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Credit Score Estimator

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A credit score is really five questions wearing one number. Paying on time, keeping balances low, letting accounts age, opening new credit sparingly and holding a healthy mix all feed into a single score, but each carries a different weight. Most people can answer those five questions about themselves more honestly than they could guess a three-digit number — and that answer is exactly what this page turns into a rough range.

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Whether you have paid past bills and loans on time.

Your total balances and how much of your available credit they use.

How long your credit accounts have been open.

Newly opened accounts and hard inquiries.

The mix of credit you carry — cards, installment loans, mortgages and more.

Results update as you type. Nothing leaves your device.

Estimated score range

648–715

From how you rated the five factors, a rough 648–715 — payment history carries the most weight and your credit mix the least. This is not a real FICO score: only a bureau pulling your full report through FICO's model produces the official number.

Payment history
Good · 35%
Amounts owed
Fair · 30%
Length of credit history
Good · 15%
New credit
Good · 10%
Credit mix
Fair · 10%

The range in numbers

Range low
648
Range high
715
Width of the range
67 points
Low end sits in
Fair (600–679)
High end sits in
Good (680–739)
If all five were excellent
740–850

The five factors and their FICO weights

FactorFICO weightWhat it measures
Payment history35%Whether you have paid past bills and loans on time.
Amounts owed30%Your total balances and how much of your available credit they use.
Length of credit history15%How long your credit accounts have been open.
New credit10%Newly opened accounts and hard inquiries.
Credit mix10%The mix of credit you carry — cards, installment loans, mortgages and more.

These five factors and the 35/30/15/10/10 split are FICO’s own published description of what goes into a FICO score, anchored in `sources/fico-education.html`. The 4-band rating scale on this page is its own illustrative model, not FICO’s algorithm.

How your ratings add up

FactorYour ratingPoints by that ratingShare of your range
Payment historyGood680–73935%
Amounts owedFair600–67930%
Length of credit historyGood680–73915%
New creditGood680–73910%
Credit mixFair600–67910%

Each row’s points are weighted by the factor’s share and summed to the 648–715 range above ( 35% × 680–739, 30% × 600–679, 15% × 680–739, 10% × 680–739, 10% × 600–679 ). The summation is this page’s model, not FICO’s algorithm.

The 100% behind your range

  • Payment history35%
  • Amounts owed30%
  • Length of credit history15%
  • New credit10%
  • Credit mix10%

The five weights are FICO’s published split and add up to exactly 100%, which is why the range can never leave 350–850. Payment history alone (35%) moves the range further than new credit and credit mix combined (20%).

The cheapest next points

  1. Amounts owed sits at Fair (30% of the score); moving it to Good would lift the low end of the range by about 24 points.
  2. Payment history sits at Good (35% of the score); moving it to Excellent would lift the low end of the range by about 21 points.
  3. Length of credit history sits at Good (15% of the score); moving it to Excellent would lift the low end of the range by about 9 points.
This is an estimate, not a real score. Paying on time, carrying low balances and keeping a long history all tend to lift a real FICO score, but a lender’s actual number comes from the full contents of your credit report run through FICO’s proprietary model — far more detail than five self-assessed buckets. Treat 648–715 as a rough guide whose real score can sit materially outside it.

This estimator does not know your report, and it says so on the page. It takes the five factors FICO publishes as the building blocks of a score, gives each the weight FICO assigns it, and maps your self-assessed ratings onto a range. What comes out is where a real score would probably sit — a guide to the direction your habits push, never a replacement for the number a lender pulls.

About this credit score estimator

Lenders read a credit score as a fast summary of how someone handles borrowed money, and this page lets a person rate themselves against the five factors that build one. Five self-assessments in, and it returns a rough range rather than pretending to a number only a bureau holds.

The five factors and their 35/30/15/10/10 weights are FICO’s own published description, anchored here to the official page rather than invented, and the banding from each rating to points is this page’s transparent model. There is no account and no report is pulled, and nothing you answer leaves your browser.

