How Much Should You Sell Honeycomb For? (2026 Pricing Guide)

You pulled a super of capped frames and a few of them are too pretty to put through the extractor. Or a regular at your table asked, again, whether you ever sell "the honey with the comb in it." Now you need a number for the tag.

Most pages that answer this question give a per-pound range and stop there. This guide builds the price from what was actually listed on October 12, 2026: what honeycomb sells for online and from small beekeepers, how much more it costs than plain honey from the same farm, what a box and label cost you, and what card fees and shops take out of one square.

How Much Should You Sell Honeycomb For?

Price cut comb honey by weight at about $1.50 an ounce, which is $18 for a 12-ounce square at a farmers market or for pickup. Weigh every piece, because cut comb never comes out the same size twice. If you sell plain honey near $1 an ounce, this puts your comb about 1.5 times higher, inside the $1.25 to $1.88 an ounce that a Michigan beekeeper on Homegrown charges for its squares.

Here is a starting price ladder:

Scroll sideways to see the whole price ladder.

The ladder is our recommendation. It is built on prices loaded October 12, 2026: Decatur Ridge Apaiaries on Homegrown sells comb squares at $15 for 8 to 11 ounces, $18 for 12 to 13 ounces and $20 for 14 to 16 ounces. Box and label costs are Blue Sky Bee Supply's case prices that day: full-size boxes at $169.95 per 100 and labels at $42.95 per 100, half-size boxes at $174.95 per 160 and labels at $59.95 per 160.

Three numbers back the $1.50 an ounce:

• Your plain honey. Our guide to how to sell honey puts a 1-pound jar of local raw honey around $16, or about $1 an ounce. One and a half times that is $1.50.
• Small beekeepers' squares. Decatur Ridge's three sizes work out to $1.25 to $1.88 an ounce, depending on where in each weight band your piece lands.
• Extension's range. Nebraska Extension's 2025 guide to comb honey production says comb honey "can be sold at a premium price ranging from $15 to $30 per pound," which is 94 cents to $1.88 an ounce.

If you have not sold comb before, why it sells at a premium, how to package it and the cottage food basics are in our guide to selling raw comb honey from home. This page is only about the price.

What Does Honeycomb Sell for Online Right Now?

Three honey companies that sell online list raw honeycomb at $2.36 to $5.20 an ounce, with smaller pieces costing more per ounce. We loaded three brands' own product pages on October 12, 2026. Each one packs its comb to ship.

Slide the table to see every brand's price per ounce.

Prices from each company's own product page and store data, loaded October 12, 2026: savannahbee.com/products/raw-honey-comb, smileyhoney.com/products/raw-honeycomb and registerfamilyfarm.com/products/wildflower-honeycomb-5-oz. Shipping is extra on all three. We did not check whether each size was in stock.

Two things on those pages matter for your own price:

• Where the comb comes from. Savannah Bee's product page says its 12.3 and 3.2 ounce honeycomb "currently come from Turkey" and the 5.6 ounce size "comes from Hungary." Comb cut from your own hives, sold at your own table, is a different product, and you can say so on your sign.
• Who it is for. These are gift prices for a shopper who wants a box shipped to a door. Your market customer is buying it in person, often for this week's cheese board, and is not paying for a shipping box.

So use the brands as a ceiling, not a target. A local square at $1.50 an ounce is cheaper than any of them and still well above plain honey.

What Do Beekeepers on Homegrown Charge for Comb Honey?

Beekeepers on Homegrown list comb and chunk honey from $11 to $30, and the one vendor who gives weights for its cut comb charges $1.25 to $1.88 an ounce. That vendor is Decatur Ridge Apaiaries in southwest Michigan, and its product page lets a customer pick the weight band they want.

Here is every comb and chunk honey listing in the catalog that day:

Swipe the table to see each listing next to the vendor's plain honey.

