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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/yr
3.6 days downtime
99.9%(Three nines)Industry standard
$3.9K/yr
8.8 hours downtime
99.95%(Three and a half nines)
$1.9K/yr
4.4 hours downtime
99.99%(Four nines)
$388.50/yr
53 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.

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