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How much work does Massdriver need to eliminate?

Enter the infrastructure work your team does today and the price you were quoted. The calculator estimates the engineering time Massdriver could give back, then shows how little of that estimate has to hold for the purchase to cover its cost.

This calculator is for self-hosted Massdriver.

Start from a workload scenario

Illustrative workload scenarios, not customer benchmarks. Each one sets requests, self-service, and maintenance. Your other inputs stay as they are.

Starting estimate for a platform team managing recurring infrastructure work. Replace these values with your team's numbers.

Infrastructure requests
per week

Think databases, cloud resources, environments, access to infrastructure, and routine infrastructure changes. Use your ticket volume or your best estimate.

hours

Count actual engineering work, not the time a ticket spends waiting in a queue.

hours

Include writing requests, answering questions, manual steps, and follow-up work. Exclude time spent waiting while doing other work.

%

Assumes most routine infrastructure requests move through Massdriver. Specialized changes and exceptions may still require direct platform engineering work. This is a share of requests, not a share of the cloud resources Massdriver manages.

Recurring infrastructure maintenance
hours per week

Include repeated module updates, infrastructure upgrades, changes applied across environments, reusable infrastructure configuration, and maintenance of infrastructure deployment workflows. Exclude new infrastructure requests, one-off debugging, and unique application engineering.

%

Your estimate of the work avoided by maintaining reusable components centrally, propagating infrastructure changes, managing releases and upgrades, and automating repeatable operations. Count only work that would actually go away; some maintenance will remain.

Massdriver price
$per year

Your actual or proposed annual subscription quote. Leave it empty to see the engineering estimate on its own.

Advanced assumptions

Planning assumptions for a self-hosted install. Change any of them to match your rollout. All yearly figures use 48 working weeks.

$per hour

The full cost of one hour of engineering time: salary, benefits, payroll taxes, equipment, and overhead. Salary alone is too low.

hours

Self-service does not remove all platform work. This is the review, support, and follow-up a platform engineer may still do on a request. The default is 15 minutes.

hours

A developer still picks a component, fills in its settings, and checks the result. The default is 15 minutes.

$per year

The cloud cost to run self-hosted Massdriver.

hours per week

Hours each week to keep the Massdriver application running: its upgrades, backups, and monitoring. Maintenance of your infrastructure components is not counted here.

hours

Time to install Massdriver, connect your infrastructure tooling, prepare the first reusable components, and onboard the initial users. Adjust for your rollout.

months

Months until teams use Massdriver at the full rate. Value starts during adoption and grows evenly until the ramp ends. Use 0 to 12.

The annual value of engineering time your teams could put back into product development.

$1,080,000

Engineering hours recovered per week
225
Engineering hours recovered per year
10,800

Infrastructure self-service

Platform engineer hours recovered
8,928 h
Developer hours recovered
864 h
Annual value
$979,200

Infrastructure lifecycle maintenance

Recurring engineering hours recovered
1,008 h
Annual value
$100,800

Self-service reduces the work developers and platform teams spend handling infrastructure requests. Reusable infrastructure components, centralized operations, and managed upgrades reduce recurring maintenance across projects and environments.

This is the value of engineering capacity. It is not an automatic cut in payroll, and it does not mean fewer engineers.

Where Massdriver pays for itself

Enter your annual Massdriver quote to see the point where the engineering time Massdriver gives back pays for the subscription.

Value versus price, per year

Engineering capacity value
$1,080,000
Self-hosted operating cost
−$10,800
Operational value before subscription
$1,069,200

First year

Engineering capacity value during adoption
$810,000
Self-hosted operating cost
−$10,800
One-time implementation effort
−$8,000
First-year net value
$791,200

Uses a 6-month adoption ramp. Value starts during adoption and reaches the full rate when the ramp ends.

How the estimate works

Every figure comes from the inputs above. Request handling and recurring maintenance are separate activities, so the calculator counts each one once. It counts only productive engineering time recovered, never waiting time, and adds no industry benchmarks.

  1. Infrastructure self-service

    Only self-service requests count. For each one, the hours recovered are the time today minus the work that remains, and never less than zero.

    requests per week × 48 × self-service share × (time today − time remaining)

  2. Infrastructure lifecycle maintenance

    Only recurring maintenance that could be standardized or automated, not all infrastructure work. Use the total for your team, not hours per team. The share Massdriver could eliminate is your own editable estimate, and the maintenance that remains is not counted.

    eligible maintenance hours per week × share eliminated × 48

  3. Engineering value

    Recovered hours from both sources, priced at your loaded engineering cost. This is capacity your teams can put back into product work. It is not an automatic cut in payroll.

    (self-service hours + maintenance hours) × loaded hourly cost

  4. Cost to operate Massdriver

    Hosting plus the time to run the Massdriver application.

    hosting + operating hours per week × 48 × loaded hourly cost

  5. Break-even

    The engineering hours Massdriver gives back at the point where their value equals the subscription plus the cost to operate it.

    (subscription + cost to operate) ÷ loaded hourly cost ÷ 48 = hours per week

  6. First year

    Value grows evenly during the adoption ramp. The one-time implementation effort is charged in the first year only.

    annual value × (12 − ramp months ÷ 2) ÷ 12 − cost to operate − subscription − implementation hours × loaded hourly cost

Review your estimate with Massdriver

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