Downtime Cost Calculator
Estimate how much every hour of downtime costs your business in lost revenue and wasted productivity.
Proactive monitoring at a fraction of this cost catches issues before they become outages. Plans start at $7/month.
The number you get here is the easy part
Revenue loss and idle employees are the inputs you can measure. What this calculator won't show you: the support tickets that pile up the moment service comes back, the refund requests from customers who were mid-checkout, the enterprise prospect who hit a 503 during their evaluation and quietly moved on. Those costs don't have a clean formula.
Even a small SaaS doing $500K a year loses about $28 per hour in direct revenue. Gartner's often-cited $5,600-per-minute figure is for large enterprises, but the shape of the problem is the same at every scale. The number you see here is a floor, not the full picture.
Detection time is the multiplier
A one-minute outage caught immediately costs one minute. The same outage discovered an hour later costs an hour. The difference isn't the severity of the failure; it's how long nobody knew about it.
Manual checking means the clock runs until a customer complains or someone happens to look. The uptime calculator translates uptime percentages into real hours of downtime per year. Pair that number with the hourly cost from this page, and the math gets concrete fast.
Turning the number into a budget line
Most teams absorb outages as a cost of doing business because nobody ever wrote the number down. Once you have it, the conversation changes. Instead of "do we need monitoring?" you're asking "how fast should it catch problems?" Uptime monitoring with one-minute checks cuts detection from hours to seconds. The ROI calculator runs the savings comparison.