About the Subscription Cost Calculator
Individually, a streaming service or app subscription looks harmless at $10-15 a month — but the average household now juggles a growing list of recurring subscriptions across streaming, music, cloud storage, fitness apps, and software, and few people have ever added up the true combined total.
This calculator lets you list every subscription with its own billing frequency (monthly, yearly, or weekly) and normalizes them all into a single combined monthly, weekly, and yearly total — often revealing a bigger number than expected once everything is added together in one place.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why convert everything to a monthly figure first?
Normalizing all subscriptions to a common monthly baseline makes it possible to combine costs that are billed on different schedules (weekly, monthly, annually) into one accurate total, rather than mixing incompatible time periods.
How is a weekly cost converted to monthly?
This calculator multiplies a weekly cost by 4.345 (the average number of weeks in a month, accounting for months with slightly more or fewer than exactly 4 weeks) to get an accurate monthly equivalent.
What should I do once I see my total?
Many people use a total like this as a prompt to audit which subscriptions still get regular use — canceling unused or rarely used ones is one of the most immediate ways to reduce recurring monthly expenses.