
Free
All features included. No credit card required.
Free
Free forever. No credit card, no trial that expires.
- Up to 250 items
- 1 user
- 1 location
- All integrations
Pro
All features included. For growing businesses.
$19
/mo
Flat price. You move up only when your team or locations grow, never for a feature.
- Unlimited items
- 2 users
- 2 locations
- All integrations
- free setup assistance
Business
All features. For growing teams and a few locations.
$39
/mo
Flat price. You move up only when your team or locations grow, never for a feature.
- Unlimited items
- 8 users
- 5 locations
- All integrations
- priority support
- free setup assistance
Growth
For bigger teams and multi-location operations.
$89
/mo
Flat price. You move up only when your team or locations grow, never for a feature.
- Unlimited items
- 25 users
- Unlimited locations
- All integrations
- priority support
- dedicated onboarding
Why it costs less
No setup fees, no per-item pricing, and no expensive sales and onboarding to pay for. Stockria is built lean and earns more only when your business grows into more users or locations. That is the whole model, and it is why your price stays flat and will not jump on you as you add products.
Switch plans or cancel anytime. All plans include: barcode scanning, low-stock alerts, reorder points, stock counts, stock adjustments, stock transfers, purchase orders, sales orders, customer quotes, pick lists, returns, partial receiving and payments, product variants, bills of materials, manufacturing orders, lot and batch tracking, serial numbers, multi-location tracking, team access with custom roles, activity history, check-in/check-out, custom fields, price lists, cost tracking, barcode label printing, reports, dashboards, CSV import/export, offline mode, Shopify, Amazon, Square, QuickBooks, and Xero sync, and many more features.
Know your cost per part by tonight. Or let us set it up for you.
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