Methodology

How the Vybe Score is calculated

Nothing here is proprietary and nothing is hidden. The score is four ratios, weighted, and rounded to a number out of 100. If you disagree with a threshold, you can see exactly which one and by how much it would move you.

The four inputs

Your age, your monthly take-home pay, what you set aside each month, and your total monthly loan repayments. That is the entire input. No bank connection, no phone number, no holdings, no name.

The four pillars and their weights

How much you keep

35%
What it measures
Monthly savings divided by monthly take-home pay.
Threshold
30% earns full marks; the score scales linearly below that.
Where the rule comes from
The 30% figure sits at the upper end of commonly published personal savings guidance and matches India's gross household savings behaviour in RBI's household financial savings data.

How much you owe

25%
What it measures
Total monthly EMIs divided by monthly take-home pay.
Threshold
0% is full marks; 40% or more scores zero.
Where the rule comes from
40% is the fixed-obligation-to-income ceiling most Indian lenders apply when underwriting a home loan, so it is a threshold you would meet in the real world.

Money left over

15%
What it measures
Take-home minus savings minus EMIs, as a share of take-home.
Threshold
35% of pay left as breathing room earns full marks.
Where the rule comes from
This is the residual after the 30% savings and roughly 35% housing-and-loan norms implied by the 50/30/20 family of budgeting rules.

Pace for your age

25%
What it measures
Your savings rate measured against an age-appropriate target.
Threshold
10% under 25, 15% to 29, 20% to 34, 25% to 39, 30% to 49, 35% from 50. Hitting the target for your age earns full marks.
Where the rule comes from
A rising savings ladder reflects the standard retirement-adequacy idea that a later start needs a higher rate to reach the same multiple of final salary.

Each pillar is capped between 0 and 100, then combined: score = 0.35·keep + 0.25·owe + 0.15·left + 0.25·pace, rounded to the nearest whole number.

The bands

  • Finding your feet — below 40. One bad month would genuinely hurt.
  • Building — 40 to 59. The habit is forming.
  • On track — 60 to 79. The hard part is already happening.
  • Comfortable — 80 and above. Money is not the thing keeping you up.

How the comparison works

When we say "better than X% of people your age", that is drawn from anonymous scores submitted by other visitors in the same age band — a score and an age bracket, nothing else, with no identifier attached. Until a band has at least 200 submissions, we fall back to a modelled benchmark built from published national savings-rate and household-debt ranges, and we label it on screen as modelled rather than observed. We will not dress up a model as real data.

What this is not

It is not a credit score and no lender sees it. It is not investment advice, and we are not a SEBI-registered investment adviser. It is a mirror built from four numbers and a handful of well-worn thumb rules — useful for noticing where you stand and what to move next, not a substitute for a professional who knows your full situation.