Spice: wholesale price
A typical US business buyer pays a median of $0.45 per unit at small order quantities, falling to $0.14 at volume, on a typical 21-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 | $0.45 |
| 1,000–4,999 units | $0.34 |
| 5,000–9,999 units | $0.28 |
| 10,000–24,999 units | $0.22 |
| 25,000–99,999 units | $0.18 |
| 100,000+ units | $0.14 |
What moves the price
For spice, the drivers are filtration grade, airflow resistance, electrostatic charge, material layer count, roll width, DEXRON/MERCON spec, friction modifier package, viscosity — the spec them differently and the same item lands at either end of the band.
Published US wholesale listings for spices show a wide spread by form and pack size: bulk spice products on foodservice sites commonly price from about $0.22/oz to $0.83/oz at smaller wholesale pack sizes, while wholesale spice-blend listings show similar or slightly lower per-ounce pricing at case quantities. For custom-manufactured spice or seasoning blends, the biggest price drivers are formula complexity and raw-material grade, then moisture control, particle size, packaging, traceability, and any food-safety certification; realistic supplier routes are foodservice wholesalers for off-the-shelf analogs, private-label spice blenders for custom blends, and import/distributor channels for very large-volume landed pricing.
Paying more than the median?
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