Your ROAS, solved from any two numbers.
Enter any two of ad spend, ad revenue, and ROAS and get the third instantly. Works in reverse from a target ROAS too. Free, no signup.
Enter any two
Fill in two of the three and the tool solves the last.
ROAS (solved)
3.2x
= $4,800.00 revenue ÷ $1,500.00 spend
Revenue returned per $1 of ad spend on this channel.
- Ad spend What you put in.
- $1,500.00
- Ad revenue What came back.
- $4,800.00
- Gross ad return Revenue minus spend, before product cost.
- $3,300.00
This is platform ROAS for one channel. Your MER, the marketing efficiency ratio, is total revenue divided by total marketing spend across every channel, and it is the number that ties out to your bank account. ROAS also ignores product cost, so a 3x ROAS can still lose money on a thin-margin product. To find the ROAS that actually turns a profit, use the break-even ROAS calculator.
You know your ROAS. The lever that actually moves it is the creative angle.
Adlicio finds that angle in your customers' real words. It scrapes comments and reviews from Reddit, YouTube, Amazon and more, then ranks them into the angles, objections, and hooks that move ROAS the most.
How to calculate ROAS
To calculate ROAS, divide the revenue attributed to your ads by the amount you spent on those ads. The formula is ROAS = ad revenue ÷ ad spend. If $4,800 in ad revenue came from $1,500 in spend, the ROAS is 3.2x.
- 01
Enter ad spend
Add what you paid the ad platform in the ad spend field.
- 02
Add revenue or a target
Enter ad revenue to calculate ROAS, or enter a target ROAS to solve the revenue or spend you need.
- 03
Read the solved number
The calculator shows the missing value, gross ad return and the formula behind the result.
What ROAS tells you, and what it hides
ROAS is return on ad spend, your ad revenue divided by your ad spend. A 3.2x ROAS means every dollar you gave the platform came back as $3.20 in tracked revenue. Because the formula has only three parts, any two of them pin down the third: spend and revenue give you your ROAS, spend and a target ROAS give you the revenue that budget must produce, and revenue plus a target ROAS caps what you can afford to spend.
Two caveats keep the number honest. First, platform ROAS is an attribution claim, not a bank statement. Each channel credits itself generously, so also track your MER, total revenue divided by total marketing spend, which cannot lie. Second, ROAS says nothing about profit. It compares spend to revenue, not to margin, so a 3x ROAS on a thin-margin product can still lose money on every single order.
That is why this page is the quick utility, not the verdict. Once you know your ROAS, take your price, COGS, and fees to the break-even ROAS calculator to learn the threshold your number has to clear before a campaign actually makes money. Comparing the two turns a raw multiple into a profit or loss signal.
And when the ROAS is not where it needs to be, the fix is rarely the bid settings. It is the creative angle, and the sharpest angles come from scraping what your customers actually say.
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