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Enter a monthly budget to see the impressions, clicks and sales or leads it buys, or enter a goal to get the budget it needs. The rates open at the 2026 medians; change them to your own.
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Built and checked by Marián Cabadaj. Last checked November 2026.
Where the numbers here come from
Triple Whale, Facebook Ad Benchmarks by Industry (Updated 2026 Data) for the sales defaults and the industry menu: medians of more than 40,000 brands on Meta, August 2025 to July 2026.
WordStream by LocaliQ, Facebook Ads Benchmarks 2026 for the lead defaults: medians of 452 US lead campaigns, April 2025 to June 2026. The $48.60 CPM is our arithmetic from its CPC and CTR.
Meta Business Help Center, About learning limited for the about 50 results a week an ad set needs to leave the learning phase.
These are other advertisers' medians, not a price from Meta. Your own CPM, CTR and conversion rate decide your cost, so replace the defaults with the numbers from your Ads Manager.
The short answer
- On Meta in 2026 the median brand pays $15.06 for 1,000 impressions, gets a 2.39% click-through rate and converts 1.53% of clicks (Triple Whale, 2026).
- At those medians, $3,000 a month buys about 199,203 impressions, 4,761 clicks and 72.8 sales, a cost of $41.18 per sale.
- An ad set needs about 50 results a week to leave Meta's learning phase (Meta Business Help Center). At $41.18 a sale that is about $8,825 a month.
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Add as preferred sourceWhat does a Facebook ad cost in 2026?
Meta has no price list. Every time someone could see an ad, an auction decides which ad shows and what it costs. So the honest answer to "what does a Facebook ad cost" is a range of medians, and the three numbers that move your cost most are the ones the calculator asks for.
CPM is the price of reach, and you control it least. CTR and conversion rate come from your ad and your page. If your CTR doubles, every click costs half as much at the same CPM.
The 2026 Meta medians the calculator opens with
| Metric | Median | What it means |
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| CPM (1,000 impressions) | $15.06 | What the auction charges to show your ad |
| CTR (click-through rate) | 2.39% | How many viewers click |
| CPC (cost per click) | $0.63 | Our arithmetic: CPM / (1,000 x CTR) |
| Conversion rate | 1.53% | How many clicks become a purchase |
| CPA (cost per purchase) | $38.99 | The median brand's cost per purchase |
Source: Triple Whale, Facebook Ad Benchmarks by Industry (Updated 2026 Data), more than 40,000 brands, August 2025 to July 2026. Medians. Verified 2026-11-02.
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Click rate, conversion rate and cost per sale by industry
Pick your industry in the calculator to load its click rate and conversion rate. Sorted from the cheapest median sale to the dearest.
| Industry | Median CTR | Median conversion rate | Median cost per purchase |
|---|---|---|---|
| E-learning & Online Courses | 2.74% | 1.31% | $26.80 |
| Baby | 1.98% | 1.82% | $29.61 |
| Books & Music | 2.62% | 1.69% | $30.69 |
| Lifestyle & Boutique | 2.44% | 1.62% | $31.16 |
| Toys, Art & Collectibles | 2.35% | 1.53% | $34.85 |
| Media & Publishing | 2.48% | 1.51% | $36.60 |
| Apparel & Accessories | 2.44% | 1.47% | $36.98 |
| Business Supplies & Equipment | 1.88% | 1.70% | $37.98 |
| Pets & Animals | 2.37% | 1.63% | $38.51 |
| Food & Beverage | 1.98% | 1.89% | $38.57 |
| Beauty | 2.46% | 1.79% | $39.31 |
| Health & Wellness | 3.02% | 1.50% | $40.53 |
| Sports & Outdoors | 2.01% | 1.28% | $44.53 |
| Home & Garden | 2.38% | 1.24% | $47.93 |
| Travel Accessories & Luggage | 2.40% | 1.19% | $50.95 |
| Electronics | 2.41% | 1.13% | $51.86 |
| Medical Devices & Equipment | 2.80% | 1.09% | $51.86 |
Source: Triple Whale, Facebook Ad Benchmarks by Industry (Updated 2026 Data). Triple Whale prints a CPM for three industries only: Health & Wellness $21.80, Baby $11.50 and Books & Music $14.01. For the others the calculator keeps the $15.06 median. Verified 2026-11-02.