From a live pull of the Homegrown catalog on October 12, 2026. Rule we used: a food listing (pantry or crafts category) whose name or description says honeycomb, comb honey, cut comb, chunk honey or comb chunk; one honeycomb-scented soap was left out. We then opened every listing from every vendor selling honey to catch comb named some other way, and found none.

Put the net weight in the listing title or in the size option, the way Decatur Ridge does, so a shopper can tell a $15 square from a $15 sliver.

How Much More Than Plain Honey Should Comb Cost?

Cut comb should cost about one and a half times your plain honey's price per ounce, the low end of what honey vendors charge when you compare comb and plain honey from the same farm. Comparing the same farm takes out differences in brand and, for most rows, flower source and region, so most of the gap you see is the comb itself. The exception is Savannah Bee: its 12.3 ounce comb comes from Turkey, while its wildflower jar is listed as US honey.

Scroll sideways to compare comb and plain honey from each farm.

Loaded October 12, 2026 from each farm's own pages and, for Decatur Ridge, its Homegrown listings. The two highest ratios compare a small piece of comb with a large bottle of plain honey, which makes the gap look wider than it is.

What the table tells you:

• When the sizes match, the premium is about 1.5 times. Savannah Bee's 12.3 ounce comb against its 12 ounce wildflower jar, and Decatur Ridge's 14 to 16 ounce square against its pound of plain honey, both land between 1.5 and 1.8.
• Small pieces run much higher per ounce. Register Family Farm and Smiley Honey sell 5 and 7 ounce pieces against bigger plain jars, and their comb costs 2.7 to 3.4 times as much per ounce.
• Start at 1.5 and move up only with a reason. A sourwood or other named-flower honey, a gift box, or a shopper who has asked for comb three weeks running is a reason. A brand's online price is not.

If your plain honey is priced unusually low, fix that first. Comb priced at 1.5 times a 60-cent ounce is still underpriced.

Why Does Honeycomb Cost More Than Liquid Honey?

Honeycomb costs more because the bees have to build new wax for every piece you sell, and wax eats honey. Nebraska Extension's comb honey guide says honey bees "require approximately 8 pounds of honey to produce 1 pound of beeswax." When you extract, the empty comb goes back on the hive and gets refilled. When you sell the comb, it leaves with the customer, and next year the bees start from scratch.

That shows up in how much a hive gives you:

• One super a year. The same guide says "typically, one colony will only produce one super of comb honey a year."
• Against a national average of 48 pounds. USDA's honey report released March 13, 2026 put the 2025 average at 48.0 pounds of honey per producing colony.
• More crowding, more swarming. To get comb built, beekeepers crowd the colony into less space, and Nebraska Extension notes that comb colonies "are more prone to swarming," which can cost you the crop.

Comb honey saves you money in one place: equipment. The same guide prices a small extractor at "$200-$800," while cutting comb "only needs standard kitchen supplies." If you have no extractor yet, comb can be your first product without that purchase.

The price gap is real, and customers who buy comb tend to know it. Price it like the scarcer product it is.

What Does It Cost to Package a Square of Comb Honey?

A full-size cut comb box and a printed label cost you about $2.13 when you buy them 100 at a time, and a half-size box with its label about $1.47. Packaging is the main cash cost of each square besides card fees once the bees have built it, so it is worth knowing to the cent.

Move the table left to see each supply price.

Each supplier's own product page, loaded October 12, 2026, before shipping. Blue Sky's page says you get 4 full-size sections per shallow frame.

What to add to the box and label:

• A comb cutter if you cut dozens of squares. Dadant's 4 1/8 inch cutter was $15.95 that day. A thin paring knife and a template work too, which is what Nebraska Extension's guide describes.
• Freezer space. Nebraska Extension says "freezing comb honey is recommended to kill potential pests, even if none are visible," and that it "must be done before selling." Blue Sky's product page suggests 2 days in the freezer.
• Your time. Cutting, draining, boxing and labeling a frame is slow, sticky work. Count it when you decide whether a square at $18 is worth it to you.

At $2.13 a square, packaging is 12 percent of an $18 sale. That is one more reason not to sell tiny pieces at a low price: a $6 sliver in a $1.47 half box gives a quarter of the sale to plastic.

