Cost of ownership statement
Rent it forever, or own it once.
A line-by-line comparison of owning your zero-trust infrastructure outright versus renting it, priced against 2026 market benchmarks. Select your company size; every figure recomputes instantly.
Scenario
Your company
What you pay today (or would)
The meter
Enterprise SaaS contracts renew at 8–15% annually on average. Adjust to match your vendor history; set to 0% for a flat projection.
Whatever the vendor meters, you are renting; top-500 SaaS companies repriced 3.6 times each in 2025 alone. Baur Software has no meter to move: agent identity lives in a registry you host, and one more agent costs you nothing.
Rent it, or own it
Cumulative cost of ownership
The rented lines assume your vendors never reprice. In 2025 the top 500 SaaS companies made 1,800+ pricing changes, and credit-based metering more than doubled. The purple line is the only one that is flat by contract.
Next step
We scope your environment, your principals, and your rollout plan. You leave with a fixed-fee engagement proposal, not an hourly meter.
Benchmarks: SMB zero-trust SaaS stack $29–33/user/mo all-in and MSP-managed $35–55/user/mo per ZeroTrustCost.com (Q2 2026, vendor-neutral); cybersecurity consulting $150–350/hr per Consult Fees 2026 benchmarks. Repricing data: 1,800+ pricing changes across the top 500 SaaS/AI companies in 2025 (SaaS Mag); credit-model vendors up 126% year over year, including Figma, HubSpot, and Salesforce (Growth Unhinged); IDC projects pure seat-based pricing obsolete by 2028. Baur Software figures are illustrative list pricing; final quotes are set by engagement scoping. This tool is a sales aid, not a contract.