Understanding Omnistrate Cost Benefits & Savings¶

Traditionally, building distribution channels has been quite costly. You have to assemble a team of experts and wait for years. With Omnistrate, you NOT only have the time to market advantage, but also significantly better margins advantage over your competition. Moreover, our pricing is purely usage based and designed to fit in any budget.

The Economics of Building Your Control Plane¶

Building your own control plane to reach all distribution channels represents one of the most significant investments software companies face when expanding their market reach. The complexity spans infrastructure management, tenant orchestration, operational automation, and enterprise-grade security—each requiring specialized expertise and substantial ongoing investment.

Omnistrate enables you to build your own control plane faster and more cost-effectively, whether you're starting from scratch or accelerating from your current position. You can leverage your existing investments while gaining enterprise-grade capabilities immediately.

The Bottom Line: Omnistrate delivers 68x cost savings compared to building everything yourself. For a typical 200-tenant deployment, building from scratch costs ~$550K/month while building with Omnistrate costs ~$8K/month—saving you over $6.5M annually while getting to market years faster.

Key Benefits of Using Omnistrate¶

Massive Cost Reduction¶

Traditional control plane development requires substantial upfront investment and ongoing operational overhead. Omnistrate transforms this equation by providing enterprise-grade capabilities at a fraction of the cost, enabling you to focus resources on core product innovation rather than infrastructure complexity.

Accelerated Time-to-Market¶

While DIY approaches typically require years of development before reaching production readiness, Omnistrate enables you to deploy your first SaaS offering in weeks. This acceleration advantage compounds over time, allowing you to capture market opportunities and iterate based on customer feedback while competitors are still building foundational infrastructure.

Operational Excellence Without Overhead¶

Enterprise customers expect sophisticated operational capabilities including monitoring, alerting, automated recovery, and comprehensive observability. Omnistrate provides these capabilities out-of-the-box, eliminating the need for dedicated platform engineering teams while ensuring your service meets enterprise-grade reliability standards.

Build on Your Existing Investments¶

Omnistrate doesn't replace what you've already built—it accelerates and enhances it. Whether you have existing Terraform modules, Helm charts, Kubernetes operators, or custom automation, you can integrate them into your Omnistrate-powered control plane and continue building from where you are today. This approach preserves your previous investments while adding enterprise-grade operational capabilities, enabling you to start saving immediately from your current position.

Flexible Pricing Model¶

Our usage-based pricing model adapts to your business stage and growth trajectory, ensuring you only pay for the value you receive while maintaining predictable cost structures as you scale.

For detailed information about our pricing plans and options, visit our pricing page.

Things to note¶

Lazy Initialization and System Nodes: Omnistrate employs lazy initialization of the control plane to avoid redundant costs. Once initialized, a few system nodes continues to run. These system nodes can be teared down in all the regions by unlinking the account, and Omnistrate never charges for these system nodes. To unlink your account, delete the account config here. <!-- TODO : Update to a link on how to offboard your account >
Cost Optimization Features: Omnistrate helps save costs by offering visibility into resource usage and providing capabilities like auto-scaling and seamless scale-down to zero, ensuring efficient resource utilization. <!-- TODO : Add link to cost feature >
Stopped Instances: Omnistrate does not charge for stopped instances, providing flexibility and cost-saving opportunities.
Minimum monthly commit: If you are scaling past initial 5-10 customers, we recommend switching to monthly commit plan to significantly reduce your usage charges
Annual commit: You can save additional cost by committing a specific amount upfront on the annual basis

The True Cost of DIY Control Plane Development¶

DIY cost¶

DIY cost includes 3 major components:

Infrastructure cost: Self-hosting your SaaS control-plane itself will take you 20% overhead of your data-plane infrastructure. For 200 tenants each with 1 shared core, 2GB, 128GB storage, ~20% networking will cost: $6430/month for data plane infrastructure cost + $1286/month for control plane infrastructure cost. This is already more than the total cost of ownership with Omnistrate, and we haven't even added the primary costs.
Operational cost: Building and operating your SaaS will cost millions of dollars per year to start with and will continue to grow over time
Opportunity cost: You will have to wait for years to build it yourself, delaying your cloud growth by that time period and instead focus on undifferentiated tech forever

Side-by-side savings comparison¶

Here is a graph comparing Omnistrate and DIY costs with the following assumptions:

Each tenant takes 1 shared core, 2GB, 128GB storage, ~20% networking overhead
Let's say for every 100 tenants, we will need 1 cloud engineer for cloud operations and 1-pizza team to set things up initially
The average salary of cloud engineer is estimated to be 250K USD including everything
Let's say control plane infra as 20% of the data plane infra
Costs below include the cloud infrastructure cost to run the application software

As you can see, Omnistrate is significantly cheaper to build and operate your SaaS over DIY. In addition, if we add opportunity cost, you will be able to market your SaaS in weeks as opposed to years.

