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Pricing tools

Exact arithmetic for pricing decisions.

Eight free calculators for the pricing math that comes up constantly when you're setting or checking a price. No account, no upload — everything runs in your own browser.

Reviewed 2026-08-11

Markup and margin are not the same number

Both describe profit, but from different starting points, and mixing them up quietly costs money. Markup is profit as a percentage of your cost: add 50% markup to a $100 cost and you sell at $150. Margin is profit as a percentage of your selling price: that same $50 profit on a $150 sale is a 33% margin, not 50%.

The markup calculator below works from cost, so check which one your supplier or client actually means before you quote a number back to them — a "50% margin" request priced as a 50% markup undercharges by a meaningful amount.

Questions

Should I price by markup or by margin?
Whichever your industry expects, but be consistent within your own pricing sheet. Retail and product businesses tend to think in margin; trades and services tend to think in markup. Mixing the two on the same price list is where errors creep in.
How do I calculate a discount without a calculator?
Multiply the original price by the discount percentage, then subtract that from the price — the discount calculator above does exactly this, and also shows the amount saved so you can sanity-check a receipt.
Does the percentage calculator handle percentage increase and decrease?
Yes — enter the before and after numbers and it works out the percentage change either way, alongside the plain percentage-of and percentage-change calculations most people actually need.

What this page cannot do

The calculation is free. The memory is not.

These calculators answer a question and then forget it, which is fine once and tiring on the fiftieth invoice. Ochre carries the same arithmetic to where the numbers already are — the markup calculator on a product's price, the discount calculator on an invoice's totals — so the result becomes part of the document instead of something you copy across by hand.

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