ROI Calculator

Calculate Your AI Security ROI

Quantify the financial case for protecting your AI coding workflow with Pretense. Share this analysis with your CFO or CISO to justify the investment.

Your Organization

50

Number of engineers actively using AI coding tools (Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, etc.)

10500
4h

Average hours per developer per day spent using AI-assisted coding

1h8h
$150K

Median total compensation for your engineering team

$60K$300K
8%

Industry average: 8–12%. Includes API keys, internal hostnames, customer data fragments.

1%50%
$500K

IBM 2024 Cost of a Data Breach Report: average $4.88M. Conservative range starts at $10K for minor incidents.

$10K$10,000K
Exceptional ROI
68x
Return on Investment
Every $1 invested in Pretense returns $68 in risk avoidance + productivity
$17,400
Annual Pretense cost
Pro tier · $29/seat/mo
6 days
Payback period
Immediate ROI
$58,400/yr
Breach risk avoided
~0.12 incidents/yr prevented
$1,125,000/yr
Productivity gain
15% lift from confident AI use
Total annual benefit$1,183,400
Cost: $17,400Benefit: $1,183,400
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Estimates based on IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2024, industry productivity benchmarks, and Pretense Pro pricing. Actual results will vary.

How we calculate this

Breach risk avoidance

We estimate the number of secret-containing prompts per year, apply an industry breach conversion rate, and multiply by your incident cost estimate.

Productivity gain

Teams using Pretense report 15% more confident AI usage. Less context-switching to sanitize code before prompting. Applied to total salary cost.

Pretense cost

Pro plan at $29/seat/month billed monthly, or $23/seat/month billed annually. No hidden fees, no per-mutation charges.

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