Is your forklift lease actually fair?
Dealers don’t always show you the interest rate, residual value, or sales price. Enter what you do have — we back into the rest, break the payment down to the dollar, and tell you exactly what to ask for.
Free · no signup · works even when the dealer only gave you a monthly payment.
Four things your dealer would rather you didn’t calculate.
Whether the residual is fair
We estimate a fair lease-end value for your exact class, age, and hours — and show where the dealer’s residual sits against that range. A low residual quietly inflates your payment.
The interest rate they didn’t state
Money factor 0.0035 sounds tiny — it’s an 8.4% APR. Give us the payment and we back into the real rate, even when it was never written down.
Where every dollar goes
Your monthly payment, split into depreciation, finance charge, and tax — so you can see what you’re actually paying for versus what’s margin.
Whether the price is right
We compare the sales price to typical asking for a new unit of that class — and flag when you’re paying more than dealers even ask.
Three inputs. One straight answer.
Enter what you know
Machine class, term, and your monthly payment. Leave the rate, residual, or price blank — whatever the dealer didn’t tell you.
We solve the rest
The calculator backs into the missing numbers from the lease math and our independent residual benchmarks.
Get a grade + a script
A fair / push-back verdict, the full payment breakdown, and the exact questions to take back to your dealer.
We’re not selling you a forklift.
Residual books and dealer F&I tools are built by the people on the other side of the table. Our benchmarks come from thousands of real public-auction sales and dealer listings — anchored to federal GSA contract pricing, not an internal lookup table. The methodology is transparent, and the tool is free because the value is the independent number, not a sale.
Got a lease quote in hand?
Find out in under a minute whether it’s fair — and what to say if it isn’t.
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