Lemon Squeezy Pricing Calculator
Work backward from the money your Lemon Squeezy offer needs to keep. Add product delivery, infrastructure, marketing, refund reserve, and editable transaction assumptions, then compare the break-even price with the price for your target profit and margin.
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Set a price for your Lemon Squeezy offer that covers the costs in this model and supports the target contribution you need. It covers Find a Lemon Squeezy price for digital products, software licenses, subscriptions, and memberships after merchant-of-record fees and creator costs.
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Inputs
Values update results instantly. Adjust fee assumptions to match your seller dashboard.
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Offer
Use the offer type to keep the scenario clear. The formulas work for any digital product.
Subscription surcharges apply only when billing is recurring.
Goals
Amount you want to keep after modeled fees and creator-side costs.
Net profit goal measured against the listed price.
Your costs
Content, license, or delivery cost allocated to each payment.
Hosting, tools, or support infrastructure per payment.
Blended acquisition cost for each sale or billing payment.
Creator-side allowance against listed sales. It is not a duplicate sales-tax or VAT line.
Lemon Squeezy assumptions
Editable planning default of 5%. Verify current terms before pricing a live offer.
Editable planning default of $0.50 per payment.
Optional surcharges
Enable when the payment is subject to that surcharge in your current terms.
Editable planning default of 1.5% when enabled.
Enable when PayPal is used and the surcharge applies.
Editable planning default of 1.5% when enabled.
Enable for recurring subscriptions or memberships when the surcharge applies.
Editable planning default of 0.5%, used only for recurring billing.
Payout
Enable when your payout geography is subject to the modeled fee.
Editable planning default of 1%, applied after transaction fees.
Results
Live estimates based on your inputs and editable fee assumptions.
Break-even price
$4.30
Price covering modeled costs before target profit.
Price for target profit
$20.43
Price for target margin
$17.39
Recommended price
$20.43
Projected net profit
$15.00
Projected net margin
73.4%
Costs outside percentage fees
$4.00
Combined transaction percentage
5.0%
Price impact of +1 surcharge point
$0.22
Extra price needed for the same goals if selected percentage fees rise by one point.
Price impact of +1 payout point
$0.21
Extra price needed if the payout fee rises by one point.
Subscription surcharge
Not applied in this scenario
What this means
software license should be priced near 20.43 to keep 15.00 per payment at a 73.4% modeled margin.
Lemon Squeezy recommended price build-up
Interactive breakdown of fees, costs, and remaining profit.
Distribution
- Product, infrastructure and marketing$3.5017.1%
- Refund reserve$0.412.0%
- Transaction fees$1.527.4%
- Projected profit$15.0073.4%
Total $20.43 · 4 segments · interactive
Line-item breakdown
Dollar amounts, share of revenue, and visual proportion.
- Break-even price
- $4.30
- Price for target profit
- $20.43
- Price for target margin
- $17.39
- Recommended price
- $20.43
- Transaction fees
- $1.52
- Payout fee
- $0.00
- Projected net profit
- $15.00
- Projected net margin
- 73.4%
- +1 surcharge point price impact
- $0.22
- +1 payout point price impact
- $0.21
Assumptions used
- • software license; one-time billing.
- • Target 15.00 profit and 70.0% margin per payment.
- • Combined transaction percentage is 5.00%; payout rate is 0.00%.
- • No separate transactional sales-tax or VAT fee is included. Replace starting rates with current Lemon Squeezy terms before publishing.
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Generated 9/10/2026, 1:21:06 AM · Currency USD
Inputs
- Product type: software
- Billing type: oneTime
- Target profit per payment: 15
- Target margin (%): 70
- Product cost per payment: 1
- Infrastructure cost per payment: 0.5
- Marketing cost per payment: 2
- Refund reserve (%): 2
- Base Lemon Squeezy fee (%): 5
- Fixed fee per payment: 0.5
- Include international-card surcharge: false
- International-card surcharge (%): 1.5
- Include PayPal surcharge: false
- PayPal surcharge (%): 1.5
- Include subscription surcharge: false
- Subscription surcharge (%): 0.5
- Include non-US payout fee: false
- Non-US payout fee (%): 1
Results
- Break-even price: $4.30
- Price for target profit: $20.43
- Price for target margin: $17.39
- Recommended price: $20.43
- Transaction fees: $1.52
- Payout fee: $0.00
- Projected net profit: $15.00
- Projected net margin: 73.4%
- +1 surcharge point price impact: $0.22
- +1 payout point price impact: $0.21
Interpretation
software license should be priced near 20.43 to keep 15.00 per payment at a 73.4% modeled margin.
How it works
Methodology & formulas
This calculator is transparent by design. Review the steps and formulas so you can trust the estimate and adjust assumptions when your dashboard differs.
Calculation steps
- 1Combine the base fee and enabled surcharges that apply to the selected billing type.
- 2Calculate the amount left after percentage fees, the fixed fee, and the optional payout fee.
- 3Subtract product, infrastructure, marketing, and refund reserve costs to create the contribution factor.
- 4Solve for break-even, target profit, and target margin prices.
- 5Recommend the higher feasible target price and recalculate net profit and margin.
- 6Recalculate the recommended price after a one-point surcharge or payout increase for sensitivity planning.
Formulas
- Contribution factor = (1 − transaction fee%) × (1 − payout fee%) − refund reserve%
- Costs outside percentage fees = product + infrastructure + marketing + fixed fee × (1 − payout fee%)
- Break-even price = fixed costs ÷ contribution factor
- Price for target profit = (fixed costs + target profit) ÷ contribution factor
- Price for target margin = fixed costs ÷ (contribution factor − target margin)
- Recommended price = max(target-profit price, target-margin price)
- Projected net profit = price × contribution factor − fixed costs
Important assumptions
- The starting Lemon Squeezy scenario is an editable 5% plus $0.50 per payment. International-card, PayPal, subscription, and non-US payout rates are optional and editable.
- Percentage fees and payout fees reduce the money available from the listed price. The fixed fee is modeled once per payment, and the payout fee applies after transaction fees.
- Refund reserve is a creator-side planning allowance against listed sales. Product, infrastructure, and marketing inputs are per payment.
- The recommended price is the higher of the target-profit and target-margin prices. A margin target can be infeasible when fees, payout deductions, and reserve consume too much of each sale.
- Lemon Squeezy's merchant-of-record model handles transactional sales tax or VAT in its service model, so no second tax or VAT fee is added. Income tax is outside this calculator. Verify current account terms before acting.
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Official references
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Defaults are editable estimates. Match them to your current account, provider statement, official authority, lender, or adviser before making a pricing or investment decision.
Calculator model reviewed: August 9, 2026. This date covers the page and calculator guidance, not a guarantee that every live platform rate or term was re-audited on that date.
Worked example
Price a software license for $15 profit
A one-time software license has $1 product cost, $0.50 infrastructure cost, $2 marketing cost, a 2% refund reserve, 5% plus $0.50 Lemon Squeezy planning fees, no optional surcharges, and a 70% target margin.
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