How Much Is Your MSP Really Costing You?
Enter your current setup below. See the real cost of per-device pricing vs. flat-rate monitoring — and how much you'd save annually.
Monthly Cost Comparison
Why MSPs Charge Per-Device — and Why It Hurts You
The per-device pricing model was created in an era when IT monitoring meant installing software agents on every machine. More devices meant more support tickets, more patching, more complexity. So MSPs priced accordingly: $25 to $150 per device, per month. Simple math, simple model.
The problem is that your infrastructure grows but the value you get from monitoring doesn't scale linearly. Adding 50 endpoints to your network doesn't double the complexity of your monitoring — most of those alerts are noise. Yet your MSP bill goes up by $1,250 to $7,500 per month. You're paying a scaling tax on a problem that doesn't actually scale.
Modern IT operations platforms like SentryOps use AI to deduplicate alerts, auto-resolve known issues, and correlate events across your entire infrastructure. The cost of monitoring 100 devices vs. 500 devices is nearly identical on the platform side — which is why flat-rate pricing makes sense. You pay for the outcome (monitored, resolved, operational) not the input (device count).
What to Look For in an MSP Pricing Calculator
When evaluating MSP costs, don't just compare the per-device rate. Factor in hidden costs: after-hours surcharges, project fees for infrastructure changes, per-ticket charges for "out-of-scope" issues, and annual rate increases tied to device count growth. A transparent flat-rate model eliminates all of these variables and lets you budget with confidence.
Stop Paying the Device Tax.
SentryOps replaces per-device MSP contracts with flat-rate autonomous monitoring. Same coverage, fraction of the cost.
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