Startup Cost
Estimate the real cost of starting a business across 479 cities and 167 business types.
About Startup Cost
Startup Cost models the realistic three-month opening capital needed to launch each of 167 business types — coffee shop, dental practice, SaaS company, food truck — across 479 cities. Rent, salaries, licences, equipment, insurance, marketing.
Inputs come from city-level Numbeo data, BLS-equivalent wage surveys, commercial-rent indices and operator interviews. Output is a single defensible number you can take into a planning meeting.
Key Features
167 business types
From food truck to dental practice to SaaS — modelled cost basket per type.
479 cities
Major and second-tier cities; rent, wages, fees pulled per locale.
Interactive sliders
Adjust team size, square footage, marketing spend — total updates live.
Sourced inputs
Each cost line cites its dataset — no guesswork passed off as fact.
Specifications
- Cities
- 479
- Business types
- 167
- Update cadence
- Annual + on-demand
- Languages
- EN