How many customers can I afford to lose after a price increase?

Break-even churn = rise ÷ (gross margin + rise). A 10% rise at a 60% margin affords 14.3% walkouts before gross profit falls below today's — so an expected churn of 8% leaves a comfortable cushion. Every input on this page moves that number visibly.

Will raising prices increase my profit even if some clients leave?

If actual churn stays under the break-even, yes — often substantially, because the rise lands on margin while the leavers take their serving costs with them. At 8% churn on a 10% rise and 60% margin, an $800,000 book gains roughly $35,000 of gross profit a year.

What churn rate is typical after a B2B price increase?

Well-communicated increases on a healthy book commonly lose 3–10% of clients; poorly handled ones lose more, and the leavers skew toward the least profitable accounts. The instrument treats your figure as an assumption and stresses it across the scenario table.

Price Increase Calculator — Break-Even Churn

Your details

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Revenue on the affected book

Σ/ yr

The clients this price rise touches.

Gross margin

Revenue minus the direct cost of serving it. Low-margin books can afford almost no churn; high-margin books can afford a surprising amount.

The rise

Clients you expect to lose assumption

Your honest read, not your hope. Well-communicated B2B rises commonly lose 3–10%.

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Your result

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14.3%

the churn this rise can afford — you expect 8%

The bet, priced

Gross profit today	—
Break-even churn — the walkouts this rise can afford	—
Gross profit after, at your expected churn	—
The rise's profit effect, per year	—
Revenue effect, for the vanity dashboard	—

Three churn outcomes, same rise

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Worth checking

Churn is not random: the clients who leave over price are disproportionately the discounted, demanding, low-margin ones. Losing them often improves the book beyond what this arithmetic shows.

The model assumes the survivors stay whole. If the rise triggers negotiation rather than departure, the effective rise is smaller than the announced one — price the concession round too.

Grandfathering, tiering and 90-day notice all trade some of the gain for lower churn. The break-even number tells you how much insurance you can afford to buy.

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Common questions

How many customers can I afford to lose after a price increase?: Break-even churn = rise ÷ (gross margin + rise). A 10% rise at a 60% margin affords 14.3% walkouts before gross profit falls below today's — so an expected churn of 8% leaves a comfortable cushion. Every input on this page moves that number visibly.
Will raising prices increase my profit even if some clients leave?: If actual churn stays under the break-even, yes — often substantially, because the rise lands on margin while the leavers take their serving costs with them. At 8% churn on a 10% rise and 60% margin, an $800,000 book gains roughly $35,000 of gross profit a year.
What churn rate is typical after a B2B price increase?: Well-communicated increases on a healthy book commonly lose 3–10% of clients; poorly handled ones lose more, and the leavers skew toward the least profitable accounts. The instrument treats your figure as an assumption and stresses it across the scenario table.

How this is calculated

Everything below is calculated from your inputs. Expected churn is an assumption you control; the break-even is not.

profit_after   = revenue × (1 − churn) × (margin + rise)
break_even     = rise / (margin + rise)
gauge          = expected_churn / break_even

Variable costs scale with the clients who remain, so a departed client takes revenue and its serving cost with it. The gauge reads your expected churn against the break-even, the line at 100%: under it the rise pays, over it the rise costs. The formula's shape is the useful lesson — the higher your margin, the more churn a rise survives.

Limitations. Fixed costs, cross-sell effects, referral networks and the strategic value of specific logos are outside. A single churn number stands in for a distribution; run the scenario row before deciding.

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