Underpriced fixed-fee projects
Compare project fee against true hours before you accept work that quietly underpays you.
Freelancers pricing fixed-fee projects
Know whether a fixed-fee project is worth taking before you quote it.
ScopeMath turns fee, hours, revisions, client risk, and target rate into a clear accept, renegotiate, or reject decision.
Check fixed-fee project profit
Enter a project fee, revision assumptions, and client risk signals. ScopeMath calculates the real hourly rate and the minimum safe price.
Verdict
Calculating...
Enter the project assumptions to see whether the fee clears your target rate.
What it helps with
Make the messy parts visible before they turn into missed details.
Hidden revision/admin time
Add a buffer for meetings, revisions, handoff, and waiting that normally disappears from estimates.
No clear minimum acceptable price
Calculate a floor price from your target hourly rate and expected true hours.
Bad clients discovered too late
Flag high-risk projects early and write tighter scope guardrails before the proposal goes out.
What you get
A compact workspace for making the next step obvious.
True hourly calculator
See the real hourly rate after buffer, not just the optimistic delivery estimate.
Revision buffer planner
Model admin and revision drag before it eats the margin.
Risk score
Keep a local bench of projects by fee, hours, hourly rate, and risk.
Proposal price range
Turn the calculation into a clearer floor price and proposal guardrails.
Keep it moving
Save a pricing scenario
Use the calculator above, then save projects locally to compare your quotes over time.
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Freelance fixed-fee project pricing calculator
ScopeMath helps freelancers, consultants, designers, developers, marketers, and writers price fixed-fee client projects by modeling true hourly rate, revision creep, admin time, client risk, and minimum safe price.
Who this is for
Use ScopeMath when you need a fast, practical way to price fixed-fee projects without setting up a heavy system. It is designed for freelancers and consultants pricing client projects who want a useful answer in one sitting.
What to enter
Add the fee, delivery hours, admin time, revision rounds, target hourly rate, and risk signals such as stakeholder count, asset readiness, timeline pressure, and approval speed.
What you get
You get an accept, renegotiate, or reject verdict, a true hourly rate, a minimum safe price, scenario comparison, and proposal language you can paste into a client quote.
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Questions people ask
Short answers for deciding whether this tool fits the job.
How do I know if a fixed-fee project is profitable?
Estimate the project fee, delivery hours, admin time, revision buffer, and target hourly rate. The true hourly rate should clear your target after all hidden time is included.
What is a revision buffer?
A revision buffer is extra time reserved for client changes, admin, meetings, handoff, and rework that often gets missed in fixed-fee pricing.
What should I do if the true hourly rate is too low?
Raise the price, reduce the scope, add a paid discovery step, or set stricter revision and decision limits.
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