The industry tosses around a fully-loaded endpoint figure, commonly $60–75 per device, per month, as if it were a single line item. It is not. It is a pile of smaller costs that each look reasonable in isolation and add up to something absurd.
The anatomy of a managed endpoint
Break the number apart and you find tooling licenses, the labor to operate that tooling, and the periodic catastrophes that the tooling exists to prevent and mostly does not.
- Security tooling: EDR, AV, and the SIEM ingest they generate.
- Management tooling: RMM, MDM/UEM, patch orchestration, backup.
- Labor: patch nights, reimaging, drift remediation, truck rolls.
- Incidents: per-event cleanup, ransomware recovery, downtime.
Most of these line items exist for one reason: the endpoint keeps state, so it must be watched, patched, and recovered. Remove the persistent OS and you do not trim these costs, you eliminate the condition that created them.
Scylos is $7 per endpoint, per month, all-in. Not because we cut corners, because we removed the work.
What stays, and what goes
To be honest about it: identity, email security, and your network do not go away, and we would not claim they do. What goes away is the endpoint that generated most of the tickets, and the stack of agents and labor wrapped around it.
Run your own numbers in the TCO calculator. The point is not the headline figure; it is that the savings come from architecture, not discounting.