Paper Cone: wholesale price
A typical US business buyer pays a median of $0.22 per unit at small order quantities, falling to $0.05 at volume, on a typical 35-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 | $0.22 |
| 1,000–4,999 units | $0.16 |
| 5,000–9,999 units | $0.10 |
| 10,000–24,999 units | $0.07 |
| 25,000–99,999 units | $0.06 |
| 100,000+ units | $0.05 |
What moves the price
For paper cone, the drivers are tube length, cap style, material, child-resistant certification, print method — the same item can land at either end of the band depending on how those are specified.
Published wholesale pricing for paper cones clusters around $0.09–$0.20/unit at smaller bulk cases and drops to about $0.046–$0.060/unit at very high factory-direct volumes. The most realistic supplier routes are domestic wholesale case-buyers for 500–10,000 units and factory-direct custom packaging suppliers for 25,000+ units; printed papers, tip type, cone length, and child-resistant features move price materially. Higher-packaging and -packaging vendors show that custom cone pricing is strongly volume-driven, while in-stock domestic wholesalers publish faster lead times but higher per-unit costs
Paying more than the median?
If you reorder paper cone 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.