"It's Over 9000!"
Dragon Ball Z, Episode 28: Vegeta points his scouter at Goku, sees a reading higher than 9000, and screams "It's over 9000!" The scouter explodes. The internet has never recovered.
This calculator computes your power level given your training, gravity exposure, and fusion history.
How to Use This Calculator
Base power. Your starting reading. Earthlings: ~5. Saiyans: ~1500. Default: 100.
Years of training. Each year multiplies base power by ~1.5x. Default: 3.
Gravity chamber multiplier. Earth gravity: 1x. Vegeta's chamber: 100x. Default: 10.
Fusions performed. Each fusion roughly doubles output (Goku + Vegeta = Vegito). Default: 0.
The Formula
power level = base × (1.5 ^ years) × gravity × (2 ^ fusions)
Defaults: 100 × 3.375 × 10 × 1 = 3,375. Below 9000. Train more.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is "Over 9000" canonical?
The original Japanese says "Over 8,000" (八千). The English dub changed it to 9000 because it sounded better. Both are correct in their respective canon.
Whose scouter exploded?
Vegeta's. Nappa was unimpressed.
What's the highest power level ever recorded?
Beerus, Whis, Zeno, and the Angels are explicitly "uncountable" / above any scouter's range. Don't try.
Why 1.5x per year of training?
It's a calibration choice that fits the early-arc canon. Goku goes from a base reading around 416 (pre-Saiyan-arc Kame House) to roughly 8,000–9,000 by the time he arrives on Earth from King Kai — about three years of training and an explicit Kaio-ken multiplier. A 1.5x annual multiplier roughly tracks that escalation without exploding into nonsense numbers across a decade of training.
Does the gravity multiplier compound with itself?
In the show, partly yes — extended exposure to higher gravity rewires baseline muscle and ki capacity, so a Saiyan training in 100x gravity for years gets cumulative benefit even at 1x afterward. The calculator approximates this with a flat multiplier; for a power-curve view, treat the gravity number as the average across the training window rather than the peak chamber setting.
Are fusions really a doubling?
Roughly. Vegito's canonical reading is reported variously as 2x to 5x the components depending on which scouter scene you trust. The calculator uses 2x as a conservative floor — if you want a more dramatic estimate, multiply the result by 2 again per fusion. Note that potara fusion (Vegito) and dance fusion (Gogeta) have different in-canon properties; this calculator treats them as equivalent for simplicity.
A Worked Example
You're a half-Saiyan (so base = 500), you've trained for 8 years, you spent the last 3 years in a 50x gravity chamber on average, and you've done one fusion. Plug it in:
Comfortably over 9,000. Above Frieza's first form (530,000). Below Cell-saga full Cell (900M). You'd hold your own against a mid-arc Frieza henchman; you would lose to Beerus instantly.
Behind the Numbers
The original Japanese line is "Hatsen ijō da" — "it's over 8,000." The English dub changed the number to 9,000 because the script supervisor judged the longer vowel landed better in Vegeta's voice actor's delivery. Both are canon in their respective regions; the 9,000 version became the internet's default purely because the English dub aired in heavier rotation in the early YouTube era.
Power levels stop being canonically tracked after the Frieza saga. The author, Akira Toriyama, has said in interviews that he gave up on the numeric scale because the math broke once Goku achieved Super Saiyan transformations. Every "power level" quoted past the Cell saga is fan-extrapolated and should be treated as such. This calculator's numbers stay in that fan-extrapolation tradition rather than claiming scientific accuracy.