What are you really paying to keep VDI for contractors?
Enter three numbers and compare your current contractor access cost to a device-verification approach in under a minute.
Three inputs. We estimate the rest.
Start with what you know. You can review and adjust every assumption.
Total external contractors, partners, or vendors — not employees.
Licensing + infrastructure, combined. If unsure, use the default — $27/user/month is the typical VDI all-in figure. ⁴
Your annual contractor growth. Used to estimate onboarding time savings.
Your estimated annual savings
$1,203,100
per year
89%
Cost savings
1mo
Payback
3k
3-year savings
These are estimated savings based on industry benchmarks. Actual results vary. See assumptions above.
¹ MetricNet benchmarks show 0.54–1.38 tickets/user/month across industries; 0.5 is conservative for external contractors with limited IT surface area.
² Average help desk ticket cost is $26.51 (Service Desk Show, 2024); $35 reflects higher-complexity VDI access and provisioning issues.
³ Fully loaded IT rate based on U.S. IT support median base pay (~$24/hr, PayScale 2025) × standard 2x burden multiplier.
⁴ $27/user/month VDI baseline reflects Citrix DaaS licensing ($13–$23/mo, GO-Global Feb 2026) plus datacenter infrastructure and admin overhead.
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The biggest gains are not only IT spend
Onboarding speed
Faster access means contractors become productive sooner.
Contractor experience
Less friction reduces workarounds and support burden.
Compliance evidence built in
Every login creates exportable records for audit and oversight.
Want to sanity-check the model against your environment?
We will review your inputs, adjust assumptions, and outline a contractor migration path.