Compare Stacklane vs hiring in-house on your real numbers.
Most cost comparisons skip the math that matters in the AI era: hiring an engineer takes four months you spend shipping nothing, the loaded cost of a hire is double the salary, and an AI-native subscription compresses the work the way the AI tooling actually allows. Tune the inputs to your shape and see the 12-month difference.
Inputs
Tune the assumptions to your shape.
Base salary plus 30 to 40% for employer tax, benefits, tools, office. Dutch market average.
Typical NL senior-eng recruiter fee: 20 to 25% of first-year salary.
From job posting to first commit, on average.
Results
12-month total cost of delivery
Net savings vs in-house
€ 028% less spend, with 4 extra months of shipping while the in-house alternative is still hiring.
In-house team
€ 0Stacklane subscription
€ 0How the math works.
Defaults set to NL senior-market averages. Every input adjustable, every number exposed. No hidden multipliers.
- Fully-loaded salary
- Default €120,000 per year. Base salary in NL is roughly €90,000 to €110,000 for a senior engineer; 30 to 40% loading covers employer tax (~24%), pension, benefits, tools, and office allocation.
- Recruiter fee
- Default €20,000 per hire. NL senior-engineering recruiter fees run 20 to 25% of first-year salary, typically €15,000 to €30,000.
- Hiring timeline
- Default 4 months. End-to-end: posting, screening, interviews, offer negotiation, statutory notice from current employer, onboarding to first useful commit.
- Stacklane subscription
- €6,000 per month flat per team. Scaling to 2 or 3 engineers means stacking subscriptions; the calculator multiplies accordingly to keep the comparison capacity-to-capacity.
- No-delivery gap is real
- The in-house calculation only charges salary from the month the engineer starts shipping. The visitor still pays opportunity cost during the hiring window; the time-advantage readout makes that visible.
- Numbers are rough
- Senior salaries vary by region, equity package, company size, market timing. Sliders are there to tune to your reality. If you want a precise model for your specific situation, book a call and we run it together.
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