Many people look at the price of a cake of pu-erh tea and think that it is extremely expensive tea to drink. The reality is that pu-erh is not like green tea, white tea or virtually any other tea due to the number of infusions that you get from a single session. The table below is based on getting 15 infusions from an average of 7 grams that would be used for a session. In reality, you will often get many more sessions from your pu-erh tea but we wanted to be conservative with the figures here. We believe that you will be surprised at the results that demonstrate how reasonable it is to drink pu-erh tea.
| Average cake size (grams) | 350 | 350 | 350 | 350 | 350 | 350 |
| Number of sessions - assuming 7 grams per session | 50 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 50 |
| Number of infusions per session | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 |
| Cost per cake | $20.00 | $30.00 | $40.00 | $50.00 | $60.00 | $70.00 |
| Cost per cup | $0.03 | $0.04 | $0.05 | $0.07 | $0.08 | $0.09 |