How the calculator works: a worked example
The example the calculator opens with: a $3,000 monthly budget at the 2026 Meta medians, a $15.06 CPM, a 2.39% CTR and a 1.53% conversion rate.
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Impressions
$3,000 / $15.06 x 1,000 = 199,203 impressions in the month.
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Clicks and cost per click
199,203 x 2.39% = 4,761 clicks. $15.06 / (1,000 x 2.39%) = $0.63 a click.
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Sales and cost per sale
4,761 x 1.53% = 72.8 sales. $3,000 / 72.8 = $41.18 a sale.
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Learning phase
72.8 sales x 7 / 30 = 16.9 a week, under the 50 Meta needs. The ad set stays Learning limited.
Product first, offer clear
How much budget does Meta's learning phase need?
Meta marks an ad set Learning limited when it is unlikely to get about 50 optimization events in the week after its last significant edit (Meta Business Help Center). The calculator checks every result against that line, because a budget that cannot reach it leaves Meta guessing who buys.
At the 2026 medians a sale costs $41.18, so 50 sales a week (214.3 a month) need about $8,825 a month, or $294 a day, in one ad set. Switch the calculator to "I have a goal" and type 215 to see it.
If that is out of reach, run one ad set instead of several, or optimize for an event that happens more often, such as add to cart, until the account can pay for purchase optimization.
Sales or leads: what changes?
For lead forms the numbers change. WordStream's 2026 lead benchmarks, from 452 US campaigns run from April 2025 to June 2026, put the median CTR at 2.70%, the cost per click at $1.80, the conversion rate at 8.54% and the cost per lead at $27.39 (WordStream by LocaliQ, 2026).
WordStream prints no CPM, so the calculator uses $48.60: the $1.80 CPC x 1,000 x 2.70% CTR. With those inputs it shows $21.08 a lead, not $27.39. That is not an error. Each median is taken on its own, across different campaigns, so medians do not multiply back into each other. Read the $27.39 as the typical lead cost and the calculator as the cost your own rates give.
Real ads in Meta's Ad Library
Two live ads from Meta's public Ad Library. Both run on Facebook and Instagram from one ad, so the same budget buys reach on both.
How to lower your Facebook ad cost
The ad is the input you control most. A higher CTR cuts the cost per click, and a clearer offer lifts the conversion rate after the click. Both cut the cost per sale at the same CPM.
For the full 2026 picture by industry and season, read our guide to Facebook ad cost. To check one number at a time, use the CPM calculator and the CPC calculator. To see whether the sales pay for the ads, use the ROAS calculator.
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How we checked
- The formulas: impressions = spend / CPM x 1,000; clicks = impressions x CTR; CPC = CPM / (1,000 x CTR); sales = clicks x conversion rate; cost per sale = CPM / (1,000 x CTR x conversion rate). A month is 30 days.
- Every number on this page was worked out by hand first, then checked against the calculator's own code in 9 cases: 3 typical, 2 on the learning line (exactly 50 a week, and one dollar under) and 4 hostile ones (a zero rate, text, a negative budget and a click rate over 100%).
- Results a week are cut down to one decimal, never rounded up, so 49.99 a week never reads as 50.
- The benchmarks were read at the source on 2 November 2026: Triple Whale, Facebook Ad Benchmarks by Industry (Updated 2026 Data), WordStream by LocaliQ, Facebook Ads Benchmarks 2026 and Meta Business Help Center, About learning limited.
- The two Ad Library ads were captured from Meta's public Ad Library on 2 November 2026.
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