How Much Does a CNC Machine Cost? New and Used Mills, Lathes and Routers
Key takeaways
How much does a CNC machine cost? On pages read November 11, 2026, Tormach’s new mills carry base prices of $24,950 and $29,594, while the used Haas mills and lathes priced below ask $22,500 to $126,000.
- Tormach’s 1100MX lists at $29,594 as a machine and $49,343 as its Premium Package. The gap is what comes in the box.
- One Haas ST-20 lathe asks $36,900 with 8,713 cutting hours. A 2022 ST-20 with 798 hours asks $74,500.
- Dealer pages call their specs and hours approximate, and some say every sale is final.
- Power is a line item. One mill runs on single-phase 230 volts, and a used Haas VF-2 listing prints three-phase.
The machines priced on this page run from $14,495 for a new Laguna router to $225,000 for a used DMG Mori lathe. Each figure sits beside its seller and the day it was read, November 11, 2026, on a maker’s page or a dealer’s listing. Mills, lathes, and routers that shops run are covered. Hobby desktop machines aren’t.
Paramount Financial is an equipment leasing and financing company, so read the guide with that interest in mind. Its page on CNC machine financing explains how a lender reviews a mill, a lathe, or a router, and this guide stays on prices and the costs that sit around them.
What Sets the Price of a CNC Machine
A CNC machine is a computer-numerically-controlled machine tool: a mill, a lathe, or a router. A mill turns the cutter against a held part, a lathe turns the part against a held tool, and a router drives a gantry across a flat bed, mostly for sheet goods and plastics.
Size comes first. The 770MX from Tormach has travels of 14 by 7.5 by 13.25 inches, and its 1100MX has 18 by 11 by 16.25. Both use a BT30 spindle of 2 horsepower. The router priced below is ShopBot’s PRS5 Alpha, a 4-by-8-foot machine with a 2.2-horsepower spindle.
Time comes second on a used machine, and dealers print it in two ways: the year, and on some listings the cutting hours, meaning how long the spindle has spent in a cut. A listing’s title also names a probe or a pallet changer when the machine has one.
New CNC Machine Cost by Type
Three makers print prices on their own product pages, and the table holds what those pages showed on November 11, 2026. Tormach and ShopBot print a base price, while Laguna prints a range for the Swift.
| Machine | Kind | Price as printed |
|---|---|---|
| Laguna Swift | Router | $14,495 through $22,995 |
| Tormach 770MX | Mill | $24,950 |
| Tormach 15LX | Lathe | $26,949 |
| Tormach 1100MX | Mill | $29,594 |
| ShopBot PRS5 Alpha, 4 by 8 feet | Router | $31,127 |
Base price. Machine only. Tormach’s 1100MX page also sells it as an Essentials Package at $31,071.65, an Equipped Package at $36,146.80, and a Premium Package at $49,343.00, and it describes Essentials as the bare essentials to start making chips, Equipped as a selected set of tooling and accessories, and Premium as fully loaded. Read the list first.
$49,343
Tormach’s price for the Premium Package of its 1100MX on November 11, 2026. The machine alone is $29,594.
ShopBot adds a note of its own: every price it publishes is for orders inside the contiguous United States, and the page says orders elsewhere may carry additional costs or fees.
Production-class machines from Haas, Mazak, and Okuma are missing from that table because we priced them from dealer listings instead. Different source, different table. Each listing prints a price and a year, and some print the hours.
Used CNC Machine Cost: Mills and Lathes
A used machine sells on an asking price. Everything below is one. MachineStation is a dealer in Lake Elsinore, California, and cncmachines.com carries listings posted by individual sellers, each under its own handle. Listings change.
Mills
| Machine and seller | Year | Asking price |
|---|---|---|
| Haas VF-2, MachineStation | 2011 | $54,000 |
| Haas VF-3SS-APC, MachineStation | 2013 | $55,800 |
| Haas VF4, cncmachines.com | 2019 | $59,500 |
| Haas VF2, cncmachines.com | 2020 | $59,500 |
| Haas VF2SS, cncmachines.com | 2024 | $99,500 |
The VF-2 on MachineStation’s page is a 2011 with 18,116 cutting hours, a 30,000 RPM spindle, probing, and linear scales, and it asks $54,000. A 2020 VF2 asks $59,500. That’s $5,500 for nine years. The 2020 listing doesn’t print its hours, so nothing on the page says what either machine has done.
