Financial calculators, done properly
Calculators that show their work.
Quanticed is a growing library of 240 free financial calculators — for saving, borrowing, retirement, tax, pay, business, and the markets. Most tools online hand you one number and hide the maths. Ours lay out the assumptions, the formula, and a full breakdown, so you actually understand the answer.
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Nine focused areas, 240 calculators. Pick a lane to dive in — or scroll down for a hand-picked selection from each.
Saving & Investing
Grow your money
Borrowing
Loans, cards & debt
Real Estate
Property, mortgages & rentals
Retirement
Plan for the long term
Taxes
Estimate what you owe
Income & Pay
Salary & paycheck math
Business & Pricing
Margins, markup & marketing
Equities & Derivatives
Quant-tier finance, explained
Economics
Micro & macro, worked out
Everyday
Practical money tools
They show their work
Every result comes with the formula, the assumptions, and a full breakdown — never a single number from a black box.
Built for the real world
Inflation, fees, taxes, and compounding are accounted for, so the numbers reflect what actually happens to your money.
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A few from each area
A hand-picked selection from every category. Scroll through, or open a category to see the full set.
Saving & Investing
Grow your money
Compound Interest
→Project the growth of savings and investments with inflation-adjusted (real) returns, fees, taxes, contribution step-ups, and a full year-by-year breakdown.
Investment Return
→CAGR, total return, and the true money-weighted return (IRR) when you add contributions — plus the inflation-adjusted real return.
Savings Goal
→Find how much to set aside each month to hit a target by a deadline — or how long your current pace will take.
Future Value
→What a lump sum and regular contributions grow to at any rate and compounding frequency — with the split between what you put in and the interest you earn.
CAGR
→The compound annual growth rate that links a starting and ending value over time — the single rate that makes investments of different lengths comparable.
Dividends
→Project dividend income with reinvestment (DRIP), rising payouts, and yield-on-cost — and see how much DRIP adds over taking cash.
ROI
→Return on investment from what you put in and got back — plus annualized (compound) ROI, the only fair way to compare different holding periods
APY
→Turn a nominal rate into its true APY, compare APY across compounding frequencies, and see the real dollars earned.
Borrowing
Loans, cards & debt
Loan
→Payment, total interest, and payoff timeline for any fixed-rate loan, with an amortization breakdown.
Auto Loan
→The real out-the-door cost — sales tax with the trade-in credit, fees, and the negative-equity timeline showing when you stop being underwater.
Debt Payoff
→Compare the snowball and avalanche strategies across all your debts — payoff order, total interest, and which one frees you sooner.
Credit Card
→See how long a fixed payment takes to clear your balance — and how the shrinking minimum-payment trap costs you years and thousands in interest.
Student Loan
→Standard repayment vs an income-driven plan based on your discretionary income — the lower payment and the long-term tradeoff.
DTI
→Your front-end and back-end DTI, the lender qualification band you fall in, and how much debt headroom you have before 36% and 43%.
Balance Transfer
→Whether a 0% balance transfer pays off once the fee and the go-to APR are counted — plus the payment to clear it before the promo ends.
Amortization
→A full month-by-month amortization schedule with the principal-vs-interest crossover, extra payments, and CSV export.
Real Estate
Property, mortgages & rentals
Mortgage
→Monthly payment, full amortization schedule, the true lifetime cost of interest, and how extra payments shorten your loan.
Cap Rate
→Cap rate on a rental property — net operating income over price, the unlevered yield used to value real estate — plus the implied NOI multiple
Affordability
→How much house you can afford using real front-end and back-end DTI ratios — and which one is actually limiting your budget.
Rent vs Buy
→A true opportunity-cost comparison: invested down payment, appreciation, full ownership costs, and the year buying pulls ahead.
Cash-on-Cash
→The pre-tax return on the actual cash you put into a rental — cash flow after the mortgage divided by money invested — the levered counterpart to the cap rate.
Refinance
→Whether refinancing pays off: the new payment, the break-even point on closing costs, and the term-reset interest trap.
