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What does running your business cost each month?

A free, interactive SaaS teardown. Pick the tools you pay for and the plan you are on, from Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace to your CRM, accounting and payroll. Add what each department costs a month. See the monthly bill, the three-year bill, how much sits on idle licences, how much is replaceable with tools you own outright, and the hours going to repetitive work. It runs in your browser and sends nothing anywhere. No pitch, just the math.

How the teardown works

Pick from around seventy tools: Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Slack, Zoom, CRM, project management, e-signature, scheduling, helpdesk, dashboards, HR and payroll, automation, email marketing, accounting, and the field-service tools trades businesses run on. Each tool lists the vendor's own plans, so you choose the one you actually bought and set the seats you pay for. Per-seat tools scale with your headcount, flat plans do not, and the total is shown per month, per year and over three years.

Why shelfware matters

Around a third of the average company's SaaS apps go unused. The teardown estimates that waste on top of your total, so the number you see is the money leaving every year for software nobody has to keep renting.

What your team costs, and where the hours go

A second panel takes the headcount and monthly cost of each department and your own estimate of how much of the week is repetitive: re-typing data between tools, chasing status, answering the same question. It returns the hours a month and what they cost. This is not a case for fewer people. It is the time an owned system can carry so the team does the selling, the judgement calls and the customer conversations that no software replaces.

Leaving a tool takes effort, and renting it forever costs more

Every tool carries our judgement of how hard it is to leave: quick (export and switch), a real project (a working process lives in it), or usually worth keeping (email, files, accounting and payroll). A migration is a project with an end. A subscription is not. Once moved, the seat fee, the renewal and the price rise stop, and the data sits in a system you control.

Tools we are most often asked to replace

Frequently asked questions

What is a SaaS audit, and how is it different from this teardown?
A SaaS audit is a full inventory of every tool a business pays for, what each one actually does, who uses it, and which of them overlap or sit idle. The teardown on this page is the fast, self-serve version: you tick the categories you subscribe to and see the yearly total and the waste inside it. A full audit goes further, sitting with the people who use each tool, mapping the workflow it supports, and separating what genuinely has to be rented from what is only rented out of habit.
How is the yearly SaaS total calculated?
Each selected tool uses the vendor's published list price for the plan you choose, at the annual-commitment rate where the vendor shows both. Per-seat tools multiply by the seats you pay for, which you can set per tool, flat-rate tools do not, and the monthly sum is shown per year and over three years. It runs entirely in your browser, so nothing you tick is sent anywhere. It is closer than a guess, not a formal quote.
What is shelfware?
Shelfware is software you pay for but barely use. If you tell the teardown how many seats your team actually uses, it measures the idle licences exactly. If you do not, it shows a range, assuming 25 to 40% of per-seat licences go unused, and says so on screen rather than printing one confident number.
Does the teardown include Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace?
Yes. Microsoft 365 Business Basic, Standard and Premium, E3 and E5, the Copilot add-on, and Google Workspace Business Starter, Standard and Plus are all listed with their current per-user prices, alongside the rest of a typical stack. Email and files are marked as tools usually worth keeping rented; the teardown is honest about which tools are worth replacing and which are not.
Why does the teardown ask what my team costs?
Because the tool bill is only half of the operating cost. You enter headcount and monthly cost per department and your own estimate of how much of the week is repetitive work. The result is hours a month, not a headcount target: it shows the time an owned system could carry so your people can do the work only a person can do.
What does it cost to own the same capability instead?
Owned systems replace recurring per-seat licenses with a system you build once and keep, removing renewals and seat fees. The teardown contrasts the rented yearly total against owning the same capability outright.