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Savings goal and monthly budget calculator documentation
Inputs, formulas, assumptions and API/MCP examples for the savings goal and monthly budget calculator. Reproduce a calculation and cite its sources.
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Formula and assumptions
Required monthly saving = max((goal − principal × growth^months) / (growth × annuity factor), 0). Goal duration is the first whole month reaching the target. Budget allocates income 50% needs, 30% wants, 20% saving.
- Contributions are made at the beginning of each month. Annual returns are effective rates converted to monthly compound factors. All figures use one entered currency.
- Duration searches at most 600 months and returns an unreachable state when no crossing occurs. The budget split is an arithmetic example, not a recommended spending plan.
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Sources
- KlarFort calculation methodology. Free to use with the credit line; vintage 1.
Parameters
| Name | Description | Type | Default | Minimum | Maximum |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| currency | Currency | string | "USD" | ||
| principal | Starting balance | number | 10000 | 0 | 1,000,000,000,000 |
| months | Projection months | integer | 12 | 1 | 600 |
| monthlyContribution | Monthly contribution | number | 0 | 0 | 1,000,000,000,000 |
| annualReturn | Annual return (%) | number | 0 | -99 | 100 |
| mode | Goal mode | string | "required-monthly" | ||
| goal | Savings goal | number | 50000 | 0 | 1,000,000,000,000 |
| monthlyIncome | Monthly take-home income | number | 5000 | 0 | 1,000,000,000,000 |
JSON API
GET accepts one input parameter containing URL-encoded JSON. POST sends the JSON input object. Prefer POST for personal figures. Inputs are limited to 16 KiB. POST results are not stored; GET results may be cached for up to 24 hours.
curl -X POST https://klarfort.com/tools/api/v1/savings-goal-calculator -H "Content-Type: application/json" --data '{"currency":"USD","principal":10000,"months":12,"monthlyContribution":0,"annualReturn":0,"mode":"required-monthly","goal":50000,"monthlyIncome":5000}'fetch("https://klarfort.com/tools/api/v1/savings-goal-calculator", {method:"POST", headers:{"Content-Type":"application/json"}, body:JSON.stringify({"currency":"USD","principal":10000,"months":12,"monthlyContribution":0,"annualReturn":0,"mode":"required-monthly","goal":50000,"monthlyIncome":5000})})import json, urllib.request
request = urllib.request.Request("https://klarfort.com/tools/api/v1/savings-goal-calculator", data=json.dumps({"currency":"USD","principal":10000,"months":12,"monthlyContribution":0,"annualReturn":0,"mode":"required-monthly","goal":50000,"monthlyIncome":5000}).encode(), headers={"Content-Type":"application/json"})
print(urllib.request.urlopen(request).read().decode())Connected assistants
Connect using https://klarfort.com/tools/mcp. Discover this calculator with tools/list, then call savings-goal-calculator. Protocol versions 2026-07-28 and 2025-11-25 are supported. Modern requests carry protocol metadata and matching HTTP headers. Set Mcp-Name to params.name for tools/call and to params.uri for resources/read. Older clients initialize first.
Limits: 120 requests per minute per address and approximately 3,000 per minute per edge location. Simulations are capped at 1,000 paths, 600 months and 150,000 path-months (paths multiplied by months). Shorten the duration or reduce paths when that work limit is exceeded. A limit response returns 429 and Retry-After. No exact remaining-request count is available.
Usage and credit
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