Downtime Cost Calculator
Every minute of downtime costs you money. Use our free calculator to estimate the financial impact of an outage on your business.
Calculate Your Risk
Adjust the sliders to match your business metrics.
Without monitoring, average detection time is ~30 minutes.
Total Estimated Cost
Based on your inputs
How to reduce this cost?
The biggest factor you can control is Time to Detect (TTD). If you rely on customers to tell you your site is down, you're already losing money.
Why Use a Downtime Cost Calculator?
Understanding the true cost of downtime is critical for justifying IT budgets and prioritizing reliability engineering. Most businesses underestimate the cost because they only look at lost sales. However, the hidden costs of productivity loss and long-term brand damage often outweigh immediate revenue loss.
How is this calculated?
- Lost Revenue: Your annual revenue broken down to the minute.
- Productivity Loss: The cost of paying employees who cannot work during the outage.
- Brand Damage: A multiplier representing customer churn and reputation harm.
The best way to minimize these costs is to reduce your Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR). Tools like Statzly help you detect outages instantly, so you can fix them before they become expensive disasters.