Cost Analysis
Model the Real Cost of
Secure AI Workspaces
Compare current vendor plans, seat counts, self-hosting scope, and Pitt Suite expansion before moving a real company workflow.
Savings Calculator
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Number of nodes100
101,00010,000
plan delta / month
$600
saved
plan delta / year
$7K
saved annually
vs ZeroTier / year
$5K
saved annually
At 100 nodes: estimated plan delta is $7K/year before assisted review
Competitor Pricing
Per-user monthly cost at scale
Tailscale
$6
/user/month
ZeroTier
$4
/user/month
Cloudflare Access
$3
/user/month
FREE
Blackhole
$0
self-hosted
The Latency Tax
Network performance depends on topology, routes, relays, and workload shape. Blackhole treats latency as a benchmark to collect during assisted onboarding, not a blanket promise.
Tailscale latency
45ms
Blackhole latency
0.4ms
Speedup
112×
45ms × 50 CI/CD builds/day × 100 deploys × 1,000 calls = 62 hours wasted/year at typical CI/CD scale — time your engineers could spend shipping product.
Why Self-Hosted Wins at Scale
No per-seat licensing
Blackhole has zero per-device or per-user fees. Add 10,000 nodes — cost stays $0.
Your infra, your data
Control plane runs in your environment. No telemetry, no data leaving your network.
Predictable costs
Infrastructure costs scale sublinearly. No surprise billing when your headcount doubles.
No vendor lock-in
Open source, Apache 2.0. Fork it, extend it, run it forever. No subscription required.
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Founder-led setup validates the first cost-saving mesh before broad self-serve rollout.
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