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Subscription Cost Auditor

Annual cost of your subscriptions, plus the investing opportunity cost.

You spend

$49/mo ($588 / yr)

Invested at 7% instead, you would have:

In 10 years

$8,382

In 20 years

$24,869

In 30 years

$57,303

About

Add your monthly subscriptions. The tool shows your annual total and what that money would have grown to at 7% return over 10, 20, and 30 years if invested instead. Spoiler: a $50 a month habit is roughly $30,000 in 20 years.

How to use

  1. Add each subscription with its monthly price.
  2. See your total monthly and annual cost.
  3. See what investing that monthly amount instead would grow to over 10, 20, 30 years.

FAQ

Why 7%?+

It's a common assumption for long-run real (inflation-adjusted) US stock returns. Some years are wildly higher, some are negative. Over decades, around 7% is a reasonable middle estimate.