How Do You Price Cut Comb by Weight?

Weigh every square after it drains, write the net weight on the label, and price it from the band it falls in. Comb is never uniform. A square from the middle of a frame can weigh 15 ounces and the one from the edge 11, and charging both $18 shortchanges you on one and the customer on the other.

• Freeze before anything is sold. Nebraska Extension says you can freeze before cutting or after packing. If you freeze whole frames, thaw them fully before cutting, because cold wax is brittle.
• Cut only capped comb. Nebraska Extension says cells "not capped by the bees before harvest do not contain shelf stable honey" and should not go in a square.
• Drain on a rack. Let cut squares sit on a cooling rack over a tray so loose honey runs off before they go in the box.
• Weigh each box net. Put an empty box on a legal-for-trade scale, one certified under the National Type Evaluation Program (NTEP), zero it, then weigh each filled box. A kitchen scale may not be allowed when you sell by weight. Iowa's farmers market weights and measures guide says it is "illegal to sell by weight using non-commercial scales," lists kitchen utility scales as not legal for trade, and says scales must be licensed every year. Ask your state's weights and measures office which scales it accepts before your first sale.
• Label the weight, rounded down. A square reading 12.6 ounces is labeled 12 ounces.
• Price from the band. About 8 ounces at $12, 12 at $18, 14 at $20 and 16 at $22, or set your own bands at about $1.50 an ounce.

Selling in weight bands, the way Decatur Ridge does with 8 to 11, 12 to 13 and 14 to 16 ounces, keeps your price list short. You do not need a different price for every square, only a band for every square.

Some states set grade standards by weight too. Wisconsin's honey page, for example, says comb honey in the section frame graded Wisconsin Fancy White must "weigh at least 12½ oz. net," but its cut comb grades meet the comb honey rules "except weight." Fancy White cut comb must "be cut to uniform size," be free of open cells and weeping, and be wrapped in transparent material. You do not have to grade your honey to sell it, but the same page says honey that is not graded must say "Ungraded" on the label, and graded honey must show the grade. The full standards are on the Wisconsin honey rules page, and other states set their own, so check what yours says.

How Should You Price Chunk Honey in a Jar?

Price chunk honey at the same jar of plain honey plus up to $5, not at the cut comb rate. Chunk honey is a strip of comb inside a jar of liquid honey. Much of the weight is liquid honey, so it usually sells much closer to plain honey than cut comb does. Wisconsin's graded chunk honey must be half comb by weight, so a jar packed that full of comb can justify more than plain plus $5.

Three vendors on Homegrown show how it gets priced, in listings pulled October 12, 2026:

• Decatur Ridge Apaiaries: a 1.5-pound jar of comb and honey at $20, or 83 cents an ounce, against 81 cents for its pound of plain honey in glass. Almost no premium.
• Albrecht Family Apiaries: chunk honey at $25 against $20 for a pound of plain honey, a $5 gap if the chunk jar holds a pound (the listing gives no weight).
• Treeline Bee Co.: a pint of wildflower comb chunk at $25, the same price as a full quart of its plain wildflower honey. For the same flower, that is about twice the plain price for the same amount of honey, well above the $5 this guide suggests, so treat it as the top of the range rather than the rule.

Chunk honey is the right product for comb that is good but not pretty. A square with a crushed corner or a cracked edge goes into a jar, as long as its cells are capped. The liquid honey hides the flaws, and you still earn a few dollars over plain honey. In Wisconsin, a jar of broken pieces sells as ungraded honey, because the state's chunk honey grades need the comb "in one or two pieces, with no broken pieces."

What Can One Super of Comb Honey Earn?

One super of 10 frames can earn about $540 at $18 a square if 30 squares come out sellable, and about $450 after boxes, labels and card fees. The 30 squares are our assumption, not a measurement. Blue Sky's page says a shallow frame gives 4 full-size sections, so 10 frames could give 40, and we took off a quarter for edges, uncapped cells and broken pieces.

