Cocoa price — how much does it change the cost?

Cocoa has been extraordinarily volatile. Any figure here has a short shelf life and yours should be re-checked quarterly.

Cocoa percentage — how much does it change the cost?

A 70% bar uses far more of the expensive part than a 45% one. The number on the front is a cost decision.

Tempering and moulding — how much does it change the cost?

Chocolate lines are specialised and there are fewer of them, which shows in tolling rates.

What does it cost to make a chocolate bar?

Q: What does it cost to make a chocolate bar?

A 90g bar costs roughly $1.4098 per unit to make ex-works at a run of 20,000 units — $0.9624 of ingredients, $0.1400 of packaging, $0.2300 of tolling and $0.0210 of inbound freight, divided by a 96% yield. Bigger runs land materially lower.

Cost to make, ex-works $1.4098 per 90g bar, at 20,000 units

Per 1,000 units$1409.80

Whole run$28196.09

This is a realistic mid-market estimate, not a quote. The same product at 5,000 units and at 50,000 units are different businesses — run size moves tolling more than any other line. Use it to sanity-check a quote, not to replace one.

Where the money goes

Ingredients $0.9624 68%Packaging $0.1400 10%Tolling $0.2300 16%Inbound freight $0.0210 1%Yield loss $0.0564 4%

The formulation

Ingredient	Qty	Price	Overage	Per unit
Cocoa mass	480 g/L	$6.20/lb	3%	$0.6082
Cocoa butter	160 g/L	$8.90/lb	3%	$0.2910
Sugar	320 g/L	$0.26/lb	2%	$0.0170
Inclusions	40 g/L	$5.60/lb	4%	$0.0462
Ingredients per unit				$0.9624

What actually moves this number

Cocoa priceCocoa has been extraordinarily volatile. Any figure here has a short shelf life and yours should be re-checked quarterly.
Cocoa percentageA 70% bar uses far more of the expensive part than a 45% one. The number on the front is a cost decision.
Tempering and mouldingChocolate lines are specialised and there are fewer of them, which shows in tolling rates.

What is not in here

⚠ Cocoa prices move fast — treat this as a shape, not a quote.
Excludes certification (Fairtrade, Rainforest Alliance), which carries both a premium and an audit cost.

Change the assumptions. Every figure above is an input, not a fact. Put your own supplier prices, your own pack size and your own run volume into the calculator and see what your product actually costs.

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A cost you worked out once is already out of date.

Supplier prices move, co-packers raise rates, and runs yield worse than planned. NextBatch derives cost per unit instead of storing it, so it moves on its own.

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