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CAC Calculator

CAC (Customer Acquisition Cost) is what you pay in total to win one new paying customer. It is the foundation of a sustainable business.

Enter your total sales and marketing cost for a period, and the number of new customers it brought.

Your numbers

Your CAC

₹3,000

CAC = Total sales & marketing cost ÷ New customers

How to read it

Making sense of the result

  • CAC only makes sense next to customer lifetime value (LTV).
  • A healthy business usually has an LTV:CAC ratio of around 3:1 or better.

Frequently asked questions

What should be included in CAC?

Everything you spend to get customers — ad spend, marketing and sales salaries, software, agency fees, creative costs. Leaving costs out gives a number that looks nice but misleads you.

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