Swipe left for how the super math adds up.

Box and label prices from Blue Sky Bee Supply and card processing from findhomegrown.com/signup, both loaded October 12, 2026. A real super may hold more or less comb, and an extracting super from the same hive might give you more pounds of honey.

Per square, the math is simple. If you would otherwise sell those 12 ounces as plain honey at $1 an ounce, the comb earns you $18 minus $12 of honey, minus $2.13 of packaging and 82 cents of card fees, which is $3.05 more per square. Across 30 squares that is about $92 more than jarring the same honey. That is before you pay for jars, lids, labels and card fees on the plain honey, so the real gap is larger, and you did not need an extractor.

Comb honey is not a way to double your income from a hive. It is a way to earn more from the few frames that come out beautiful, and to give customers something they cannot buy at the grocery store.

What Do Card Fees Take From an $18 Square?

Card and platform fees take 62 cents to $2.16 from an $18 square of comb honey, depending on how the customer pays. A card reader at your table is cheapest. Etsy is the most expensive, before you pay to ship a fragile box.

Swipe across for every fee in the stack.

We checked every fee on each company's own page (findhomegrown.com/signup, Square's fee help page and pricing page, and Etsy's Fees and Payments Policy and Etsy Payments Policy) on October 12, 2026. Card processing is figured on the $18 price; charged on a total with tax or shipping it runs a few cents higher, and Etsy's 6.5% also applies to what you charge for shipping. The Square card reader row assumes you already own a reader. Etsy advertising fees are not included.

Ways to keep fees small:

• Sell a square and a jar together. The fixed part of a card fee, 15 or 30 cents, is charged once per payment, not once per product.
• Take cash at the table too. Cash has no fee. Keep a card reader for everyone else, because a lost $18 sale costs far more than 62 cents.
• Think twice about shipping comb. A square needs padding to arrive whole, and Etsy's 6.5% applies to the shipping charge as well as the comb.

How Do You Sell Out Your Comb Honey Before the Season Ends?

Take orders for comb honey before you cut it, so every square has a buyer the week it comes out of the freezer. Comb is the smallest crop you harvest, often a few dozen squares a year. The worst outcome is carrying them to three markets in a row while the regulars who wanted one never knew they were ready.

Homegrown gives you an online storefront where your regulars order and pay for comb honey ahead of pickup. It costs $10 a month billed annually ($12.50 month to month), with no percentage fees beyond standard payment processing of 2.9% plus 30 cents, which you pay and your customer does not. You can list one comb honey product with your weight bands as sizes, each with its own price, the way Decatur Ridge does, and customers pick up at your market table, your house or your farm stand. When 22 people have ordered and you have 30 squares, you know to bring 8 to market.

Compare that to the ways honey vendors usually take comb orders:

• Square's online checkout costs nothing a month but charges 3.3% plus 30 cents per online payment, 89 cents on an $18 square against Homegrown's 82 cents plus the plan.
• Etsy reaches shoppers in other states, but at $2.16 in fees on an $18 square plus careful shipping, it fits comb you mail to strangers, not comb your neighbors pick up.
• Texts and Facebook messages cost nothing, but keeping track of who asked for a heavy square and who wanted a small one gets messy by the third conversation.

Homegrown does not cut, weigh or label your comb, and it does not check your state's honey rules. It does not price by the ounce for you either, so you list your weight bands as sizes. Customers create a Homegrown account to place their first order. Your storefront is listed on Homegrown's marketplace, but plan on most orders coming from people you send your link to, like the regulars who already buy your plain honey. There is no timed drop or countdown release. If you want this year's squares spoken for before harvest, you can set up a Homegrown storefront for your comb honey in about 15 minutes.

What Should You Charge Shops for Comb Honey?

Charge a shop 50 to 60 percent of your retail price, so $9 to $10.80 for a 12-ounce square you sell for $18. The shop marks it back up to $18 on its shelf. After $2.13 in box and label, that leaves you $6.87 to $8.67 a square before the honey and your time.

