What should I charge for this package?
What an hour of your time costs the business — not your billing rate.
Each round is real hours. Two is the usual limit.
Price to quote
$1,600.00
24.0 hrs including revisions
Quote this when they ask for a third.
Margin is taken off the price, not added to the cost. Adding 40% to cost gives you a 29% margin, which is the most common pricing mistake in services.
Free Service Pricing Calculator
Enter the hours, your cost per hour, materials and the margin you want, and get a price to quote — with revision rounds costed in, and the price of each extra round so you know what to charge when they ask.
Built by Slashit · Last updated 27 September 2026
What is the service pricing calculator?
A service pricing calculator turns the cost of delivering something into a price worth quoting. It sounds like simple arithmetic, and it has one trap that catches almost everyone: margin is taken off the price, not added to the cost. Add 40% to a cost of £1,000 and you get £1,400 — but £400 of £1,400 is a 29% margin, not 40%. To actually make 40% you divide by 0.6 and quote £1,667. Over a year of projects that difference is substantial. The other thing this tool insists on is costing revision rounds, because revisions are where service margins quietly disappear: they are always expected, rarely quoted, and each one is real hours.
How our free service pricing calculator works
Estimate the hours honestly
How long the work takes you, not how long it would take on a perfect day.
Use your cost per hour
What an hour of your time costs the business — not the rate you bill at, which already contains profit.
Add materials and subcontractors
Stock assets, licences, anyone else you pay to help.
Choose the margin
Taken off the price properly, with revision rounds already costed in.
What can you use the service pricing calculator for?
Moving from hourly to fixed price
Clients prefer a fixed number, and you keep the upside when you get faster — as long as the starting price was right.
Building a productised service
A repeatable package with a known margin is far easier to sell than a bespoke quote every time.
Answering 'can we have one more round?'
Have the price ready before the question arrives, and it stops being awkward.
Who uses our free service pricing calculator?
Designers and developers
Pricing a defined package rather than billing by the hour.
Writers and marketers
Where revision rounds are the main risk to the margin.
Agencies
Building a productised service with a price that survives contact with a client.
Anyone moving off hourly billing
Converting an hourly habit into a fixed price without losing money on it.
Why use the service pricing calculator?
Margin done correctly
Divides rather than adds — the difference between a 40% margin and a 29% one.
Revisions are costed
The most common source of a blown services margin, priced in from the start.
A price for extra rounds
Gives you the number to quote when they ask for a third.
Tips for getting the best results
Margin divides, it does not add
For 40%, divide the cost by 0.6. Adding 40% gives you 29% and it is the most common pricing error in services.
Two revision rounds, stated in writing
Unlimited revisions is not generous, it is an open-ended cost. Two is standard and defensible.
Add 20% to your honest estimate
Almost everyone underestimates. Pricing the optimistic version means working the pessimistic one for free.
Check the effective hourly
If the fixed price works out below your hourly rate, the estimate is wrong or the price is.
Frequently asked questions
What margin should I aim for?
30–50% is a common range for service work. Lower leaves no room for a project that overruns; much higher tends to invite competition unless you are genuinely specialised.
What is my cost per hour if I am a solo freelancer?
Your total yearly costs — including what you need to pay yourself — divided by your billable hours. The freelance rate and billable hours calculators will give you both halves of that.
Why does the tool add hours for revisions?
Because each round is real work. It assumes roughly 10% of the original hours per round, which is conservative for design and about right for writing.
Should I show the client this breakdown?
No. Quote the price. A breakdown invites line-by-line negotiation of your costs, which is a conversation nobody wins.
