Lemon Squeezy Profit Calculator
Run a Lemon Squeezy scenario from price and payment volume to net creator profit. Model one-time orders or a recurring horizon, include product delivery, support, marketing, refunds, fixed overhead, optional income-tax reserve, and the editable merchant-of-record fee assumptions that shape every payment.
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Compare what remains from your Lemon Squeezy sales after the costs and fees you enter, then test a conservative and target scenario. It covers Lemon Squeezy digital product, license, membership, and subscription revenue, fees, creator costs, profit, margin, and break-even volume.
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Inputs
Values update results instantly. Adjust fee assumptions to match your seller dashboard.
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Scenario
Choose the offer in this scenario.
Recurring scenarios multiply subscribers by the modeled months. This is a horizon assumption, not a churn forecast.
Revenue
Price collected for one order or billing payment.
Orders for one-time sales, or subscribers for recurring revenue.
Use one for a one-time period or set the recurring horizon you want to test.
Creator costs
Content, license, or delivery cost for each payment.
Hosting, software, or service infrastructure per payment.
Support time, delivery, fulfillment, or customer-service allocation per payment.
Total acquisition or promotion spend across the modeled horizon.
Creator-side allowance against gross sales, based on your own history or planning case.
Software, contractors, or other fixed costs allocated to this period. Lemon Squeezy monthly platform cost starts at zero and is not added separately.
Lemon Squeezy assumptions
Editable planning default of 5%. Verify current account terms before using the result.
Editable planning default of $0.50 per payment.
Optional surcharges
Enable when the modeled payments fall under that surcharge.
Editable planning default of 1.5% when enabled.
Enable when PayPal payments incur the surcharge you are modeling.
Editable planning default of 1.5% when enabled.
Enable for recurring subscription or membership payments when the surcharge applies.
Editable planning default of 0.5%, applied per recurring payment.
Payout
Enable when your payout geography is subject to the modeled fee.
Editable planning default of 1%, applied after transaction fees.
Creator tax planning
Optional creator-side planning reserve applied to positive profit after operating costs. Lemon Squeezy does not calculate your tax liability here.
Results
Live estimates based on your inputs and editable fee assumptions.
Gross sales
$1,800.00
Lemon Squeezy transaction fees
$174.00
Non-US payout fee
$0.00
Creator costs
$478.50
Income-tax reserve
$229.50
Total modeled costs
$882.00
Net profit after reserve
$918.00
Profit per payment
$6.12
Profit per subscriber
$18.36
Profit margin after reserve
Excellent51.0%
Break-even units or subscribers
7
Break-even is calculated before the optional income-tax reserve.
Break-even revenue
$252.00
Break-even revenue before the optional income-tax reserve.
What this means
Subscription produces 918.00 net profit after the optional income-tax reserve, at a 51.0% margin. That is 6.12 per payment across 150 modeled payments.
Lemon Squeezy profit breakdown
Interactive breakdown of fees, costs, and remaining profit.
Distribution
- Transaction fees$174.009.7%
- Creator costs$478.5026.6%
- Income-tax reserve$229.5012.8%
- Net profit$918.0051.0%
Total $1,800.00 · 4 segments · interactive
Line-item breakdown
Dollar amounts, share of revenue, and visual proportion.
- Gross sales
- $1,800.00
- Lemon Squeezy transaction fees
- $174.00
- Non-US payout fee
- $0.00
- Creator costs
- $478.50
- Income-tax reserve
- $229.50
- Total modeled costs
- $882.00
- Net profit after reserve
- $918.00
- Profit per payment
- $6.12
- Profit per subscriber
- $18.36
- Profit margin after reserve
- 51.0%
- Break-even units or subscribers
- 7
- Break-even revenue
- $252.00
Assumptions used
- • 50 subscribers over 3 months, 150 payments at 12.00 each.
- • Transaction fees are 174.00 and payout fee is 0.00.
- • Creator costs are 478.50, including refund reserve 36.00; income-tax reserve is 229.50.
