Pipette Tips
In pipetting, accurate results depend not only on your pipette but also on the pipette tip you choose. For Sartorius pipettes, the best fit comes from Optifit standard pipette tips and Safetyspace® Filter Tips, ensuring optimal performance and unmatched repeatability. Now introducing Extend Plus tips—designed to reach further into narrow, deep vessels for enhanced flexibility in your workflow.
New 10mL Pipette Tips are Here!
Built for High Volume. Designed for Precision Fit.
Reach deeper with enhanced accuracy—perfect for high-volume applications.
Long, narrow design
Certified contaminant-free
Optimized for Sartorius pipettes
Explore Pipette Tip Brands
Optifit | Standard tips
Sartorius Optifit tips are a high-quality choice for most pipetting tasks with their wide range of easy-to-use packaging, sterility and purity options.
The universal tip design makes them compatible with most other pipette brands.
Safetyspace® | Filtered pipette tips
Safetyspace® Filter tips feature the unique safety space air gap, so your sample never touches the filter. They offer optimal protection for your work from cross contamination and enable you to use the full volume of the tip with any pipetting mode.
Pipette Tips Features
Tips to Achieve Results
Ensure reliability of results with perfect tip compatibility. Sartorius pipette tips are the perfect match for Sartorius pipettes. Sometimes bad compatibility can be seen by leaking but there is more than meets the eye when it comes to proper fit.
Purity
For the most demanding applications you need to choose pipette tips with high quality and purity standards. Sartorius pipette tips’ purity level meet the demands of even biopharmaceutical development.
Various packaging options
Choose from sterilized single tray tips for clean rooms or from our practical refill options; there is a package for every lab.
Single Tray Tips
These pipette tips feature a color-code tray matching with pipettes and are DNase, RNase, human DNA and endotoxin free according to Pharmacopeia limits. Choose ready-to-use sterile pipette tips or fully autoclavable non-sterile tips.
Refill Tips
The ecological refill tips are available in a convenient tower format or in purity certified refill package, which is also available as sterilized. You reduce your environmental impact when you replace your empty tray from these refill packages.
Bulk Tips
The revolutionary packaging design of Flexibulk helps reduce your lab space and environmental impact during transportation. These bulk pipette tips are purity certified and the lid can be reclosed. Filling empty racks is now easier than with the old bagged tips.
| Feature Highlights | Single Tray | Refill Tower | Refill Package | Bulk |
| Standard Tips | ||||
| Filtered Tips | ||||
| Available Sterilized | ||||
| DNase, RNase, human DNA, endotoxin free |
Manufacturing the tips in our own production facility, selecting the best 100% virgin polypropylene raw material and controlling the manufacturing process from beginning to end allows us to maintain the highest quality and purity standards.
The high quality of the products is upkept thanks to our quality management system follows not only ISO 9001 and ISO 14001, but also ISO 13485. The production also abides by the ISO 14644-1 standard, in order to fulfil ISO Class 8 cleanroom conditions for secured tip purity.
Pipetting & Sustainability
Explore our pipetting solutions and learn how our environmentally responsible pipette tips, including the ACT-labeled Optifit Tip Refill Tower, advance lab sustainability without compromising pipetting results.
Explore Our Solutions for PFAS Compliance
Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) are persistent environmental contaminants impacting water, soil, and health worldwide. Discover how Sartorius’ products help customers achieve reliable, PFAS-free results while supporting global sustainability goals.
Pipetting Resources
Frequently Asked Questions
Filtered tips also include a polyethylene filter that prevents cross-contamination by blocking aerosols and liquid from entering the pipette.
No. Pipette tips are single-use consumables. Reusing them can cause poor sealing, inaccurate results, and contamination. Always change tips between different liquids, samples, or temperatures to ensure precision and reliability.
Sartorius offers:
- Standard tips for everyday use.
- Filtered SafetySpace® tips for contamination protection
- Extended-length tips for deep or narrow vessels.
- Wide-bore tips for viscous liquids or delicate samples, such as cells.
Yes. Sartorius sterile tips are treated with beta irradiation to a Sterility Assurance Level (SAL) of 10⁻⁶. They are also certified DNase-, RNase-, human DNA, and endotoxin-free (<0.005 IU/mL), with certificates available for each lot.
Yes. Non-filtered tips can be autoclaved at 121 °C for 20 minutes. For sensitive applications, Sartorius provides pre-sterilized tips that meet international sterility and purity standards.
Sartorius Safetyspace® filter tips feature a unique air gap that prevents sample contact with the filter, even during reverse pipetting. They provide maximum protection against contamination in applications such as PCR, qPCR, and molecular biology.
Yes. All Sartorius pipette tips are 100% recyclable. Optifit tips are made from polypropylene, while Safetyspace® tips use polypropylene with polyethylene filters. Always check local guidelines for safe recycling of lab plastics.
- Verify pipette tip compatibility.
- Inspect and clean the pipette cone.
- Attach tips straight, with gentle pressure.
- Ensure the sealing ring is engaged. If problems continue, contact Sartorius Service for pipette maintenance or calibration.