All enterprise application development incurs costs, and SAP projects are no exception.
To build an application on SAP BTP, you need to identify not only the building blocks but also the associated costs, which are among the most critical factors in determining return on investment (ROI). The cost of running SAP BTP services or hosting applications can vary significantly based on multiple factors, including the service plan, consumption model, usage volume, deployment landscape, scalability requirements, integration needs, and regional pricing considerations. SAP Discovery Center is a key avenue for architects, developers, and business stakeholders to explore and make informed decisions, plan budgets effectively, and assess the potential ROI of their SAP BTP-related projects.
SAP Discovery Center enables customers, partners, and developers to explore, evaluate, and accelerate the adoption of SAP BTP services. As shown in the figure below, it acts as a central hub for discovering SAP BTP services, SAP Business AI-related offerings, step-by-step implementation guides in the form of SAP BTP missions, adoption frameworks, and SAP Business Data Cloud services.
The SAP BTP Services section, as shown in this figure, lets you navigate through the latest SaaS capabilities that SAP BTP offers.
As shown in the next figure, you can add any service to your service estimator followed by selection of the service plan, t-shirt size, number of users, capacity units, and more, all depending on the type of service that you picked.
Below shows a snapshot of an SAP HANA Cloud-related estimation where the cost of the service is determined based on the capacity unit.
This figure shows a quick snapshot of the Capacity Unit Estimator for SAP HANA Cloud where you can calculate the cost based on data size categories of Large, Medium, and Small.
The prepared estimation can be saved as a PDF or CSV file and then shared with peer members through email.
Editor’s note: This post has been adapted from a section of the book Application Development with SAP Business Technology Platform by Govind Bajaj, Arup Bhattacharya, Laboni Bhowmik, Avijit Dhar, Anup Ghosh, Gairik Acharya, and Asidhara Lahiri. These authors bring more than 120 years of combined IT experience, most of it with SAP solutions, in roles ranging from senior technical architect and distinguished engineer at IBM to managing director of an SAP practice at Accenture. Their expertise covers SAP BTP, SAP S/4HANA, ABAP, SAP Fiori and SAPUI5, integration, data and analytics, IoT, and machine learning, built through large-scale global implementations in manufacturing, consumer products, oil and gas, airlines, and utilities. Among them are patent holders, frequent SAP TechEd and SAP Sapphire speakers, and several returning SAP PRESS authors.
This post was originally published 9/2026.
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