Price guide · Sporting Outdoor
Compostable Tea Pods: wholesale price
A typical US business buyer pays a median of $0.32 per unit at small order quantities, falling to $0.13 at volume, on a typical 30-day lead time. These medians come from published supplier pricing. Treat them as a starting point for a sourcing conversation rather than a binding quote.
Median price by order quantity
| Order size | Median /unit |
|---|---|
| 500–999 units | $0.32 |
| 1,000–4,999 units | $0.28 |
| 5,000–9,999 units | $0.23 |
| 10,000–24,999 units | $0.19 |
| 25,000–99,999 units | $0.16 |
| 100,000+ units | $0.13 |
What moves the price
For compostable tea pods, the drivers are pod compatibility, fill weight, material, seal film, nitrogen flush, compostable/biodegradable, stick material, seal type — the same item can land at either end of the band depending on how those are specified.
Quoted wholesale tea-pod pricing is sparse, so the ladder is anchored primarily to a real supplier marketplace quote of $0.29-$0.36 at 2,000-piece minimum order for compostable tea pods/private label, plus a U.S. pod supplier’s published bulk K-Cup pricing of about $0.19 per pod at pallet scale as a lower-cost analog. The main price drivers are pod format/compatibility, compostable material stack, custom printing, tea fill weight, and whether the supplier is packaging domestically or importing finished pods. Realistic routes are direct factory/OEM orders through Asia-facing marketplaces, U.S. private-label pod converters, or landed-equivalent import offers; finished, custom-printed compostable tea pods usually price above commodity coffee-pod analogs.
Paying more than the median?
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