Marketing ROI Calculator

See the return on any campaign or investment as a percentage.

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Return on investment

ROI (return on investment) tells you how much profit you made relative to what you spent, expressed as a percentage. It's the simplest way to judge whether a campaign, channel, or project actually paid off. Enter the revenue it generated and the amount you invested to get your ROI and net profit.

How to calculate roi

Formula

ROI = ((Revenue − Cost) ÷ Cost) × 100

Subtract your cost from the revenue that cost generated to get net profit, divide by the cost, and multiply by 100 for a percentage. A positive ROI means you earned more than you spent; 0% means you broke even; a negative ROI means the initiative lost money. For marketing specifically, be honest about which revenue is genuinely attributable to the spend.

Example

A campaign cost $2,000 and produced $5,000 in revenue.

ROI = ((5,000 − 2,000) ÷ 2,000) × 100 = 150%.

Frequently asked questions

A common rule of thumb is a 5:1 revenue-to-cost ratio (400% ROI) for healthy marketing, with 10:1 considered excellent and anything below 2:1 often unprofitable once overhead is included. The right target depends on your margins and sales cycle.

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