Calculator · Waste model

Where is the money hiding?

Estimate annual waste from unused licenses, duplicate tools, and overprovisioned tiers. Includes a Shadow IT risk score and an urgency rating. Five inputs, no email.

Your stack

Five inputs. Honest output.

Number of SaaS subscriptions25
550100200
Monthly SaaS spend (USD)
% of tools used daily60%
10%25%50%75%100%
Number of employees40
5125250500
When was your last SaaS audit?

Modeled annual waste

$38,088

Per employee
$952
% of spend
40%
Per month
$3,174

Waste breakdown

Unused licenses
54%
$20,736/yr
Duplicate tools
20%
$7,488/yr
Overprovisioning
26%
$9,864/yr

Urgency · 6/10

LowModerateAct now

Shadow IT risk

Medium

5/10 · likelihood of untracked subs

Companies like yours typically recover

$26,662/yr

with continuous, automated SaaS optimization.

The pattern

SaaS waste grows over time.

Industry research consistently puts SaaS waste at 25–35% of total spend. For a mid-sized stack, that's tens of thousands of dollars a year on software no one uses, software that overlaps with software no one uses, or tiers that nobody downgraded after the trial.

The problem is structural. SaaS subscriptions are easy to acquire and easy to forget. A department head signs up with a corporate card; that person leaves; the subscription continues billing indefinitely. Multiply across dozens of teams and the cumulative waste compounds quietly.

Three categories: unused licenses (paid-for accounts no one signs into), duplicate tools (multiple subscriptions for the same job), and overprovisioning (paying for premium features the team never touches). Quarterly audits catch some. Continuous monitoring catches the rest.

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