Loan / EMI Calculator
Open toolEstimate monthly payments and total interest on a loan.
Estimate the monthly payment (EMI), the total interest, and the total repayment for a loan with a fixed interest rate and equal monthly instalments — a car loan, personal loan, or education loan.
How it works
The tool uses the standard EMI formula: EMI = P × r × (1 + r)ⁿ ÷ ((1 + r)ⁿ − 1), where P is the loan amount, r is the monthly interest rate (the annual rate ÷ 100 ÷ 12), and n is the number of monthly payments. If the interest rate is 0, the loan is simply divided into equal parts: P ÷ n.
The number of payments is the term in years × 12, rounded to a whole number of months (so 2.5 years is 30 payments). Total repayment is EMI × n, and Total interest is the total repayment minus the amount borrowed.
Amounts are labelled with the site-wide currency chosen in Settings; the numbers themselves are never converted.
How to use it
- Enter the Loan amount.
- Enter the Annual interest rate as a percentage. Use 0 for an interest-free loan.
- Enter the Term in years (half-years such as 1.5 are fine).
- Read the monthly payment, total interest and total repayment on the right (or below, on a phone), and click Copy to copy them.
Options & controls
Inputs
- Loan amount
- The amount borrowed, in the current currency. Must be greater than 0. Default: 20,000.
- Annual interest rate (%)
- The yearly rate as a percentage, for example
7.5, in steps of 0.01. Cannot be negative. Default: 7.5. - Term (years)
- How long the loan runs, in years, in steps of 0.5. Must be greater than 0. Default: 5.
- Reset
- In the title row. Restores the three sample values.
Reading the results
Results
- Monthly payment · N payments
- The EMI, and how many monthly payments make up the term.
- Total interest
- How much you pay above the amount borrowed over the whole term.
- Total repayment
- Everything you pay back: the amount borrowed plus interest.
- Copy
- Copies the three figures as one line of text.
- Assumptions & notes
- A short reminder that this is an estimate. On a phone it sits behind a toggle to keep the screen compact; on larger screens it is always visible.
Tips & guidelines
- Compare loan offers by their total interest, not only by the monthly payment. A longer term lowers the monthly payment but usually raises the total interest a lot.
- Try a few terms: change Term from 5 to 4 and see how much interest you save for a somewhat higher payment.
- The rate you enter should be the yearly nominal rate quoted by the lender. If you have only a monthly rate, multiply it by 12.
- For a home loan with taxes, insurance and a repayment schedule, use the Mortgage Calculator instead.
Limits
- Assumes a fixed rate, equal monthly payments made at the end of each month, and nothing else. It does not include processing fees, insurance, late charges, or a balloon payment.
- Lenders may compute interest daily or round instalments differently, so the actual figures can differ slightly.
- There is no repayment schedule, no part-payments or prepayments, and no floating-rate option.
- Leaving the interest rate box empty may show an unusable result; enter 0 if there is no interest.
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Nothing. Values return to the defaults when you refresh.