Burn Rate Calculator

Work out net monthly burn from cash at the start and end of a period, with the runway that leaves and roughly when it ends.

Work out your burn and runway

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Frequently Asked Questions

Cash consumed divided by months, and the runway your remaining cash buys at that rate.

Use your own, for a period you can actually measure. A calculator like this is only as good as the inputs, and the most common error is using a number that covers a different period or a different set of costs.

No. Everything is worked out in your browser and nothing is sent anywhere or saved.

We do not publish one, deliberately. Benchmarks for these measures vary enormously by sector, stage and how each company defines the inputs, so a number quoted without those definitions tends to mislead more than it helps.

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