Vesting Schedule Calculator

Yes. It is completely free, needs no sign-up, and runs entirely in your browser. Your grant size, dates and terms are never uploaded or stored on a server.

A cliff is an initial period during which nothing vests. On the cliff date the whole amount accrued up to that point vests at once. A common example is a 1-year cliff on a 4-year grant: 25% vests on your first work anniversary, then the rest vests gradually. Leave before the cliff and you forfeit the entire grant.

Over four years your grant vests in equal monthly slices, but the first twelve months are held behind the cliff. On the 12-month mark 25% vests in one block; after that, 1/48 of the total vests every month for the remaining 36 months until you reach 100%.

Yes. The schedule is the same maths for restricted stock units, incentive or non-qualified stock options, or any grant that vests over time. Enter the number of shares or units; the calculator does not model exercise price, taxes or strike price, only when units vest.

Companies grant whole shares, so the calculator rounds each vesting event to whole units using cumulative rounding. That keeps every tranche a whole number while making the schedule add up exactly to your total grant, with any remainder placed in the final vesting date.

Yes. Set the cliff to 0 months and the grant simply vests in equal amounts on each period boundary from the first month, quarter or year onward, with no initial lump sum.