Calculator
What does this actually cost?
Price the batch, divide by the milligrams it produced, and see what each edible costs you — then set that against what a shop would charge.
Questions people ask
- Is making edibles actually cheaper than buying them?
- Almost always, and usually by a wide margin. The arithmetic is not close: an ounce of mid-shelf flower turns into hundreds of servings, while shop edibles are priced per piece with packaging, testing and retail margin on top. The honest caveat is that this calculator prices ingredients, not your afternoon — and shop edibles come with a lab result, which is the thing you are really paying for.
- Why is the cost shown as a range?
- Because the potency is a range, and cost per milligram is just batch cost divided by milligrams. If the infusion lands at the strong end you spread the same cost over more milligrams and each one is cheaper; if it lands weak, each is dearer. Note that the band inverts — the strong end of your potency range is the cheap end of your cost range.
- Should I use cheaper flower?
- For edibles, often yes. Once it is decarbed and infused, appearance, trim quality and bag appeal stop mattering entirely — all you are buying is cannabinoid content per dollar. Smaller buds and trim are frequently the best value per milligram in the shop, and nobody can tell once it is in a cookie.
Need the milligram figures first? Run the infusion calculator — it reports the whole batch as a range.
Every constant behind these numbers is written down, with its source, on the how this is calculated page. If you think one of them is wrong, say so — that page exists to be argued with.