Months to Profitability Calculator

About this calculator

This calculator projects how long it takes monthly revenue to catch up with monthly costs, given a steady monthly revenue growth rate — it compounds current revenue forward month by month until it meets or exceeds the (assumed roughly flat) cost line, and reports the number of months that takes.

Startup founders and finance teams use this projection during fundraising and planning to translate a growth-rate assumption into a concrete runway question — “at this growth rate, do we reach profitability before the cash runs out?” — and to see how sensitive that timeline is to small changes in the assumed growth rate, since compounding growth makes the answer swing sharply for slow-growing companies.