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Website Downtime Cost Calculator
Enter your business details below to see how much downtime actually costs you. All calculations happen in your browser. No data is sent anywhere.
Your Business Details
Total revenue generated through your online presence
Orders, signups, or other conversions per day
Team members who cannot work during downtime
Fully-loaded cost per team member per hour
Your Downtime Cost
Cost per Minute
$7
Lost revenue + idle team
Cost per Hour
$443
Every hour adds up fast
Revenue Loss / Hour
$68
Productivity Loss / Hour
$375
Annual Cost by Uptime Tier
The difference between 99% and 99.99% uptime is enormous in both allowed downtime and financial impact.
99%(Two nines)
$38.9K/yr3.6 days downtime
99.9%(Three nines)Industry standard
$3.9K/yr8.8 hours downtime
99.95%(Three and a half nines)
$1.9K/yr4.4 hours downtime
99.99%(Four nines)
$388.50/yr53 min downtime
Upgrading from 99% to 99.9% saves $34,965 per year
That single order of magnitude in uptime means 4,730 fewer minutes of downtime annually.
How we calculate: Revenue loss is based on your annual revenue distributed evenly across all minutes in a year. Productivity cost assumes all affected team members are fully idle during downtime. Actual costs may be higher when factoring in reputation damage, SLA penalties, and recovery effort.