Rental Yield
→Gross and net rental yield on an investment property — annual rent as a percentage of value, before and after running costs — for comparing income across properties.
GRM
→The price-to-gross-rent multiple — how many years of gross rent equal the purchase price — the fast back-of-envelope screen for shortlisting rental deals.
Retirement
Plan for the long term
Retirement
→Model contributions, employer match, and withdrawals to see whether your nest egg lasts through retirement.
FIRE
→Your financial-independence number, years to reach it, your Coast FIRE figure, and savings rate — all in today’s money.
401(k)
→Project your 401(k) with the real IRS contribution limits and catch-up — and see the employer match you’re leaving on the table.
Roth IRA
→Project tax-free Roth growth within the IRS contribution limits, and see exactly how much the tax-free growth beats a taxable account.
Roth vs Traditional
→After-tax retirement outcomes for Roth vs Traditional — including investing the up-front tax saving and your break-even tax rate.
Social Security
→Estimate your benefit with the real PIA bend-point formula, and see how claiming from 62 to 70 changes your monthly check.
RMD
→Required minimum distributions using the real IRS Uniform Lifetime Table, projected across every year with the estimated tax on each.
Taxes
Estimate what you owe
Income Tax
→Estimate your 2025 federal income tax with a bracket-by-bracket breakdown, FICA, and your true marginal vs effective rate.
Take-Home Pay
→Estimate net pay from gross — after FICA, income tax, and pre-tax deductions — as an annual, monthly, and biweekly figure, plus the share of gross you actually keep.
Capital Gains
→Short- vs long-term tax compared, the dollar benefit of crossing the one-year mark, and your after-tax annualized return.
Crypto Tax
→Tax across multiple crypto disposals — short vs long-term, loss netting, and the reminder that crypto-to-crypto trades are taxable.
Gift Tax
→See why a large gift almost never triggers tax — the per-recipient annual exclusion and the lifetime exemption, explained.
Lottery
→Lump sum vs annuity, after federal and state tax — compared on a present-value basis so you see which option really wins.
Powerball
→Powerball cash value vs the 30-year graduated annuity, after federal and state tax, compared on a present-value basis.
Income & Pay
Salary & paycheck math
Salary
→Salary converter — turn any pay rate (hourly, weekly, monthly, annual, and more) into every other frequency, using your real hours and weeks worked
Salary to Hourly
→Convert an annual salary into the equivalent hourly wage, adjusting for the hours and weeks you actually work so the rate reflects your real schedule.
Hourly to Yearly
→See what your hourly wage adds up to over a full year — and at every pay period in between — based on the hours and weeks you work.
Annual Income
→Turn an hourly, weekly, or monthly rate into your true annual income, with your real hours and weeks worked factored in — not just a flat ×2,080.
Biweekly Pay
→Calculate your pay every two weeks (26 paychecks a year) from any rate — and see exactly how it differs from a twice-a-month semimonthly check.
Monthly Income
→Work out your gross monthly income from any pay rate — useful for budgets and rent or loan applications that ask for a monthly figure.
Business & Pricing
Margins, markup & marketing
Margin
→Find your gross margin from cost and price, or price a product to hit a target margin — with the markup, profit, and the margin-vs-markup distinction made clear.
Markup
→Work out the markup on a product, or set a price from a target markup — and see why a markup is always a bigger number than the margin it produces.
Profit Margin
→Calculate gross profit margin from revenue and cost, see the dollar profit per unit, and price to a target margin — the number that protects your bottom line.
ROAS
→Return on ad spend from revenue and ad cost — plus the full funnel (CPM, CPC, CTR, conversion rate, CPA, ROI) so you see what is really driving the number.
CPM
→Cost per thousand impressions from spend and impressions — with CPC, CTR, conversion rate, CPA, ROAS, and ROI for the same campaign in one view.
Conversion Rate
→Your conversion rate from conversions and clicks — with cost per conversion, ROAS, and ROI so you know what each conversion costs and earns.
CTR
→Click-through rate from clicks and impressions — alongside the rest of the funnel so you can tell whether a high CTR is actually converting.
