Repair vs Replace Calculator

Compare a repair quote with a replacement on cost per remaining year.

What you provide

Around 7 for a laptop, 4 for a phone, 10 for a large appliance.

Result

PASS

Repairing costs £60 a year against £100 to replace

Spread over the 3.0 years the device has left, the repair is comfortably cheaper per year than buying new. The half-the-replacement-cost rule of thumb would have said the same only by accident — what makes this repair worth doing is that the device still has life in it, not the size of the quote.

Diagnostic telemetry
Repair cost
£180
Replacement cost
£700
Repair as share of replacement
26%
Expected life leftFrom a typical service life of 7 years
3.0 years
Repair, per remaining year
£60
Replace, per year
£100

What this cannot tell you

  • Calculated in your browser. Nothing you enter is uploaded or logged.
  • Compares costs on the assumptions you enter. It cannot know whether the fault will recur, whether the repair is guaranteed, or whether the replacement is genuinely equivalent.
  • Expected remaining life is a straight-line estimate from typical service life, floored at one year. Real devices fail on their own schedule.
  • Ignores the value of the time and disruption either option costs, which for a device you depend on is often larger than the difference in price.

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