Technical Debt Calculator
Estimate technical debt in hours and cost, from pasted code or from your own numbers. Free and private: runs in your browser.
Paste code to estimate remediation time from the code smells it contains, or switch to numbers mode and enter issue counts, hourly rate and team size to estimate the cost of fixing (or ignoring) debt.
Runs entirely in your browser. Nothing you paste is uploaded or stored.
Use cases
- Check a function before opening a pull request.
- Explain a review comment with numbers instead of opinions.
- Find the riskiest code to refactor first.
Frequently asked questions
How is technical debt measured?
Usually as remediation time: the estimated effort to fix every maintainability issue. Dividing it by the effort to build the code gives the technical debt ratio.
Is the Technical Debt Calculator free?
Yes. It is free with no sign-up, and it runs entirely in your browser, so your input is never uploaded or stored.
How accurate is a browser-based code check?
It uses fast heuristics on the snippet you paste, so it is great for quick feedback. For whole repositories, cross-file analysis and history, run a full CodeInspector scan.
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