That is less than the $12 you would get selling the same 12 ounces as plain honey at $1 an ounce at your own table. So wholesale comb makes sense when:

• You have more squares than market days. A gift shop or cheese counter sells squares in the weeks you are not at a market.
• The shop brings you new customers. A shopper who finds your comb at a deli may start buying your plain honey from you directly.
• You compare it to wholesaling plain honey. Against a pound of plain honey sold to a shop at the same 50 to 60 percent, comb still comes out ahead per ounce.

How to set terms, minimums and a price sheet is covered in our guide to wholesale pricing for food products.

When Can You Charge More for Honeycomb?

Charge above $1.50 an ounce when something about your comb is scarcer than a plain wildflower square. Use the ladder as your floor, and move up for these:

• A named flower. Sourwood, tupelo or orange blossom comb is rarer than wildflower. Treeline Bee Co. charges $35 for a quart of sourwood honey and $25 for a quart of wildflower, so the flower alone adds $10 a quart.
• Gift season. A square in a ribbon or next to a jar of plain honey in a box is a present, and gift buyers compare it with the $29 national-brand box, not with your plain jar.
• Show-quality squares. Fully capped, white, uniform comb is what the top grades describe. If yours looks like that, price the top band at the top.
• Small sample pieces. Nebraska Extension suggests "small, affordable bite-sized samples" to get a first-time buyer to try comb. A 2-ounce piece at $4 is $2 an ounce and still an easy yes. In a $1.47 half box, though, plastic takes 37 percent of that sale, so treat samples as a taste that sells your squares, not as a profit line.
• A waiting list. If your comb sold out last year before everyone who asked got a square, raise this year's price by a dollar a square and see if it still sells out.

What Should You Do With Comb That Is Not Pretty Enough to Sell?

Turn imperfect comb into chunk honey jars, crushed and strained honey, or wax products, so no part of the frame goes to waste. Every frame has edges, open cells and cracked corners that do not belong in a $18 square.

Where each kind of leftover goes:

• Broken but capped comb: into chunk honey jars, priced at your plain jar plus up to $5.
• Uncapped cells: Nebraska Extension says these do not hold shelf-stable honey, so keep them out of your squares. The same guide says uncapped comb can go into products sold to be eaten right away, or be given to friends and family.
• Scraps and cappings: crush and strain the honey out for plain jars, then melt the wax.
• Clean wax: sell it as blocks or make candles and balms. Country Apple Orchard Farm Stand lists pure beeswax on Homegrown at $3 for 2 ounces and $4 for 3 ounces, and our guide to selling beeswax products at the farmers market covers what else wax can become.

Planning for leftovers is part of the price. If a quarter of each frame ends up as chunk honey or wax, your squares have to carry the cost of the hive's work on the whole frame.

What Pricing Mistakes Do New Honeycomb Vendors Make?

The biggest mistake is pricing squares by the box instead of by the ounce, which makes the heavy squares the worst deal you sell. The rest follow from the same habit of guessing.

Mistakes to avoid:

• One price for every square. An 11-ounce and a 15-ounce square at the same price gives away 4 ounces. Use weight bands.
• No weight on the listing. Five of the eight comb listings on Homegrown on October 12, 2026 gave no weight (one gave only "pint"), so shoppers could not compare.
• Pricing comb like plain honey. Comb uses up wax the bees spent honey to build, and a hive gives you far less of it. Start at 1.5 times your plain honey per ounce.
• Pricing chunk honey like cut comb. A jar that is mostly liquid honey usually will not earn $1.50 an ounce next to your own plain jars. Decatur Ridge's 1.5-pound chunk jar works out to 83 cents an ounce.
• Forgetting the box. At $2.13 a square, packaging matters most on small pieces. Do not sell a half-size square for under $10, unless it is a deliberate sample.
• Skipping the freezer. Comb sold without freezing can carry wax moth eggs into a customer's pantry, and one bad square costs you that customer.

