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SUNAGO Matrix vs Kantata: Published Price vs a Quote

SUNAGO Matrix publishes its price and computes each person's real cost per hour - salary divided by their own billable hours after part-time, holiday and actual utilization. Every project carries EAC and FAC. Kantata is the deeper platform: five-level task hierarchy, skills-based staffing and a large connector library. Kantata publishes no price; the route is a quote request.

The same forecasting, at a price you can see

SUNAGO Matrix delivers the forecasting a services firm actually acts on, built on a cost rate that already accounts for utilization and overhead, at a published EUR 3 per seat per month rather than a quote. Kantata is the deeper platform and the better answer if you are standardised on Salesforce or need skills-based staffing at scale.

Key Differences

A Cost Rate That Is Actually True

For a consulting firm the cost of an hour is not the salary divided by a standard year. SUNAGO Matrix computes each person's cost per hour as annual salary divided by their billable hours, after part-time capacity, vacation entitlement and their real utilization, then adds that person's share of company overhead, with non-billable colleagues' salaries rolled into the overhead pool. Every margin, EAC and FAC here is built on that rate. A tool that costs hours at a number you typed in will report a project margin that is wrong in your favor.

You Can See the Price

SUNAGO Matrix publishes EUR 3 per seat per month billed yearly. Kantata publishes no price: the route is a quote request. We make no claim about what Kantata costs, only that you cannot see it before you talk to someone.

Less to Run

Kantata is a platform with a large integration surface and a Salesforce-native edition. That is a strength at scale and an overhead at ten to fifty people. SUNAGO Matrix is one product with one setup.

Forecasting Without Configuration

EAC and FAC sit on every project in SUNAGO Matrix from the first day. Kantata documents EAC and ETC dashboards too, so this is a difference of setup effort rather than of capability.

Feature Comparison

FeatureKantataSUNAGO Matrix
Cost per hourNot documentedSalary divided by that person's own billable hours, after part-time capacity, holiday entitlement and actual utilization, plus their share of company overhead
Published priceNo price published; quote on requestEUR 3 per seat per month billed yearly
Size of productA PSA platformOne focused product
EAC / ETC forecastingDocumented dashboards for Estimate to Complete and Estimate at CompletionEAC and FAC on every project
Skills-based staffingYes, including skill-gap visibilityAllocations by person; no skills database

Who Should Choose What?

Choose Kantata if:

  • You are standardised on Salesforce: Kantata offers an edition "embedded in Sales" that connects account data from sales to delivery
  • You need a real task hierarchy: Kantata documents up to five levels with WBS numbering, which SUNAGO Matrix does not have
  • You staff by skill and need skill-gap visibility before it hits a client, which SUNAGO Matrix does not do

Choose SUNAGO Matrix if:

  • Your project margins are only as good as your cost rate: SUNAGO Matrix derives each hour's cost from salary, real utilization, vacation and company overhead rather than a number someone typed in
  • You want to know the price before a sales conversation: EUR 3 per seat per month billed yearly, published
  • You want one product, running from day one to run rather than a PSA platform to configure
  • You want deals, delivery, timesheets and capacity in the same product on one license
  • You want cost at completion on every project from the first day

SUNAGO Matrix and Kantata: three years of license cost

One question: how many people. The totals below are three years of license cost at each vendor's own published price. Where a vendor puts the capability SUNAGO Matrix includes in a higher package, that is shown too - and where that package has no published price, that is shown as well, because it is the part a buyer cannot work out alone.

Three years, the horizon buyers budget in.

SUNAGO Matrix

one plan, everything included

€4,320 over 3 years

€3 per seat/month, billed yearly · no seat minimum · no tier above this one

Kantata

kantata.com/pricing · read 2026-08-06

Publishes no price

"Fill out the form and one of our PSA Advisors will get back to you to discuss a pricing plan built for you."

Each figure is in the currency that vendor publishes in. Nothing is converted, and no combined saving is shown across two currencies, because an exchange rate is a number we cannot document for you. License cost only: implementation, training and support are priced separately by most of these vendors.

See the full price page for what is in the plan.

Frequently Asked Questions

How does SUNAGO Matrix calculate the cost of an hour?
Not by dividing salary by a standard year, which is the mistake that makes consulting project margins wrong. For salaried staff, cost per hour is annual gross salary divided by that person's billable hours, where billable hours are their capacity adjusted for part-time percentage, minus vacation entitlement, multiplied by their actual utilization rate. On top sits their share of company overhead: yearly operating expenses divided by the firm's total billable hours, with the salaries of non-billable colleagues rolled into that overhead pool. So a consultant at 60 percent utilization costs materially more per billable hour than the same salary at 85 percent, and every project margin, EAC and FAC reflects it.
What will this cost us?
EUR 3 per seat per month, billed yearly, on a single plan with everything included. There is no feature ladder to climb and no module to add later. For comparison, Kantata publishes no price. Price out the plan you would actually need at your headcount and the sums are easy to do.
How long before we are actually using it?
Days, not a project. You create the workspace, add your people with their salary, capacity and utilization, and import or enter your live projects. From that point every logged hour updates cost, margin, Estimate at Completion and Forecast at Completion automatically. There is no implementation partner in the middle and no configuration phase to get through before the numbers mean something.
We already run Kantata. Is there a reason to look at this?
The usual one is that project margin only becomes visible after the fact, and it is wrong when it does, because the hourly cost behind it was typed in rather than derived. SUNAGO Matrix costs every hour from salary, real utilization, vacation and company overhead, then forecasts where each project lands while there is still time to act, with the deal pipeline and resource capacity in the same product. If that is the gap you have, it is worth a look. If it is not, you are probably fine where you are.

A published price, and forecasting from day one

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