Treat the range as an estimate from the numbers you enter, not a real FICO score. A real score is computed from the entire credit report through a proprietary model, so every account, balance, inquiry and late mark is outside these five buckets, and two people who answer the same way can score differently. Different FICO versions, and the separate industry scores a lender may pull, weight the same factors differently, so identical habits can land in a different place. Check your actual reports for the figure a lender would see.

The four bands this page maps each rating onto are its own four-step approximation of the 350–850 scale, chosen to be wide enough that a self-assessment lands inside them and narrow enough that the direction of a change is visible. A score simulator run by a card issuer starts from your real report and changes one variable at a time, which is more precise but needs the report; this page starts from five answers you already know, which is less precise but works before you have looked anything up. Use it to decide what to check, then check it.

How this credit score estimator works

What a credit score is made of

FICO publishes five factors as the ingredients of a FICO score: payment history at 35%, amounts owed at 30%, length of credit history at 15%, new credit at 10% and credit mix at 10%. Payment history and amounts owed together carry nearly two thirds of the total, which is why a late payment or a maxed card moves a score so much further than a new inquiry.

Those five weights are FICO’s own published description, anchored on this page to FICO’s official text, kept on record. What this page adds is a simple, transparent way to turn five ratings into a range.

How the range is put together

Each factor gets one of four ratings — poor, fair, good or excellent — and every rating carries a band of points. That band is then weighted by the factor’s share of the score: the 35% weight of payment history pulls the range much further than the 10% weight of credit mix.

The five weighted bands are added up and rounded to give two numbers: the low end of your range from this model and the high end. With credible answers the result lands somewhere in the 350 to 850 area real scores live in, though the exact mapping is this page’s own illustrative model, not FICO’s algorithm.

Why an estimate will never match a real score

A real FICO score is computed from the full contents of your credit report through a proprietary model. Five self-assessed buckets cannot carry that detail: a real report knows every account, every balance, every inquiry and every late mark going back years.

So treat the range as a rough guide, not a prophecy. Two people who answer identically here can get different real scores, and a real score can sit outside this range — that is expected and stated rather than apologized away.

What moves a real score, not this page

The five factors map directly to habits anyone can act on. Paying every bill on or before the due date builds payment history. Bringing balances down relative to limits attacks amounts owed. Leaving old accounts open protects credit history length. Applying for credit only when needed limits new-credit hits. A deliberate mix — a card plus an installment loan, say — helps credit mix.

None of those actions change this page’s estimate until you re-answer it, because the source of truth for a real score is your report, not this calculator. The value of the estimator is reading your own exposures honestly and watching the direction the range moves as your habits change.

Where 648–715 comes from, step by step

Take the five ratings this page opens on: payment history Good, amounts owed Fair, length of credit history Good, new credit Good and credit mix Fair. Each rating carries a band of points, and each edge of that band is multiplied by the factor’s weight before the five are added up. Nothing is estimated twice and nothing is hidden in a lookup table you cannot see.

Payment history takes 35% of 680–739, which is 238 to 258.65 points. Amounts owed takes 30% of 600–679, which is 180 to 203.7. Length of credit history takes 15% of 680–739, 102 to 110.85. New credit takes 10% of 680–739, 68 to 73.9. Credit mix takes 10% of 600–679, 60 to 67.9. Adding the five low ends gives 648, adding the five high ends gives 715, and 648–715 is what the page prints at the top.

Two consequences fall out of that arithmetic. First, the width of the range is set by how far apart the bands are, not by how many factors you rate: if all five answers sit in the same band the five weighted slices collapse onto that band exactly, which is why rating everything Good returns 680–739 and nothing else. Second, because the weights total exactly 100%, no combination of answers can push the result outside 350–850 — the range is bounded by construction rather than by a clamp applied afterwards.

You can repeat the sum yourself from the second table: each row shows the band your rating earned and the share it was worth. If a row says 30% and 600–679, its slice of the answer is 180 to 203.7 points, and the five rows together are the range.

