Cost of manual audits

What does checking Azure
by hand actually cost you?

A single manual compliance review eats engineer hours per tenant, and you owe one every month. Put in your numbers below and see the annual figure next to what Beacon charges to do the same work continuously.

Your numbers

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112

Assumes one manual review per tenant each month. Pulling identity, network, storage, and Defender posture by hand typically runs a few hours per tenant once you account for collecting evidence and writing it up.

Manual, per year
$36,720

In engineer time spent auditing tenants by hand, 12 months a year.

Audits per year144
Engineer hours per year432
Beacon, per year
$1,188

On the Growth plan, scanning every tenant every 6 hours.

Plan price$99 / mo
Scans per year17,520
Estimated yearly saving with Beacon
$35,532
Beacon pays for itself many times over at your scale.
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This is an estimate built from your inputs, not a quote. It counts only direct engineer time, so it leaves out the harder-to-price cost of issues that sit undetected between manual reviews. Beacon plan prices are the published rates: Starter $49/mo up to 10 tenants, Growth $99/mo up to 30, Pro $199/mo up to 75. Beyond 75 tenants we show the Pro price as a floor and suggest talking to us about Enterprise.

The real cost is more than the hours

The calculator above only counts engineer time. Manual audits carry costs that are harder to put a number on but just as real.

Weeks of blind spots

A monthly review means a misconfiguration can sit live for almost a month before anyone looks. Beacon rechecks every tenant every 6 hours, so the gap shrinks from weeks to hours.

Reporting time you can bill back

Writing up findings for each client is its own task. Beacon generates report-ready output per tenant, so the hours your team spent formatting spreadsheets go back into the business.

Consistency across engineers

Two engineers auditing by hand will check different things. Beacon runs the same 36 checks against every tenant the same way, so coverage does not depend on who pulled the audit.

Put the hours back into your business

Start scanning every client tenant continuously for less than one engineer afternoon a month.

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