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Pay yearly or monthly

The same subscription, two price tags. This calculator totals both over the months you'd actually use it — with the annual side paying one whole payment for every year or part-year, because that lumpiness is the real shape of the deal. The break-even month is stated as a fact, the month-by-month table shows the crossings, and no winner is declared.

The two prices
For the same thing
$
$
months

A part-year still costs a whole annual payment

Over 12 months
Paying yearly
all-up
Paying monthly
all-up
Enter a price for each

Put in the monthly price and the yearly price for the same thing. Nothing here is read from your accounts, and nothing is saved.

The breakdown
YearlyMonthly
One payment
Payments over the period
Total over 12 months
Works out per month
Month by month

This is one of the tools built into Keep Above

Keep Above is a budgeting app where you enter your bills and income and it works out the balance you need to keep — so you can see what's safe to spend. No bank connection, no ads on your data.

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About this calculator

Why does a part-year cost a whole annual payment?

Because that is how annual billing works: month 13 triggers a full second year. Pro-rating it would smooth away the exact lumpiness the comparison exists to show. The month-by-month table makes each renewal's jump visible.

Why do the per-month figures show cents?

Rounding $119 a year to $10 a month beside a $10 monthly price would destroy the exact comparison the page exists for, so the per-month row keeps two decimals while everything else stays whole.