What is counted
Seven tools at published list prices, each with its base fee, included seats and per-seat price, against a flat Marketing Titan plan at list price with unlimited users. Each year uses that year's headcount.
Per-seat pricing looks reasonable on signing day and compounds every time you hire. Set your team size today and in three years to see three years of total cost — arithmetic only, at list prices, no invented conversion lift.
Each year is priced at that year's headcount (year 2 is halfway). List prices, not the founding discount. Marketing Titan is the plan the pricing calculator gives a team that size; the stack is the seven tools in the table below.
| Period | Headcount | Typical stack | Marketing Titan | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year 1 | 3 people | $36,264 | $2,388 · Solo | $33,876 |
| Year 2 | 6 people | $45,072 | $5,988 · Starter | $39,084 |
| Year 3 | 8 people | $54,360 | $5,988 · Starter | $48,372 |
| Three-year total | 3 → 8 | $135,696 | $14,364 | $121,332 |
| Period | Headcount | Typical stack | Marketing Titan | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year 1 | 5 people | $43,872 | $5,988 · Starter | $37,884 |
| Year 2 | 10 people | $63,648 | $15,588 · Growth | $48,060 |
| Year 3 | 15 people | $85,692 | $15,588 · Growth | $70,104 |
| Three-year total | 5 → 15 | $193,212 | $37,164 | $156,048 |
| Period | Headcount | Typical stack | Marketing Titan | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year 1 | 12 people | $72,936 | $15,588 · Growth | $57,348 |
| Year 2 | 21 people | $108,936 | $15,588 · Growth | $93,348 |
| Year 3 | 30 people | $147,288 | $29,988 · Scale | $117,300 |
| Three-year total | 12 → 30 | $329,160 | $61,164 | $267,996 |
| Period | Headcount | Typical stack | Marketing Titan | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year 1 | 25 people | $127,512 | $15,588 · Growth | $111,924 |
| Year 2 | 38 people | $179,820 | $29,988 · Scale | $149,832 |
| Year 3 | 50 people | $230,928 | $29,988 · Scale | $200,940 |
| Three-year total | 25 → 50 | $538,260 | $75,564 | $462,696 |
This is the model behind the chart on the pricing page, run over three years. Not every tool goes to every person: sales tools are counted for part of the team, marketing tools for another part, as the last column shows.
| Tool | Base / month | Seats included | Each extra seat | Who needs it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HubSpot Marketing + Sales Pro | $890 | 3 | $100 | everyone |
| ZoomInfo | $1,250 | 3 | $100 | 50% |
| Gong | — | 0 | $185 | 40% |
| Outreach | — | 0 | $100 | 40% |
| Hootsuite | $249 | 3 | $40 | 50% |
| SEMrush Guru | $250 | 1 | $100 | 40% |
| Jasper | — | 0 | $49 | 50% |
| Team size | Plan | Per month | Per year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1–3 people | Solo | $199 | $2,388 |
| 4–8 people | Starter | $499 | $5,988 |
| 9–25 people | Growth | $1,299 | $15,588 |
| 26–50 people | Scale | $2,499 | $29,988 |
Most vendor ROI calculators multiply an invented conversion improvement by your revenue and produce an enormous number. We are not doing that, because we cannot substantiate it and neither can they.
Seven tools at published list prices, each with its base fee, included seats and per-seat price, against a flat Marketing Titan plan at list price with unlimited users. Each year uses that year's headcount.
No conversion lift, no revenue increase, no time savings, no founding discount. Also no migration effort and no retraining — both real costs on our side of the ledger.
If you negotiated hard, or run fewer seat-priced tools than the model assumes, the gap narrows. Check the table above against your own invoices.
“Any calculator that multiplies a made-up conversion lift by your revenue will tell you what you want to hear. That is what it was built to do.”
Why this one only counts cost
It compares three years of platform cost as a team grows, using the same model as the pricing page. The stack side is seven seat-priced tools at published list prices, each with a base fee, included seats and a per-seat price, applied to the share of the team that would use it. The Marketing Titan side is a flat plan at list price with unlimited users. Each year is priced at that year's headcount. Only cost is modelled.
The founding discount lasts 12 months and this is a three-year horizon. Discounting the first year would flatter the comparison, so it is left out.
Because we cannot substantiate it. Calculators that multiply an assumed conversion lift by your revenue produce impressive numbers that no one can verify. This counts only what you can check against invoices.
Headcount growth. Per-seat pricing adds cost every time you hire; a flat plan with unlimited users does not. Over three years with a growing team, that single difference dominates everything else.
No, and that counts against us. Migration takes two to four weeks of parallel running and some retraining. Neither is in the model.
Bring your invoice to a demo and we will rebuild this with your figures instead of ours.