Helium 10 Xray Tutorial: How to use the Profitability Calculator
Author: Katrin Hartmann-Seifert
July 15, 2025
4 min read
Helium 10's Chrome Extension is a useful addition to the software's other tools and helps you find suitable products for the Amazon market. To know whether the sale of a product is profitable, you can use the Profitability Calculator. We have therefore put together a suitable Helium 10 Xray tutorial to explain all the necessary steps. You can find an English tutorial on the Helium 10 website.
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What you need to do in advance
Before you make a product available for sale on Amazon, you should make sure that it will also bring you a profit. That's exactly what the Chrome Extension is for. To calculate profitability, all you need to do is follow the Helium 10 Xray tutorial. The first thing you need to do is install the Xray Extension. If you need help setting it up, you can find instructions in this article. To access the Chrome Extension, you need to open a product or search results page on Amazon.1. How to open the Profitability Calculator?
There are then three ways to access the Profitability Calculator. On the search results page mentioned above, you can find the ASIN under each item. Click on "Calculate Fees" below it. A new window will open with detailed information on the profitability of the product. On the other hand, you can call up the Profitability Calculator when you are on the page of a specific listing. Then click on the Xray icon in the task bar. You can then open the calculator in the drop-down menu. The third option is the Helium 10 BSR chart under the product.2. This information is provided by the Profitability Calculator
Let's now look at the upper area of the Profitability Calculator: The first of four lines informs you about the dimensions of the product. Below that you can find out about the tare weight, the delivery weight and the packaging size. The second area shows you the price, the storage time and the manufacturing and delivery costs to the warehouse. Below that, again, other charges are included in the invoice. At the very bottom you will see what you are interested in: The potential profitability as well as the ROI values for the product.Helium 10 Cost
You can use the Profitability Calculator as part of the Helium 10 Chrome Extension in the free version of the software*. However, the feature is only available 50 times. In the Starter Plan, you can use it for $39 per month. The tool is also included in the following offers:- Platinum Plan: $99 per month
- Diamond Plan: $249 per month
- Elite Plan: $399 per month