Equities & Derivatives
Quant-tier finance, explained
Options (Black-Scholes)
→Options pricing with the Black-Scholes-Merton model — live Greeks, an implied-volatility solver, and payoff at expiry, worked step by step
DCF
→DCF intrinsic value — projected free cash flows plus a terminal value discounted to today, with how much rests on the terminal assumption
CAPM
→CAPM expected return — risk-free rate plus beta times the equity risk premium — the return an investment should earn for its market risk
WACC
→Compute the weighted average cost of capital — the blend of the cost of equity and the after-tax cost of debt by their weights — the discount rate that powers a DCF.
P/E Ratio
→P/E ratio from share price and EPS (or net income and shares), plus the earnings yield it implies — the most-quoted valuation multiple
Dividend Discount (DDM)
→Dividend discount model value from D₁ ÷ (r − g) — the Gordon Growth present value of all future dividends, and why the r − g spread dominates
Bond / YTM
→Bond price from yield, or yield to maturity from a market price — with the premium/discount, current yield, and the cash flows behind the number
Sharpe Ratio
→Sharpe ratio — excess return over the risk-free rate per unit of volatility — the standard measure of risk-adjusted return, shown step by step
Economics
Micro & macro, worked out
Price Elasticity
→Price elasticity of demand by the midpoint (arc) or point method, with the elastic/inelastic classification and the total-revenue test worked out step by step.
Consumer Surplus
→Consumer surplus, producer surplus, and total gains from trade — from a market price and quantity, or by solving linear demand and supply curves for equilibrium.
GDP Deflator
→Solve the deflator identity for nominal GDP, real GDP, or the deflator itself — and turn two deflators into the economy-wide inflation rate between them.
Spending Multiplier
→The Keynesian spending multiplier from MPC — spending, tax, and balanced-budget multipliers plus the round-by-round geometric series showing where the total GDP change comes from.
Money Multiplier
→The money multiplier and the maximum money a deposit can support under fractional-reserve banking, with a round-by-round lending table and a fuller model adding currency drain and excess reserves.
Deadweight Loss
→Deadweight loss from a per-unit tax or observed price gap — the Harberger triangle, tax revenue, trades lost, and an optional elasticity-based split of who bears the burden.
Everyday
Practical money tools
Inflation
→Purchasing power in both directions, the cumulative erosion of a fixed sum, and the income you’d need to keep pace.
Budget
→Map your real expenses into the 50/30/20 needs/wants/savings buckets, see which one you overspend, and find your savings rate.
Emergency Fund
→How many months you’re covered today, a recommended 3–6 month target band, and how long it takes to get there at your pace.
Net Worth
→Categorized assets and liabilities, your liquid vs illiquid split and debt-to-asset ratio, and a multi-year net-worth projection.
Cost of Living
→Compare two cities and find the salary you’d need to keep your standard of living — with a category-by-category breakdown.
Tip
→Tip on the pre-tax subtotal (not the tax), split the bill any number of ways, round up, and compare common tip percentages.
Discount
→Sale price and amount saved — including stacked discounts (which multiply, not add) and the real out-the-door price with tax.
Latest from the blog
Long-form pieces on the maths behind the money.
The Minimum-Payment Trap: How a Small Balance Becomes Decades of Debt
A $5,000 balance and a card that 'only' asks for $100 this month feels manageable. Pay just that minimum, though, and the same balance can take well over a decade to clear and cost more in interest than you ever spent.
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Lump Sum vs Dollar-Cost Averaging: What the Maths Actually Says
Everyone says drip-feeding a windfall is the smart, cautious move. The maths disagrees: lump-sum investing wins roughly two times in three. But DCA isn’t about return — it’s about regret. Here’s how to tell which one is for you.
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Same Average Return, Opposite Outcomes — the Retirement Risk No One Warns You About
While you're saving, the order of your returns doesn't matter — only the total does. The moment you start withdrawing, order becomes everything. Two retirees, identical returns in reverse, opposite fates.
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