Calculator · sample rates, editable · 2026-11-08
Price comparison: landed cost, agent by agent
Comparing agents on item price alone is how people end up paying more. The item price is one line of five, and the other four (service fee, domestic shipping, international freight, and possible customs) are exactly the ones that differ most between providers. This calculator takes the same basket through several agent columns at once, converts everything to one currency, and ranks the landed cost per item. It ships with blank rows on purpose. We do not publish price lists we cannot verify on the day you read them, and a filled-in table would be out of date faster than you could use it.
Fill the fields and the result appears here.
How the number is built
Sample, editable arithmetic. Landed cost per agent = items + domestic shipping + service fee + international freight + customs, converted into the shared currency at your rate, then divided by quantity for the per-item figure. The tool holds no agent price list and no default fee percentages. The only numeric default is the currency rate of 7.20 CNY per USD as of 2026-11-08, which is a snapshot for planning. Every other field starts blank because we will not publish prices we cannot verify today, and no result here is a checkout price from any platform.
What each field is asking for
- One column per agent: name and up to five rows of line items, or a single row if you only know the basket total.
- Item subtotal per agent in the currency their listing shows, with the currency selected per column.
- Domestic shipping per agent, the charge to move goods from the seller to that warehouse.
- Service fee per agent, entered as a flat amount or a percentage, using the shape their own fee page describes.
- International freight per agent, ideally pasted from a real quote for the same destination and speed.
- Expected customs amount or rate, which can be entered as a fixed number or as a percentage of declared value.
- Shared currency for the comparison, plus the conversion rate. The default is 7.20 CNY per USD as of 2026-11-08 and it is editable.
- Quantity, so the ranking can show cost per item rather than cost per basket.
What you get back
A ranked table of landed cost per agent, with the total, the cost per item, the gap in dollars against the cheapest column, and the gap as a percentage. A breakdown row group shows which component caused each gap, so you can see whether a column won on item price or on freight. A short note marks any column whose winner status depends only on a component you left blank, because an incomplete comparison is not a result.
The method
Why the arithmetic works this way
If you understand the mechanics you can sanity-check any quote, including ours.
A cheap item price can lose on the other four lines
In our own sample runs the item price was rarely the deciding factor for small orders. Freight and service fees moved the ranking more, because a provider with a slightly higher item price and a much better consolidation rate wins on anything bigger than two items. Run your real basket, not a single item. Also enter a real freight quote if you can get one, because estimates built from guessed weights compress the differences between agents to nearly nothing and make the comparison meaningless. A ranking built on estimated freight is a tie between columns that may be thirty percent apart in practice.
The parts of the comparison price does not capture
Two agents with the same landed cost are not the same choice. One may include quality check photos in the service fee, another may charge per photo. One may publish a ninety day free storage window while another holds goods for weeks and then bills. One may offer a line that clears customs more reliably for your country. Response time in chat, photo quality (which is what the checklist page on this site measures), return handling, and insurance availability all sit outside the total. Use the ranking to eliminate the obviously expensive, then decide between the close columns on service. That is the order that saves both money and arguments.
Why this table is blank on purpose
A price comparison page that arrives with numbers filled in is selling you certainty it cannot have. Item prices change with sales, freight moves weekly, fee structures change without notice, and sales tax rules shift by country and by declared value. Instead of freezing a table that would rot in a month, we give you the formula and the currency conversion, and you bring today numbers. If you want a snapshot of what goods cost in general, our site publishes a dated snapshot of its own dataset, 1,711 items on 2026-11-08 with a range of about $0.23 to $935.21 at 7.20 CNY per USD, which is useful as a scale reference and useless as a quote.
Honest limits of any comparison you build here
We cannot verify that the numbers you enter match what you will be charged, and we have no way to audit an agent books. We do not know your account level, so any member discount is invisible to us. We cannot predict customs, because that depends on enforcement on the day and on the declared value the sender writes. We cannot tell you which line will actually be available when the warehouse is ready to ship, and availability changes the freight quote after you have already ordered. And we cannot know whether a promotion that lowers the total today will expire before your parcel consolidates. Treat the winner of this table as provisional and re-check before you commit.
Worked example
Numbers you can check against the form
Run one of these rows through the fields above and the output should match.
| Item | Price | Wears in a year | Cost per wear |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic tee | $12.00 | 40 | $0.30 |
| Mid jacket | $55.00 | 60 | $0.92 |
| Leather boots | $120.00 | 120 | $1.00 |
| Trend piece | $70.00 | 6 | $11.67 |
Common questions
Questions about this calculator
Which agent is cheapest?
We do not answer that, and any site that answers it with a fixed number is guessing. The cheapest column depends on your basket, your destination, your payment method, and the day. Put your real numbers in the table and read the ranking, then re-check in a month because it will move.
Should I compare cost per item or total cost?
Cost per item, if you can arrange a similar basket for each agent. Total cost rewards big baskets regardless of how much you actually bought per unit, which hides the fact that one provider may be cheaper per item and more expensive to run at all.
Why does your currency rate default to 7.20 CNY per USD?
It is the snapshot we used across this site on 2026-11-08 so that our own examples stay consistent with each other. It is not a live rate. Replace it with the rate your own statement shows before you trust any ranking, because on a large basket a few percent of drift reorders the table.
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Now put a real row through it
The calculator tells you what a parcel costs. The catalogue tells you what goes in it.
- 1,711 rows in the current snapshot
- Both currencies on every row
- Filter by brand or category before you commit
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