Tea Capsules: wholesale price
A typical US business buyer pays a median of $0.32 per unit at small order quantities, falling to $0.13 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 | $0.32 |
| 1,000–4,999 units | $0.28 |
| 5,000–9,999 units | $0.23 |
| 10,000–24,999 units | $0.19 |
| 25,000–99,999 units | $0.16 |
| 100,000+ units | $0.13 |
What moves the price
For tea capsules, the drivers are vehicle fitment, housing material, finish, power fold, heated, signal integration, mount style, material — the same item can land at either end of the band depending on how those are specified.
Quoted wholesale tea-pod pricing is sparse, so the ladder is anchored primarily to a real supplier marketplace quote of $0.29-$0.36 at 2,000-piece minimum order for compostable tea pods/private label, plus a U.S. pod supplier’s published bulk K-Cup pricing of about $0.19 per pod at pallet scale as a lower-cost analog. The main price drivers are pod format/compatibility, compostable material stack, custom printing, tea fill weight, and whether the supplier is packaging domestically or importing finished pods. Realistic routes are direct factory/OEM orders through Asia-facing marketplaces, U.S. private-label pod converters, or landed-equivalent import offers; finished, custom-printed compostable tea pods usually price above commodity coffee-pod analogs.
Paying more than the median?
If you reorder tea capsules 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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