Online calculators multiply floor area by a rate and return a number. That is useful for a sanity check and misleading for a budget, because on a container home the largest costs are not proportional to floor area at all.
The unit itself, the foundation (which scales with footprint), and crane or offloading equipment. Those are the parts where floor area is a reasonable multiplier.
Permits, utility connections, the delivery leg and site preparation. A small unit on a difficult lot can cost more to site than a large unit on an easy one, because establishing a connection and a level pad is largely fixed. This is where calculator estimates diverge from reality most often.
Start with the unit price in USD, port-to-port. Add ocean freight and insurance to your port. Add duty and import tax at the rate your broker confirms. Add terminal handling at arrival. Add local haulage, which for an oversized load may need permits. Add the foundation, sized to frost depth and soil. Add utility connections. Add permits and professional fees. Items after the arrival port need local quotes, because they bear no relation to the unit price.
Send us the model and your destination and we will price the unit plus ocean leg precisely, and tell you which categories to quote locally and what drives those in your area. That is more useful than a single figure that hides its own assumptions.
Choose the model that matches your site and your budget, then send your destination postal code and the model name. We take that to a customs broker and come back with an all-in delivered figure — unit, ocean freight, duty and brokerage — usually within one business day. There is no online checkout and no obligation: the quote is the start of the conversation, not a commitment.
Payment is by bank transfer in full before production. Units ship from the factory and are delivered port-to-port (FOB); you arrange local transport from the arrival port to your site. Because we work factory-direct with a single vetted manufacturer, the unit price you see is the same price a retailer would pay — there is no distributor margin layered on top.