Frequently Asked Questions

How much is honeycomb worth per pound?

Cut comb honey is worth about $22 a pound at a farmers market, the price this guide's ladder sets for a full 16-ounce square; at a flat $1.50 an ounce a pound would be $24. Nebraska Extension's 2025 comb honey guide gives a range of $15 to $30 a pound for comb sold by beekeepers. Honey companies that sell online charge much more, from about $37.72 a pound for Savannah Bee's 12.3-ounce piece to $83.17 a pound for Register Family Farm's 5-ounce piece on October 12, 2026, before shipping.

Is honeycomb more expensive than regular honey?

Yes, for cut comb. On October 12, 2026, the four honey farms we compared side by side charged 1.5 to 3.4 times as much per ounce for cut comb as for their own plain honey, with the lowest gaps where the sizes matched. Jars of comb in liquid honey can price near or below plain honey: Miracle Farm and Apiary's 10-ounce honey and comb jar on Homegrown cost $1.60 an ounce, less than the $2.50 an ounce of its 4-ounce plain honey. Comb costs more because bees use about 8 pounds of honey to make each pound of wax, and a colony usually gives only one super of comb honey a year.

How much should a 1-pound square of comb honey cost?

A full 16-ounce square of cut comb honey should sell for about $22 at a market or for local pickup, or about $1.38 an ounce. That is the heavy end of a price ladder that starts at $12 for an 8-ounce half-size box. Weigh the square after draining, because a box that looks full may hold 13 or 14 ounces.

How much does chunk honey sell for?

Chunk honey, a piece of comb in a jar of liquid honey, usually sells for close to the price of plain honey in the same jar, plus up to about $5. On Homegrown on October 12, 2026, one beekeeper sold a 1.5-pound jar of comb and honey for $20, close to its plain honey per ounce, and another sold a pint of wildflower comb chunk for $25, the same price as its quart of plain wildflower honey. Because much of the jar is liquid honey, it usually does not earn the cut comb rate.

Should I sell honeycomb by the piece or by weight?

Sell honeycomb by weight, using a few weight bands rather than one price per piece. Cut squares from the same frame can differ by several ounces, so one flat price undercharges for the heavy squares. Bands like 8 to 11 ounces, 12 to 13 ounces and 14 to 16 ounces, each with its own price, keep your price list short and fair.

Do I need a license to sell honeycomb?

It depends on your state and on how you sell. Wisconsin's honey page says no state license is needed if you package and sell only your own honey from your own bees and do not process it beyond straining, heating or letting it crystallize into creamed honey, while Nebraska Extension notes that Nebraska requires a commercial kitchen for honey sold through a shop. Check the rules for seven states in our guide to whether you can sell homemade honey, and check your own state's rules before your first sale.

Related Reading

More on pricing and selling what comes out of your hives:

• How to Sell Raw Comb Honey From Home: why comb is a premium product, packaging and the cottage food basics.
• How to Sell Honey: the plain honey price this guide multiplies, plus labels and permits.
• Where to Sell Honey: seven places to sell, from a driveway stand to Etsy, with the fees for each.
• How Much Should You Sell Creamed Honey For?: the other premium jar from the same harvest.
• Selling Beeswax Products at the Farmers Market: what to do with the wax your comb leaves behind.

Weigh It, Then Price It

Local comb honey is something your customers cannot pick up at the grocery store, and it costs your bees far more to make than a jar of plain honey. That combination is why it can carry a higher price without a hard sell.

Here is the whole method in four lines:

• Start at about $1.50 an ounce, or 1.5 times your plain honey per ounce.
• Weigh every square and sell in weight bands, with the net weight on the label and the listing.
• Price chunk honey near your plain jars, plus up to $5, and send imperfect comb there.
• Count the $2.13 box and label before you cut small pieces.

If you want your regulars to claim this year's squares before you cut them, start your Homegrown storefront and list them by weight band. Your regulars will know what each square weighs, what it costs and when to pick it up, which is all a comb honey buyer needs.