Recipe Cost Calculator 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

Recipe Cost Calculator

4.9

(17)

Pricing

Starting at $29.00 per month

About Recipe Cost Calculator

Recipe Cost Calculator was designed for food business owner and operators who want software that is both powerful and also easy to use.

We've worked hard to create an extremely intuitive interface to help you manage your ingredients, suppliers, recipes, nutrition data (add-on), inventory (add-on) and more.

With Recipe Cost Calculator, you only need to pay for the features that offer the most value to your business.

The primary types of businesses that can benefit from Recipe Cost Calculator are:

Restaurants
Small and medium food manufacturers / producers
Catering companies
Bakeries
Retail shops (cafe, coffee, etc.)

We have powerful tools to help you manage all aspects of your costing, including tools to help you set margins, sell prices, easily update costs, print instructions, generate shopping lists and more.

Try Recipe Cost Calculator for free and upgrade to a paid plan only when you need to based on your usage.

Our support is legendary and we have a wide variety of online help content in both text and video form.

Let us help you succeed in running your food business.

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Recipe Cost Calculator Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $29.00 per month

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

$29.00

flat rate, per month

No plan information available

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Recipe Cost Calculator Features

Popular features found in Bakery
Billing & Invoicing
Discount Management
Inventory Management
Nutrition & Ingredient Labels
Point of Sale (POS)
Production Management
Recipe/Formula Costing
Recipe Management
Sales Management
More features of Recipe Cost Calculator
Activity Dashboard
Alerts/Notifications
API
Bills of Material
Cost Management
Cost Tracking
Customizable Reports
Data Import/Export
Demand Forecasting
Event Management
For Bakeries
For Catering Businesses
Forecasting
Inventory Control
Inventory Optimization
Inventory Tracking
Invoice Management
Kitchen/Menu Management
Kitting
Labeling
Labor Cost Calculator
Lot Tracking
Nutrition & Allergen Management
Nutrition Analysis
Online Ordering
Order Management
Price/Margin Management
Product Identification
Purchase Order Management
Purchasing & Receiving
Reorder Management
Reporting/Analytics
Search/Filter
Shipping Management
Stock Management
Supplier Management
Traceability
Traceback & Traceforward

Recipe Cost Calculator User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.9

Ratings Breakdown

94%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.8

Value for money

4.9

Customer support

5.0

Functionality

4.6

Kishoree B.

Verified reviewer

Food Production

2-10 employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2025

A Necessary Tool for Any Small Business Owner!

I can't say enough good things about it. I upgraded almost instantly and never looked back. I have advised many people in my industry to use it and those who have signed up have all agreed that it was a smart move for any small business.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Add the ingredient once and just type a few letters into a recipe and predictive text does the rest. Ability to update and track increasing costs over time, keeping track of vendors (this was a huge help when it came time for my staff to reorder and I was out of town), customer support is EXCELLENT. I recommend this software to anyone who expresses a need for a method to track costs and inventory.

Cons:

For my purposes, it was sometimes tough to figure out how to input the correct data to get the correct per unit pricing (I work with chocolate molds or varying yields). This made things a bit complicated at first, but is most likely an issue singular to my industry.

Collins T.

Verified reviewer

Marketing and Advertising

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2024

Recipe Cost Calculator for Helpful Services

Recipe Cost Calculator has maximum assistance in managing costs.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Recipe Cost Calculator ensure all costs are handled swiftly.

Cons:

Recipe Cost Calculator makes every process attainable.

Reasons for switching to Recipe Cost Calculator

The inclusion of inventory management is well presented in the app.

Laura C.

Verified reviewer

Food Production

2-10 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed November 2020

Great product

Great customer service, great tool to use and organizing our recipes and getting pricing dialed.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Compared to other websites, I found this one easy to navigate.

Cons:

I just needed something that had a little more functionality to it

Peter H.

Verified reviewer

Food Production

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2020

Outstanding value in recipe management software

Very happy for the price. Highly recommend.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

- Simple ingredient and recipe building - Fast and easy shopping list and production plan creation - Ability to create USDA nutrition fact panels - Outstanding customer service

Cons:

- Displaying large number of ingredients or recipes slows down interface

Reasons for choosing Recipe Cost Calculator

USDA ingredient linkage and fact panel generation

Vendor Response

Hi Peter, Thanks so much for this review. Realizing that customers with thousands of ingredients and/or recipes was slowing down the interface we have drastically improved the performance, making it search-based and paginated instead of a single long list. Overall performance viewing recipes and ingredients in long lists is now almost instantaneous, regardless of how many ingredients or recipes you have in your account. Thanks again for the feedback!