What five buckets cannot see

A real FICO score is computed account by account from your report, and several things that move it have no bucket here. How many accounts are open, and how old the oldest one is to the month. Whether a card sits at 29% or at 91% of its limit, when the amount owed is the same band either way. Whether a single 30-day late mark happened last month or four years ago. Whether a collection, a charge-off or a bankruptcy appears at all — none of those has its own rating on this page, and all of them can outweigh the five answers you give.

Score versions differ as well. The FICO score a mortgage lender pulls, the one a card issuer pulls and the older models a free score app may show can weight the same report differently, so the same habits can land in slightly different places. Adding a new score model, such as the versions that treat trended data differently, moves the numbers again without any change in your behavior.

That gap is the reason the answer is a range and the reason the page keeps pointing at your reports. A range built from five honest self-assessments tells you which direction your file is being pushed and how much one factor is worth relative to another. It cannot tell you the number a lender will see, and it does not pretend to: the warning under the result says so in plain words.

Worked examples

Each example below was run through the calculator on this page when the site was built, so the numbers match what you see when you enter the same inputs.

On-time payer with a maxed card

Payment history: Good · Amounts owed: Poor · Length of credit history: Good · New credit: Good · Credit mix: Fair

Estimated score range

573–691

From how you rated the five factors, a rough 573–691 — payment history carries the most weight and your credit mix the least. This is not a real FICO score: only a bureau pulling your full report through FICO's model produces the official number.

Payment history: Good · 35% · Amounts owed: Poor · 30% · Length of credit history: Good · 15% · New credit: Good · 10%

A clean history carries the day but the maxed utilization pulls the range down — the classic case where the 30% amounts-owed weight is visible.

Perfect history but a burst of new credit

Payment history: Excellent · Amounts owed: Good · Length of credit history: Fair · New credit: Poor · Credit mix: Fair

Estimated score range

648–749

From how you rated the five factors, a rough 648–749 — payment history carries the most weight and your credit mix the least. This is not a real FICO score: only a bureau pulling your full report through FICO's model produces the official number.

Payment history: Excellent · 35% · Amounts owed: Good · 30% · Length of credit history: Fair · 15% · New credit: Poor · 10%

Every payment on time, yet recent applications and a shorter history trim the range — new credit and history are small weights, not zero.

Clean but thin and brand-new credit

Payment history: Excellent · Amounts owed: Good · Length of credit history: Poor · New credit: Poor · Credit mix: Poor

Estimated score range

586–729

From how you rated the five factors, a rough 586–729 — payment history carries the most weight and your credit mix the least. This is not a real FICO score: only a bureau pulling your full report through FICO's model produces the official number.

Payment history: Excellent · 35% · Amounts owed: Good · 30% · Length of credit history: Poor · 15% · New credit: Poor · 10%

A perfect start on record, but with almost no history yet the range sits low; it climbs on its own as the accounts age without new mistakes.

Everything excellent

Payment history: Excellent · Amounts owed: Excellent · Length of credit history: Excellent · New credit: Excellent · Credit mix: Excellent

Estimated score range

740–850

From how you rated the five factors, a rough 740–850 — payment history carries the most weight and your credit mix the least. This is not a real FICO score: only a bureau pulling your full report through FICO's model produces the official number.

Payment history: Excellent · 35% · Amounts owed: Excellent · 30% · Length of credit history: Excellent · 15% · New credit: Excellent · 10%

All five factors at the top cap the range near the ceiling a real score can reach.

One Fair rating on the heaviest factor

Payment history: Fair · Amounts owed: Good · Length of credit history: Good · New credit: Good · Credit mix: Good

Estimated score range

652–718

From how you rated the five factors, a rough 652–718 — payment history carries the most weight and your credit mix the least. This is not a real FICO score: only a bureau pulling your full report through FICO's model produces the official number.

