Linear Cutting

Pricing

The calculator is free. Always.

No account, no run limit, and four optimisation methods including Cutter's Dream. Cut lists up to 500 parts are free, the $5 Hobby plan takes them to 1,000, and Maker up runs any size. We make our money on the API and on the shops that put a plan in their cutter's hands, not by paywalling blade width.

Free

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The core calculator, and the same solver every paid plan uses. No account, no run limit, no upsell inside the tool itself.

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Paid plans add the niceties, the API, saved projects, and the shop.

Hobby

$5/month

The niceties, and the API for your own tools.

  • Everything free, and:
  • Cut lists up to 1,000 parts
  • The Cheapest method: optimise for cost, not just material
  • The Bundle method: cut whole bundles in one setup
  • Material groups and the minimum useful offcut
  • Compare methods side by side, and your full history
  • 500 API requests a month
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Maker

$19/month

A working shop, on its own.

  • Everything in Hobby, and:
  • Unlimited cut list size
  • Saw Mode: tick each cut off at the saw, on a tablet
  • 3,000 API requests a month, 200 saved projects

Workshop

$59/month

The shop, with a team.

  • Everything in Maker, and:
  • A team of 5, with shared jobs and roles
  • 12,000 API requests a month

Business

$99/month

A bigger shop, or a busier API.

  • Everything in Workshop, and:
  • A team of 20
  • 30,000 API requests a month, about 1,000 a day

Billed monthly, cancel anytime. Overage is off by default: if you run out of API requests, the calls simply stop until the month turns over and you are charged nothing. You can switch overage on if you would rather they kept working, and it comes with a spend cap you set yourself, which is a hard stop rather than a warning. Either way, no invoice you did not choose.

What Saw Mode actually is

The office plans a job. The person at the saw opens it on a tablet and ticks each piece off as they cut it. Bar 1 of 6, six parts on it, one big target each. Tap, cut, tap.

It is built for a hand in a glove, not a mouse: nothing on the screen is small, the plan cannot be edited from it, and the screen does not go to sleep between cuts.

It works with the wifi off. Shop wifi behind a steel wall is not something you can design around, only around its failure. Ticks are kept on the tablet and sync when the signal comes back, so the cutter never stops and never loses their place.

Meanwhile the office watches the job go from ready to cutting to done, without anyone ringing anyone.

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Henderson balustrade

✓ 2400mm
1810mm
920mm

Bar 1 of 6 · 1/32 parts cut

Teams: the shop, not a login you share

A shared password is how a cutter accidentally re-solves a job halfway through a bar. Everyone gets their own way in, and the roles mean what they say:

Owner

Everything, including billing and seats.

Admin

Invites people and manages the jobs. No billing.

Staff

The office: quotes and plans the jobs. No billing, no hiring.

Cutter

Opens a plan and ticks parts off. Cannot change the job, which is the point: the plan on the tablet is the plan being cut to.

The API is cheap on purpose

Plan Requests / month Price Per 1,000 requests
Hobby 500 $5 $10.00
Maker 3,000 $19 $6.33
Workshop 12,000 $59 $4.92
Business 30,000 $99 $3.30
optiCutter Enterprise API 5,000 €99 €19.80

Their prices as published in July 2026, and they charge €0.02 for every request past the 5,000. Ours stop instead. Same JSON in, same solver, same proof of optimality: the documentation is public and there is a live playground on the API page.

Questions people actually ask

Is the free calculator really free, or is it a trial?
Really free. No account, no run limit, and four optimisation methods including Cutter's Dream. Cut lists up to 500 parts are free, the $5 plan takes them to 1,000, and Maker up runs any size; Cutlist Evolution's free tier stops at 40. That $5 plan also adds the niceties (the Cheapest and Bundle methods, material groups, the minimum offcut, comparing methods) and the API; it does not unlock the tool, the tool is already yours.
Do I need a plan to save my jobs?
You need a free account, not a paid plan. That gets you 10 saved projects and your last 3 jobs in history; paid plans raise it to 200 projects and your full history.
We are a two-person shop. Do we need Workshop?
Only if you want the second person to have their own login and a tablet at the saw. One person can plan and cut on the free calculator; a $5 Hobby plan adds the niceties, and Maker adds Saw Mode for a solo cutter.
What happens if we go over the API limit?
Nothing you did not choose. By default the calls stop and tell you why, with the date the month rolls over, and you are charged nothing. If you would rather they kept working, you can turn overage on from your dashboard and set a spend cap: when the cap is reached the calls stop, so there is no such thing as a bill you did not agree to. A limit you can see beats an invoice you cannot predict.
Can we pay for extra seats?
Not yet, Workshop is 5 and Business is 20. If you need more, tell us what you need and we will sort it out.

Start with the free one

It is the same solver the paid plans use. The maths is never held back, only the shop niceties and the API.

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