Bali
The rounded one. Chocolate and caramel notes over dried fruit, with a little smoke underneath. The safest choice for custards, ice cream and anyone new to Indonesian vanilla.
Rounded · Caramel · PastryAsk for a Bali sample →Indonesian vanilla beans & buyer’s guides
The vanilla supplier that wrote the buyer’s playbook.
We source cured vanilla from Bali, Java and Kalimantan for buyers overseas, and we publish the field manuals importers use to check suppliers. So ask us everything our own books tell you to ask.
Bali, East Java & West Kalimantan origins
Quoted by a person, usually within one business day
11 buyer’s guides and two free calculators
Vanilla beans
Quoted the way our own books say a quote should be.
Most vanilla quotes are a price and the words “Grade A”. Ours are written so you can compare them with anyone else’s. Tell us the grade, quantity and destination, and a person replies with what’s actually available.
- Grade, length band and moisture stated in numbers, not adjectives
- The Incoterm named, so you know exactly what the price includes
- Lot certificate of analysis on request, before you commit
- Samples available before a first order
Comparing us with another supplier? Good. The Comparison Handbook shows you how.
Don’t take our word for it
Check us with our own books.
We publish the methods buyers use to judge a vanilla supplier. Use them on us. A supplier who hands you the checklist has nothing to hide in the answers.
01
Read our certificate
Ask for the lot certificate, then read it line by line the way our COA guide teaches: method, basis, laboratory, lot code.
How to Read a Vanilla Certificate of Analysis → 02Compare our quote with anyone’s
Put our price and a competitor’s through the same landed, dry-solids and vanillin calculation. If we lose on the numbers, buy the other lot.
The Vanilla Supplier Comparison Handbook → 03Hold us to a specification
Write moisture, length and vanillin into a specification sheet before anything ships. We’d rather agree numbers than adjectives.
The Quality Agreement and Specification Sheet →
Choose your origin
Three Indonesian origins, one enquiry.
Origin tells you where to start; the lot in front of you decides. Tell us what you’re making and we’ll suggest the origin, then send a sample so your own nose has the final word.
East Java
The structural one. Smoke, wood and a clove-like spice, with the sweetness held back. Holds up to baking, dark chocolate and strong flavours, and is popular for extract.
Smoky · Woody · Baking & extractAsk for an East Java sample →West Kalimantan
The emerging one. Floral and creamy where the other two are dark. Small volumes and more variation from lot to lot, so always taste a sample before you buy.
Floral · Creamy · Taste firstAsk for a Kalimantan sample →
Market snapshot
What a fair quote looks like.
$600–800→$50–90
Madagascar Grade A peaked at $600–800/kg in 2018. Today Indonesian Grade A trades at about $50–90/kg FOB. Knowing where a quote sits in that range is the difference between a fair price and an expensive education.
FOB range by origin and gradeUSD / kg
Indonesia Grade A
$50–90
Indonesia Grade B (extract)
$15–40
Madagascar Grade A (certified)
$60–120
Madagascar commodity
$15–60
US retail (context)
$152–241
$0$125$250
Cured beans, mid-2026 ranges. US retail shown for context. Sources and methodology are on the price-history page.
Importing it yourself?
Don’t learn it on a live shipment.
Field manuals for buyers with an order on the line. Start with the $29 checklist, compare quotes properly with the handbook, or check what a fair price looks like with the benchmarks guide.
Sourcing Guide
The First Vanilla Import Checklist
Every permit, document and customs step for your first vanilla order out of Indonesia, with chapters for the US, EU, UK and Australia. Nothing missed, nothing padded.
Templates & Tools
The Vanilla Supplier Comparison Handbook
A handbook and Excel workbook that put every vanilla quote on one basis: landed cost per kilogram, per kilogram of dry solids and per kilogram of vanillin, then a weighted scorecard and a sensitivity test.
Market Intelligence
Wholesale Vanilla Pricing Benchmarks
Benchmark FOB price bands for Indonesian Grade A and Grade B vanilla at 1, 5, 10, 25 and 50 kg+, landed-cost models for the US, EU and Australia, and five working papers. Second edition, August 2026.
Free buyer tools
Run the numbers before you wire the deposit.
Two free tools for pricing a first order. No sign-up, no email wall. Use them on our quote too.
Price data
Vanilla price history
FOB benchmarks and trends from 2012 to 2026, with the events behind every major move, so you can see where today’s quote sits in the cycle.
Open the price history → CalculatorLanded cost calculator
Add freight, duty and fees to an FOB price to find the true cost per kilo delivered to your door, before you commit to a shipment.
Open the calculator →Every figure is sourced
The price data and the guides list their sources, so you can check the numbers instead of trusting them.
Open about what we do
We supply beans and we write the guides. The guides show you how to check any supplier, including us.
A person, not a price list
Enquiries are answered by someone who knows the trade, not by an automated price list.
The vanilla journal
Insights from the trade.
Your Vanilla Sample Smelled Perfect. Here’s Why the Container Won’t
A ten-bean vanilla sample can hide the defects that fill a 25 kg carton. Here is the statistics of why, how to request a sample that represents the lot, and how to measure it at your own bench.
Two Vanilla Quotes, Same Grade, $26 Apart: How to Tell Which Is Actually Cheaper
The cheaper vanilla quote on the page is often the dearer one once it lands. Here are the four numbers every price hides, and how to put competing quotes on one honest basis before you choose.
The 20 Questions That Separate a Real Vanilla Supplier From a Reseller
Most “vanilla exporters” online are resellers buying the same lots you could. Twenty questions — and the evidence behind them — tell a real supplier from a middleman before you wire a deposit.
The Line on a Vanilla COA That Quietly Costs You the Most Money
A vanilla certificate of analysis can be entirely honest and still cost you thousands — because of how one number is reported. Here is how to read a COA line by line, starting with the line that matters most.
Buy the beans, or learn to buy them right.
Ask for a quote or a sample on Indonesian vanilla, or start with the first-import checklist and run your landed cost before a single dollar leaves your account.