Plan your LangChain NSO exercise
Calculator · free · no signup · pre-IPOLangChain is pre-IPO. Plan your NSO exercise tax (federal, state, FICA) at any expected valuation.
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Your grant
Seeded from secondary-market data, as of Jun 15, 2026
Tax inputs
Hold strategy
Best after-tax payout — at year 1
$146,753
Hold 1 yr wins by $37,853 over Sell + invest.
Estimates only. Not financial advice.
Sell + invest
| Bargain element (sale − strike) | $187,300 |
| Federal | |
| State | |
| Medicare | −$2,716 |
| Additional Medicare | −$1,686 |
| Market gain over 1 yr at 10.0% | $10,160 |
| LTCG on diversified gain (fed + state + NIIT) | −$2,855 |
| Net at year 1 | $108,900 |
Sell every share immediately; invest the after-tax cash at the market return for 1 yr, then liquidate. Diversified — no single-stock concentration risk.
Exercise + hold 1 yr
Best payout| Sale proceeds (year 1) | |
| LTCG tax (federal + state + NIIT) | −$17,649 |
| Net at year 1 | $146,753 |
Sold 2,859 shares at exercise to cover strike + tax; 2,141 shares held 1 yr for LTCG.
Social Security + Medicare are payroll taxes (collectively called FICA) — they apply because you're exercising as a current employee.
Both columns are stated in year-1 dollars: sell-now proceeds compound at the market return and pay LTCG on the gain at year 1; any cash paid out of pocket on the hold side carries the same opportunity cost.
Net at year N — by hold period
Estimates only. Excludes AMT (NSOs do not trigger AMT), state-AMT, multi-state moves, and disqualifying-disposition edge cases. Not financial advice.
You calculated one NSO decision. The beta plans NSOs alongside RSUs and ISOs in a single multi-year tax plan.
Request beta access →About LangChain
LangChain is a privately held AI company, headquartered in San Francisco, CA.
Last reported secondary-market price: $47.46 per share (as of 2026-06-15). Your own 409A may differ.
$1.3B; agent framework.
Equity grants at LangChain typically include incentive stock options (ISOs) and non-qualified stock options (NSOs).
LangChain is a software framework that helps facilitate the integration of large language models (LLMs) into applications. As a language model integration framework, LangChain's use-cases largely overlap with those of language models in general, including document analysis and summarization, chatbots, and code analysis.
Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Harrison Chase released LangChain as a Python package in October 2022 while working as an ML engineer at Robust Intelligence, and it became one of the fastest-adopted open-source frameworks for LLM application development. The San Francisco company now ships LangGraph for stateful agent workflows, LangSmith for observability and evaluation, and LangServe for deployment, spanning Python and JavaScript. Sequoia led a $25M Series A at a $200M valuation in February 2024, and IVP led an October 2025 Series B that pushed the round to $125M at a $1.25B valuation, with CapitalG, Sapphire, Sequoia, and Benchmark participating.
Sources: techcrunch.com · en.wikipedia.org · blog.langchain.com
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LangChain NSO exercise creates ordinary income on the bargain element (federal, state, and FICA) at the price on the day you exercise. The calculator works at any valuation, so you can model your exercise cost at the current 409A FMV, an expected IPO price, or post-IPO scenarios.
Example: at LangChain's last reported price of $47.46, exercising 5,000 NSOs with a $14.24 strike creates a $166,100 bargain element, taxed as ordinary income on the day you exercise. Combined federal + state + FICA on that bargain typically lands between $44,847 and $74,745 depending on your bracket and state. The calculator above computes the exact figure for your situation and compares selling now vs. holding through the long-term capital-gains threshold.
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LangChain equity questions
- How is a LangChain NSO exercise taxed?
- Exercising a non-qualified stock option (NSO) creates ordinary income on the bargain element (the price on the day you exercise minus your strike), subject to federal income tax, state income tax, and FICA. The calculator above computes that tax for your LangChain grant and compares selling the shares now against holding past the one-year mark for long-term capital-gains treatment.
- Does LangChain grant ISOs, NSOs, or RSUs?
- Equity compensation at LangChain typically takes the form of incentive stock options (ISOs) and non-qualified stock options (NSOs). Incentive stock options can trigger the alternative minimum tax (AMT) when you exercise.
- Are LangChain shares eligible for QSBS?
- They might be. Qualified small business stock (QSBS) under Internal Revenue Code Section 1202 can exclude federal tax on much of the gain when shares were acquired at original issuance from a C-corporation while its gross assets were under $50 million, and held at least five years. Whether your LangChain shares qualify turns on when you acquired them and the company's asset size at that time.
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