A method for identifying cuttings volume may comprise taking one or more inlet measurements of a drilling fluid at an inlet meter before the drilling fluid is circulated into a wellbore, taking one or more outlet measurements of a drilling fluid at an outlet meter after the drilling fluid is returned from the wellbore with cuttings, subtracting the one or more inlet measurements from the one or more outlet measurements and adding hole fill to determine mass of the cuttings, identifying a density of the cuttings, and converting the mass of the cuttings to the volume of the cuttings using the density of the cuttings. A system may comprise an inlet meter, an outlet meter, a pump for circulating a drilling fluid and one or more cuttings through the inlet meter and the outlet meter, and an information handling system.