Build vs. Buy

Build in-house or use skalenta?

Run the honest comparison: what a dedicated team costs to build the automation yourself, versus the skalenta solution. Over twelve months, including the time-to-value advantage.

Build in-house

What a dedicated team costs to build the automation in-house.

DevOps engineers for the in-house team2FTEs

Avg. annual salary per engineer75,000€

Time to build until production-ready9months

Tooling & cloud costs (in-house)18,000€/year

With skalenta

Placeholder values — we adjust them to your setup during the discovery.

Setup (one-time)15,000€

Ongoing4,000€/month

Set your assumptions and see the honest 12-month comparison on the next page.

Case Studies

Software & IT Services

From a dev team to autonomous operations

A clean DevOps stack on Azure — built once, run autonomously by KI-Ops ever since, with no dedicated DevOps role.

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Non-Profit & Animal Welfare

Non-profit, in the cloud, fully autonomous

An animal welfare organisation fully migrated to Azure — operations have run autonomously with KI-Ops ever since, with no in-house IT.

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Web Agency & Digital

From FTP uploads to monitored pipelines

A web agency moved from manual FTP deploys to Git and automated pipelines — KI-Ops has watched over uptime, errors and critical versions ever since.

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