Based on real industry data
What could a database outage cost you?
Enter your assumptions below. This calculator estimates your exposure using industry multipliers and your inputs — it's a model, not a guarantee.
$5M+
per hour — financial services
$1.5M+
per hour — healthcare
2.5 hrs
avg. unplanned outage
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One outage — total cost
$1.0M
Based on 4h, $200K/hr
Annual expected cost
$3.1M
Assumes 3 unplanned outages/year (based on recent Uptime Institute analysis)
Cost to prevent (24/7 monitoring)
$24K/yr
That's 42× ROI vs. one outage
Itemized breakdown
- Lost revenue$800K
- SLA / penalty costs$6K
- Recovery / incident response$16K
- Reputational / downstream loss$64K
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Industry data sources
- ITIC, "2024 Hourly Cost of Downtime Survey" — over 90% of mid-size and large enterprises say a single hour of downtime exceeds $300,000; 41% report $1M–$5M+ per hour.
- SIXTA, "The Real Cost of Database Incidents" (2025) — average $9,000/minute based on Ponemon/Gartner data; Global 2000 companies face ~$400B/year in unplanned downtime.
- Uptime Institute, "Annual Outage Analysis 2025" — power and ransomware remain leading causes of impactful IT/data center downtime.
- Gartner, research on mission-critical application downtime — large enterprises frequently report $5M–$10M/hour for unplanned outages.