Cost and time
If the calculator needs a percent you do not have, do not paste a blog's 2%. Type a guess you can defend, or skip the fantasy.
Every growth blog has a conversion rate. It is not yours. Our break-even tool does math on what you type. If you type a fantasy, you get a fantasy. That is not our study.
Enter your selling price, your cost of goods, your real conversion guess or a range, and $12 (plus ads if you buy them). Read the visits-to-cover number as a scenario, not a promise.
What to type
Price you honor, COGS you know, processor percent you looked up on your processor's public page, not a number we invent.
What not to type
A national average conversion, a competitor's secret dashboard, a "AI sites convert at X" stat nobody measured on your door.
How to run a sane scenario
Two columns: conservative and hopeful, both yours.
- Open break-even. Put $12 in as monthly host if you are on Pro (or $0 if you are not).
- Put domain amortized only if you want that model, do not hide it.
- Put ads as $0 unless you will actually spend.
- Use a conversion percent you could explain to the first honest visitor.
- If the visits required are a number you cannot imagine, the price or the ads plan is the problem, not the tool.
$144
If you model a year, 12×$12. Not a discount.
GMV cut
Ours is none on Pro checkout. If you model another platform, put their public fee in. Check their pricing page.
We do not sell the output as a ranking
A break-even visits number is not traffic we deliver. Empty ads manager.
Limits and caveats
A tool cannot know your rain, your street, or your taste. It can refuse to lie with our fake averages, because we will not put any in.
If a sentence would require a competitor SKU we have not verified, or a statistic we did not measure, it does not belong here.
What to do after you read this
If this page answered the query, open Create with the nouns from your own business, not a slogan. If it did not, you are probably in the wrong cluster: go back to the blog hub or Cost and time. Do not spin a second URL for a synonym. One intent per page is the whole point of this library.
Tools that actually do this job
These are public pages. Use them when the job is this job. They are not a second product you have to buy.
Questions people actually ask
What conversion rate should I use?
Yours. If you have none yet, use a range and do not bet the rent on the pretty end.
Include my time?
You can add a wage if you want a fully loaded model. See time you still spend.
Is Durable $25 in the widget?
Price-compare exists for $12 vs $25 as we publish. Break-even is your shop math.
Can Cipher fill the tool?
You type. Cipher does not know your COGS unless you put it in the brief, and even then, check.