Landed Cost Calculator
Free landed cost calculator: add freight, duty, insurance, and fees to unit cost to get true per-unit landed cost. Runs in your browser, no upload.
This landed cost calculator turns a supplier’s quoted unit price into the true cost of a product once freight, duty, insurance, and handling are added — the number you actually need before you can set margin. Paste a single line or a whole price file; everything is computed in your browser.
Landed Cost Calculator
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The calculator takes your input cost and incremental charges and returns a defensible per-unit landed cost. Specifically, it computes and validates:
- Base goods cost — unit price times quantity, in the currency you supply, with optional FX conversion to your selling currency.
- Freight and inbound transport — ocean, air, or LTL charges, either as a flat shipment cost allocated across units or as a per-unit rate.
- Duty and tariff — applied as a percentage of the customs value, so you can plug in the rate tied to a product’s HS code.
- Insurance, brokerage, and port/handling fees — fixed or percentage-based charges added to the dutiable or final value.
- Allocation basis — splits shipment-level costs across line items by quantity, weight, or value, and flags when allocation bases are missing.
- Per-unit landed cost and landed multiplier — the final figure plus the ratio of landed cost to base cost, so you can spot SKUs where freight and duty quietly inflate cost.
How the landed cost calculator works
Landed cost follows a consistent build-up used across MRO, CPG, furniture, and industrial distribution:
- 1Start with goods valueMultiply unit price by quantity and convert currency if the supplier quotes in a different one than you sell in.
- 2Allocate shipment costsSpread freight, insurance, and brokerage across line items by quantity, weight, or value so a 40 kg motor absorbs more freight than a 200 g connector on the same container.
- 3Apply duty on customs valueMultiply the dutiable value by the tariff rate that maps to the item’s HS code. Different commodities on one shipment can carry very different rates.
- 4Sum to per-unit landed costAdd goods, allocated logistics, duty, and fees, then divide by quantity for a clean per-unit number you can feed into pricing.
There is no fixed international “landed cost standard” — the components vary by Incoterm, lane, and commodity. What stays constant is the arithmetic, and that is what this tool standardizes. Because every calculation runs client-side in your browser, your cost files, supplier rates, and margins are never uploaded to a server. That matters when the input is a confidential price list rather than a single SKU.
Related resources
Landed cost is one input to pricing. Pair it with the tools and guides below to go from supplier file to set price.
Tool
Margin & Markup Calculator
Turn landed cost into a sell price at your target margin — the natural next step after this calculator.
Tool
HS Code Lookup
Find the HS code that drives the duty rate you plug into landed cost.
Tool
Price List Diff
Compare an old and new supplier price file to catch cost changes before they hit margin.
Guide
Catching Margin Leakage in Supplier Price Files
How unaccounted freight, duty, and fees quietly erode margin across a catalog.
Guide
The Real Cost of Processing a Manufacturer Price Update
Why a single supplier price update ripples through landed cost and pricing.
Claro
Enrich and validate cost data at scale
See how Claro keeps cost, duty, and supplier attributes accurate across your whole catalog.
FAQ
What is included in landed cost?
Landed cost includes the base goods cost plus every charge required to get the product to your warehouse: inbound freight, duty and tariffs, insurance, customs brokerage, and port or handling fees. Some businesses also fold in inventory carrying or inspection costs. The unifying rule is that landed cost reflects total cost at your dock, not the supplier’s invoice price.
How do you calculate landed cost per unit?
Add goods value, allocated freight and logistics, duty, and fees for a shipment, then divide by the number of units. Shipment-level costs like ocean freight are allocated across line items by quantity, weight, or value so heavier or higher-value SKUs absorb a fair share. This calculator performs that build-up and returns the per-unit figure directly.
What is the difference between landed cost and unit cost?
Unit cost is the price the supplier charges per item. Landed cost adds the freight, duty, insurance, and handling needed to bring that item to you. For low-value, high-weight products — fasteners, raw materials, flat-pack furniture — landed cost can be substantially higher than unit cost, which is why pricing off unit cost alone erodes margin.
Where do I get the duty rate for the calculator?
Duty is a percentage of customs value tied to the product’s HS (Harmonized System) classification. Use the HS Code Lookup to find the code, then apply the rate published by the destination country’s customs authority for that code and origin. Rates vary by commodity and trade agreement, so confirm against an official source rather than estimating.
Is my cost data uploaded anywhere?
No. The calculator runs entirely in your browser. Supplier prices, freight rates, and margins stay on your machine and are never sent to a server, so you can safely paste a confidential price file rather than a single line.