Price guide · Beverage Alcohol
Labeled Can: wholesale price
A typical US business buyer pays a median of $2.08 per unit at small order quantities, falling to $0.14 at volume, on a typical 35-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 | $2.08 |
| 1,000–4,999 units | $0.88 |
| 5,000–9,999 units | $0.42 |
| 10,000–24,999 units | $0.22 |
| 25,000–99,999 units | $0.15 |
| 100,000+ units | $0.14 |
What moves the price
For labeled can, the drivers are capacity, lining, end diameter, decoration method — the same item can land at either end of the band depending on how those are specified.
Real supplier quotes show labeled beverage cans are usually sold in pallet or truckload-like pack counts, with price driven mainly by can format (12 oz standard vs sleek vs crowler), label decoration method, and whether the can is lined and pre-labeled. Beer City Glass publishes palletized labeled-can pricing for several formats, while Iron Heart Canning publishes truckload bulk can pricing for unlabeled cans; together they support a market where the can body itself is roughly cents per unit at scale and the applied label adds most of the small-order premium. For US-facing buyers, realistic routes are beverage packaging distributors, co-packers/canners, and importers of finished cans; the smallest tiers usually reflect distributor pricing and setup overhead rather than true factory-direct economics.
Paying more than the median?
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