Tool-Stack Cost & Consolidation

Verdict

IN BAND

$11.94/endpoint across 14 tools (band: $8–$25*), with $8298/mo of drag: shelfware $2580 + duplicates $2250 + admin/integration labor $3468.

Key figures

Stack cost / endpoint	$12
2026 band	$8–$25/endpoint/mo typical 2026*
Total drag / month	$8,298
Total drag / year	$99,576
Shelfware / month	$2,580
Duplicate spend / month	$2,250
Admin drag / month	$3,468
What to do	TRIM SHELFWARE & DUPLICATES
Why	Per-endpoint cost is inside the band, but $4830/mo of shelfware and overlap is pure drag — renewal calendar first, migrations later.

Assessment

Per-endpoint stack cost vs typical 2026 band; drag = unused licenses + half of each duplicate-function tool + tool-admin and integration-breakage labor. Per-VENDOR price checks (are you overpaying for Huntress/NinjaOne at your volume?) run in the msp-vendor-price-benchmark engine — this calculator is the stack-level view.

Questions for the founder

Which two tools overlap the most — and which one does the team actually open?
What does the renewal calendar look like? Consolidation timed to renewals avoids penalty stacking.
If you consolidated to one platform, what single-vendor outage would take down every client at once?

Assumptions & method

Band and duplicate-redundancy share are typical* 2026 values — replace with quotes at renewal.
The platform (SeatSource) computes deployed-vs-billed per vendor from real exports.

Generated by AICost.ai (aicost.msp-tool-stack-optimization), CloudIntelligence.ai LLC. API pricing is sourced vendor-exact from a daily-maintained pricing single source of truth as of 2026-07-20. Values marked with an asterisk are analyst estimates rather than vendor-verified data. This memo is a cost-and-unit-economics analysis prepared for diligence purposes; it is not investment advice, and it does not assess team, market, product or legal risk.