How competitive is the Matte Black Pla niche on Amazon United States?

8 brands and 12 sellers compete in Matte Black Pla on Amazon United States. The top 5 Matte Black Pla products take 55% of clicks and its top 5 brands hold 94% of demand.

What do buyers complain about in Matte Black Pla?

Matte Black Pla buyers on Amazon United States complain most about Print Quality, Quality-Overall, Adhesion/Stickiness, the themes mined from the niche's reviews. Its return rate is 0.6%.

What does it cost to enter the Matte Black Pla niche?

Matte Black Pla sells for $24.66 on average on Amazon United States, inside our $15–$100 sweet spot. Listings span $10.27–$46.00. The average incumbent carries 1,933 reviews — the moat a new listing must climb.

Matte Black Pla

Matte Black Pla shows low returns (0.6%), but a failed launch gate (market size, growth, or returns) keeps it on the watch list.

Flapen Score

Worth a look

Top 28% of 262 Industrial & Scientific niches · +4 vs the category median of 52

This niche Category average · 262 niches

Is Matte Black Pla profitable on Amazon?

According to Flapen's Amazon United States niche tracking, Matte Black Pla is a $588K/yr Amazon United States market (204K searches/yr). The top 5 brands hold 94% of demand. Verdict: Worth a look — 56/100.

Matte Black Pla: the Amazon niche in one read

Everything a seller checks before entering, in three answers.

Is the demand real?

Worth a look. Search demand moved -7.0% over the last 90 days and 11.7% of searches end in a purchase.

$588K

revenue / yr

Units sold / yr30K

Search volume / yr-7.0%204K

Conversion rate11.7%

Avg price$24.66

Who owns the niche?

The top 5 brands hold 94% of demand, so 6% of the market is open.

open market share

Brands · sellers8 · 12

Top-5 product click share55%

Open market6%

Avg brand age36 months

Is there a way in?

Listing quality. The average product page scores 0/100 on content standards. Incumbents average 4.5★ — the gap to enter on.

0/100

page quality · 25 products

Top Matte Black Pla products & what they sell for

Every tracked product — its share of the shelf, its review moat, and what it sells for.

Top sellers

by 90-day click share

SUNLU 1KG PLA Matte 3D Printer Filament 1.75mm Matte Black

Price: $14.89
Rating: 4.6/5
Reviews: 1,175
Age: 3y ago

Polymaker Panchroma Matte PLA Filament 1.75mm 1kg Charcoal Black

Price: $15.72
Rating: 4.6/5
Reviews: 1,337
Age: 2y ago

OVERTURE Matte PLA Filament 1.75mm 1kg Matte Black

Price: $15.10
Rating: 4.4/5
Reviews: 6,669
Age: 5y ago

SUNLU 1KG PLA Matte 3D Printer Filament 1.75mm Matte White

Price: $15.35
Rating: 4.6/5
Reviews: 546
Age: 3y ago

SUNLU 4KG Bundle PLA Matte 1.75mm Matte Surface 3D Printer Filament

Price: $42.17
Rating: 4.2/5
Reviews: 269
Age: 2y ago

Newest

by launch date

SUNLU High Speed Matte PLA 3D Printer Filament Bundle

Price: $36.29
Rating: 4.8/5
Reviews: 19
Age: 7mo ago

Polymaker Panchroma Matte PLA Filament 1.75 Refill 1kg Charcoal Black

Price: $14.22
Rating: 4.4/5
Reviews: 489
Age: 1y ago

ELEGOO Matte PLA Filament 1.75mm Black 4KG 3D Printer Filament High Precision 4pcs 1kg Spool (2.2lbs) Fits for Most FDM 3D Printers

Price: $42.42
Rating: 4.7/5
Reviews: 871
Age: 1y ago

SUNLU Matte PLA Filament Refill 1.75mm 4KG Black*4

Price: $42.94
Rating: 4.2/5
Reviews: 174
Age: 1y ago

SUNLU Matte PLA Filament 1.75mm 1KG (2.2LBS) Black

Price: $14.19
Rating: 4.7/5
Reviews: 107
Age: 1y ago

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 55% of clicks — established leaders, but buyers still shop beyond them.

Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

8 falling

Sellers

Top-5 brand share

94%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

55%

Top 20: 94%

Open market

SUNLU50%
Polymaker18%
ELEGOO11%
OVERTURE8%
YOOPAI7%
Deeplee2%
Open — no brand owns it (2 brands, 3%)

Matte Black Pla demand & seasonality

Weekly search volume, with the niche's key stats alongside.

Volume204KCVR11.7%Products25Brands8Top 5 Brands94%OOS Rate1.4%Rating4.5★Reviews1,933Avg BSR#75

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.6×

Top Matte Black Pla search terms shoppers use

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

matte black pla41K/yr -0.3%14.6% conv.
sunlu matte pla38K/yr -20.4%2.8% conv.
sunlu pla matte21K/yr -20.8%3.1% conv.
matte black filament12K/yr +1.7%10.7% conv.
matte black pla filament12K/yr +0.6%11.5% conv.
polymaker matte pla12K/yr -3.8%2.4% conv.
pla matte black10K/yr +1.7%11.3% conv.
sunlu matte11K/yr -21.5%2.2% conv.
black matte pla8K/yr +12.5%14.1% conv.
panchroma matte pla8K/yr -4.9%2.3% conv.

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Matte Black Pla

What buyers mention most, as a share of all reviews.

What buyers love

86% of reviews

Quality-Overall26%

“Amazing quality”

Value For Money16%

“Good for the price”

Color10%

“Color is accurate and consistent”

Material Quality8%

“Good quality PLA”

Compatibility-Overall7%

“Its easy to use its compatible”

What buyers complain about

76% of reviews

Print Quality17%

“It stops the print”

Quality-Overall14%

“It seems like quality control may have declined”

Adhesion/Stickiness12%

“My issue is not with adhesion”

Color6%

“I had similar issues with this brand with gray”

Ease Of Use6%

“Not usable”

Matte Black Pla return rate & reasons

Why buyers send it back, as a share of all return requests.

0.6%

Return rate

37%

Fixable by listing

The "fixable" share counts expectation-mismatch reasons — size, look, advertised-vs-actual — that better copy and images address.

1Color

14%

2Print Quality

12%

3Functionality-Overall

11%

4Size-Overall

11%

5Compatibility-Overall

Common Matte Black Pla questions

The questions sellers ask about this niche, answered from the tracked metrics.

Flapen scores Matte Black Pla 56/100 on Amazon United States — Worth a look. The niche generates $588K/yr across 25 tracked products. 1 of 1 products launched in the last 360 days are still selling. Search demand moved -7.0% over the last 90 days.