- • Break-even is before income-tax reserve. No separate transactional sales-tax or VAT cost is added; verify current Lemon Squeezy terms.
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Generated 9/10/2026, 1:22:00 AM · Currency USD
Inputs
- Product type: subscription
- Revenue model: recurring
- Price per payment: 12
- Units or subscribers: 50
- Months in scenario: 3
- Product cost per payment: 1
- Infrastructure cost per payment: 0.5
- Support or fulfillment per payment: 0.25
- Marketing spend for scenario: 120
- Refund reserve (%): 2
- Fixed overhead for scenario: 60
- 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: true
- Subscription surcharge (%): 0.5
- Include non-US payout fee: false
- Non-US payout fee (%): 1
- Income-tax reserve (%): 20
Results
- Gross sales: $1,800.00
- Lemon Squeezy transaction fees: $174.00
- Non-US payout fee: $0.00
- Creator costs: $478.50
- Income-tax reserve: $229.50
- Total modeled costs: $882.00
- Net profit after reserve: $918.00
- Profit per payment: $6.12
- Profit per subscriber: $18.36
- Profit margin after reserve: 51.0%
- Break-even units or subscribers: 7
- Break-even revenue: $252.00
Interpretation
Subscription produces 918.00 net profit after the optional income-tax reserve, at a 51.0% margin. That is 6.12 per payment across 150 modeled payments.
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
- 1Calculate transactions from units or subscribers and the selected horizon.
- 2Calculate gross sales, then apply base and selected surcharge percentages plus fixed fees to each payment.
- 3Apply the optional non-US payout rate after transaction fees.
- 4Add product, infrastructure, support, fulfillment, marketing, overhead, and refund reserve to find creator costs.
- 5Apply the optional income-tax reserve to positive operating profit and subtract total costs from gross sales.
- 6Estimate break-even units or subscribers from pre-tax contribution per unit and scenario-level fixed costs.
Formulas
- Transactions = units, or subscribers × months when recurring
- Gross sales = price × transactions
- Transaction fees = gross × selected percentage fees + transactions × fixed fee
- Payout fee = (gross − transaction fees) × non-US payout%
- Creator costs = product + infrastructure + support + fulfillment + marketing + overhead + refund reserve
- Income-tax reserve = max(0, pre-tax profit) × reserve%
- Net profit = gross − transaction fees − payout fee − creator costs − income-tax reserve
- Break-even units = fixed scenario costs ÷ contribution per unit, rounded up
Important assumptions
- The starting fee scenario is editable 5% plus $0.50 per payment. International-card, PayPal, subscription, and non-US payout charges apply only when selected and should be compared with current account terms.
- Recurring transactions equal subscribers multiplied by the modeled months. The subscriber count stays constant across the selected horizon as a planning assumption, with no churn claim.
- Product, infrastructure, support, and fulfillment costs are per payment. Marketing spend and fixed overhead are scenario-level costs, while refund reserve is a percentage of gross sales.
- The optional income-tax reserve is a separate creator-side planning input. It is applied only to positive operating profit and does not represent a tax rate promised by Lemon Squeezy or any authority.
- Lemon Squeezy's merchant-of-record service model handles transactional sales tax or VAT, so no separate sales-tax or VAT line is added. Income and corporate tax remain business obligations outside the platform fee model.
Sources & review
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Use these official references to locate the policy, plan, or help details behind the editable inputs.
Official references
Use the current terms
These official references are starting points for published policies, pricing, or help. They do not validate every default in this calculator. Rates, plans, eligibility, regions, and account terms can change, so compare the editable fields with your account before relying on the result.
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
50 subscribers over three months
50 subscribers at $12 per month for three months, 5% base fee plus a 0.5% subscription surcharge, $0.50 per payment, $1.00 product cost, $0.50 infrastructure, $0.25 support, $120 marketing, $60 fixed overhead, 2% refund reserve, and a 20% income-tax reserve.
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