Free tools
Free tools. No email wall.
Useful on their own, whether or not you ever sign up. Each one computes in your own browser and shows the arithmetic it did, because a calculator you cannot check is an ad.
Seven of the eight work in any country, taking your currency, your number format and your date format. One is built around a single jurisdiction and labelled as such on the card, in the page title and at the top of the tool, so you never find out after filling in a form.
Six hand back a number
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Figures in, answer out, and the arithmetic that produced it printed underneath. Every intermediate line is on the page, so you can check the result rather than trust it, and copy the working into a spreadsheet if you would rather own the model yourself.
- Works anywhere
Employee cost estimator
Build the fully loaded cost of a hire from pay, employer costs and one-offs you enter.
Founders and finance planning headcount in any country. Every employer contribution is a line you name and a figure you enter, because the rates differ by country and we will not guess yours. - Works anywhere
Contractor cost calculator
What a contractor engagement costs you all-in, including fees, currency margin and fixed extras.
Anyone engaging contractors across borders. Your currency, your number format, your fee structure. No country assumed. - Works anywhere
Salary band calculator
Turn a min and a max into quartiles, then place a salary with a compa-ratio.
Teams building their first pay bands, in any currency. Pure arithmetic on the numbers you enter. No market data, no benchmarks, no invented ranges. - India only
India CTC breakdown calculator
Split an India cost-to-company figure into indicative components and a rough in-hand.
Anyone reading or writing an India CTC offer. Built on India CTC vocabulary. Hiring elsewhere, use the employee cost estimator instead. - Works anywhere
ESOP vesting calculator
Grant, cliff and schedule to what is vested on a date, with the tranches still to come.
Founders writing grants and employees reading them. Counts units, never money. Vesting mechanics are the same wherever the company is incorporated. - Works anywhere
Payable days calculator
Payable days, unpaid days and the proration fraction for a joiner, a leaver or a part month.
Whoever prepares payroll inputs each month, anywhere. Counts days only. It computes no pay, because the money rule belongs to your payroll partner.
Two hand back a document
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Fill in the fields and a finished draft appears beside them, updating as you type. Copy it, download it, rewrite it in your own words. Nothing watermarks it, nothing expires, and nobody has to know you used this page.
- You supply the local terms
Offer letter generator
A clean offer letter in your date format, your currency and your terms.
Anyone making an offer outside their own country as well as inside it. The structure is jurisdiction-neutral. Notice, probation and working time are fields you fill in, and the tool lists what to check locally. - Multi-country by design
Leave policy generator
One policy across several countries, each with its own days, holidays and carry-over.
Teams with people in more than one country or entity. Add a location per country. The tool states no legal minimum anywhere, and tells you to check each one.
What none of them will do
Four limits, and they hold across all eight. They are here rather than buried on each page because they are the reason to trust the ones that are left: a free tool that would say anything is not worth reading.
- No tool tells you what the law requires
- Statutory leave minimums, notice periods, employer contribution rates, tax bands and filing dates differ by country, change over time and sometimes differ by region inside one country, so this site does not publish them as fact. Where a tool needs a number of that kind it asks you for it, labels it as your assumption, and shows what it did with it. Where a tool would be useless without inventing one, we did not build it.
- None of this is advice
- Nothing here is legal, tax or accounting advice, and no output is a substitute for someone qualified in the country concerned. Take anything load-bearing, an offer you are about to send or a policy you are about to publish, to a professional who is accountable for the answer.
- None of this is payroll
- Capstan does not compute statutory payroll. It compiles your payroll inputs and hands a documented export to your payroll partner, who does the statutory maths and the filings. A tool on this page that counts days stops at days, on purpose, because the rule that turns days into money is not ours to hold.
- No benchmark, no market data, no invented ranges
- No tool here publishes what a role pays, what a band should be, or what is typical anywhere. That data would have to be made up to exist on a free page, and a made-up number is worse than no number, so the tools arrange figures you already hold instead.
Questions with complete answers
Do I have to give an email address to use these?
No, and you never will. There is no email wall, no sign-up, no gate and no lead form anywhere in this set. Every tool computes in your own browser as you type, which is also why there is nothing for us to collect: the numbers you enter never leave the page you are on.
Which of these work outside my country?
All of them except the India CTC breakdown calculator, which is built around India cost-to-company vocabulary and says so on its card, in its title and at the top of the tool itself. Every other tool takes your currency, your number format and your date format, and asks you for any local figure it needs rather than assuming one. The cards above carry the same label so you can tell before you click.
Do the calculators use official tax or statutory rates?
No. No tool here states a statutory rate, threshold, slab or deadline as fact, because those change, differ by country and often differ by person. Where a calculation needs one, it is a field you fill in with a figure from your own accountant or the official source, and the tool shows the arithmetic it did with it. That is why every page carries a methodology section: a calculator you cannot check is an ad.
Is anything I type saved or sent anywhere?
No. There is no server call, no analytics on your inputs, no cookie holding your figures and no storage. Closing the tab clears everything. Some calculators offer a link that carries your figures in the address itself, which is the one way a result can travel, and the tool tells you plainly that the numbers are in the link before you copy it.
Can I use the output without Capstan?
Yes. That is the whole idea. Copy the letter, take the policy into your handbook, paste the numbers into a spreadsheet, send the link to your accountant. Nothing here is a trial, nothing expires, and none of it needs an account.
These are free because the core is free. Neither one asks for an email.