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SUNAGO Matrix vs Deltek Polaris: Published Price vs an Enterprise Quote

Polaris is now marketed as part of Deltek, and it is a strong product. Deltek documents AI time capture across more than 100 work apps, structured task hierarchies, automated revenue recognition aligned to ASC 606 and IFRS 15, skills-based capacity forecasting, and resource planning that already shows each person's scheduled days off. SUNAGO Matrix does not match those. What it offers is a published price, and one product instead of a suite to roll out.

Enterprise-grade forecasting, sized for your firm

SUNAGO Matrix is sized for a firm of ten to fifty people and priced openly at EUR 3 per seat per month, with a true cost rate and a live forecast on every project from the first day. Deltek Polaris is built for larger organizations and is the better answer if you need automated revenue recognition or AI time capture.

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.

Published Price

SUNAGO Matrix publishes EUR 3 per seat per month billed yearly. Deltek does not publish a price for Polaris. We say nothing about what Polaris costs; we only note that you cannot see it before you talk to someone.

Built for a Different Size

Polaris is aimed at larger services organizations, with revenue recognition, scenario margin modelling and an enterprise implementation around it. SUNAGO Matrix is built for firms of roughly ten to fifty people and is set up in an afternoon.

Forecasting Without the Suite

EAC and FAC are standard on every project in SUNAGO Matrix. Polaris offers forward-looking financial reporting and SmartBudget scenario modelling, which is more powerful and also more product to buy and run.

Feature Comparison

FeatureDeltek PolarisSUNAGO 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 publishedEUR 3 per seat per month billed yearly
Cost at completion (EAC / FAC)Estimated Billing Report and SmartBudget scenario modellingEAC and FAC on every project as standard
Automatic time captureAI capture across 100+ work appsManual and timer entry

Who Should Choose What?

Choose Deltek Polaris if:

  • You want time to capture itself: Deltek documents AI time capture "across 100+ work apps", which SUNAGO Matrix has no equivalent of
  • You need automated revenue recognition "aligned to ASC 606 and IFRS 15", which SUNAGO Matrix does not do at all
  • You staff by skill: Polaris matches "the right people to the right projects based on skills and availability"

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 a published price you can budget against: EUR 3 per seat per month billed yearly
  • You are a firm of ten to fifty people and want a product sized for that, not an enterprise platform
  • You want cost at completion on every project from the first day, with no configuration project
  • You want deals, delivery and capacity in one product on one license

SUNAGO Matrix and Deltek Polaris: 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

Deltek Polaris

deltek.com/products/polaris/ · read 2026-08-06

Publishes no price

"Request a Demo"

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, Deltek publishes no price for Polaris. 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 Deltek Polaris. 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, sized for a 10-50 person firm

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