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Matte Pla

Fail

Shoppers spend only $55K a year here, so Matte Pla is a Fail.

Flapen Score
44
44 / 100
Ranks 520 of 740 Business, Industry & Science niches · −5 vs the category median of 49
Market size
£55K/yr69K searches / yr
90-day growth
-22.8%search demand this quarter
Competition
54%top-5 click share · 10 brands · 16 sellers

Flapen Score

Matte Pla against its category

The dotted line is the Business, Industry & Science average. Past it, Matte Pla is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

44Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Matte Pla market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Matte Pla 69K times last year and spent an estimated £55K. The top 5 brands take 90% of clicks. Flapen scores it 44 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

5.8% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 69K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 5.8% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -22.8% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £55K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
69K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-22.8%
Conversion, latest week
5.8%
Market size, estimated
£55Ka year
Top search term
matte pla19K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £13.62.

Listings sell for £13.62 on average, from £8.30 to £30.09. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 4K to 5K a year. The average listing sells 100 to 250 of them. At £13.62 that is £1K to £3K a year per listing.

Average price
£13.62under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£8.30–£30.09
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
4K–5K
Units per listing a year
100–250
Revenue per listing a year
£1K–£3K
Returns
0.4%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is ads and reviews.

100% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 7.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #47 within 3D Printing & Scanning. It carries 1,516 reviews at 4.50 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
100%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
7.0%
Average rank
#47in 3D Printing & Scanning
Average rating
4.50 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
1,516per listing
Listings tracked
24

04 · Newcomers

Amazon counts 1 of last year's 1 launches as successful.

1 products launched here in the last 12 months. Amazon counts 1 of them as successful launches, new products that hit its first-year sales bar. The brands on the shelf have sold for 40 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
1
Successful launches
1Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
40 months

Products

Top Matte Pla products & what they sell for

Every tracked product: its share of the shelf, its reviews, and its price.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 54% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

£0£3K£5K£8K£11K1101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

10 falling

Sellers

16

Top-5 brand share

90%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

54%

Top 20: 96%

Open market

6%

  • ELEGOO35%
  • SUNLU33%
  • Deeplee11%
  • JAYO6%
  • eSUN5%
  • TECBEARS4%
  • Open — no brand owns it (4 brands, 6%)

Demand

Matte Pla search demand

Weekly searches over the year. Pick a range.

2K1KSpike '26Feb '26Mar '26Mar '26Apr '26May '26May '26Jun '26Jul '26

Search terms

Top Matte Pla search terms shoppers use

The exact words shoppers type, with yearly volume, growth, and conversion.

  • matte pla19K/yr
  • pla matte14K/yr
  • sunlu matte pla6K/yr
  • matte pla filament6K/yr
  • pla matte filament4K/yr
  • matte black pla5K/yr
  • matte filament4K/yr
  • matt pla4K/yr
  • elegoo matte pla4K/yr
  • matt black pla3K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Matte Pla

What buyers praise, what they complain about and why they send it back, from the reviews.

Complain

Quality-Overall17%−0.09

Unfortunately, the filament was not the quality I expected

Garbage

Poor Quality

Jamming/Clogging8%−0.05

Constant clogging

Tangled up every few meters

had a few clogs

Adhesion/Stickiness6%−0.04

this means it gets stick in your spool

Serious bed adhesion problems

it simply doesn't want to stick to the bed

Material Quality5%+0.83

Extremely poor material to use at 0.4mm extrusion compared to any other PLA filament

Cheap Matte filament with quality issues

Quality of the plastic is questionable

Size-Overall5%−0.04

Inconsistante diameter unable to use

became very loose

Love

Print Quality19%+0.67

Great print quality

Its printing so smoothly

Easy to print with, nice finish, great quality

Quality-Overall14%−0.09

Reliable quality

All was good quality from sunlu

Good quality

Value For Money13%+1.30

Great value

Excellent price

great value for money

Material Quality10%+0.83

Pretty good filament

marvellous matte material

I would like to say this filament is absolutely brilliant great quality

Color9%+0.60

Nice colour

The best colour I've found so far for flesh coloured models

The first thing that stands out is the colour—the matte finish looks clean and slightly warm, which is perfect for decorative prints and prototypes

Return

0.4% Return rate 39% Fixable by listing

Color21%▆█▅█▇▄

The colour was off

Very black

not really black

Print Quality11%▃█▄▂▁▇

Print terribly, probably the worst filament I've tried printing with

it wouldn't print good until i put it in the filament dryer pic 1 when I got the filament pic 2 the good print is when it was dried

i stead, you just print void space and your print is ruined

Quality-Overall10%█▁▄▆▆▂

Unfortunately, the filament was not the quality I expected

Garbage

Poor Quality

Jamming/Clogging8%▅▆▇▂▁█

Constant clogging

Tangled up every few meters

had a few clogs

Size-Overall7%▆█▄▃▁▁

Inconsistante diameter unable to use

became very loose

FAQ

Common Matte Pla questions

Answered from the same tracked data.