Options move the number too, and some listings itemize them. The VF-3SS-APC, a 2013 asking $55,800, prints dealer-assigned values for eight items it includes, among them $29,995 for the pallet changer, $14,695 for the quad-auger chip conveyor, and $6,795 for the probing system. Added up, the eight come to $81,260.
Those are dealer values, not sale prices, but they still show where the money in a used mill sits, and on that listing the biggest single value is the pallet changer.
Lathes
| Machine and seller | Year | Asking price |
|---|---|---|
| Haas SL-30T, MachineStation | 2001 | $22,500 |
| Haas ST-20, MachineStation | 2011 | $36,900 |
| Haas ST-30, MachineStation | 2009 | $39,600 |
| Haas ST30, cncmachines.com | 2019 | $69,500 |
| Haas ST20, cncmachines.com | 2022 | $74,500 |
Compare the two ST-20s. MachineStation’s 2011 has 8,713 cutting hours and asks $36,900, and the 2022 on cncmachines.com is listed at 798 hours and asks $74,500, about double. The model number matches. The machine doesn’t.
The top of the range is where low hours and extra axes show. MachineStation lists a 2019 Haas ST-30Y with a bar feeder and 80 cutting hours at $126,000, against $39,600 for the 2009 ST-30 above. It also lists a 2019 DMG Mori NLX 2500SY/700, a lathe with a sub spindle and a Y axis, at $225,000. Those two features let one machine mill off-center details and finish the back of a part without a second setup.
Then the fine print. MachineStation’s pages say the specifications and hours are approximate and for reference only and that the buyer must verify all details before purchase, and its VF-3SS-APC page adds that all sales are final while also letting buyers ask for a video demonstration, an inspection, or an on-site visit. None of the listings cited on this page prints a warranty term.
So price the year and the hours before the model name. Then put five questions to the seller, in writing.
- What are the spindle hours, and who counted them?
- Which control and software version does it run?
- Did it run under power at inspection, and can you watch it run?
- Are the probe, chuck, vise, and tooling in the price, or only the machine?
- Freight and rigging: who pays, and who does the work?
That’s the part of a used machine’s price the listing doesn’t print. Refurbished is a different word. MachineStation’s pages label every machine cited here Used, and if a seller says refurbished, ask for the list of what was replaced, tested, and re-aligned, in writing.
Routers, New and Used
Routers cost less to enter. Their range runs just as wide. Laguna prints $14,495 through $22,995 for its Swift, and the PRS5 Alpha is priced at $31,127, which is more than Tormach asks for a 770MX mill. On the used side, a 2020 Avid PRO4896 asks $18,000 and a 2018 Shopsabre IS408 asks $35,000. Hours, again. The Avid listing gives them as a band, 0 to 500, not a count.
| New, on the maker’s page | Used, on a listing | |
|---|---|---|
| Where the price comes from | The maker: a base price, or a range | A seller’s asking price |
| Warranty printed | One year against defects in material and workmanship, on Tormach’s 1100MX page | None on the listings cited |
| Age and use | New | A year on every listing, cutting hours on some, a band on one |
Power, Weight and the Shop Floor
Specs are budget lines too. Weight counts. Tormach’s 1100MX runs on single-phase 230 volts through a 20-amp breaker, and its page gives a typical system weight of 1,850 pounds and a footprint of 69 by 56.5 inches. The 770MX adds a compressed air requirement of 90 to 120 psi. The 15LX lathe page prints a 30-amp breaker and a 15-inch swing over the bed, with typical weights of 1,631 pounds with gang tooling and 1,764 with a turret.
