SAP SE Cost of Revenue 2011-2026 | SAP

Cost of Revenue is a financial metric that reflects all direct costs associated with the production of goods or the provision of services that directly led to revenue during the reporting period. It is the total amount of expenses incurred by the company to deliver its products or services, including both production costs and related expenses necessary for delivery or customer support.

What is included in the cost of revenue

Cost Category	Examples
Production Costs	Materials, wages of production staff, depreciation of equipment
Service and Support	Customer service, user support, technical assistance
Delivery and Logistics	Packaging, delivery of goods to customers
Hosting and Infrastructure	Servers, cloud platforms (especially for IT and SaaS companies)
Content and Licenses	License purchases, production royalties (e.g., in streaming services)

Importance of the Metric

Helps to understand how costly the revenue-generating process is.
A high cost of revenue may indicate:
Poor cost control
Low operational efficiency
A low cost of revenue combined with high revenue indicates high profitability and business competitiveness.

Annual Cost of Revenue SAP SE

2024	2023	2022	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014	2013	2012	2011
-	-	-	7.95 B	7.89 B	8.36 B	7.46 B	7.05 B	6.58 B	6.24 B	-	-	-	-

All numbers in EUR currency

Indicator range from annual reports

Maximum	Minimum	Average
8.36 B	6.24 B	7.36 B

Cost of Revenue of other stocks in the Software industry

Issuer	Cost of Revenue	Price	% 24h	Market Cap	Country
Altair Engineering ALTR	125 M	-	-	$ 9.4 B	USA
American Software AMSWA	36.1 M	-	-2.14 %	$ 369 M	USA
A10 Networks ATEN	51.4 M	$ 17.69	-1.34 %	$ 1.31 B	USA
BigCommerce Holdings BIGC	77.6 M	-	-	$ 371 M	USA
Bill.com Holdings BILL	272 M	$ 54.97	-0.31 %	$ 5.69 B	USA
Bridgeline Digital BLIN	5.01 M	$ 0.82	-8.94 %	$ 8.54 M	USA
Box BOX	261 M	$ 29.93	-1.58 %	$ 4.32 B	USA
Borqs Technologies BRQS	21.9 M	-	-23.51 %	$ 9.87 M	China
Avaya Holdings Corp. AVYA	1.32 B	-	-	$ 3.47 M	USA
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. CHKP	319 M	$ 185.05	-1.29 %	$ 20.5 B	Israel
Aspen Technology AZPN	383 M	-	-	$ 16.8 B	USA
BlackBerry Limited BB	140 M	$ 3.77	-0.53 %	$ 2.23 B	Canada
CDK Global CDK	875 M	-	0.06 %	$ 6.34 B	USA
CyberArk Software Ltd. CYBR	208 M	$ 447.16	-0.92 %	$ 19.8 B	Israel
BlackLine BL	162 M	$ 55.55	-2.94 %	$ 3.45 B	USA
Blackbaud BLKB	516 M	$ 63.45	-0.11 %	$ 3.21 B	USA
Bumble BMBL	2.5 M	$ 3.58	-1.1 %	$ 433 M	USA
BSQUARE Corporation BSQR	31 M	-	0.53 %	$ 38.6 K	USA
Citrix Systems CTXS	625 M	-	-	$ 13.2 B	USA
Cheetah Mobile CMCM	258 M	$ 6.0	1.69 %	$ 8.58 B	-
Creative Realities CREX	23 M	$ 2.61	1.9 %	$ 22.1 M	USA
Endava plc DAVA	292 M	$ 6.32	-1.79 %	$ 2.5 B	-
Commvault Systems CVLT	179 M	$ 126.0	-0.62 %	$ 5.53 B	USA
Ceridian HCM Holding CDAY	948 M	-	-	$ 10.6 B	USA
Datadog DDOG	516 M	$ 136.18	-0.95 %	$ 45.8 B	USA
Alteryx AYX	131 M	-	-	$ 3.42 B	USA
CYREN Ltd. CYRN	15.3 M	-	-18.15 %	$ 1.77 M	USA
Bentley Systems, Incorporated BSY	258 M	$ 38.26	-1.09 %	$ 12 B	USA
Bit Digital BTBT	29.6 M	$ 1.88	-2.59 %	$ 264 M	USA
Amdocs Limited DOX	3.25 B	$ 80.5	-0.3 %	$ 9.3 B	Guernsey
DocuSign DOCU	573 M	$ 68.64	-0.64 %	$ 14 B	USA
The Descartes Systems Group Inc DSGX	102 M	$ 87.63	-0.49 %	$ 7.41 B	Canada
8x8 EGHT	230 M	$ 1.98	-0.75 %	$ 257 M	USA
ACI Worldwide ACIW	792 M	$ 47.88	-0.51 %	$ 5.05 B	USA
Absolute Software Corporation ABST	36.8 M	-	-	$ 811 M	Canada
China Index Holdings Limited CIH	110 M	-	-	$ 85.7 M	China