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

2025	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
Adobe ADBE	2.55 B	$ 240.88	1.53 %	$ 103 B	USA
ShotSpotter SSTI	44.1 M	$ 6.62	0.46 %	$ 84.1 M	USA
ANSYS ANSS	280 M	-	-	$ 32.7 B	USA
Powerbridge Technologies Co., Ltd. PBTS	6.99 M	-	2.4 %	$ 115 M	China
StoneCo Ltd. STNE	1.71 B	$ 14.0	-2.51 %	$ 3.85 B	Brasil
Sapiens International Corporation N.V. SPNS	304 M	-	-	$ 2.43 B	Curacao
Aspen Technology AZPN	383 M	-	-	$ 16.8 B	USA
CDK Global CDK	875 M	-	0.06 %	$ 6.34 B	USA
BigCommerce Holdings BIGC	72.8 M	-	-	$ 371 M	USA
Taoping TAOP	28.9 M	$ 1.47	9.69 %	$ 9.38 M	China
CrowdStrike Holdings CRWD	230 M	$ 392.62	1.75 %	$ 98.4 B	USA
Altair Engineering ALTR	125 M	-	-	$ 9.4 B	USA
American Software AMSWA	36.1 M	-	-2.14 %	$ 369 M	USA
CleanSpark CLSK	343 M	$ 9.3	-6.63 %	$ 2.62 B	USA
DocuSign DOCU	663 M	$ 47.18	1.9 %	$ 9.53 B	USA
E2open Parent Holdings ETWO	308 M	-	-	$ 1.02 B	USA
Inpixon INPX	1.31 M	-	8787.02 %	$ 12.3 M	USA
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. CHKP	319 M	$ 142.82	0.29 %	$ 15.8 B	Israel
Cloudflare NET	379 M	$ 210.13	-3.61 %	$ 71.7 B	USA
ServiceNow NOW	2.98 B	$ 103.64	0.58 %	$ 107 B	USA
F5 Networks FFIV	574 M	$ 293.15	-1.58 %	$ 17 B	USA
CyberArk Software Ltd. CYBR	208 M	-	-	$ 18.1 B	Israel
9F JFU	59.1 M	$ 3.42	8.35 %	$ 805 M	China
GreenBox POS GBOX	33.6 M	-	5.45 %	$ 43.6 M	USA
Avalara AVLR	206 M	-	-	$ 8.28 B	USA
Avaya Holdings Corp. AVYA	1.32 B	-	-	$ 3.47 M	USA
Opera Limited OPRA	5.51 M	$ 13.92	1.46 %	$ 3.3 B	Norway
CYREN Ltd. CYRN	15.3 M	-	-18.15 %	$ 1.77 M	USA
Cheetah Mobile CMCM	258 M	$ 6.09	-8.56 %	$ 8.71 B	-
Unity Software U	478 M	$ 17.13	-3.74 %	$ 7.21 B	USA
Aware AWRE	1.32 M	$ 1.36	5.43 %	$ 28.8 M	USA
Dynatrace DT	320 M	$ 37.37	2.52 %	$ 11.2 B	USA
Paycom Software PAYC	345 M	$ 123.03	2.68 %	$ 6.86 B	USA
Uber Technologies UBER	31.3 B	$ 70.55	-3.46 %	$ 147 B	USA
Everbridge EVBG	131 M	-	-	$ 1.42 B	USA
EVO Payments EVOP	89.4 M	-	-	$ 1.77 B	USA
Absolute Software Corporation ABST	36.8 M	-	-	$ 811 M	Canada
China Index Holdings Limited CIH	110 M	-	-	$ 85.7 M	China