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Metal Tin: wholesale price

A typical US business buyer pays a median of $2.94 per unit at small order quantities, falling to $2.67 at volume. 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 sizeMedian /unit
500–999 units$2.94
1,000–4,999 units$2.74
5,000–9,999 units$2.74
10,000–24,999 units$2.67

What moves the price

For metal tin, the drivers are thread finish, diameter, height, material, coating, print/decorating, draw depth, wall thickness — the same item can land at either end of the band depending on how those are specified.

Published wholesale pricing for generic metal/aluminum tins is available from US-facing packaging suppliers, but the results do not show a clearly documented custom-printed cannabis concentrate tin ladder. Real routes are either stock-tin wholesale from packaging distributors or custom overseas manufacture, where price moves most with diameter, lid fit, coating, print complexity, embossing, window cuts, and insert configuration. Aluminum input price is a smaller driver than conversion and decoration for finished tins, so landed custom pricing usually depends more on tooling, MOQ, and decoration method than on raw metal cost.

Also known as: metal can, slip lid tin, tin can, tinplate container.

Paying more than the median?

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