What Price does
Every spec is costed against the live PackIndex cascade — the same indices that track OCC, resins, pulp and energy weekly. You see material cost per unit, conversion and total, and can re-derive it any week the market moves.
- Costs anchored to live PackIndex indices — never an AI-invented number
- Per-unit breakdown: material lines, conversion, total
- Re-derive any time; the delta shows how the market moved since your last check
- Understand cost before the first supplier call — and negotiate from the same benchmark
How it works
- Open a project with a spec
Price operates on the active Suite project — the spec you built in Create, or any saved project.
- Derive the indicative cost
One run computes the bill of materials and prices each line against the live index for that material — kraftliner, PP resin, FBB board, aluminium and 470+ other tracked codes.
- Read the breakdown
Material cost per unit, conversion allowance and total, with each line traceable to the index that priced it.
- Re-check when the market moves
Indices update weekly. Re-derive to see exactly how a resin rally or an OCC slide changes your per-unit cost — before your supplier tells you.
Frequently asked
How accurate is the indicative cost?
It is a material-cost benchmark, not a quote: each BoM line is priced from the live PackIndex value for that material, with a conversion allowance. It brackets what an efficient supplier's cost base looks like, which is exactly the anchor you want going into negotiation.
Where do the prices come from?
From PackIndex — OPN's weekly-updated index family covering raw materials (L1), semi-finished substrates (L2) and finished-unit benchmarks (L3), normalised from global market data.
Can I price a spec I didn't build in Create?
Yes — paste any spec as a brief in Create first; one run structures it, and Price costs it.
How is Price billed?
Deriving or re-deriving a cost is one run. Run packs start at $24; a free sample run is granted monthly.
Related on OPN
Every Price number is anchored to live PackIndex indices, computed with a published methodology.