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Loan EMI Calculator

Work out the monthly EMI on a personal, car, home or education loan, plus the total interest you pay and the full repayment schedule.

Enter the loan amount, interest rate and tenure. Add an optional extra monthly payment to see how much sooner the loan closes. Everything is calculated in your browser and nothing is stored.

Your loan

The principal you borrow

The rate your lender quotes

Decimals allowed, e.g. 2.5

Paid on top of the EMI every month

At 9% over 5 yr, you repay $1,245,501.31 in total — $245,501.31 of it interest.

Monthly EMI

$20,758.36

Paid every month for 5 yr.

Principal
$1,000,000.00
Total interest
$245,501.31
Total payment
$1,245,501.31
Interest as % of loan
24.55%

Estimates based only on the numbers you entered. Processing fees, insurance and other charges are not included.

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Outstanding balance over time

The balance falls slowly at first because early installments are mostly interest.

Amortisation schedule

How each payment splits between interest and principal, and what is left to repay.

Year 1

Paid
$249,100.32
Interest
$83,270.23
Principal
$165,830.02
Balance
$834,169.98

Year 2

Paid
$249,100.32
Interest
$67,714.23
Principal
$181,386.03
Balance
$652,783.95

Year 3

Paid
$249,100.32
Interest
$50,698.98
Principal
$198,401.29
Balance
$454,382.67

Year 4

Paid
$249,100.32
Interest
$32,087.58
Principal
$217,012.69
Balance
$237,369.98

Year 5

Paid
$249,100.32
Interest
$11,730.30
Principal
$237,369.99
Balance
$0.00

How loan EMIs work

Almost every retail loan — personal, car, home or education — is repaid on a reducing-balance basis. The installment stays the same, but what it buys changes every month.

  1. 1. Interest first. Each month the lender charges interest on the outstanding balance at one twelfth of the annual rate.
  2. 2. The rest repays principal. Whatever is left of the EMI reduces the balance, so next month's interest is slightly lower.
  3. 3. Longer tenure, smaller EMI, more interest. Stretching the tenure lowers the monthly payment but raises the total interest, because the balance stays high for longer.
  4. 4. Extra payments compound backwards. Anything paid above the EMI comes straight off the principal, which removes all the future interest that balance would have earned.

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