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

8 brands and 18 sellers compete in Matte Pla on Amazon United States. The top 5 Matte Pla products take 34% of clicks and its top 5 brands hold 97% of demand.

What do buyers complain about in Matte Pla?

Matte 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 0.7%.

What does it cost to enter the Matte Pla niche?

Matte Pla sells for $24.46 on average on Amazon United States, inside our $15–$100 sweet spot. Listings span $10.27–$68.74. The average incumbent carries 2,679 reviews — the moat a new listing must climb.

Matte Pla

Matte Pla shows low returns (0.7%), but brand-locked demand (top 5 brands take 97% of clicks) keeps it on the watch list.

Flapen Score

Worth a look

Top 39% of 262 Industrial & Scientific niches · +2 vs the category median of 52

This niche Category average · 262 niches

Is Matte Pla profitable on Amazon?

According to Flapen's Amazon United States niche tracking, Matte Pla is a $640K/yr Amazon United States market (847K searches/yr). The top 5 brands hold 97% of demand. Demand peaks in Jan–Feb–Dec. Verdict: Worth a look — 54/100.

Matte 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 -8.8% over the last 90 days and 3.1% of searches end in a purchase.

$640K

revenue / yr

Units sold / yr40K

Search volume / yr-8.8%847K

Conversion rate3.1%

Avg price$24.46

Who owns the niche?

The top 5 brands hold 97% of demand, so 3% of the market is open.

open market share

Brands · sellers8 · 18

Top-5 product click share34%

Open market3%

Avg brand age40 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 · 59 products

Top Matte 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

Polymaker Panchroma Matte PLA Filament 1.75mm 1kg Charcoal Black

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

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

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

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

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

Polymaker PolyLite PLA Pro Filament 1.75mm 1KG Black

Price: $21.03
Rating: 4.6/5
Reviews: 3,467
Age: 2y ago

Polymaker Panchroma PLA Filament 1.75mm 1kg White

Price: $15.34
Rating: 4.5/5
Reviews: 9,097
Age: 1y 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

SUNLU Matte PLA Filament 1.75mm 4KG (8.8LBS)

Price: $51.91
Rating: 4.8/5
Reviews: 22
Age: 1y ago

Polymaker PETG Filament 1.75mm Black 1KG High Speed 2.2 Lbs

Price: $19.10
Rating: 4.7/5
Reviews: 364
Age: 1y ago

Polymaker Panchroma PLA Filament 1.75mm 1kg White

Price: $15.34
Rating: 4.5/5
Reviews: 9,097
Age: 1y ago

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

Clicks spread well past the top 5 (34% combined) — an open shelf where new products get seen.

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

Brands

8 flat

Sellers

Top-5 brand share

97%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

34%

Top 20: 69%

Open market

Polymaker49%
SUNLU26%
ELEGOO10%
OVERTURE7%
YOOPAI5%
Deeplee1%
Open — no brand owns it (2 brands, 2%)

Matte Pla demand & seasonality

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

Volume847KCVR3.1%Products59Brands8Top 5 Brands97%OOS Rate0.6%Rating4.5★Reviews2,679Avg BSR#64

Peak months: Jan, Feb, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 3.3×

Top Matte Pla search terms shoppers use

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

polymaker136K/yr +26.1%0.7% conv.
polymaker pla171K/yr -20.4%2.1% conv.
matte pla140K/yr -20.0%2.4% conv.
pla matte56K/yr +8.4%1.8% conv.
matte filament44K/yr +2.4%1.1% conv.
matte pla filament50K/yr -11.8%2.0% conv.
polymaker filament42K/yr -17.4%1.0% conv.
sunlu matte pla38K/yr -20.4%2.9% conv.
pla matte filament32K/yr -14.1%2.1% conv.
pla filament matte22K/yr -11.8%1.8% conv.

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Matte Pla

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

What buyers love

81% of reviews

Quality-Overall22%

“Amazing quality”

Color17%

“Color is accurate and consistent”

Value For Money14%

“Best deal”

Material Quality8%

“The material exhibits excellent bed adhesion and interlayer bonding, resulting in parts with good toughness—they are not brittle and are resistant to breaking”

Compatibility-Overall5%

“Its easy to use its compatible”

What buyers complain about

68% of reviews

Print Quality14%

“Low print quality”

Quality-Overall11%

“Inconsistent quality”

Adhesion/Stickiness10%

“Poor Adhesion”

Color8%

“It's a bit lighter in color than I thought or I wanted”

Value For Money6%

“Too expensive”

Matte Pla return rate & reasons

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

0.7%

Return rate

40%

Fixable by listing

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

1Color

19%

2Print Quality

11%

3Value For Money

10%

4Functionality-Overall

10%

5Size-Overall

Common Matte Pla questions

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

Flapen scores Matte Pla 54/100 on Amazon United States — Worth a look. The niche generates $640K/yr across 59 tracked products. 4 of 6 products launched in the last 360 days are still selling. Search demand moved -8.8% over the last 90 days.