What is a Brokerage Calculator?
A brokerage calculator estimates the full cost of a trade: brokerage plus statutory charges such as STT, exchange transaction charges, the SEBI fee, stamp duty and GST, and shows the net profit or loss and the break-even price move.
Brokerage Calculator shows the full cost of a round-trip trade on NSE. Brokerage depends on your broker’s plan, but STT, exchange transaction charges, the SEBI fee, stamp duty and GST apply to every trade, and on small or frequent trades they can take a large share of the profit.
How does the Brokerage Calculator work?
Charges on a equity intraday round trip (one buy and one sell) on NSE. Brokerage depends on your broker; the other charges are statutory.
STT: 0.025% sell
Exchange: 0.00297% of turnover
SEBI: ₹10 per crore of turnover
Stamp duty: 0.003% of buy value
GST: 18% on (brokerage + exchange + SEBI)Worked example using the starting values on this page:
- Buy price
- ₹1,000
- Sell price
- ₹1,010
- Quantity
- 100 shares
- Brokerage per order
- ₹20
- Brokerage rate
- 0.0%
- Segment
- Intraday
- Brokerage plan
- Lower of ₹ or %
- Net profit / loss
- ₹917.27
- Total charges
- ₹82.73
- Gross profit / loss
- ₹1,000.00
- Turnover
- ₹2,01,000
How to use the Brokerage Calculator
- Enter the buy price (anywhere from ₹0 to ₹10,00,000). Type it in the box or drag the slider.
- Enter the sell price (anywhere from ₹0 to ₹10,00,000). Type it in the box or drag the slider.
- Enter the quantity (anywhere from 1 shares to 10,00,000 shares). Type it in the box or drag the slider.
- Choose segment: Delivery or Intraday or Futures or Options.
- Choose brokerage plan: Lower of ₹ or % or Flat ₹ or % of value.
- Read the net profit / loss at the top of the results, then check the breakdown below it.
- Change one input at a time to compare scenarios, and note how much each change moves the result.
Benefits of using the Brokerage Calculator
- Turns raw before-and-after numbers into a figure you can compare across investments.
- Shows the working, so the result is easy to verify in a spreadsheet.
- Helps you judge performance fairly by accounting for time and costs.
- Free, instant and private: nothing you enter is stored.
Mistakes to avoid with the Brokerage Calculator
The common mistake is counting brokerage alone and ignoring STT, exchange charges and GST.
Check the break-even points: the price move needed just to cover costs.
Helpful checks before using the result
These checks make a brokerage more useful in practice.
- Start with a realistic base case rather than the first value that fits the range slider.
- Change one major assumption at a time so the effect stays easy to interpret.
- Use the result to compare scenarios, not as a final provider quote or guaranteed outcome.
- Verify rates, rules, and product terms separately before acting on the estimate.
What each charge is
Only brokerage is set by the broker.
- STT (Securities Transaction Tax) is charged by the government; the rate depends on the segment and side of the trade.
- Exchange transaction charges are levied by NSE or BSE on turnover.
- The SEBI turnover fee is ₹10 per crore of turnover.
- Stamp duty is collected on the buy side only.
- GST at 18% applies to brokerage, exchange charges and the SEBI fee, not to STT or stamp duty.
Using the break-even figure
Points to break even is the price move needed just to cover costs.
Intraday
With small targets, check that the expected move is well above the break-even points.
Delivery
STT on both sides and DP charges make very small delivery trades relatively costly.
Options
Charges are on premium turnover; a high number of lots can add up even when premiums are small.
Brokerage Calculator FAQs
How are brokerage charges calculated?
Brokerage follows your broker’s plan (flat per order, a percentage of the order value, or the lower of the two). Statutory charges are then added: STT, exchange charges, SEBI fee, stamp duty and 18% GST on brokerage + exchange + SEBI.
What is STT on delivery and intraday trades?
The rates used here are 0.1% on both buy and sell for delivery and 0.025% on the sell side for intraday. STT rates are revised from time to time, so check the current rates.
What are DP charges?
Depository charges are applied when shares are debited from your demat account on a delivery sell. They are per company per day and set by the broker and depository; enter your broker’s figure.
Why is my contract note slightly different?
Rounding per order, BSE versus NSE charges, and any rate revisions can create small differences. The contract note is the final record.
