Pricing
Beverage & Liquid Supplement Formulation Pricing
Three packages, published up front. The scope of work is identical across all three — what changes is how fast it moves and how much supplier pressure we apply to get there.
Standard
$5,000
3-week delivery
Per additional SKU
$2,500
- Full formulation for one SKU
- Ingredient sourcing and vendor vetting
- Ingredient price and MOQ negotiation
- Standard supplier sampling window
- Line-item costing and pass-off documentation
Expedited
$7,500
2-week delivery
Per additional SKU
$3,000
- Everything in Standard
- Priority supplier sampling
- Compressed negotiation window
- Tighter revision turnaround
Rush
$11,000
1-week delivery
Per additional SKU
$4,000
- Everything in Expedited
- Fastest possible sampling
- Same-day priority routing on supplier responses
- Daily progress reporting
What's the difference between the packages?
Every package delivers the same work: a developed formula, sourced and vetted ingredient suppliers, negotiated pricing and minimums, physical samples, line-item costing and documentation your team can procure against.
The difference is the clock. A three-week Standard project lets suppliers respond on their normal sampling schedule and gives the flavor and sweetener system room for a full revision cycle. Expedited compresses supplier response and negotiation windows. Rush runs the project as the active priority, with same-day routing on supplier replies and daily reporting, which is what a one-week turnaround actually requires.
Additional SKUs — a lemonade alongside your fruit punch, for example — are billed at the per-SKU rate for that tier, because most of the strategy, sourcing and supplier work carries over.
What's included, line by line
- Formula
- An ingredient-precise specification built to your target profile, functionality and format.
- Ingredient sourcing
- Identification of the specific inputs the formula needs and the suppliers who can deliver them.
- Vendor vetting
- Evaluation of supplier options, documentation and supply reliability before you commit.
- Price negotiation
- Ingredient pricing negotiated on your behalf against your projected volumes.
- MOQ negotiation
- Minimum order quantities negotiated toward volumes you can realistically absorb.
- Sample development
- Physical samples developed and shipped so you evaluate a real product.
- Costing
- A line-item cost build for the formula, checked against your target retail economics.
- Pass-off package
- Procurement-ready documentation so your team can begin buying immediately.
Add-on services
Process authority letters and nutritional testing are handled as add-on services and quoted per project, because both depend on the finished formula, the process and the lab or authority involved. We'll flag which ones your product needs during development rather than after.
Terms on lead times
All timelines are subject to sample availability from suppliers. If a selected supplier cannot provide ingredient samples inside the window, the scope of work stays the same but the stated lead time is not guaranteed. Where this risk exists, we say so at the start and offer alternative suppliers where they exist.
Ready to start your formula?
Send the concept — category, format and target — and we'll scope the right package and timeline.