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What is your SaaS stack really costing you?

The license fee is the small number. The real cost is the integration tax, the bad-data drag, and the hours your ops team spends gluing it all together. This calculator estimates all three — rough numbers, no email required to see the result.

Your stack
$ /yr
Not at all Some Zapier glue Native integrations
40 / 100 — typical mid-market stack
Your true cost
$220,000
/yr estimated

You're paying 2.2× what's on your subscription bill. $120,000 of that is hidden.

License fees
what you actually pay vendors
$100,000
Integration tax
Zapier seats, middleware, the engineer keeping it glued
$50,000
Bad-data drag
ops time spent reconciling, fixing, re-entering
$70,000
Read on this

Worth investigating. A SaaS Replacement Audit on a stack like this typically pays for itself 5–8× in year one.

Get a real number

The calculator is rough. The audit is exact.

The SaaS Replacement Audit walks your actual stack — every line item, every integration, every bottleneck — and ships a 12-month roadmap for what to keep, replace, and kill. 30 days, $25k flat.

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Get an email with these numbers + three specific recommendations for businesses your size. No drip, no follow-up sequences.

How the math works

Rough numbers. Honestly arrived at.

The audit gets you precise per-tool numbers. This calculator estimates the totals using ratios we see across $5–50M businesses.

Integration tax: 0.1× to 0.9× license

Every tool needs another tool to talk to it. Zapier seats, middleware, the engineer maintaining custom glue. Scales inversely with how well-integrated your stack already is.

Bad-data drag: 0.1× to 0.9× license, plus per-employee overhead

Hours each week your ops team spends reconciling the same customer record across 5 systems. The hardest cost to see, often the largest. We assume $1,000–$2,500 of lost productivity per employee per year when integrations are weak.

What we do not include

Compliance overhead, contract negotiation time, vendor management, security review burden, lost deals from slow internal tools. Real audits surface these. The calculator does not. Numbers above are conservative.

When the rough number is enough

You already know the bill is too high.
Let's go cut it.