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

Engineering Hours Spent by the Team on Pipeline Development

Pipeline authoring and editing time per week (hours)

Time Required to Promote Pipelines to Production

Time per release (hours)

Releases per month

Operational Efficiency

Reduce risk with lower MTTR and increased workflow reliability

Managing Airflow Instances

Time per Airflow instance per week (hours)

Number of Airflow instances

Stability and Reliability

Incidents per month

Time to resolve incidents (hours)

DataOps Consolidation

Take back control of data stack costs and ship more reliable data products faster

Data Platform Optimization

Current annual data warehouse / data lake spend ($USD)

Data Quality Issues

Time to fix data quality issue (minutes)

Data quality incidents per month

Data Product SLA Incidents

Monthly Incidents of Delayed or Missing Data

Time to resolve incidents (minutes)

dbt Rationalization

Enable dbt Cloud savings calculation

Workflow Automation Migration

Enable legacy modernization savings

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Alerting

SAML-Based SSO

Airflow AI Assistant

Deployment Rollbacks

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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.