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SUNAGO Matrix vs Scoro: Two Published Prices, Different Depth

Scoro publishes complete self-serve pricing in five currencies, ships Gantt charts with dependencies in its cheapest plan, forecasts cost and profit forward from burn, and captures supplier bills and employee expenses. It also positions itself for the same industries we sell into. This is a close comparison, and the honest difference is price and how much product you need.

True project cost, at the lower per-seat price

SUNAGO Matrix costs each hour after utilization, vacation and company overhead, which is what makes a consulting project margin true rather than flattering, and it is EUR 3 per seat per month on one plan. Scoro is the broader work management suite and the better fit if you want quoting, supplier bills and expenses in the same system.

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.

Price per Seat

Both prices are public, so the sum is easy. Scoro's entry plan, Core, is $19.90 per user per month on annual billing, and Scoro's own pricing page states that "the minimum number of user seats for all packages is 5" - $99.50 a month before your sixth colleague. SUNAGO Matrix is EUR 3 per seat per month billed yearly, one plan, everything included, and you can buy one seat.

Cost at Completion, Named

SUNAGO Matrix puts Estimate at Completion and Forecast at Completion on every project. Scoro documents forecasting of cost and profit against budget, which covers similar ground; the difference is that ours is a named, standard project metric rather than a view you drive.

Less Product to Run

Scoro is broad work management with quoting, billing and expense capture. If you need that breadth it is an advantage; if you only need project economy it is scope to configure and pay for.

Feature Comparison

FeatureScoroSUNAGO 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
Amount to configureBroad work management suiteOne focused product
PriceCore is $19.90 per user per month on annual billing, with a stated minimum of 5 seats on every package - $99.50 a month for a team of three (scoro.com/pricing, read 6 August 2026)EUR 3 per seat per month billed yearly, one plan, everything included, from a single seat
Cost and profit forecasting"Forecast cost and profit" against budget from burnEAC and FAC named on every project
Supplier bills and expense captureBills and expenses captured and approved automaticallyExpenses only; no supplier bill capture

Who Should Choose What?

Choose Scoro if:

  • You want the whole commercial workflow in one place: quoting, billing, supplier bills and employee expenses captured and approved automatically
  • You need Gantt charts with dependencies, which Scoro includes in its cheapest plan and SUNAGO Matrix does not offer
  • You want self-serve pricing in your own currency: Scoro publishes a plan ladder in USD, EUR, GBP, AUD and CAD

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
  • Price is the deciding factor: one plan at EUR 3 per seat per month billed yearly with everything included
  • You want cost at completion as a named, standard metric on every project rather than a view to drive
  • You want one product with less to configure before it is useful
  • You want capacity planning that nets vacation and absence out of availability

SUNAGO Matrix and Scoro: 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

Scoro

scoro.com/pricing · read 2026-08-06
Entry package$28,656over 3 yearsCore

$19.90 per seat/month, annual billing

Package that carries it$47,376over 3 yearsGrowth

$32.90 per seat/month, annual billing

Project budgets & templates is listed under Growth, not Core: $18,720 more over three years.

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, Scoro publishes a self-serve plan ladder in five currencies. 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 Scoro. 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.

Project economy at one published price