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Ointment Vial: wholesale price
A typical US business buyer pays a median of $0.34 per unit at small order quantities, falling to $0.05 at volume, on a typical 45-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 | $0.34 |
| 1,000–4,999 units | $0.27 |
| 5,000–9,999 units | $0.19 |
| 10,000–24,999 units | $0.14 |
| 25,000–99,999 units | $0.09 |
| 100,000+ units | $0.05 |
What moves the price
For ointment vial, the drivers are material, capacity, closure type, neck finish, color, printing, sterile vs non-sterile, child resistant — the same item can land at either end of the band depending on how those are specified.
Public wholesale vial listings show small-pack pricing for standard clear glass vials with caps at roughly $0.34-$0.56 each depending on size and supplier, while vial-specific distributor tiers typically drop into the low-$0.10s by 5,000-10,000 units and below $0.10 at larger volumes. The biggest price drivers are glass spec and finish, then closure type and whether the vial is custom printed, colored, sterile, or child-resistant; sterile and validated pharma-style supply routes are materially more expensive than commodity decorative or sample-vial routes. Realistic sourcing routes are US-facing packaging distributors for standard stock vials, or Alibaba/China direct-import and landed-equivalent pricing for custom printed or highly specified runs at 25k+ units.
Paying more than the median?
If you reorder ointment vial regularly, run a free savings check — enter what you pay and see it against these researched medians, item by item. About three minutes, no card or account.
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