These 12 gold IRA calculators each answer one question you would otherwise have to take a salesperson's word on, and each of them names what it deliberately does not account for. None asks for an email before showing you a result, and every figure you enter stays inside your own browser rather than reaching us, so you can price a transfer here without telling anyone the amount you are moving or the account it sits in.
What it costs
The fee question is the one that sends most people looking, and it is the one the industry answers least clearly.
Whether you can, and when you must
Rollover rules and required minimum distributions, worked against the current IRS tables rather than against a rule of thumb someone repeated to you.
How much to hold
Sizing an allocation against the position you actually hold, your timeline and your other accounts, with the published allocations to measure it against.
Gold against everything else
Gold measured against stocks, silver and inflation over any window you choose to set, on month-end data going back to 1968.
- Inflation calculator What is a past gold price worth in today's money? 58 years of CPIReal and nominal
- Spot price calculator What is a given weight of metal worth right now? Gold and silverLive spot
- Gold vs silver calculator How would splitting between the two have behaved? 58 years, monthlyAny split
- Gold vs stocks backtest How has gold done against the market over a chosen period? Any window since 1968Dividends reinvested
What can go wrong
The arrangements that look like a shortcut and carry a penalty the IRS has already ruled on, priced against your own balance.