Plastic Tube: wholesale price
A typical US business buyer pays a median of $0.18 per unit at small order quantities, falling to $0.04 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 | $0.18 |
| 1,000–4,999 units | $0.08 |
| 5,000–9,999 units | $0.06 |
| 10,000–24,999 units | $0.05 |
| 25,000–99,999 units | $0.045 |
| 100,000+ units | $0.04 |
What moves the price
For plastic tube, the drivers are tube length, cap style, material, child-resistant certification, print method — the spec them differently and the same item lands at either end of the band.
Real supplier pricing clusters around standard 98mm-116mm polypropylene or PET /tube with snap-top or child-resistant caps, where U.S. wholesale sellers quote roughly $0.05-$0.08 per unit at case and pallet-like volumes and Chinese factory listings drop into the low cents at 10k+ units. Custom printing, child-resistant certification, opaque colors, and special cap tooling raise price materially; landed-equivalent import quotes on Made-in-China show step-downs from about $0.035 at 1k-4,999 to $0.015 at 10k+, while custom CR/tamper/smell-proof variants sit much higher, often $0.11-$0.65 depending on MOQ and spec. The most realistic sourcing routes are U.S. wholesalers for fast, low-MOQ replenishment and China direct/manufacturer sourcing for 5k+ custom runs where printing and certification requirements are fixed into the quote.
Paying more than the median?
If you reorder plastic tube 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.