Find how many units you must sell to cover your fixed costs.
Break-even happens when contribution margin per unit times units sold equals total fixed costs. The result rounds up to whole units, meaning the first profitable unit is one more than this count. Knowing the exact unit volume needed to stop losing money lets owners set realistic sales targets and decide whether a product's fixed investment makes sense.
Unit Break-Even
Break-even units = fixed costs / (price - variable cost per unit)
Break-even units = fixed costs / (price - variable cost per unit) Break-even happens when contribution margin per unit times units sold equals total fixed costs. The result rounds up to whole units, meaning the first profitable unit is one more than this count.
Knowing the exact unit volume needed to stop losing money lets owners set realistic sales targets and decide whether a product's fixed investment makes sense.
This calculator takes 3 inputs: Fixed costs, Price per unit, Variable cost per unit. The pre-filled defaults are a realistic starting point — replace them with figures from your own environment for a result you can act on.