Price guide · Pharma Supplement
Tubular Glass Vial: wholesale price
A typical US business buyer pays a median of $0.18 per unit at small order quantities, falling to $0.01 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 | $0.18 |
| 1,000–4,999 units | $0.08 |
| 5,000–9,999 units | $0.03 |
| 10,000–24,999 units | $0.02 |
| 25,000–99,999 units | $0.015 |
| 100,000+ units | $0.01 |
What moves the price
For tubular glass vial, the drivers are capacity, glass type, stopper compatibility, sterility — the same item can land at either end of the band depending on how those are specified.
Published wholesale listings for tubular/pharma glass vials cluster around $0.01-$0.10 per unit at MOQ scales, with sterile or rubber-stopper-ready versions priced higher than plain bulk glass. U.S.-facing distributors such as SKS Bottle, The Cary Company, BottleStore, and TricorBraun show materially higher case pricing than direct-import marketplaces, while Made-in-China/Alibaba listings show the lowest landed-equivalent unit prices for 5mL tubular vial formats. Price is most affected by whether the vial is plain bulk glass versus sterile/ready-to-fill, the glass specification (Type I borosilicate vs generic soda-lime), and compatibility with crimp/stopper systems or custom printing.
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