Free tool

Race Profit & Pricing Calculator

Put in your entry fee and what the race costs you. It works out how many entrants you need to break even, what each one is worth once everything is paid for, and what happens if you move the price.

Your race

Nothing here is saved or sent anywhere but the calculation.

Entry

Entry fee $

Entrants you expect

Who pays the platform fee

Runner pays it Added at checkout. You keep the full entry fee. You absorb it One clean price. The fee comes out of it.

Registration platform fee

Percentage of the entry fee %

Plus, per entry $

Starts at PlayCompete's own rate, 5.5% + $2.00 per paid entry: the real schedule, not an estimate. Above $500 ours drops to 5% + $2.00. Change it to whatever your platform charges and the whole page recalculates, so you can compare before you move anything. See our pricing.

Cost per runner

Shirt $

Medal or award $

Bib and pins $

Anything else per runner $

Costs that do not change with entrants

Permits $

Insurance $

Timing $

Aid stations and supplies $

Marketing $

Anything else fixed $

Card processing and abandonment

Card processing is billed to your own Stripe account, so it is your rate to set, not ours to quote. These are Stripe's standard US card rates.

Card rate %

Per transaction $

Registrations started but never paid for %

Break even at

Profit

Per entrant

Margin

Entry fee	Profit	Difference	Break even

This runs on our own server and stores nothing. No analytics script, no cookie, no record of your numbers.

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