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Break-even price calculator

Fees on both sides mean you don't break even at your buy price — you break even a little above it. Enter the buy price and the buy/sell fees and get the exact sell price that gets you back to zero, plus the minimum gain that price represents.

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Need Break-even sell price, Minimum gain needed? The Break-even price calculator derives it from Buy price, Buy fee (%), Sell fee (%) in one step. For instance, with Buy price = $100.00, Buy fee (%) = 0.1 and Sell fee (%) = 0.1 it returns Break-even sell price = $100.20 and Minimum gain needed = 0.2%.

How to use it

  1. Enter your values: Buy price, Buy fee (%), Sell fee (%).
  2. Read the result instantly: Break-even sell price, Minimum gain needed.

Frequently asked questions

What does the Break-even price calculator actually compute?

It takes Buy price, Buy fee (%) and Sell fee (%) and derives Break-even sell price and Minimum gain needed from them. The calculation is live as you type, so the result updates on every change.

What information do I need to provide?

3 values: Buy price ($), Buy fee (%) and Sell fee (%). Nothing else is required — no account, no file upload.

Can you show a worked example?

With Buy price = $100.00, Buy fee (%) = 0.1 and Sell fee (%) = 0.1, the calculator returns Break-even sell price = $100.20 and Minimum gain needed = 0.2%. Those figures come from running this exact tool, so you can reproduce them by entering the same values.

What happens if I enter larger values?

It moves a lot. Using Buy price = $200.00, Buy fee (%) = 0.2 and Sell fee (%) = 0.2 instead, Break-even sell price goes from $100.20 to $200.80 — which is why it is worth testing a few scenarios rather than trusting a single figure.

What does it give for smaller values?

Scaled down to Buy price = $50.00, Buy fee (%) = 0.05 and Sell fee (%) = 0.05, Break-even sell price comes out at $50.05. The relationship is worth checking at both ends before you rely on a single result.

When would I actually use this?

Comparing two investments that pay at different times, deciding whether a project clears its cost of capital, and sanity-checking a valuation someone else produced.

What is the most common mistake?

Trusting a valuation without asking what share of it comes from the terminal value. Past 70%, the answer is an assumption about the distant future dressed up as a calculation.

What is the difference between the Break-even price calculator and the Liquidation price calculator?

This one returns Break-even sell price and Minimum gain needed; the Liquidation price calculator returns Liquidation price and Move to liquidation. That is the whole difference — open the one whose figure you need.

Is there a tool for the next step?

Capital Gains Calculator is the closest one after this: Estimate the taxable gain and tax due on the sale of an asset.

What else is worth having open alongside it?

Crypto DCA calculator and Loss recovery calculator — they come up in the same task often enough to be worth a second tab.

Further reading

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