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Break-Even Calculator

Calculate how many units you need to sell to cover your costs, what revenue that requires, and how strong your contribution margin really is.

Pricing Planning Business decisions
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Enter your numbers

Use your fixed cost, selling price, and variable cost to calculate the break-even point.

Inputs

Adjust the values below to test your pricing model.

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Tip

Fixed costs stay the same regardless of sales volume. Variable costs change with each unit sold.

Results

Break-even summary

Healthy
Break-Even Units 166.67
Break-Even Revenue $8,333.33
Contribution Margin Per Unit $30.00
Contribution Margin Ratio 60.00%
Quick take

Your pricing model shows a healthy contribution margin and a reachable break-even point.

How break-even is calculated

A simple way to test pricing viability

Break-even tells you how many units you need to sell before revenue fully covers fixed and variable costs. It is one of the clearest tools for pricing and business planning.

Contribution Margin Per Unit

Selling Price Per Unit − Variable Cost Per Unit

Break-Even Units

Fixed Costs ÷ Contribution Margin Per Unit

Break-Even Revenue

Break-Even Units × Selling Price Per Unit

When to use it

Useful for more than product pricing

Pricing

Test whether your offer makes sense

See how many sales are needed before a product, service, or offer starts covering its cost.

Forecasting

Set realistic sales targets

Use break-even units and revenue to set minimum targets for launches, campaigns, or monthly operations.

Operations

Compare cost structures

Test how higher fixed costs or variable costs change the difficulty of reaching profitability.

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