Cost & Margin
CDT vs Botanical Cost Calculator
What cannabis-derived terpenes cost you per finished unit, next to what a botanical blend costs for the same run.
Bottle prices do not compare across suppliers. The number that decides a sourcing call is the terpene cost inside one finished unit, and that depends on your fill weight and your loading as much as on the price per millilitre. Put your own batch in below. We ask what you pay for cannabis-derived terpenes rather than assuming it, because CDT pricing moves with the flower it came from.
Your batch
The weight of finished oil in one cartridge, disposable or gummy.
Percentage of total product weight that is terpene.
Your number, off your own invoice. We do not assume a rate, because CDT pricing moves with the harvest it came from. For scale, our guide puts strain-specific CDT at roughly $50 to $200 per mL.
Published catalog prices for Native® and Inspired® blends. Volume pricing is better than this, talk to us once you know the run size.
Optional. Used only for the terpene-only margin figure below.
Enter what you currently pay for cannabis-derived terpenes to see the comparison.
Cannabis-derived
$0.00
terpene cost per finished unit
$0.00 across the batch, at $0.00 per gram
Entour™ botanical
$0.1233
terpene cost per finished unit
$616.28 across the batch, at $3.08 per gram
Terpene needed for the run
200.0 g
232.6 mL at 0.86 g/mL
Margin points gained by switching
Enter a retail price
Against the retail price you entered
Points, not gross margin. This is how many percentage points the switch adds to whatever your margin is today. It does not need your hardware, distillate, filling, packaging or freight costs, and it does not claim to know them.
Reading the result
Terpene is usually a small share of a finished unit, so the per-unit difference looks trivial and the per-batch difference does not. That gap is the whole point of running the numbers: a fraction of a dollar per cartridge is a five-figure line on a production run, and it lands entirely in margin.
The margin figure is expressed in percentage points, not as a gross margin. It tells you how much the switch would add to whatever your margin is today, and it is deliberately built so it does not need your hardware, distillate, filling, packaging or freight costs. A tool that put only the terpene into cost of goods would report something close to 99% margin, which is arithmetically true and commercially useless.
The botanical side quotes published catalog prices. Account and volume pricing sits below that ladder, so whatever saving the tool shows is the conservative version of it. If the run is large enough to matter, the real number is worth a conversation.
Where each one earns its place
Cannabis-derived terpenes are worth paying for when the provenance is the product. If your packaging, your brand and your customer conversation are built on the terpenes having come from the plant, that is what you are selling and the cost is the cost.
A botanical blend is the better buy when what you need is a specific, repeatable sensory result at a price that survives a production run. It is available in volume, the profile is the same every time you reorder, and it does not carry cannabis plant material through your supply chain.
Entour™ builds its Native® and Inspired® blends against real analytical profiles rather than guesswork, which is what the True To Plant® programme exists to do. If you are matching something you already have, the formulation team can work from your target.
Want the background rather than the maths? The full guide covers what cannabis-derived terpenes are, how they are produced, and where the price comes from.
Read: cannabis-derived terpenes, explainedNeed the batch maths on its own? The blending calculator covers terpene needed, batch cost and cost per unit across 5% to 10% loading.
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