Enter a quoted price, paste an email, or upload a supplier PDF and see how it compares to national distributor list pricing for the same material, size, and order volume. Confidential. No signup.
Private by default. We never publish your quote or supplier. Benchmarks use national distributor list pricing on a Southern California basis. How the benchmark works
Your quote's $/lb located against order-size and volume-buyer benchmarks.
You're paying above list pricing for this order size. We can probably beat it.
That's roughly $190 on this order. Send the quote as a PDF, screenshot, or pasted email; takes about 2 minutes. We shop it to suppliers who compete for the order, without sharing your name or your supplier's. Free for shops. Answer within 3~5 business days.
Benchmarked against national distributor list pricing.
Source Distributor list pricing, Southern California basis · Order-size tier matched · Methodology
Material Price BookExample: aluminum 6061 flat bar, 1,000 lb order · $5,240 total.
Your supplier quote to a benchmark comparison in three steps.
Drop in a supplier quote as a PDF, or paste the line items as text. Multi-line quotes are read in one pass; a single item can be entered by hand.
The material, alloy, shape, size, quantity, and price are pulled out for you to review and correct before anything is compared.
Your $/lb is placed against the negotiated market range for the same spec, so you can see whether you sit within it, below it, or above.
The estimated net range starts from the best distributor list tier and applies a typical relationship discount, on a Southern California basis, the same estimated net range shown on our price pages. It reflects negotiated pricing at volume, so smaller or one-off orders usually run higher; treat the gap as how far you sit above the volume floor. How the benchmark works
We cover steel, aluminum, stainless, copper, brass, and bronze across common stock forms. Bar, sheet, plate, tube, angle, channel, and beam. Your quote is kept confidential: we never publish your prices, your suppliers, or anything that identifies you, and no account is required. Browse prices
One limitation: on round bar under about 1.5 inches in diameter, a price entered per foot instead of per pound (or the reverse) can land inside the normal range and read as valid, because a thin bar weighs only a pound or two per foot. Double-check the price unit on small round bar before trusting the verdict.
We position your quote against national distributor list pricing for the same material, alloy, shape, and size. The verdict uses two references: an estimated net range, derived from the best distributor list tier with a typical relationship discount applied, and the list tier matching your order weight, so a small order is judged against small-order pricing, not truckload pricing. Distributors publish tiered list pricing online. Our data is collected on a Southern California basis.
We keep a copy of your quote, including any PDF you upload, to build and improve our benchmark data. It's kept strictly confidential: we never publish your prices, your suppliers, or anything that identifies you, and no account is required.
Steel, aluminum, stainless steel, copper, brass, and bronze, across common stock forms: round bar, hex bar, square bar, flat bar, sheet, plate, tube, angle, channel, and I-beam. If we don't have benchmark data for your exact spec, we'll show the closest available match and you can ask to be notified when yours is added.