Free B2B pipeline budget calculator

What Will Your Pipeline Cost?

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Most paid media budgets are set from last year’s number, not from the deals the business needs. Enter your deal target, contract value, funnel rates and channel costs to see the budget it takes, and what each lead and customer will cost on every channel. Free, instant, no signup required.

CLICKS 6,209 LEADS 200 SQLS 40 DEALS 10 REQUIRED BUDGET PER QUARTER $32,732 START HERE
Work backwards from the deals you need to the paid media budget that gets you there. Enter your contract value, funnel rates and channel costs. The calculator shows the required budget, cost per lead and customer acquisition cost by channel, and where the leverage is.
Your funnel
Your channels
ChannelAvg CPCClick-to-leadBudget split
Google Search Avg CPC$ Click-to-lead% Split%
LinkedIn Avg CPC$ Click-to-lead% Split%
Meta Avg CPC$ Click-to-lead% Split%
Microsoft Ads Avg CPC$ Click-to-lead% Split%

Click-to-lead is your landing page or lead form conversion rate. Set a channel's split to 0 to leave it out. If the splits don't add up to 100, they are scaled to 100.

Enter a value above zero for deals, both funnel rates, and at least one channel with a CPC, click-to-lead rate and split.
Required paid media budget
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per quarter
—Clicks
—Leads
—SQLs
—Deals

Needed per quarter to hit your deal target

—Blended cost per lead
—Blended CAC
—CAC as % of ACV
—CAC payback (months of ACV)
—Qualified pipeline needed
—Closed ACV per quarter
By channel
ChannelSplitBudgetLeadsCPLCAC
Where the leverage is

    Estimates based on your inputs. Real results depend on targeting, creative, landing pages and tracking.

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    How does the pipeline budget calculator work?

    Enter your funnel. Annual contract value, target deals per quarter, lead-to-SQL rate and SQL-to-close rate. Use your CRM numbers, or start with the defaults and adjust.

    Get your budget in seconds. The calculator works backwards from deals to SQLs, leads and clicks, then prices those clicks across Google Search, LinkedIn, Meta and Microsoft Ads at the CPC, conversion rate and budget split you set. Keep the plan. Copy the summary, or enter your work email and we’ll send you the full plan with budget by channel, CPL, CAC and the three changes that would cut it most.

    How it works

    What does the pipeline budget calculator work out?

    The calculator runs the same maths we use to build a media plan for a new account. It starts from the deals you need, applies your funnel rates to find the leads and clicks behind them, and prices those clicks on each channel. It tells you what the budget should be, not what your campaigns will do. Whether they hit the number depends on targeting, creative, landing pages and tracking.

    • Required budget. The paid media spend per quarter and per month it takes to hit your deal target at your current funnel rates.

    • Funnel volumes. The clicks, leads, SQLs and deals you need each quarter, and the qualified pipeline and closed ACV they add up to.

    • Cost per lead and CAC. Blended CPL and customer acquisition cost, CAC as a share of ACV, and how many months of contract value it takes to pay back.

    • Channel breakdown. Budget, leads, CPL and CAC for Google Search, LinkedIn, Meta and Microsoft Ads at the split you set, so you can see which channel earns its share.

    • Where the leverage is. What a one-point lift in landing page conversion, a five-point lift in lead-to-SQL rate or a 15% lower CPC would save you per quarter.

    Why work backwards from deals?

    Most paid media budgets are set from the top down. Last year’s number, plus or minus, split across channels by habit.

    Set that way, the budget has no link to the pipeline the business needs. Underfund it and sales runs short of SQLs by month two. Overfund the wrong channel and CAC climbs while the deal count stays flat.

    Working backwards ties the budget to the deals it has to produce. The number you take to the board is the one the funnel says it takes, the channel split follows cost per customer rather than habit, and the first lever to pull is the one that saves the most.

    Q1 PAID MEDIA PLAN Budget to hit 10 deals TARGET: 10 DEALS 10 deals the target 40 SQLs at 25% SQL-to-close 200 leads at 20% lead-to-SQL 6,209 clicks at 3.2% click-to-lead REQUIRED PAID MEDIA BUDGET $32,732 per quarter $10,911 per month BLENDED CPL $164 BLENDED CAC $3,273 Source: CRM close rates, last two quarters 01

    FAQs

    Frequently asked questions

    Yes. The calculator and every result on the page are free with no signup. If you want the plan sent to you, we ask for your work email, with no obligation.

    Five: annual contract value, target deals per quarter, lead-to-SQL rate, SQL-to-close rate and an average cost per click for each channel you run. Your CRM has the first four. If you don’t have a CPC yet, the defaults are reasonable starting points for B2B and you can adjust them as you go.

    Yes. Change any input and the results update instantly. Use Copy summary to keep each scenario, or Reset to defaults to start again.

    Look at Where the leverage is first. It shows what a small lift in landing page conversion, lead-to-SQL rate or CPC does to the number, and those are usually cheaper than more budget. Then check the channel split. Moving spend from the channel with the highest CAC to the one with the lowest is the fastest fix. That’s what we do at Veuno.

    Most calculators start with a budget and tell you what it might return. This one starts with the deals you need and tells you what budget it takes, where each lead and customer comes from, and how long CAC takes to pay back. It is built for pipeline targets, not ad spend.

    No. It tells you what the budget should be if your funnel performs at the rates you entered. Whether it does depends on targeting, creative, landing pages and tracking, which is why the first thing we check on any account is that the conversion data is real. The free tracking checker covers that.

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    not just forecast?

    With Veuno, paid media is planned from the pipeline backwards and optimized to the revenue in your CRM, not the clicks in your dashboard. We’ll turn your calculator results into a media plan with channel budgets, targets and the levers to pull first, then run it. Simply tell us about your goals and budget and we’ll set up a short call, then send a full proposal within five days.