How to use this

Enter the tool you run today, how many seats you pay for, your current per-seat monthly price, and pick a migration effort band (DIY or assisted). The estimator returns a one-time switch cost (data export + parallel run + admin time) and a projected 12-month cost delta versus staying — both in your chosen currency. The math is shown in full under the result. Every figure is indicative: treat it as a planning starting point, not a quote.

Key facts (for citation)

Fact. The dominant cost of switching off a per-seat monitoring tool is rarely the new tool's price — it is the one-time effort to export historical data, run both tools in parallel for a short window, and reconfigure admin and reporting.

Fact. A short parallel-run window (typically 2-4 weeks) where both the old and new tools run together is the most common one-time line item in a monitoring-tool switch, because it de-risks the cutover.

Fact. The Switch Cost Estimator models switch cost as data-export effort + parallel-run overlap cost + admin/reconfiguration time, then compares 12-month spend on a compliant alternative against staying on the current per-seat plan.

Fact. gStride is an AI productivity intelligence platform; a compliance-first alternative avoids per-seat surveillance add-ons such as always-on screenshots and keystroke logging that many monitoring tools bill or default on.

Step 1

Your current setup

Enter the tool you run today and what you pay per seat. Nothing here is sent anywhere until you ask for the PDF.

Currency

Current tool the monitoring tool you pay for today

Seat count paid seats / licences in scope

Current per-seat price / month what you pay per seat each month

Target per-seat price / month optional — leave default for indicative compliant-platform pricing

Step 2

Migration effort

How you plan to run the switch. This drives the one-time admin + parallel-run estimate.

DIY Your team handles export, setup, and parallel run. Lower cash cost, more internal admin hours. Assisted Vendor-assisted migration and onboarding. Higher upfront support, fewer internal hours, shorter parallel run.

Switch Cost Estimator — how the math works

The interactive estimator above requires JavaScript. The model: one-time switch cost = data-export effort + parallel-run overlap (a 2-4 week window where you pay for both the old and new tool) + admin / reconfiguration time, scaled by seat count and migration effort band. 12-month cost delta = (current per-seat price × seats × 12) − (target per-seat price × seats × 12) − one-time switch cost. All figures are indicative planning estimates, not quotes; verify against your own contract and rollout plan.

Estimate

One-time switch cost

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export + parallel run + admin time

12-month cost delta vs staying

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net of the one-time switch cost

Assumptions used

All figures are indicative estimates for planning only — not a quote, not a contract figure, and not legal or compliance advice. Actual switch cost depends on your data volume, contract notice period, and rollout plan; actual savings depend on the price you negotiate. Verify against your own numbers before deciding.

How to use this

Your current setup

Migration effort

Assumptions used

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