Subscription Cost Calculator

Add up your monthly subscriptions and yearly-billed extras to see the true annual cost — and what the stack runs over 5 and 10 years.

The number nobody adds up

Streaming, music, cloud storage, apps, memberships — each is “only a few dollars”, and the stack quietly becomes a car payment. Enter your total monthly subscriptions and anything billed yearly, and this calculator returns the true annual figure and its 5- and 10-year projections, before the price rises that always come.

How to use it

  1. Add up everything billed monthly — bank statements find the ones memory misses.
  2. Add the yearly-billed extras (domains, memberships, annual plans).
  3. Read the yearly total and the long horizons.

The arithmetic

yearly = monthly total × 12 + annual plans

A worked example

$87 a month in subscriptions plus $120 of annual plans is $1,164 a year — $5,820 over five years and $11,640 over ten, before a single price increase. The useful exercise isn’t cancelling everything; it’s seeing which two or three lines carry most of the total, because subscription spending follows the same 80/20 as everything else.

Common questions

How do I find subscriptions I’ve forgotten?
Scan three months of card and bank statements for recurring charges — and check the app-store subscription pages, where forgotten trials live on.
Annual billing or monthly?
Annual usually discounts 15–20% — worth it for services you’re certain about, a trap for ones you’re trialling. Never annual-bill a maybe.
What’s a “normal” subscription total?
Surveys keep finding people underestimate their real total by half or more — which is the entire reason to add it up rather than guess.