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Microbial Inoculant: wholesale price
A typical US business buyer pays a median of $29.00 per unit at small order quantities, falling to $6.50 at volume, on a typical 30-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 | $29.00 |
| 1,000–4,999 units | $22.00 |
| 5,000–9,999 units | $16.00 |
| 10,000–24,999 units | $12.00 |
| 25,000–99,999 units | $9.00 |
| 100,000+ units | $6.50 |
What moves the price
For microbial inoculant, the drivers are capacity, material, outlet configuration, secondary containment, uv resistance, fitting size, level indication, nitrogen content — the spec them differently and the same item lands at either end of the band.
Published retail and trade prices for microbial inoculants span roughly $14/kg to about $45/kg for standard liquid or dry products, with premium specialty powders far higher; these public anchors support a steep discount curve as order size increases. Price moves most with formulation type (liquid vs powder vs granular), live-organism concentration/species specificity, purity/stabilizer requirements, and whether the quote includes custom packaging/labeling or landed import costs. Realistic supplier routes are specialty biological-input brands, private-label/co-pack formulators, and import/distributor channels; the most credible bulk quotes come from trade catalogs and wholesale lists rather than consumer storefronts.
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