Break-Even Calculator — Break-Even Point Analysis Tool
Calculate your break-even point for any trade, bet, or business instantly. Find the exact price, win rate, or sales volume needed to cover your costs and start profiting.
Choose what you want to calculate the break-even for
Price paid per unit (e.g. BTC price)
Total round-trip fees as a percentage
Desired profit on top of break-even (0 = just cover costs)
Break-Even Price
$50,050.00
trade break-even
Required Move
+0.10%
Fees (per unit)
$50.00
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How to Use the Break-Even Calculator
This calculator has three modes — select the one that matches your situation using the Calculator Mode dropdown at the top.
Trade mode is for stocks, crypto, forex, or any asset where you buy at one price and sell at another. Enter your Entry Price, your round-trip Fees (%) — the buy-side and sell-side commissions combined, as a percentage of the position — and an optional Target Profit (%) on top (0 to just cover costs). The calculator tells you the exact price at which you need to exit to recover your costs, the percentage move required from your entry, and the fees per unit in dollars. It assumes a long position: you buy first and sell higher.
Betting mode is designed for sports bettors and matched bettors. Enter the Decimal Odds you were offered — the only field in this mode (2.0 = evens, 3.0 = 2/1). The calculator returns the implied probability embedded in those odds — which is the minimum win rate you need to break even over a large sample, whatever you stake.
Business mode is for entrepreneurs, freelancers, and SaaS operators. Enter your monthly Fixed Costs (rent, salaries, software subscriptions), Variable Cost per Unit (materials, payment processing fees, fulfilment), and the Selling Price per Unit. The calculator returns the contribution margin per sale, the number of units you need to sell each month to cover all costs, and the corresponding monthly revenue target.
The Formula
Trade Mode
- Fees per Unit = Entry Price × Fees (%) ÷ 100
- Break-Even Price = Entry Price × (1 + Fees (%) ÷ 100 + Target Profit (%) ÷ 100)
- Price Move Needed (%) = (Break-Even Price − Entry Price) ÷ Entry Price × 100
With a Target Profit of 0 the break-even sits exactly the fee percentage above your entry. The calculator models long positions; on a short, the same fees push the break-even the other way, below your entry by the same percentage.
Betting Mode
- Implied Probability (%) = (1 ÷ Decimal Odds) × 100
- Break-Even Win Rate = Implied Probability (they are identical)
The implied probability is the baked-in edge that the bookmaker builds into the odds. A bet at decimal odds of 2.0 requires a 50% win rate to break even. At 1.91 (common on European exchanges), the required win rate rises to 52.36%.
Business Mode
- Contribution Margin = Selling Price per Unit − Variable Cost per Unit
- Break-Even Units = Fixed Costs ÷ Contribution Margin
- Break-Even Revenue = Break-Even Units × Selling Price per Unit
The contribution margin tells you how much each sale contributes to covering fixed overhead. Once total contributions equal fixed costs, you are at break-even — every sale after that is profit at the margin rate.
Practical Examples
Example 1 — Crypto Trade Break-Even
You buy BTC at $60,000 and your exchange charges 0.25% on entry and 0.25% on exit, so you enter Fees 0.5% and a Target Profit of 0 (on 0.5 BTC that is $150 in total).
- Fees per unit = $60,000 × 0.5 ÷ 100 = $300 per BTC
- Break-even price = $60,300
- Price move needed = ($300 ÷ $60,000) × 100 = 0.5%
BTC needs to rise just 0.5% before you are profitable. This seems small, but on a $3,000 swing trade with tight stops, knowing the exact break-even is critical for stop placement.
Example 2 — Sports Bet Break-Even Win Rate
A bookmaker offers decimal odds of 1.91 on a soccer match (equivalent to -110 American).
- Implied probability = 1 ÷ 1.91 × 100 = 52.36%
- Break-even win rate = 52.36%
This means you must win more than 52.36% of your bets at these odds to be profitable long-term. If your model gives you a 55% probability on this outcome, you have a positive expected value edge of roughly 2.6 percentage points.
Example 3 — SaaS Business Break-Even
A SaaS startup has $8,000 per month in fixed costs (server, salaries), charges $49/month per subscription, and incurs $4 in variable costs per customer (payment processing, support).
- Contribution margin = $49 − $4 = $45 per subscription
- Break-even units = $8,000 ÷ $45 = 178 subscribers (rounded up)
- Break-even revenue = 178 × $49 = $8,722 / month
Every subscriber beyond 178 generates $45 of pure operating profit. At 300 subscribers, the company earns (300 − 178) × $45 = $5,490 per month in profit.
Frequently Asked Questions
The break-even point is the exact level at which total revenue equals total costs — you are neither making a profit nor incurring a loss. In trading, it is the exit price that fully covers your entry cost and all fees. In betting, it is the win rate percentage at which your long-run profit is zero. In business, it is the sales volume (units or revenue) at which gross profit exactly offsets all fixed overhead. Knowing your break-even is the starting point for any rational risk management strategy — it tells you the minimum target you must hit just to not lose money.
For a forex trade, the break-even price accounts for the spread and any commission charged by your broker. Enter your entry price and your total fees (spread cost plus round-trip commission) as a percentage of the position value. The calculator adds that percentage to your entry price. For example, $20 in total fees on a 100,000-unit EUR/USD lot at 1.0850 (a $108,500 position) is about 0.0184%, so your break-even is 1.0850 × 1.000184 ≈ 1.0852. You need the price to move just 2 pips in your favor before you start profiting.
In sports betting, your break-even win rate is the percentage of bets you must win at a given set of odds to avoid losing money in the long run. It is identical to the implied probability embedded in the odds. At decimal odds of 2.0 (evens), you need to win 50% of bets to break even. At 1.80, you need 55.6%. At 3.0 (+200 American), you need just 33.3%. If your true probability of winning a bet is higher than the implied break-even probability, you have positive expected value and the bet is profitable over a large sample. This is the foundation of +EV betting strategy.
Enter your total monthly fixed costs — costs that do not change with sales volume, such as rent, full-time salaries, insurance, and software licenses. Then enter the variable cost per unit sold — costs that scale with each sale, like materials, payment processing fees, shipping, and freelance labour. Finally, enter your selling price per unit. The calculator computes the contribution margin (selling price minus variable cost) and divides fixed costs by it to find the break-even volume. This number tells you how many units you must sell each month before a single dollar of operating profit is generated. Use it to set realistic revenue targets and evaluate pricing changes.
Knowing your break-even gives you a precise anchor for decision-making. For traders, it tells you the minimum exit price needed to recover costs — essential for setting rational stop-losses and profit targets. For bettors, it tells you the minimum win rate your strategy must sustain to be viable, so you can validate it against your historical record before scaling up stakes. For businesses, break-even analysis reveals how sensitive your profit is to pricing changes, cost increases, or volume shortfalls, helping you identify the biggest levers to pull. In every context, break-even is the dividing line between strategy and speculation.
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