Replied March 2023

Amber K.

Verified reviewer

Food Production

Self-Employed

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2024

Recipe Cost Calculator Review

Recipe Cost Calculator is the perfect tool for anyone in the hospitality industry. It is a superior piece of software that does its job above and beyond.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Recipe Cost Calculator helped me get organised and feel more confident and professional during the stressful time of opening a cafe. It is very easy to use and troubleshoot. [sensitive content hidden] is always evolving and improving the functionality plus he is personally there to help out if you need it. I highly recommend this calculator, it is a very valuable business tool.

Cons:

I did not have any negative experience using Recipe Cost Calculator. Typing in all your ingredients individually takes time but that is to be expected because the details are so thorough and once it’s done it is set up for good. Changing from there is easy and having all the detailed info about each ingredient saves you time down the track when menu planning.

Christina R.

Verified reviewer

Medical Devices

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2024

Determined Inventory Managing Program

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The software has all the measures that foster costing, and ensure there is defined order management.

Cons:

The attributes of this program are flawless and useful.

Richard K.

Verified reviewer

Consumer Goods

2-10 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2024

Great Product

Any time that we had any issue with the program, we were able to receive immediate help and solutions to the problems. I sold the business and one of the biggest selling points for the buyer was that I was able to provide allergens and nutritional data for all of my recipes.

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Value for money

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Pros:

We found Recipe Cost Calculator extremely easy to set up and use. The ability to scale recipes based on different factors (the yield that we wanted to obtain most frequently, and sometimes having to scale based on ingredients that we were able to actually use!) quickly and easily was a life saver.

Cons:

There were a few ingredients that we used in our recipes that were not "findable" in the nutrition database - this did slow us down somewhat but not to any great extent.

Sarah C.

Verified reviewer

Food & Beverages

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2023

Recipe Cost Calculator 5 stars

This is a very valuable tool for me to manage my food cost. We are one year into owning our business and I think there is quite a bit more that I can do with this app that I have not explored yet. I look forward to using the other tools to see how they can be helpful as well. Most of all, I have had fantastic customer service from this company. They are kind, available and very helpful!

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Ease of use

Value for money

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Functionality

Pros:

Recipe Cost Calculator is a great tool for my small business. It took us a little bit of time to figure out how to use the software but once we got used to it we fell in love. I really like that when you update any pricing for an ingredient it automatically updates all of your recipes using that ingredient. I also like that you can view your recipe in multiple ways. The pie chart of ingredient usage is a great visual to associate with what the costing looks like per recipe. You can also add ingredients as you are building a recipe with out leaving that page, huge time saver!!

Cons:

Sometimes the conversions are tricky to incorporate. Some are an easy calculation and others you have to enter in a way that the software likes and remember how it is in when creating new recipes. For instance, eggs are in by weight not an each. So you have to multiply the weight to get the correct amount of eggs per recipe. The ingredient doesn't say that how it is entered so you have to remember or check.

Reasons for choosing Recipe Cost Calculator

We were recommend RCC by another business owner.

Rina D.

Verified reviewer

Food & Beverages

Self-Employed

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2023

Have seen all the changes

Nothing but fabulous!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

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Functionality

Pros:

I have been using this software for a few years and have seen all the growth and changes it has gone through. It has been amazing! I asked for a particular feature and the owner has emailed me back to address my thoughts and ideas (I don't know any other company that has that type of customer support). The features just keep on growing!

Cons:

It does have alot of functions that I do not use any longer since it has grown so much, but I continue to use it because it is so comprehensive and easy to use compared to any other program similar to this.

Reasons for switching to Recipe Cost Calculator

Nothing had all the features I was looking for, they were all very clunky to use and never easy.

Jana R.

Verified reviewer

Hospitality

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2020

Success After Years of Searching!

All the information in one place! Having a representative right here in Canada and in my own Province! I now have easy access to all my ingredients and when an invoice comes in, I can easily add a new ingredient or update pricing if needed. My recipes are up-to-date; clean, costed, and with added graphs for clearer understanding, including the ever helpful profit margins from maker to distributer.

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Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It has taken me years of searching to find a costing program that I could feel comfortable using, being straightforward enough for my skill level. I am a Pastry Chef first, not a computer person. And, while I was inputting information or setting up recipes it was very helpful to be able to ask for help in real time. They continue to work hard to see that this software encapsulates all aspects of hospitality.

Cons:

As I became more comfortable with the software, I felt free to make suggestions, for eg. having a way to do inventory. So even though I did not come across anything to dislike, I could see that my suggestions were always heard.

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