API Downtime Cost Calculator
How much are API outages really costing your business? Enter your numbers to find out — and make the case for proactive monitoring.
Stripe, AWS, Auth0, etc.
Industry average: 2-4 per month
💡 Insight
With 5 API dependencies, your exposure is 1.60x higher than a single-service app. Each additional dependency increases your outage surface area. At $1.3K/year in potential losses, monitoring pays for itself after just one prevented incident.
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The Hidden Cost of API Dependencies
Modern applications depend on an average of 5-15 third-party APIs. Each dependency is a potential point of failure that's completely outside your control. When Stripe goes down, your payments stop. When AWS degrades, your infrastructure suffers. When OpenAI has issues, your AI features break.
Real-World Impact
- E-commerce: A 30-minute Stripe outage during peak hours can cost thousands in lost sales
- SaaS: Auth provider downtime means your users literally can't log in
- DevOps: CI/CD pipeline failures cascade when GitHub or container registries go down
- Fintech: Payment processing delays trigger compliance issues and customer churn
Why Monitoring Pays for Itself
The average cost of not knowing about an outage is far higher than the outage itself. When you detect a dependency failure in seconds instead of minutes, you can:
- Activate fallback services automatically
- Notify affected users proactively (building trust)
- Reduce mean time to recovery (MTTR) by 60-80%
- Avoid cascading failures across your system
API Status Check paid plans start at $9/month — likely less than a single minute of downtime costs your business.