How to use the Fivetran total cost of ownership calculator

Organizations exploring data-intensive opportunities, such as AI, often need to reevaluate their data stacks to support modern workloads, making the concept of total cost of ownership (TCO) crucial for understanding the long-term expenses of data management. Fivetran offers a TCO calculator, a self-serve tool designed to estimate the current costs of building and maintaining data pipelines, comparing them with the efficiencies of Fivetran's managed services. The tool allows users to input their company size and adjust key factors like engineering time, maintenance, and downtime to gain insights into hidden costs often overlooked in budgets. The calculator highlights the impact of downtime, which can significantly affect productivity and decision-making, and provides default estimates based on industry benchmarks to guide users in understanding their current and potential future expenses. This enables organizations to better assess the trade-offs between DIY pipelines and managed services, potentially reducing operational burdens and ownership costs over time.