CMMC Documentation Cost Calculator
The honest comparison is not our price against zero. It is our price plus your tailoring hours, against your hours at your loaded rate. Run it with your own numbers.
Two starting points. Blank page prices the traditional path, writing the set from nothing. Refining generic drafts assumes you already hold free or purchased drafts and prices only the hours that make them assessor legible. Neither number is a quote and neither is a promise.
The math: what doing this yourself actually costs
The honest comparison is not our price against zero. It is our price plus your tailoring hours, against your hours at your loaded rate. Run it with your numbers. "Blank page" prices the traditional path. "Refining generic drafts" assumes free AI or bought drafts and prices only the hours that make them assessor-legible.
| Artifact | Count | Hours each | Subtotal |
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Counts are the suite's real contents: 54 documents, 7 workbooks, and a training deck (62 files). Defaults are the author's estimates from building them; edit every number. Switching modes resets the hours column. Nothing you enter is stored or sent anywhere: the arithmetic runs in your browser and stays there. Core edition is $299; the comparison uses Complete at $399.
Scale check: DoD's own rulemaking estimates put Level 2 assessment activities alone near $37,000 per triennial self-assessment cycle for a small entity, and about $105,000 with a C3PAO certification assessment, and those figures exclude implementing or documenting anything (DoD estimates, Dec 2023; 32 CFR 170 final rule). For the four ways shops actually buy documentation, see the cost breakdown.
What the defaults assume
The artifact counts match the shipped set: one system security plan, fourteen policies, fifteen procedures, eight forms and agreements, ten specialty documents, five Mac implementation overlays, one finishing guide, seven workbooks, and a training deck. The hours are practitioner estimates for a small team documenting a single enclave, not a benchmark, and they are deliberately conservative on the refining path because that is the comparison that flatters us least.
The figure this calculator does not show is the one that matters most: the cost of a documentation set that does not survive assessment. That cost is not hours. It is a delayed award.
The authoring method, the clean room rules, and where AI is used and where it is not allowed to be enough are documented in How It Is Made. The documentation set itself is the CMMC Operator Suite.