Price guide · Industrial Safety
Capillary Tube: wholesale price
A typical US business buyer pays a median of $0.16 per unit at small order quantities, falling to $0.003 at volume, on a typical 30-day lead time. These medians come from published supplier pricing. Treat them as a starting point for a sourcing conversation rather than a binding quote.
Median price by order quantity
| Order size | Median /unit |
|---|---|
| 500–999 units | $0.16 |
| 1,000–4,999 units | $0.06 |
| 5,000–9,999 units | $0.02 |
| 10,000–24,999 units | $0.01 |
| 25,000–99,999 units | $0.005 |
| 100,000+ units | $0.003 |
What moves the price
For capillary tube, the drivers are length, width, thickness, pressure rating, temperature rating, glass type, edge finish, diameter — the same item can land at either end of the band depending on how those are specified.
Published retail/low-quantity listings for glass capillary tubes range from about $12.20 for 100 pieces to $37.59 for 1000 pieces, while a mid-range lab supplier lists 1000-4000 packs at roughly $30.07-$31.99, implying roughly $0.03-$0.38 per tube at small-batch volumes. For true wholesale/custom manufacture, China B2B listings for capillary-type tubing and precision capillary tubing commonly quote at the piece, meter, kilogram, or ton level, with piece prices around $0.56-$4.17 and ton/kilogram pricing that collapses to very low per-unit equivalents at scale; these are the most realistic routes for custom-printed or specification-driven bulk orders. Price is driven mainly by material (glass vs. stainless/quartz/metal), dimensions (ID/OD, wall thickness, length), and treatment options such as heparinization or sterilization, so custom medical-style capillaries usually sit well above commodity tubing. Lead times in supplier listings are typically around 15 workdays to one month.
Paying more than the median?
If you reorder capillary tube regularly, run a free savings check — enter what you pay and see it against these researched medians, item by item. About three minutes, no card or account.
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