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Project Quote Calculator for Freelancers

Break a project into tasks, price each by hours and rate, add fixed costs and a contingency buffer, then share or print a clean quote. Free, no signup.

Project

Tasks

One line per piece of work. Different tasks can carry different rates.

Fixed costs

Anything bought in for the project. Not marked up as labour.

Contingency

The buffer that absorbs an extra revision round instead of your margin.

15%

A sensible range for most fixed-price project work.

Total quote

$6,923.00

74 hours at a blended $79.32/h.

Labour
$5,870.00
Fixed costs
$150.00
Subtotal
$6,020.00
Contingency (15%)
$903.00
Total
$6,923.00

Quote summary

Website redesign

  • Discovery & scoping6 h × $95.00$570.00
  • Design20 h × $85.00$1,700.00
  • Build40 h × $75.00$3,000.00
  • Revisions & handover8 h × $75.00$600.00
  • Stock photography & fonts$150.00
Total$6,923.00

About the project quote calculator

Quoting a fixed price for a project is a bet on your own estimate. This calculator makes the bet explicit by forcing the work into named tasks, each with its own hours and rate, so the number you send a client is traceable back to something you can defend in a conversation.

Add a line per task. Design, build, revisions, project management, testing — whatever the shape of the work. Each line takes an hour estimate and an hourly rate, because not every task is worth the same; senior strategy time and production time can sit in the same quote at different prices. Fixed costs such as stock photography, fonts, hosting or a subcontractor go in their own section so they are not marked up as labour.

The contingency percentage is the important control. Fixed-price work goes over on almost every project that involves another human's opinion, and a buffer between ten and twenty-five percent is the difference between absorbing a round of revisions and losing money on them. The summary shows the quote with and without the buffer so you can see exactly what you are protecting.

The output is a clean summary you can print to PDF or send as a link. It lists each task with its hours, the fixed costs, the buffer and the total, which is far easier for a client to approve than a single unexplained number.

Signed in, quotes are saved and can be reopened, adjusted and re-sent — useful when a client comes back three weeks later asking what a slightly smaller version would cost.

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