Replacement calculator
Run the arithmetic yourself.
Pick the product you are paying for, set your seat count, and see what the replacement costs over three years. The model is deliberately conservative and it will tell you when the answer is to keep your licence.
Your situation
Rented — 3 years
$273,600
$91,200 a year at 400 seats, assuming no price rises. There is always a price rise.
Owned — 3 years
$109,373
$81,293 to build, then $9,360 a year of AWS infrastructure. The asset is yours at the end.
Payback
12 mo
Annual saving after build
$81,840
Net over 3 years
$164,227
At this size the replacement pays for itself inside 12 months and you own the result. That is a conversation worth having — but read Cadence's parity table first, because it names what we will not rebuild.
What this model does and does not include
Included
- · Build at 8 weeks × 2 engineers (3.7 engineer-months)
- · Cloud infrastructure, production and non-production
- · Data migration from the incumbent
Not included
- · Ongoing maintenance after handover (budget 0.5–1 engineer)
- · Your own change-management and training effort
- · Vendor exit costs and any early-termination clause
- · Price rises on the incumbent, which favour replacing
Infrastructure is scaled from the published 400 seats, ~2M items, 25 GB attachments, single region, prod + non-prod figure using a sub-linear curve, because databases and load balancers do not double when headcount does. Treat the output as an order of magnitude, not a quote.
The calculator is an estimate. The assessment is not.
Two weeks, fixed price. We audit what your teams actually use, map it to a parity matrix, cost the replacement against your own cloud account and give you a delivery plan with dates. You keep the report whether or not you engage us.