Software Waste Calculator — Odau
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Software waste calculator

Four questions, an honest number, and no form to fill in. It runs entirely in your browser — your answers never reach us, which is why we can afford not to ask for your email.

Is it worth it

Four questions, and you have a number.

Scaled to your size and built on published benchmarks. We show what the waste is — how much of it you remove is your decision, not our promise.

How many employees?
1–500501–2,5002,500+
Roughly how many tools do you pay for?
Under 150150–350350–650650+ or unsure
How complete is your visibility into what you own?
CompletePartialLimited
How controlled is your software spend?
Tightly governedReviewed at renewalLargely uncontrolled
Estimated annual software spend
Estimated annual waste
What that is worth annually
If you act on 30% of it
If you act on 50% of it
Answer the four and this fills in.
Built on segment benchmarks — $3.8M average annual waste for companies under 500, $9.5M for mid-market, $21M for enterprise (Zylo, 2025). Some waste is structural: spare licenses, deliberate redundancy, contracts you cannot exit yet. The rest is your call, and how much you act on is genuinely up to you. Left alone it compounds — software spend per employee rises about 22% a year before AI is counted.

A benchmark is not your number.

This is what companies your size typically carry. Your real figure comes from your own systems — and finding it is the first thing Odau does.

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