Add up every per-piece cost — materials, labor, trims, finishing, freight and duty — to build the true unit cost (COGS) of one garment, then optionally solve a suggested selling price from your target margin. The addition is exact; every amount comes from your own supplier and logistics quotes, so nothing here is an invented price.
⚠️ The addition is exact; the amounts are yours. A unit cost is just the sum of the per-piece costs you type — no error margin. But Kiwi Giyim doesn't pre-fill a figure: materials, labor, trims, finishing, freight and duty all come from your own supplier and logistics quotes, so nothing here is invented. Leave freight and duty blank to read an FOB-style cost, or fill them in to reach a landed cost.
Unit cost is a running total: materials, labor, trims, finishing, freight, duty and any overhead — one line at a time. Each row is a number you already know from a quote.
Stop the total where you like. Leave freight and duty empty for an FOB-style ex-factory cost; fill them in to reach the landed cost that actually hits your warehouse.
Tooling, pattern grading and sampling don't repeat per piece — they're fixed costs. Leave them out here and recover them in the break-even calculator instead.
There's no honest unit cost for knitwear without a spec, so nothing is pre-filled. Add a target margin and the tool solves a suggested price — but only from the costs you type.
No black box. The calculator runs exactly these two lines:
unit cost (COGS) = materials + labor + trims + finishing + freight + duty + other suggested price = unit cost ÷ (1 − target margin / 100) The addition carries no error margin. Worked example: $6.00 materials + $3.00 labor + $1.00 trims + $0.50 finishing + $0.80 freight + $0.60 duty = $11.90 unit cost. At a 55% target margin that solves to 11.90 ÷ 0.45 = $26.44. The only numbers that need real values are yours — supplier and logistics quotes against your tech pack.
Building a program end to end? Pair this with the margin & markup calculator to compare margin and markup on the same cost, the break-even units calculator to fold in your one-off fixed costs, and the knitwear cost calculator for an indicative per-piece cost when you don't have supplier quotes yet. Every tool sits on the free tools hub.
Add up every per-piece cost: unit cost = materials + labor + trims + finishing + freight + duty + other. Each component is a cost you already know from a quote — yarn or fabric, cut-make-trim labor, trims and labels, finishing and packing, inbound freight and import duty, plus any overhead you allocate per piece. For example $6.00 materials + $3.00 labor + $1.00 trims + $0.50 finishing + $0.80 freight + $0.60 duty = $11.90 per garment. The addition is exact; every figure comes from your own supplier and logistics quotes, not from Kiwi Giyim.
They are the same running total stopped at different points. FOB (free on board) is the ex-factory price — materials, labor, trims, finishing and the factory's overhead — before anything ships. Landed cost adds inbound freight and import duty on top of FOB. This calculator lets you choose: leave the freight and duty fields empty to read an FOB-style unit cost, or fill them in to reach a landed cost. COGS is simply the total of whichever per-piece costs you decide to include.
Include only costs that repeat on every piece: materials or yarn, cut-make-trim labor, trims and labels, finishing and packing, inbound freight per unit, import duty per unit and any overhead or QC you allocate per garment. Keep one-off costs out — tooling, pattern and grading, sampling rounds and artwork don't change with volume, so they belong in a break-even calculation as fixed costs, not in the per-unit COGS. Mixing the two inflates your unit cost and hides your real margin.
Divide the unit cost by one minus your target margin: price = unit cost ÷ (1 − margin/100). A $11.90 unit cost at a 55% target margin solves to 11.90 ÷ 0.45 = $26.44. The target margin has to stay below 100%, since at 100% the denominator hits zero and no finite price exists. Enter a target margin in this calculator to see the suggested price, or open the margin & markup calculator to compare margin and markup side by side. We don't set your margin — that number is yours.
Send your tech pack (or use our free template) with your target cost and margin, and we'll reply within one business day with real per-piece pricing, a sample timeline and an honest read on whether your numbers work.