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Assessment
3'000 – 5'000 CHF
Two to three weeks. Inventory of real dependencies and priorities settled by management.
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The monthly fee is the real budget.
Setup is the cheapest and least useful part. A recovery plan written once and then left alone becomes wrong within six months, at the rate infrastructure changes.
Pricing
What a recovery framework costs
Indicative ranges excluding applicable taxes. The monthly fee covers the restore drills and the follow-up, which is where most of the value sits.
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First drill
8'000 – 15'000 CHF
One real restore, timed, on a separate environment. The report lists what is missing.
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Setup
10'000 – 35'000 CHF
Then per month 2'000 – 8'000 CHF
Closing the gaps, procedures for a third party, then drills at an agreed interval.
Request an assessmentThe monthly fee is higher than the market average because it includes restores that are actually performed, not just backup monitoring.
Price grid
The whole range on one page
One row per product, one column per level of commitment. Prices exclude tax and are indicative until quoted.
| Product | Fixed-price entry | Recurring, per month | Project on quotation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contivaro 365 | – | CHF 5 per user | – |
| Contivaro Vault | – | CHF 60 – 190 per server | By volume |
| Contivaro Drill | First drill · On quotation | from CHF 3,500 per year | – |
| Contivaro Watch | – | CHF 150 – 400 | – |
| Contivaro Plan | from CHF 1,800 | CHF 1,200 per year (review) | – |
Hosted platform subscriptions carry an initial twelve-month term, then three months’ notice, indexed at 3% per year. No hidden per-user cost: what is per seat is written per seat.
What moves the price
The yearly drill is CHF 3,500. Beyond that, three factors set the price.
Drill frequency
An annual drill is enough for some organisations. Others run one per quarter, because their infrastructure changes fast or because a third party requires it. This is the dominant variable.
How many services are covered
Each additional priority service adds a procedure to keep current and a drill to run. A framework covering three services is nothing like one covering fifteen.
How tangled the dependencies are
A self-contained service restores on its own. A service that depends on authentication, a licence and two databases requires an ordered restore, which takes longer to prepare and to test.
Third-party requirements
An insurer, a client or a regulator may impose a frequency, a level of documentation or proof of drills. Those requirements add to the framework and are priced in.
What the quoted price does not cover
Storage and backup infrastructure costs stay with you or with your host. We do not resell them with a margin: you pay them directly to whoever provides them, and you see what they cost.
Heavy remediation work revealed by a drill, for example replacing a system that cannot restore cleanly, is quoted separately. It is announced with the drill report, never discovered on an invoice.
On-call coverage, should it prove necessary, is the subject of a separate contract with named commitments and named partners.
FAQ
Questions about price
Can we stop after the first drill?
Yes. The drill report, the dependency inventory and the gap list stay with you, and another supplier can work from them. It is the most useful deliverable of the whole framework.
Why is the monthly fee so high compared with backup monitoring?
Because it contains restores that are actually performed. Monitoring reads reports; a drill discovers what the reports do not say. That is the difference between the two trades.
Do you charge for real incidents?
A recovery in a real situation falls outside the drill package and is billed by time spent, unless on-call coverage has been contracted. The terms are written into the contract, not decided during the incident.
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