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PPC Lead Calculator · 2025/26 UK benchmarks

Ad budget in. Expected leads out.

Set your monthly spend, pick your platform and industry, and get a benchmark-based estimate of the leads you should expect from Meta or Google Ads — before you spend a penny.

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search intent
media budget only
£
£500£50,000
sets benchmark CPC & CVR
£
%
£

Know your real CPC or landing-page conversion rate? Enter it above for a sharper estimate.

Estimated result02
expected leads per month
Est. clicks /mo
Cost per lead
Cost per click

Your full breakdown

The funnel maths behind your number, plus what happens to lead volume as budget scales.

Monthly budget£3,000spend
Paid clicks@ benchmark CPC
Leads (conversions)@ benchmark CVR
Sales conversations*est. 40% qualify

Budget scenarios — same benchmarks, scaled spend

ScenarioBudget /moClicksLeads /moCost per lead

Read this before you budget

Benchmarks are medians — creative quality, offer strength and landing-page experience routinely swing results 2–3× in either direction. Treat this as your planning baseline, not a guarantee.

Diminishing returns are real

Scaling spend rarely scales leads linearly. Past your audience's efficient frontier, CPCs rise and conversion rates soften — the 2× scenario above assumes ~12% efficiency loss, 4× assumes ~25%.

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Methodology & sources

Estimates use leads = (budget ÷ CPC) × conversion rate. Industry presets are blended medians from LocaliQ/WordStream 2026 search advertising benchmarks, LocaliQ 2025 Facebook lead-gen benchmarks, Triple Whale's 2025 Meta analysis (35,000+ ad accounts) and UK CPC studies, converted to GBP and rounded. Likely range shown at ±30%. “Leads” means a tracked conversion (form fill, call, or purchase-intent action) — not a closed sale. Your mileage will vary; that's rather the point of hiring specialists.