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Pricing calculators and generators for developers who bill from GitHub.

No signup required. Estimate your rate floor, spot revenue leakage, price retainers, or turn any PR into client-ready invoice language.

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Freelance Developer Rate Calculator

Stop guessing your rate. Calculate a sustainable freelance developer hourly, day, and monthly rate from income goals, taxes, expenses, and real billable capacity. Free, no signup.

  • Estimate an hourly floor that accounts for taxes, overhead, and utilization.
  • See the matching day rate and baseline monthly revenue target.
  • Use the output to price retainers, project work, and overages more confidently.
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Your numbers
Target income$140,000
Effective tax rate28%
Annual overhead$24,000
Utilization72%
Your billing floor
$235
Hourly
$1,883
Day rate
$18.9k
Monthly
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Underbilling and Revenue Leakage Calculator

How much revenue are you losing to forgotten PRs? Estimate the hidden cost of manual billing — forgotten work, invoice prep time, and admin overhead. Free calculator.

  • Estimate monthly revenue lost to forgotten shipped work.
  • Quantify manual invoice prep and billing-admin time in dollars.
  • Compare the leak to Diffbill’s cost to frame payback clearly.
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Monthly snapshot
Merged PRs22/mo
Forgotten items3/mo
Billable rate$150/hr
Invoice prep time2.5 hrs
Billing admin4 hrs
Revenue leakage−$1,763/mo
Time recoverable6.5 hrs/mo
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Developer Retainer Calculator

Stop underpricing retainers. Price a developer retainer that covers coordination overhead, response SLA, priority access, and overage multiplier. Free calculator.

  • Translate your hourly floor into a practical monthly retainer.
  • Bake coordination and response expectations into the quote.
  • Set a clean included-hours cap and an overage rate that protects margin.
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Retainer breakdown
Base: 24 hrs × $145/hr$3,480
Coordination: 4 hrs$580
Priority SLA premium$487
Monthly retainer$4,911
Overage rate$196/hr
04Generator

PR to Invoice Line Item Generator

Turn any PR into client-ready invoice language in seconds. Paste a pull request title, body, or public GitHub URL to generate professional line items. Free, no signup.

  • Generate three client-facing line-item variants from the same PR context.
  • Produce a safer redacted version when the original wording is too implementation-heavy.
  • Use a public GitHub PR URL or paste the source text directly. No signup required.
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PR input
fix: resolve token refresh race condition in auth middleware
Client-ready variants
1Resolved an authentication reliability issue affecting session continuity.
2Improved account session stability by fixing a login refresh race condition.
3Improved account access reliability and reduced session-related support risk.

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