Finance · Loans & Credit

Credit Card Interest Calculator

Estimate one billing cycle of interest from an average daily balance and disclosed day-count convention.

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Quick guide

How to use this calculator

  1. Enter the balances, rates, fees, and timing requested by the visible labels.
  2. Keep monetary entries in one consistent currency.
  3. Review the result together with the declared calculation convention and exclusions.

Calculation method

Calculation method

Interest = average daily balance × annual rate ÷ day-count basis × billing-cycle days.

Entered fixed decimals are aggregated exactly. Iterative rate solving is bounded to a single nonnegative monthly cash-flow root and fails explicitly if the result is absent, too large, or not reliably representable.

Worked example

Worked example

An average daily balance of 1,000 at 18% for 30 days on a 365-day basis produces about 14.79 of interest.

Interest = average daily balance × annual rate ÷ day-count basis × billing-cycle days.

Supported inputs

Precision and limits

Visible input limits

Amounts are capped at 1e12, rates at 1000%, monthly periods at 1,200, and fixed decimals at 12 places. List tools accept 1–20 uniquely named rows.

Estimate, not a disclosure

Results model only the entered convention. They do not reproduce a lender statement, credit score, underwriting outcome, or jurisdiction-specific consumer-credit disclosure.

International scope

No currency, country, credit bureau, scoring model, statutory APR rule, fee classification, grace period, or issuer policy is assumed.

Calculator-specific assumptions

This is an average-daily-balance estimate without within-cycle interest compounding. Issuers may use 360 or 365 days, multiple balances and rates, grace periods, minimum charges, daily compounding, and different transaction timing.