DIY details¶

To build and operate your SaaS with DIY for 200 dedicated tenants will cost:

Build and operational cost: 250K * 24 / 12 + 250K * (200/100) / 12
Infrastructure cost (incl control plane infrastructure): $6430 * 1.2 (control plane infrastructure) per-month for data plane infrastructure cost, see here
Total charges: ~$550K /month

Omnistrate details¶

To build and operate your SaaS with Omnistrate for 200 dedicated tenants will cost:

Infrastructure cost: $6430 /month for data plane infrastructure cost, see here
Omnistrate charges: $1606 /month for starter plan including control plane infrastructure cost and operational cost, see here
Total charges: ~$8K /month i.e. 68x cheaper + opportunity cost

For your use-case, please use this calculator to better estimate Omnistrate charges.

Time-to-Market Advantage¶

Traditional Development Timeline¶

Architecture and initial development to a specific distribution channel
Core platform development
Testing, security, and compliance
Production hardening and scaling
Rework to adapt to new Cloud Providers and distribution channels
Total: years to production-ready platform

Omnistrate Timeline¶

Week 1: Service definition and configuration
Week 2-3: Integration and testing
Week 4: Production deployment
Total: 1 month to production-ready SaaS to Any Cloud and Any Channel

Time Savings: years of saving in time to market

This acceleration advantage enables you to capture market opportunities, gather customer feedback, and iterate on your product while competitors are still building foundational infrastructure. The compounding effect of this time advantage often represents the most significant value driver for growing software companies.

Strategic Value Beyond Cost Savings¶

Risk Mitigation and Reliability¶

Omnistrate provides proven, enterprise-grade infrastructure that has been battle-tested across diverse customer deployments and operational scenarios. This proven foundation reduces the technical and business risks associated with building critical infrastructure in-house, while providing reliability guarantees that would require significant investment to achieve independently.

Innovation Acceleration¶

By eliminating the need to build and maintain complex infrastructure systems, your engineering teams can focus entirely on product innovation and customer value creation. This focus advantage compounds over time, enabling faster feature development, better customer experiences, and stronger competitive positioning in your market.

Operational Excellence¶

Enterprise customers expect sophisticated operational capabilities including comprehensive monitoring, automated recovery, advanced security controls, and detailed observability. Omnistrate provides these capabilities as core platform features, enabling you to meet enterprise requirements without building specialized operational expertise in-house.

For your use-case, please use this calculator to better estimate Omnistrate charges.

Getting Started with Omnistrate¶

Start From Where You Are¶

Whether you're just beginning your control plane journey or have existing infrastructure investments, Omnistrate meets you where you are. You can bring your current Terraform modules, Helm charts, Docker Compose files, or Kubernetes operators and integrate them seamlessly. This means you start saving immediately without losing your previous work—accelerating your progress rather than starting over.

Assessment and Planning¶

Begin by evaluating your current software distribution requirements and growth objectives. Consider your target customer segments, preferred deployment models, and operational requirements to determine the most appropriate Omnistrate plan and implementation approach.

Proof of Concept¶

Start with our $0 commit starter plan to validate the platform capabilities and cost benefits for your specific use case. This approach enables you to demonstrate value to stakeholders while building confidence in the platform's ability to meet your requirements.

Production Deployment¶

Transition to growth or enterprise plans as your customer base expands and operational requirements become more sophisticated. Omnistrate's flexible pricing model ensures you can scale cost-effectively while accessing advanced features and support as needed.

Optimization and Growth¶

Leverage Omnistrate's cost visibility tools, auto-scaling capabilities, and operational automation to optimize your deployment efficiency and customer experience. Work with our team to implement advanced features and integrations that support your long-term growth objectives.

Additional Resources¶

Pricing details can be found on our pricing page

You can also utilize our cost calculator to estimate your expenses.

For any pricing-related inquiries, refer to your billing page for usage or invoice details, or contact us at support@omnistrate.com for further assistance.

Conclusion¶

The decision between building a control plane in-house versus leveraging Omnistrate represents a fundamental strategic choice about resource allocation and competitive focus. While DIY approaches require massive upfront investment, years of development time, and ongoing operational complexity, Omnistrate enables you to achieve enterprise-grade capabilities immediately while focusing your engineering talent on core product differentiation.

With 68x cost savings, years faster time-to-market, and zero operational overhead, Omnistrate transforms the economics of software distribution. You're not just saving money—you're gaining a sustainable competitive advantage that compounds over time as you scale your business and expand into new markets.

The choice is clear: focus on what differentiates your product while Omnistrate handles the sophisticated infrastructure and operational complexity required for enterprise-scale software distribution.