A used production mill differs. The MachineStation VF-2 listing prints 360 to 480 volts, three-phase, 66 FLA, air at 100 psi and 4 scfm, and about 7,800 pounds, more than four times the 1100MX. FLA is full-load amps. scfm is standard cubic feet of air a minute.
Only single-phase service in the building? Then a question comes before the purchase order: how three-phase power reaches that machine.
ShopBot’s PRS5 Alpha page lets a buyer pick single-phase or three-phase power for the spindle. None of the pages cited here prints a price for installation, rigging, or the electrician, so that part of the budget is a quote.
Get three. An electrician for the service, a rigger or the dealer’s crew for the move, and a supplier for cutters, tool holders and workholding. Ask what’s left out.
What a CNC Machine Quote Should List
The 1100MX gap, $19,749 between the base machine and the Premium Package, is what a quote can hide. Ask every seller to put these on separate lines.
- The machine and its control, with the model and the year.
- Each option by name. Probing, a pallet changer, a chip conveyor, through-spindle coolant.
- Cutters, tool holders, and a vise, or a note that none come with it.
- Whatever software writes the programs.
- Freight, rigging, and installation, and who does each one.
- Training, plus a warranty in writing. On a used machine, read that line twice.
Then lay the quotes side by side. Totals, not headlines. A total with a line missing is a smaller number for a reason.
The Tax Side of a CNC Machine Purchase
An equipment purchase raises a tax question, and the 2026 figures sit on the IRS’s own page.
$2,560,000
The maximum Section 179 expense deduction for tax years beginning in 2026, reduced by the amount the cost of qualifying property placed in service that year passes $4,090,000.
The election goes on Form 4562. Whether a given machine qualifies, and what a deduction is worth to your business, are questions for your tax advisor, so consult your tax advisor before you count on one. Our Section 179 guide walks through the 2026 details.
Questions Shop Owners Ask About CNC Prices
So what does a new CNC mill cost on a maker’s own page?
Tormach’s 770MX carries a base price of $24,950 and its 1100MX $29,594, both on pages read November 11, 2026. The 1100MX’s Premium Package is $49,343. Ask which one a quote means.
Why does one Haas ST-20 ask $36,900 and another $74,500?
A 2011 machine with 8,713 cutting hours and a 2022 machine listed at 798 hours aren’t the same lathe, whatever the model number says. The two listings also come from different sellers.
Does a used CNC machine save money once the hours are counted?
A listing alone can’t say, because MachineStation’s pages call their specs and hours approximate and tell the buyer to verify them. None of the cited listings prints a warranty term either, so a repair bill is a cost to ask about before you pay.
Do you need three-phase power to run a CNC machine?
Not always. Tormach’s 1100MX runs on single-phase 230 volts at a 20-amp breaker, while the 2011 Haas VF-2 on MachineStation prints 360 to 480 volts, three-phase, at 66 FLA.
Will a shop floor carry a CNC mill?
1,850 pounds is the typical system weight Tormach prints for its 1100MX, and about 7,800 pounds is what MachineStation printed for a 2011 Haas VF-2. The floor is a question for the maker’s installation sheet and for whoever moves the machine.
What does a CNC router cost next to a mill?
On the pages read November 11, 2026, Laguna prints $14,495 through $22,995 for its Swift router and Tormach prints $24,950 for its 770MX mill. ShopBot’s 4-by-8-foot PRS5 Alpha is $31,127, so a large router can cost more than a small mill.
Can a shop finance a used CNC machine from a private seller?
Some equipment lenders do. The machine is usually the collateral, and what gets funded turns on the lender, the quote, and the machine, including, for a used one, its age, hours, and condition. Our page on used equipment financing explains how that review works.
Paying for a CNC Machine
A router near the $14,495 end may be a cash purchase for some shops. The mills and lathes in the tables are a larger decision, and no price above includes anything beyond the machine itself. No lender has quoted terms on any of these machines, so this page carries no payment example.
Bring an itemized quote to any lender you talk to, ours included, with the machine, the tooling, the electrical work, and the move on separate lines. Paramount Financial’s pages cover financing a mill, lathe, or router, leasing or buying equipment, and what to prepare before you apply, or you can start an application.