Payment history: Fair · 35% · Amounts owed: Good · 30% · Length of credit history: Good · 15% · New credit: Good · 10%

Returns 652–718: a single step down on the 35% factor costs the low end about 28 points compared with the same file rated Good throughout (680–739), which is why payment history is worth protecting first.

Carrying a balance while shopping for credit

Payment history: Good · Amounts owed: Poor · Length of credit history: Fair · New credit: Poor · Credit mix: Good

Estimated score range

536–674

From how you rated the five factors, a rough 536–674 — payment history carries the most weight and your credit mix the least. This is not a real FICO score: only a bureau pulling your full report through FICO's model produces the official number.

Payment history: Good · 35% · Amounts owed: Poor · 30% · Length of credit history: Fair · 15% · New credit: Poor · 10%

Returns 536–674: two weak factors land in the two heaviest places at once, and no amount of good payment history pulls a Poor utilization back up on its own.

Frequently asked questions

Is this a real FICO score?

No, and the page says so. It is a rough range built from how you rate five factors, using FICO’s published weights and this page’s own banding. A real score comes from your credit report run through FICO’s model.

Why do the five factors matter in this order?

Because payments and utilization are what lenders trust first. Payment history is weighted 35% and amounts owed 30%, while new credit and credit mix each get 10% — the split FICO publishes and this page anchors to its official page.

Why is the answer a range instead of a point?

Because five self-assessed ratings cannot pin a score to a single digit. A range tells you the neighborhood a real score probably lands in without pretending to precision the input cannot support.

My input looks good, but my real score is lower. Why?

The estimate is a guide, not the report itself. A real score sees every account, balance, inquiry and late mark; self-assessment only sees the five buckets you chose. Report detail regularly explains the gap.

How can I actually raise my score?

Pay everything on time, cut balances relative to limits, keep old accounts open, apply for credit sparingly and keep a sensible mix. Those five habits are the five factors — this page just helps you see where you stand today.

Where do the weights come from?

From FICO, which publishes the five factors and the 35/30/15/10/10 split as its own description of what goes into a FICO score. This page anchors that to FICO’s official text, kept on record, rather than guessing.

Why four ratings instead of asking for numbers?

Because the numbers a score model actually uses — utilization to the dollar, the exact age of every account, the date of every late mark — are in your report, not in your memory. Four honest ratings get closer to the truth than a guessed percentage, and they make the arithmetic checkable by hand.

Does using this estimator affect my credit?

No. Nothing is submitted anywhere: there is no account, no sign-in and no soft or hard inquiry, and the five answers never leave your browser. Only a lender or a bureau pulling your report can leave a mark on it.

Is a 67-point range useful at all?

Yes, for two things: direction and proportion. It tells you which band your habits are pushing you toward and how many points a step on one factor is worth compared with a step on another. It will not tell you the single number a lender pulls, and it is not meant to.

Assumptions and sources

  • The five factors and their 35/30/15/10/10 split are FICO’s own published description of what goes into a credit score (verified against the official source and kept on record).
  • The 4-band 350–850 mapping from each rating to points is this page’s illustrative model; a real FICO score is computed by FICO from the full contents of your credit report.
  • This is an estimate tool, not credit advice. Check your actual credit reports for the real number a lender would receive.
  • How credit scores are built, and why different scoring models can return different numbers for the same report: US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau consumer guidance.
  • The five weights are the only external numbers on the page; the band edges (350–599, 600–679, 680–739, 740–850) are this page’s four-step approximation of the scale, picked so that every answer stays inside 350–850.
  • The report data a real score is built from can be read for free at AnnualCreditReport.com, the service run by the three nationwide credit bureaus; nothing on this page is pulled from it.

Last reviewed 2026-10-04. An estimate, not financial advice; your lender's Loan Estimate overrides it. Read the full disclaimer.

Where a figure on this page comes from an official agency — HUD, IRS, FICO or a state body — the site keeps a dated snapshot of the source page in its sources library, and a scheduled job re-checks that snapshot, so the number can be traced back to the document it came from.

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