Car Loan Calculator
Monthly payment and the full schedule for a car loan.
PRINCIPAL & INTEREST - FULL SCHEDULE - RUNS ON YOUR DEVICE
Your loan figures stay on your device
- Carloan amount
- Rateannual percent
- Termyears or months
- 0data sent
Car Loan Calculator at a glance
- Input
- Amount, rate, term, payment frequency
- Output
- Printable payment table
- Deposit and trade-in
- Enter the amount after any deposit
- Extra payments
- Same extra every month
- Method
- Standard fixed-rate loan formula
- Metadata handling
- No data stored
- Price
- Free
- Account required
- No
How to use Car Loan Calculator
- 1
Enter what you are borrowing
Enter the amount borrowed.
- 2
Add the rate and term
Add rate, term and frequency.
- 3
Read the schedule
Read the payment table.
Frequently asked questions
Does this include tax, registration or dealer fees?
No. It works on the figure you enter as the amount borrowed. Add any fees that are being financed into that figure yourself, and leave out anything you pay separately.
Can I see what paying extra each month does?
Yes. Enter a fixed extra amount and it is applied to every payment. The schedule ends when the balance clears, and both the payment count and the total interest fall.
Is it safe to type my loan details in?
The arithmetic runs in this tab. The amount, the rate and the term are never sent anywhere, and they are gone when you close or reload the page.
Why is the first payment mostly interest?
Interest is charged on the balance, and the balance starts at its highest. As the balance falls, the interest part of each payment falls with it.
What the schedule shows on a car loan
Enter the amount you are borrowing, the annual rate and the term. The table shows every payment split into principal and interest, down to a zero balance.
- The monthly payment is fixed, but the split inside it moves: interest first, principal later.
- A shorter term raises the monthly payment and lowers the total interest; a longer term does the reverse.
- Print or save the table if you want to check a lender's figures line by line.
- Enter the balance after your deposit, or the payment will come out higher than the one you were quoted.
Full specification
| Input | The amount borrowed, the annual interest rate, the term in years or months, and how often you pay. |
|---|---|
| Output | A payment-by-payment table you can print or save as a PDF from the browser. |
| Deposit and trade-in | Not fields here. Subtract them yourself and enter what is left to borrow. |
| Extra payments | A fixed extra amount each month is applied to every payment for the life of the loan. |
| Method | The standard fixed-rate, fixed-term loan formula, one loan at a time. |
| Metadata handling | No file metadata is processed; entered loan data remains in the current browser session. |
| Price | Free |
| Account required | No |
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