Free tools for freelancers
Calculate what to charge, price projects, understand your billable time, protect your profitability and see when you can take on more work. Everything runs in your browser — nothing you type is sent anywhere.
Pricing
What to charge, before you send the quote.
Freelance Rate Calculator
Calculate a sustainable hourly rate based on your income target, business expenses, available working time and non-billable hours.
Open calculator →Freelance Project Pricing Calculator
Turn estimated hours, revisions, expenses, risk and fees into a defensible project price.
Open calculator →Freelance Retainer Calculator
Calculate a monthly retainer while accounting for reserved hours, overages, capacity and expected usage.
Open calculator →Time & capacity
How much you can actually sell, and when you are next free.
Billable Hours Calculator
See how many client hours you can realistically sell after admin, sales, meetings, time off and buffer.
Open calculator →Freelance Capacity Calculator
Map your workload, identify overloaded weeks and calculate when a new project can realistically start and finish.
Open calculator →Profitability
What the work paid once every hour is counted.
Why these are free, and what they are not
Every calculation happens in your browser. There is no account, no email gate and no half-result waiting behind a signup form — the complete answer is on the page the moment you have entered enough to produce one.
What they cannot do is stay current. A rate calculated today assumes a schedule that will have changed by March; a capacity plan is accurate until the next hour is logged. That is the part Freshlance does, and it is the only thing we are asking you to consider.
No signup
Every tool works in a private window with no account.
Nothing is uploaded
Inputs stay in your browser. Analytics records which tool you used, never what you typed.
Real arithmetic
Each page shows the formula it uses, and the formula is the one the code runs.
No AI
These are deterministic calculations. Same inputs, same answer, every time.
Where to start
If you have never worked out your rate from first principles, start with the Freelance Rate Calculator. It needs four numbers and it will almost certainly produce a figure higher than the one you are charging.
If you already know your rate but fixed-fee projects keep going wrong, the Effective Hourly Rate Calculator on your last finished project will show you where the hours went, and the Project Pricing Calculator will price the next one properly.
When the answer has to leave the browser, the free template library carries the same questions into files you can send — invoices, proposals, scope documents, timesheets and capacity plans, in Word, Excel and OpenDocument formats, with no signup either.
And if the question you are actually being asked is “when can you start?”, the Capacity Calculator schedules your real commitments and gives you a date you can defend. There is also the blog if you would rather read about the reasoning first.
The calculators are static. Freshlance is not.
Projects change, hours get logged, retainers burn down. Freshlance keeps the same calculations current against your real work.