ROI Calculator
Estimate the 3‑year value of PlainID authorization
Agentic AI changes everything — run-time authorization makes it secure. Adjust the inputs below to size the business value PlainID can unlock across admin efficiency, developer velocity, compliance, breach-risk reduction and agentic identity governance.
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Role Management
10–50× employees
1–2 hours typical
Typically 15–30%
$75–$100/hr
Helpdesk & Access Requests
20–30% of IT tickets
$25–$40
Application Development
Varies by org
60–120 hours
$80–$150/hr
Compliance & Audit
Varies by industry
$100–$150/hr
Security & Risk
IBM: $4.45M avg
1–3% typical
Agentic Governance
People governing agent access
20:1 default
5–15% typical
10–20 minutes
Agentic Identity Authorization
Policy updates / access changes
3–10 minutes
Exceptions / over-privilege events
$10k–$50k typical
3-Year value potential
$2,910,750
Estimated business value PlainID can unlock over three years — based on your authorization complexity, delivery pace, audit burden, risk posture and agentic identity governance needs.
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ROI calculator — frequently asked questions
Enter a handful of metrics about your environment — number of roles, access-request volume, new applications per year, audit hours, breach exposure and the scale of your AI-agent estate. The calculator models the value PlainID's policy-based, run-time authorization can unlock across five pillars and projects it over a three-year window. Results update live as you adjust the sliders.
Five pillars: admin efficiency (replacing role sprawl and access-request tickets with centralized policy), developer velocity (externalizing authorization instead of hand-coding it per app), compliance efficiency (consistent enforcement and faster audit evidence), risk mitigation (reducing expected breach exposure with least-privilege, run-time decisions) and agentic governance (governing non-human and AI-agent identities at scale).
Most organizations hard-code authorization into each application and manage access through thousands of static roles. That creates duplicated engineering work, brittle audits and over-privileged access. Externalizing authorization into a single policy-based platform removes that per-application effort, shrinks the role estate, makes compliance continuous and reduces the blast radius of a breach — which is where the modelled savings come from.
No. This calculator focuses on the business value PlainID can unlock. For a full business case that includes investment, net value, ROI and payback period tailored to your environment, request a personalized ROI analysis from our team.
The defaults reflect typical enterprise benchmarks, and every input is adjustable so the estimate reflects your reality. It is a directional model to size the opportunity, not a quote. A PlainID specialist can validate the assumptions and produce a detailed, defensible business case.