Know What Your Digital Assets
Really Cost to Keep.
A domain may cost $12 today. A website may start with inexpensive hosting. But renewals, plugins, email, and maintenance turn small charges into thousands of dollars over time. See the full picture before costs quietly add up.
Choose Your Calculator
Whether you own a single business website or a portfolio of a thousand domains, we have the right tool to help you forecast your long-term expenses.
Website Cost
Calculate the true annual cost of keeping a website online, including hosting hikes, premium plugins, business email, and maintenance.
Domain Portfolio
Estimate the 1, 3, 5, and 10-year carrying costs for bulk domain investors, factoring in expected aggregate renewal price hikes.
Single Domain
Find out your true break-even sales price and projected lifetime renewal costs for a single domain name investment.
Stop the subscription bleed.
Introductory pricing on hosting and domains is designed to get you in the door. The true cost of a digital asset is revealed in years two, three, and beyond. We built CostToKeep to give you complete mathematical visibility into your long-term liabilities.
Formula Transparency
We don't hide the math. Every break-even calculation and renewal forecast is based on standard financial accounting principles.
100% Client-Side Privacy
Your financial data and portfolio sizes are never sent to a database. All complex math happens instantly in your browser.
Stop guessing your break-even price.
Marketplace commissions can eat up to 25% of your gross domain sales. Our Break-Even Calculator automatically calculates the exact gross price you need to sell your domains for in order to recover your initial capital and renewal fees.
- Calculates gross-margin math automatically
- Factors in holding time & renewal fees
Quick Example
Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know about calculating digital asset costs.
How accurate are the cost projections?
Our tools use exact compound growth and gross-margin mathematics. The accuracy of the final result depends entirely on the accuracy of the baseline costs you input. If your host raises their renewal price mid-year unexpectedly, you'll want to update your inputs to see the new trajectory.
Do you store my portfolio data?
Absolutely not. CostToKeep operates as a secure, client-side web application. When you calculate the carrying cost of your domains or input your website expenses, none of that data is ever transmitted to or stored on our servers.
Why is my domain break-even price higher than I paid?
Most domain marketplaces (like Afternic, Sedo, or Dan) charge a commission between 10% and 25%. To break even on a $1,000 investment with a 15% marketplace fee, you must sell the domain for $1,176.47, not $1,150. Our calculator accounts for this gross-margin math automatically.
Is this service really free?
Yes. The calculators and educational guides on CostToKeep are 100% free to use. We support the site through transparent affiliate partnerships with select hosting providers and domain registrars, but you are never required to purchase anything to use our tools.