Consumables and Cost per Treatment for 40 Aesthetic Devices

12 of the 40 devices below have a verified listed price for their consumable; the other rows name the consumable and show that no verified price was found.

Prices are asking prices from dealer and reseller listings read in November 2026, not manufacturer list prices.

“No verified listing” means we found no dated listing or manufacturer figure we could check, so ask the manufacturer or an authorized distributor for a quote.

Each priced row rests on one to three sellers, so treat a single price as a starting point for a quote, not as the market.

Single-use tips, fibers and cycle cards have the highest consumable cost per treatment in the table, at $250–550 per Thermage CPT tip and $300 per CoolSculpting cycle on the listings we read.

1. Smartlipo: a sealed single-use RFID fiber is listed at $550 by one dealer.
2. Thermage CPT: single-use 1,200-REP tips are listed at $250, $300 and $550 by three resellers, and every treatment needs a new tip.
3. CoolSculpting (CoolAdvantage era): a used 24-cycle card is listed at $7,200, or $300 per cycle.
4. VelaShape III: a box of 5 VContour covers is listed at $950, or $190 per cover, and each cover stops working after 4 hours of use.
5. Morpheus8: single-use tips are listed at $60–195 each by three resellers, and one lists a box of 4 at $670.

Ultherapy sits outside this list because a transducer is priced by lines, not by treatment: one sealed transducer with 2,400 lines is listed at $2,965, about $1.24 per line.

One Ultherapy system listing says a transducer covers 3–4 treatments, but that is a seller's statement, not a Merz figure.

truSculpt iD cycles work out to about $71–75 each on one reseller's packs of 63, 123 and 280 cycles.

Cynosure Lutronic says its eCO2 3D CO2 laser has no per-treatment consumables, with no disposable tips and no pay-per-pulse, and it is the only device in the table with a source that says so.

Its 120, 300 and 500 µm tips are reusable but are still sold as parts.

Other devices wear out parts by count or by time:

• Candela's GentleMax Pro, GentleLase Pro and Vbeam spray cryogen from the Dynamic Cooling Device (DCD), so cryogen canisters are a running cost.
• Venus Concept treats its Venus Versa IPL applicators as consumed after 12 months or 150,000 pulses, whichever comes first.
• Cutera programs Titan, truSculpt 3D, truSculpt and truFlex handpieces for a limited number of uses and sells refills for Titan and truSculpt 3D.
• Tixel tips are reusable, but the system limits each tip to 100,000 pulses.
• Used Motus AX listings report flashlamp counts, and one used StarLux listing notes a handpiece that needed a new flashlamp and crystal.

Do not read “no consumables” in a listing as zero running cost; ask for the handpiece, lamp and credit counts.

Yes, some manufacturers sell consumables only to a licensed or recertified owner, so a used device may need a fee or recertification before you can reorder.

Consumables matter to manufacturers too: InMode reported $81.4 million in consumables and service revenue in 2025, about 22% of its $370.5 million total.

• CoolSculpting: Allergan sells treatment capacity as cycle cards, and GUDID lists a 100-cycle card, so a used console treats only while cycles remain.

How cycle cards work after a resale is covered on the used CoolSculpting Elite page on cycle cards and transfer fees.

• Morpheus8 and other InMode systems: InMode says each product includes a one-time disposable handpiece or tip, so a used platform needs a steady tip supply.
• HydraFacial: HydraFacial says a secondhand buyer must pay a $10,000 recertification fee before it issues a trademark license and sells official consumables, and that third-party consumables void the warranty.

The two hydradermabrasion systems' running costs are compared in HydraFacial vs DiamondGlow tip and booster running costs.

Other locks work through software or terms:

• Cutera describes truSculpt as needing a proprietary “digital consumable” to keep operating.
• Clear + Brilliant Touch treatments are metered by a disposable Credit Key, so a used system without credits cannot treat.
• Cynosure's terms say it may stop selling replacement parts, supplies and consumables if a customer's usage requirements are not met.
• Merz's US terms dated July 1, 2026 prohibit the re-sale of its products, which include Ultherapy transducers.
• One dealer listing for a used Alma Opus says recertification is needed to buy new tips.

Cost per treatment equals the unit price divided by the treatments each unit covers, plus any per-treatment fee.

Worked example: a box of 10 Vivace tips listed at $1,000 gives $1,000 ÷ 10 = $100 per single-use tip.

The same sum on a Morpheus8 box of 4 listed at $670 gives $167.50 per tip.

For devices metered by lines, pulses or minutes, divide the price by the units, then multiply by the units a treatment uses on your own settings.

Put the cost per treatment into the aesthetic device ROI calculator as your consumables line with your price per treatment.

Check the generation first: Pinova lists Vivace Legacy tips at $34 each, but they fit only the Legacy (old-generation) device.

Buy consumables from the manufacturer or an authorized distributor, because resellers also list expired and opened stock.

1. Manufacturer: HydraFacial says genuine consumables are sold only by the company and its authorized retailers, and Fotona's US orders team sells handpieces, tips and accessories.
2. Authorized distributor: confirm the distributor is still authorized, since Cutera's distribution agreement for Secret RF was set to expire on June 30, 2026.
3. Reseller: check the expiry date, the seal and the remaining count before you pay.

Resellers openly list expired stock, such as a box of 12 Clear + Brilliant tips marked EXP 2023-01-24 at $1,310 and an Ulthera transducer described as “New.

Expired” at $1,800.

One reseller lists an opened Thermage face tip that expired in 2017-10 at $125 and says it cannot test the tip or confirm the REPs remaining.

Solta recalled 20 lots of Thermage Face Tip 3.0 in a Class 2 recall started on December 30, 2019, after complaints of tip sparking, so check lot numbers on older tips.

BeautyHealth says third parties sell counterfeit versions of its products, a risk for anyone buying HydraFacial consumables outside its network.

We took asking prices from dealer and reseller listings and consumable details from manufacturer pages, FDA 510(k) summaries, GUDID and company filings, all read on November 11, 2026.

We computed cost per unit only where the listing states the pack size or the units per consumable.

Every price in the AestheticDeviceMarket consumables table is a clinic-side cost, not a patient price.

HydraFacial's public product feed lists its boosters and HydroPeel tips at $0.00, so its row uses reseller prices.

Add running cost to the purchase price from the used aesthetic device price guide to see total cost of ownership.