A loan calculator is a tool that, depending on the loan amount, interest rate, and loan period, helps you estimate the monthly payments, total cost of borrowing, and total interest. A loan calculator can help with budgeting, evaluating various loan possibilities, and reducing interest costs. A loan calculator can be used for a number of loans, including personal, student, vehicle, and home loans.


This is only one of the numerous free internet loan calculators available. Another option is to make your own loan calculator using a spreadsheet application such as Google Sheets or Excel with formulas like PPMT, IPMT, and PMT. To compute loan installments, you can also use a smartphone app or a financial calculator.

You must do the following actions in order to use a simple loan calculator:

• Enter the total amount of money you wish to borrow, or the loan amount.

• Type in the loan period, indicating how many years or months you wish to repay the loan over.

• Enter the interest rate for the payment calculator. This is the annual percentage rate, or APR, that you are charged by the lender.

• The loan calculator will display the monthly payment, total interest, and total cost of the loan when you click the calculate button.

Any of these characteristics can be changed to see how the loan calculation is affected. You can see, for instance, how extending the loan period will result in a lower monthly payment but a higher overall interest rate. Alternatively, you can observe how lowering the interest rate would reduce your overall expenses without affecting your monthly payment.