How much does a 3D printer cost per month in Massachusetts?

About $1.65 a month, assuming 120 W at a 60% duty cycle, 6 hours a day, 150 days a year at 30.49¢/kWh.

How many kilowatt-hours does a 3D printer use?

Roughly 65 kWh a year under these assumptions, or 0.07 kWh for every hour it runs.

Is that expensive compared with other states?

Massachusetts has the 4th most expensive average residential rate in the country, so this appliance costs more here than the U.S. average of $11.86 a year.

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Cost to run a 3D printer in Massachusetts (July 2026 rates)

At 30.49¢ per kilowatt-hour — Massachusetts's average residential price in July 2026 — running a 3D printer costs $19.76 a year. That is 67% more than the national average of $11.86. Massachusetts's residential rate is up 1.4% from July 2025, which moves this appliance from $19.49 to $19.76 a year.

Per hour: 2.2¢
Per day of use: 13.2¢
Per month: $1.65
Per year: $19.76

Assumption: 120 W at a 60% duty cycle, 6 hours a day, 150 days a year — 65 kWh a year. A consumer FDM printer mid-print. The heated bed dominates the draw, and an enclosure lowers the duty cycle by holding heat in. Use the calculator to swap in the numbers from your own model.

How Massachusetts compares

Massachusetts pays 30.49¢/kWh, the 4th most expensive residential electricity of the 51 U.S. jurisdictions EIA reports. For this appliance that works out to $7.89 more a year than the typical U.S. household pays for the same use. Running the same 3D printer costs $8.24 a year in Louisiana and $31.10 in Hawaii, so where you live changes this bill by $22.86 a year.

State	Rate	Per month	Per year
Alaska	28.83¢	$1.56	$18.68
New York	29.90¢	$1.61	$19.38
Massachusetts	30.49¢	$1.65	$19.76
Maine	32.41¢	$1.75	$21.00
California	33.61¢	$1.81	$21.78

States ranked by average residential price, cheapest first. See all 51 states for a 3D printer.

What else costs about the same in Massachusetts

Computer monitor$18.29 a year in MA Security camera$13.35 a year in MA Ceiling fan$26.34 a year in MA

Cutting the number down

The heated bed, not the hotend, is the load. Lowering bed temperature after the first layers cuts the average draw.
Long prints are cheap per hour but numerous: a week of continuous printing is a real line item.

Questions

How much does a 3D printer cost per month in Massachusetts?: About $1.65 a month, assuming 120 W at a 60% duty cycle, 6 hours a day, 150 days a year at 30.49¢/kWh.
How many kilowatt-hours does a 3D printer use?: Roughly 65 kWh a year under these assumptions, or 0.07 kWh for every hour it runs.
Is that expensive compared with other states?: Massachusetts has the 4th most expensive average residential rate in the country, so this appliance costs more here than the U.S. average of $11.86 a year.