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Break-even Calculator

Find out how many units you need to sell to cover your costs, your margin of safety, and how price or cost changes affect your break-even point.

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Core Inputs

Selling price, expected volume, and currency.

Fixed Costs₦0.00

Costs that stay the same regardless of how many units you sell.

Variable Costs₦0.00 / unit

Costs that scale with each unit produced or sold.

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💡 These calculations are estimates based on the figures you enter. They are not accounting or tax advice.

Enter your selling price and costs to see your live break-even breakdown.

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Supported Formats

No file — enter figures directly on the page.

Common Uses

•Deciding how many units to sell before a new product turns a profit
•Checking how much sales could drop before a business starts losing money
•Pricing a product high enough to make production worthwhile
•Planning production volume for a new venture or product line

💡 Pro Tip

If you're planning a new product with no sales history, run the numbers with a conservative (lower) expected units figure first — it shows your margin of safety in the worst realistic case, not just the best one.

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Frequently Asked Questions

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📖Break-even Calculator Guide

Works out exactly how many units you need to sell to cover your costs, your margin of safety, and how changes in price or costs shift your break-even point.

When to use this

Use this when pricing a product, planning production volumes, or checking how much room you have before a drop in sales pushes you into a loss.

Step-by-step workflow

  1. 1Enter your selling price and expected units sold Expected units is optional but unlocks extra results like expected profit and margin of safety.
  2. 2List your Fixed Costs Rent, salaries, utilities, insurance, and more — added up live as you go.
  3. 3List your Variable Costs per unit Raw materials, packaging, delivery, commission, and more — summed per unit.
  4. 4Review your break-even point See the Cost vs Revenue chart and exactly how many units you need to sell to cover your costs.
  5. 5Try the What-If Simulator Test changes in selling price, variable costs, fixed costs, or projected units sold without touching your real figures.

Tips for best results

  • ✓If Expected Units Sold is entered, check your Margin of Safety — it tells you how far sales could drop before you fall below break-even.
  • ✓Watch for the warning banner if your variable cost per unit exceeds your selling price — break-even isn't reachable in that case, no matter how many units you sell.
  • ✓The chart always stretches to show both your break-even point and your expected-sales point, so you can see how the two relate at a glance.

Common mistakes to avoid

  • ⚠Leaving out a real cost from either Fixed or Variable Costs — an incomplete cost list will understate your true break-even point.
  • ⚠Confusing a fixed cost (rent, salaries — doesn't change with volume) with a variable cost (materials, packaging — scales per unit) when entering a line item.
  • ⚠Ignoring the "not reachable" warning when variable cost per unit exceeds selling price — no volume of sales will reach break-even until pricing or costs change.

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