What is your developer-dependent CMS actually costing you? Calculate your costs and get a full report

Agility CMS

See what your CMS is really costing you

The license fee is usually the smallest piece of what a CMS costs. Developer time on content tickets, slow launches and IT upkeep add up fast. Answer a few questions below and see what you could save each year.

Headless CMS ROI Calculator

Calculate Your Annual Savings with Headless CMS

Answer a few questions about your content operations and see exactly how much time and money you could save by switching to headless.

Your Baseline

Tell us about your digital properties

How many websites or digital properties?
1
Single property
2-3
Small portfolio
4+
Enterprise
How many markets/languages do you publish in?
1
Single market
2-5
Multi-region
6+
Global
Pages or content updates published per month
100
10500

Your Team

Who touches content today, and what does their time cost

Developers who get pulled into content requests 3
020
Average fully-loaded developer salary $130,000
$70k$250k
Marketers or content editors 4
130

Publishing Speed

How long it actually takes to get content live today

Average days from content ready to live 5
0.5 days21 days
Developer hours needed per content change 1.5
0 hrs8 hrs
Major campaigns or launches per year 10
152

IT Overhead

The infrastructure and maintenance costs behind the scenes

Annual hosting & infrastructure cost $24,000
$0$200k
Hours per month on platform maintenance & patching 12
0 hrs80 hrs
Annual agency or implementation partner retainer $0
$0$300k

Your estimated savings

$0/yr

Estimated annual savings by switching to a headless CMS like Agility

$0
Developer time reclaimed from content tickets
$0
Value of faster publishing & fewer delayed launches
$0
Reduced IT overhead & maintenance

Get your full ROI report

We'll email you a detailed breakdown with your 3-year projection, category-by-category savings, and how your numbers compare to similar teams who've made the switch.

Two things most CMS budgets miss

Teams tend to underestimate how often they rebuild and how much sits outside the license fee when they do.

Sooner than planned

How often teams end up rebuilding their CMS before they expected to.

3 categories

Migration, training, and integration are the costs that show up after signing.

Switching CMS platforms costs more than the license fee suggests

Teams often end up rebuilding a CMS a few years after choosing one, and the license fee was rarely the biggest cost the first time either. There's no single best platform to lock into forever, only the one that fits your team now. Checking that fit before you commit to another rebuild is worth doing.

See what switching CMS platforms, or staying put, costs your team

Tell the calculator about your sites, your team and how fast you publish, and it estimates what you'd save each year, not just the price of a new license.

FAQs

What costs does this calculator account for?

Migration, training, and integration are the three categories most budgets miss when they compare license fees alone.

Does the calculator assume I'm switching from a specific platform?

No. Tell the calculator your platform and team size, and the estimate adjusts to you.

What if the numbers say switching is not worth it?

That's the answer you'd get. The calculator is built to give you a number, not talk you into a decision.

Get a second opinion on your CMS cost numbers

Bring us what you're paying for your CMS today, and we'll help you work out if switching makes sense.