Drinking Cup: wholesale price
A typical US business buyer pays a median of $0.28 per unit at small order quantities, falling to $0.05 at volume, on a typical 28-day lead time. These medians come from published supplier pricing. Treat them as a starting point, not a binding quote. Your spec and quantity set the final price.
Median price by order quantity
| Order size | Median /unit |
|---|---|
| 500–999 units | $0.28 |
| 1,000–4,999 units | $0.18 |
| 5,000–9,999 units | $0.13 |
| 10,000–24,999 units | $0.09 |
| 25,000–99,999 units | $0.07 |
| 100,000+ units | $0.05 |
What moves the price
For drinking cup, the drivers are material, tip compatibility, capacity, sterility, color, pack size, paper stock, inner coating — the spec them differently and the same item lands at either end of the band.
Pricing is most sensitive to material (paper vs PET/PP plastic), wall structure, print colors, and whether the cup is custom printed or blank; the largest drops usually come from moving from short-run digital/stock decoration to high-volume offset/flexo production. Realistic supplier routes are US-facing promotional distributors for low MOQs and Asia-based OEM/ODM factories or importers for 10k+ orders, where landed-equivalent pricing is typically much lower at scale. Stackability, rim style, coating, and whether lids are included can move the price materially, so the band here assumes a mid-range custom-printed disposable cup rather than a specialty medical specimen cup
Paying more than the median?
If you reorder drinking cup 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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