What's shipping without a safety net actually costing you?
Untested code paths, surface-level reviews, and unscanned vulnerabilities ship risk to production every day. Here's the real cost — and what changes when every PR gets tested, reviewed, and secured before merge.
Tell us about your team
Total developers who open or review PRs.
Average across the team, weekdays only.
Median lines added + modified per PR.
Cycles before merge (initial + revisions).
Current line/branch coverage. Higher is safer.
% of merged PRs that cause a production bug within 30 days.
% of PRs that go through any security scanning before merge.
Developers who join the team annually.
What does it cost you?
Fully loaded cost (salary + benefits + overhead). $100/hr is a reasonable blended default for senior teams.
Engineering + customer impact of a single production bug.
Per-vulnerability engineering cost: remediation, disclosure, customer notification, potential fines.
Implied monthly engineering cost at these inputs
$40,192/mo· $482,304/yr
320h review + 46h test + 36h security per month, at $100/hr. Sanity-check against your team's actual workload.
Where you're paying
Toggle each tax on or off — the total below recalculates instantly.
Manual Review Tax
ReviewMost review time goes to things a machine catches faster — style, edge cases, pattern drift. Autter handles the first pass so your seniors spend their time on architecture, not line-by-line scanning.
Daily review load
Without Autter
With Autter
- Review hours / PR
- 1.0h
- Total review hours / month
- 320h$32,000
- Hours recovered by Autter
- 224h$22,400
Untested Code Tax
TestCoverage tells you what's covered, not what's protected. The expensive bugs hide in paths nobody tested. Autter runs your code and tests the actual changes, catching what your suite misses.
Production bugs from untested paths · 12/mo
Without Autter
With Autter
- Untested code surface
- 45%
- Bugs from untested paths / month
- 12
- Production incident cost / month
- $57,600$57,600
- Hotfix engineering hours
- 46h$4,608
- Bugs caught by Autter's test runs
- 6$34,214
Security Blind Spot Tax
SecuritySecurity review happens too late — in audits or after a breach. Autter scans every pull request through 40+ scanners, catching vulnerabilities at the cheapest possible moment: before merge.
Pull requests scanned
Without Autter
With Autter
- Unscanned PRs / month
- 224
- Estimated vulnerabilities shipped
- 4.5
- Security incident cost / month
- $22,400$22,400
- Late-stage remediation hours
- 36h$3,584
- Vulns caught by Autter
- 3.8$22,086
Review Bottleneck Tax
ReviewA PR opened at 10 AM waits until the reviewer is free. Blocked work, a context switch, a stale branch. Autter gives instant first-pass feedback so authors keep moving.
Time from open to merge
Without Autter
With Autter
- Avg wait for first review
- 4h
- Developer blocked time / month
- 640h
- Context-switch cost / month
- 80h
- Velocity cost / month
- $72,000$72,000
- Time recovered with instant first pass
- $57,600$57,600
Onboarding Tax
ReviewTestNew developers write code your way — eventually. Until then seniors coach through PR comments. Autter learned from your review history and enforces those standards from day one.
Off by default — excluded from your total. Toggle on to include.
Ramp to team baseline
Without Autter
With Autter
- Ramp-up period (without Autter)
- 3 mo
- Senior dev mentoring hours / hire
- 36h
- Total onboarding cost / year
- $18,000$18,000
- Annual savings with Autter
- $9,000$750/mo
All taxes combined
Total monthly cost without Autter
Step 4
Your ROI with Autter
Autter cost
$212/ month
Cargo plan · 320 PRs/mo · 20 overage * $0.65 = $212/mo
Net savings
$136,089/ month
All toggled-on taxes, minus your Autter subscription.
Annual savings
$1,633,066/ year
642x ROI · payback in under a month
Based on your PR volume (320 PRs/mo), the Cargo plan is your best fit.
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