Astro TCO Calculator
Discover your savings and estimate your total cost of ownership with Astronomer.
Developer Productivity
Improve time to market by streamlining workflows and reducing manual processes
Operational Efficiency
Reduce risk with lower MTTR and increased workflow reliability
Managing Airflow Instances
Stability and Reliability
DataOps Consolidation
Take back control of data stack costs and ship more reliable data products faster
Data Platform Optimization
Data Quality Issues
Data Product SLA Incidents
dbt Rationalization
Workflow Automation Migration
Build, run, & observe your data workflows.
All in one place.
Calculator Assumptions
The following assumptions draw from our Forrester TEI Report, as well as internal data and results from our customers. Actual savings may vary based on your team’s organizational structure, experience profile, and operational practices.
Key Constants & Rates
Developer hourly rate: $89
Astro cost (link) per environment: $6,500 per, assuming a Small, Single-Instance scheduler and 1 A5; with Astro Observe (link).
Assumes an Astro Business plan including Astro Observe
Efficiency & Savings Assumptions
Engineering time savings efficiency: 80%
Data warehouse optimization: 10% savings on current annual spend
Legacy modernization savings: 75% of legacy modernization spend
Year-over-year growth: 20% increase in savings each subsequent year, assuming growth of existing workflows and ramp of new workflows
dbt Rationalization: $3600 baseline avg savings per year per environment - which can be toggled up or down based on your own understanding of your dbt Cloud implementation, usage, and spend
Time-Based Calculations
Time to promote a pipeline from development to production: (time per release × releases per month × 12 months × 0.8 × hourly rate)
Pipeline authoring savings: (hours per week × 52 weeks × 0.8 × hourly rate)
Environment management savings: (time per environment × number of environments × 52 weeks × 0.8 × hourly rate)
MTTR reduction savings: (incidents per week × time to resolve × 52 weeks × 0.8 × hourly rate)
Data quality savings: (time to refresh data in hours × incidents per month × 12 months × 0.8 × hourly rate)
Operational interruptions: (interruptions × time to service in hours × 12 months × 0.8 × hourly rate)
Multi-Year Projections
Year 1: Base calculation
Year 2: Year 1 × 1.2 (20% increase)
Year 3: Year 2 × 1.2 (44% increase from Year 1)
While this TCO Calculator gives you a fast, high-level estimate, a Business Value Assessment goes deeper. An Astronomer expert works with your team to capture a complete set of cost, productivity, and reliability metrics, producing a fully customized report that reflects your exact environment and business priorities.
For a full Business Value Assessment, please send our team a message using the Contact Astronomer form.
