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Learn how common everyday transactions will affect your credit score. As your credit report changes so will the credit simulator results.

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My Credit Simulator

Our simulator will "simulate" how certain financial transactions will affect your credit score over time. By seeing the cause/effect relationship you can work towards improving your credit score while avoiding certain pitfalls. Credit Karma's My Credit Simulator is the only totally free credit predictor that uses your actual credit score to give more accurate results.

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Credit Limit Options

Add a New Credit Card

Credit cards are one of the most common entries in consumers' credit files. By simulating adding a new credit card to your credit file we can see if it helps or hurts our overall credit score.

  1. Enter the estimated credit limit for your new credit card:

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    Adding a new credit card in good standing with a new credit limit will often increase your credit score. However in order to add that card, you will need to be approved... and an approval means having your credit pulled. The inquiry (a credit pull) will often lower your credit score.

Payments

Increase or Decrease Your Credit Card Balances

An important component of your credit score is your Credit Card Utilization (CCU). CCU is defined by the ratio of balance to available credit. By increasing or decreasing your credit card balances, you can impact your credit score.

  1. Decrease or increase your balance:

    Good news...
    Decreasing your credit card balances will often improve your credit score. However, there's still room for improvement. Try increasing your available credit to a higher limit or paying off more of the balance to adjust the credit card utilization.

    Unfortunately...
    Increasing your credit card balances will often decrease your credit score. Try increasing your limit even more or paying off some of the balance to adjust the credit card utilization.

Records

Add Public Record to Your Account

Anything that goes into public record (tax liens, judgments, foreclosures, wage garnishments, repossessions) will negatively impact your credit score.

  1. Select from the options below:

    Unfortunately...
    The presence of these types of "public records" automatically reduces your credit score. These are considered delinquent, unpaid debts and appear as negative items on a credit report. Depending on the type of "record", it can remain on your credit report indefinitely... even after you have paid off the debt.

Your Score Simulation

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* The Credit Karma Score Simulator is for educational purposes only. The simulated score is based on actual data from your TransUnion credit file as of your most recent score update on Credit Karma. Any other changes to your credit file may affect the simulated credit score. Credit Karma, Inc. does not represent that your score will change by the amount indicated nor does it represent that these changes will affect any other scoring model than that provided by Credit Karma, Inc.

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