Upload your on-premises inventory, Azure Migrate report, AWS Cost Explorer export, or billing CSV. TCOIQ's AI instantly calculates your 5-year cloud TCO across AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI and Alibaba Cloud — with full cost breakdown, migration costs, and ROI timeline.
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Full multi-year cost projection including compute, storage, networking, licensing, migration costs, operational savings, and discount programmes (Reserved Instances, Committed Use Discounts).
Upload any file format — Azure Migrate JSON, AWS Cost Explorer CSV, on-premises spreadsheet, or just describe your infrastructure. Our AI extracts the data and builds your TCO automatically.
Side-by-side TCO comparison across AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud (GCP), Oracle OCI, and Alibaba Cloud. See exactly where each cloud is cheaper for your specific workload mix.
Every cost component itemised: compute (on-demand vs reserved), storage (block, object, archive), networking (egress, load balancers, VPN), managed services, support plans, and licensing.
See exactly when your cloud migration breaks even — accounting for migration costs, parallel running periods, and the monthly savings that accumulate post-migration.
Download a professional PDF TCO report — ready to present to your CIO, CFO or board. Includes executive summary, methodology, assumptions, and 5-year cost model with charts.
Upload Azure Migrate report, AWS Cost Explorer CSV, on-premises inventory spreadsheet, or RVTools export. Or type your infrastructure details directly.
TCOIQ's AI reads your data, identifies all services and workload patterns, maps to equivalent cloud services, and applies current pricing from all 5 clouds.
Adjust migration timeline, on-premises cost inputs, discount programmes, support tier, and any hybrid retained infrastructure. All assumptions are editable.
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Example 5-year TCO comparison for a 100-server mixed workload migration
| Cost Component | On-Premises | AWS | Azure | GCP | OCI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Compute (5yr) | $1,800,000 | $680,000 | $640,000 | $660,000 | $280,000 |
| Storage (5yr) | $240,000 | $145,000 | $130,000 | $140,000 | $110,000 |
| Networking (5yr) | $120,000 | $180,000 | $175,000 | $160,000 | $45,000 |
| Licences (5yr) | $400,000 | $280,000 | $220,000 | $260,000 | $280,000 |
| Migration (one-time) | — | $180,000 | $180,000 | $180,000 | $180,000 |
| Support (5yr) | $80,000 | $65,000 | $60,000 | $55,000 | $40,000 |
| 5-Year Total | $2,640,000 | $1,530,000 | $1,405,000 | $1,455,000 | $935,000 |
| vs On-Premises | Baseline | Save $1.11M | Save $1.24M | Save $1.19M | Save $1.71M |
*Example only. Your actual TCO will vary based on workload mix, region, commitment level, and current on-premises costs. Use TCOIQ to calculate your specific numbers.
A complete cloud TCO should include: compute (on-demand vs reserved pricing), storage (block, object, archive, backup), networking (egress, inter-region, load balancers, VPN, dedicated connections), managed services (databases, Kubernetes, caches, queues), support plans, software licences, migration costs (consulting, tools, parallel running), and operational costs (staff time reduction for infrastructure management). TCOIQ covers all of these.
TCO estimates can range from rough order-of-magnitude (±50%) to detailed financial models (±10-15%). The accuracy depends on the quality of input data. TCOIQ's AI extracts detailed workload characteristics from your uploaded files to produce more accurate estimates. All assumptions are transparent and editable so you can adjust for your specific situation. For procurement decisions, always validate with official cloud provider pricing calculators.
For pure infrastructure cost, OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure) consistently shows the lowest TCO — compute is 50-70% cheaper than AWS/Azure, and egress is 10× cheaper. However, AWS and Azure often justify their premium through: richer managed service ecosystems, broader compliance certifications, existing licence benefits (Azure Hybrid Benefit for Microsoft shops), and stronger enterprise support. The "best" cloud depends on your specific workload mix, existing vendor relationships, and operational priorities.
A cloud cost comparison shows the monthly running cost difference between clouds (e.g., AWS m7i.2xlarge vs Azure D8s v5). A TCO analysis is broader — it includes the full multi-year financial picture: migration costs, transition period costs, operational changes, licence changes, support costs, and the time-value of money (NPV). TCO is the number you present to a CFO or board for a migration investment decision.
With TCOIQ, initial results are available in under 60 seconds after uploading your data. A complete, detailed TCO report suitable for executive presentation typically takes 15-30 minutes of configuration and review to ensure all assumptions accurately reflect your environment.
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