Transparent Unit Economics & TCO Model

Quantify Your Real Savings.Built on Verifiable Unit Economics.

Model how replacing legacy LMS seat licenses, third-party proctoring add-ons (Honorlock/Proctorio), and manual grading labor translates into 60%+ direct budget recovery and under 3-month payback.

Your Institutional Parameters

Live Model
Active Enrolled Learners1,000
100 minimum1,000 (Mid-tier)5,000 (Multi-campus)15,000+
Proctored High-Stakes Exams per Learner / Year4
1 exam/yr4 (Midterms + Finals)12 (Monthly)
Long-Form Written / Speaking Assessments per Learner / Year6
1 submission6 submissions24 submissions
Blended Instructor / Grader Rate (Hourly)$60/hr
$20/hr$60/hr (Avg TA / Adjunct)$150/hr
Current Legacy LMS License (per Learner / Year)$45/yr
$15/yr (Open Source Hosting)$45/yr (Canvas/Blackboard Avg)$90/yr
Unit Economics Standard: Model includes automatic volume discounting from our economics brief (15% off for 501–2,000 learners, 25% off for >2,000 learners) plus the standard ₹25,000 (~$285) onboarding and migration assistance.
Net Annual Institutional RecoveryPure Savings
$117,875

Total net dollars returned to your department budget after paying Cognaxa.

Annual ROI
669%
Payback Period
1.8 mo

Annual Financial Breakdown

Current Legacy Total Cost$135,500
Cognaxa Annual Investment$17,625
Software & Proctoring License Savings+$41,375
Instructor Grading Hours Value+$76,500
Total Instructor Hours Recovered1,275 hrs / yr
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Architectural Advantage

Why Cognaxa's Unit Economics Are 60%–75% Cheaper

Most LMS vendors inflate pricing because of third-party video bandwidth markups and external proctoring licenses. We engineered those costs out of the stack.

Native Client Proctoring

Zero Per-Exam Markups

Legacy vendors route video to third-party proctors, billing $12.50 to $15 per exam. Cognaxa runs computer vision in WebAssembly on the client device. Storage is under $0.02 per exam.

Optimized AI Pipeline

₹4.3 ($0.05) AI Cost / User

Our Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite pipeline averages only ₹4.3 per user per month across 53 automated calls. We bundle unlimited AI rubric grading without charging $5/student/month add-ons.

PostgreSQL RLS Tenancy

66%–75% Contribution Margin

Single-codebase multi-tenancy enforced at the query planner reduces compute overhead by 80%. This guarantees high profitability for us while keeping customer pricing radically low.

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