Downtime Cost Calculator: Estimate Outage Impact
Quantify what outages actually cost your organization in lost revenue, idle employees, and SLA penalties.
That's $147/min of downtime for your organization.
Frequently Asked Questions
Revenue loss = (Annual revenue / hours per year) × downtime hours. Productivity loss = average hourly employee cost × affected employees × downtime hours. SLA penalties are added as a flat percentage of monthly revenue. Total cost combines all three.
According to Gartner, the average cost is approximately $5,600 per minute for enterprise organizations. However, actual costs vary dramatically: a small SaaS company might lose $100/min while a high-frequency trading platform could exceed $100,000/min.
Customer trust and brand damage (churn increases after outages), recovery engineering costs (overtime, incident response), contractual SLA penalties, regulatory fines in some industries, and lost developer productivity are all significant but harder to quantify.
Faster detection (30-second monitoring intervals), automated alerting to reduce MTTA, runbooks for common failures, redundant infrastructure, and practicing incident response all reduce the duration and therefore the cost of outages.
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