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Silk Filament

Maybe

Returns run at only 0.7% of orders. But demand is soft, at -29.3% this quarter, so Silk Filament is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
52
52 / 100
Top 35% of 740 Business, Industry & Science niches · +3 vs the category median of 49
Market size
£110K/yr82K searches / yr
90-day growth
-29.3%search demand this quarter
Competition
27%top-5 click share · 17 brands · 27 sellers

Flapen Score

Silk Filament against its category

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

52Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Silk Filament market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Silk Filament 82K times last year and spent an estimated £110K. The top 5 brands take 83% of clicks. Flapen scores it 52 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

7.7% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 82K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 7.7% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -29.3% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £110K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
82K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-29.3%
Conversion, latest week
7.7%
Market size, estimated
£110Ka year
Top search term
flashforge filament41K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £17.37.

Listings sell for £17.37 on average, from £8.17 to £245.41. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 5K to 6K a year. The average listing sells 0 to 100 of them. At £17.37 that is £0 to £2K a year per listing.

Average price
£17.37inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£8.17–£245.41
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
5K–6K
Units per listing a year
0–100
Revenue per listing a year
£0–£2K
Returns
0.7%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

87% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 15.1% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #85 within 3D Printing & Scanning. It carries 1,201 reviews at 4.52 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
87%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
15.1%
Average rank
#85in 3D Printing & Scanning
Average rating
4.52 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
1,201per listing
Listings tracked
85

04 · Newcomers

Amazon counts 1 of last year's 3 launches as successful.

3 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 44 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
3
Successful launches
1Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
44 months

Products

Top Silk Filament 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 only 27% of clicks. An open shelf where new products get seen.

£0£2K£4K£7K£9K101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

17 falling

Sellers

27

Top-5 brand share

83%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

27%

Top 20: 60%

Open market

13%

  • FLASHFORGE51%
  • SUNLU12%
  • RepRapper9%
  • LANDU7%
  • ERYONE5%
  • Creality4%
  • Open — no brand owns it (11 brands, 13%)

Demand

Silk Filament search demand

Weekly searches over the year. Pick a range.

3K2KFeb '26Mar '26Mar '26Apr '26May '26Jun '26

Search terms

Top Silk Filament search terms shoppers use

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

  • flashforge filament41K/yr
  • silk filament9K/yr
  • pla multicolour5K/yr
  • multicolour filament4K/yr
  • flash forge filaments5K/yr
  • flashforge pla filament5K/yr
  • pla filament multicolour4K/yr
  • filament sunlu3K/yr
  • flashforge pla4K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Silk Filament

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

Complain

Print Quality13%−0.04

Difficult to print

Even the simplest print caused problems

now it doesn't print anything at all

Quality-Overall10%+0.90

Poor quality control

Absolute Garbage

this is the most awful quality

Color9%+0.60

Mine looks like a sludgy beige colour

Not the colour you expect

Not a bit of any other colour

Jamming/Clogging6%−0.09

Constant Nozzle Clogs

Jammed everything up

jams constantly

Durability5%−0.07

often fails and breaks

Broke after a month

Please help, the machine damaged itself after just two days of use

Love

Color19%+0.60

Beautiful colours

Beautiful colour

Good variety of colour

Quality-Overall16%+0.90

consistent quality throughout

Excellent quality

The build quality is excellent it's a sold well built machine that produces good results

Print Quality16%−0.04

Prints really nice

Prints look fantastic

easy to print with

Value For Money12%+0.98

Great value for money

Fair Price

Great value

Ease Of Use5%+0.48

Easy to use

it was very easy to sort out

it is generally easy to print with

Return

0.7% Return rate 28% Fixable by listing

Functionality-Overall18%▇█▇▇█▅

now it doesn't print anything at all

Just don't work

Never worked

Size-Overall15%▆▄▆▅▅█

Not fit for purpose

Thought they would of been bigger

is way bigger than I expected

Print Quality12%█▇▇▅▇▇

Difficult to print

Even the simplest print caused problems

now it doesn't print anything at all

Compatibility-Overall8%▆▄▄██▇
Color8%▇▆▇▅█▅

Mine looks like a sludgy beige colour

Not the colour you expect

Not a bit of any other colour

FAQ

Common Silk Filament questions

Answered from the same tracked data.