The hidden cost of your IoT stack

How much are you paying to stitch it together?

Every tool you add to your IoT stack adds an integration tax in engineer hours, vendor contracts, and maintenance nobody budgeted for. Calculate yours.

Your team

Engineers on the IoT stackfull or part-time4 engineers

120

Average engineer salaryannual, USD$140K

$60K$250K

% of time spent on integration and glue code35%

5%70%

Your current IoT toolsselect all that apply

Overhead

Vendor contracts and licencesannual total, USD$48K

$0$300K

Incidents caused by integration failuresper year6 incidents

050

Hours to resolve each integration incident8 hrs

1 hr40 hrs

Your integration tax

$276K

Total annual integration tax

2,912 hrs

Engineer hours lost per year

43%

Of your total IoT budget wasted

What this means

$276K annually in integration tax. On a full-stack platform, most of this disappears, not reduced. Gone.

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Cost breakdown

Cost categoryAnnual costMonthly% of total

Engineer time on glue code35% of 4 engineers$196,000$16,333/mo71%

Vendor licences and contracts4 paid tools active$76,800$6,400/mo28%

Integration incidents6 incidents x 8 hrs$3,231$269/mo1%

Total integration tax$276,031$23,003/mo100%

With TagoIO vs. without

Current stack

$276K

Annual integration tax on top of your tool costs

6 active vendor contracts

2,912 hrs on glue code

Incidents nobody budgeted for

Knowledge leaves when consultants do

TagoIO

$150K/yr saved

Estimated annual saving by eliminating the integration tax

One platform. One contract.

1 engineers freed for real work

No migration as you scale

Your team owns it. Always.

Estimates are based on industry averages and your inputs. The 40% of engineering time on integration figure is widely cited in IoT and cloud infrastructure research. TagoIO pricing starts free. See tago.io for current plans. This calculator is provided by TagoIO for illustrative purposes.