# SAP ECC End of Support: Extended Maintenance Cost and Runway Calculator

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## Short answer

Enter your maintenance base, rate and migration timeline to see the extended maintenance premium, how many extended years your project implies, and whether it runs past 2030.

## Category

sap

## Erp

SAP ECC 6.0

## Audience

- CIO
- SAP program manager
- IT finance
- SAP Basis lead

## Tool

**Kind:** calculator

**Currency:** $

**Inputs:**

#### Annual maintenance base (licence value basis)

**Key:** base

**Type:** number

**Default:** 2000000

**Min:** 0

**Step:** 10000

**Unit:** $

**Help:** The value your SAP maintenance percentage is applied to, from your maintenance contract.

#### Your standard maintenance rate

**Key:** rate

**Type:** number

**Default:** 22

**Min:** 0

**Max:** 40

**Step:** 0.5

**Unit:** %

**Help:** From your contract. Enterprise Support is commonly 22%, but use your own figure.

#### Extended maintenance premium

**Key:** premium

**Type:** number

**Default:** 2

**Min:** 0

**Max:** 10

**Step:** 0.5

**Unit:** points

**Help:** Percentage points added to the maintenance base for 2028 to 2030, per SAP's 2020 announcement.

#### Extended years you plan to contract

**Key:** years

**Type:** slider

**Default:** 2

**Min:** 0

**Max:** 3

**Step:** 1

**Unit:** years

#### Months from today to 31 Dec 2027

**Key:** months_left

**Type:** number

**Default:** 14

**Min:** 0

**Max:** 60

**Step:** 1

**Unit:** months

#### Migration project duration from today to go-live

**Key:** duration

**Type:** number

**Default:** 24

**Min:** 1

**Max:** 96

**Step:** 1

**Unit:** months

#### Monthly cost of running old and new in parallel

**Key:** dual_monthly

**Type:** number

**Default:** 0

**Min:** 0

**Step:** 1000

**Unit:** $

**Help:** Optional: hosting, support and licences during dual running.

#### Months of dual running after go-live

**Key:** dual_months

**Type:** number

**Default:** 3

**Min:** 0

**Max:** 24

**Step:** 1

**Unit:** months

**Outputs:**

#### Annual standard maintenance fee

**Key:** std_fee

**Expr:** base * rate / 100

**Format:** currency

#### Annual extended maintenance premium

**Key:** prem_year

**Expr:** base * premium / 100

**Format:** currency

**Description:** Paid on top of the standard fee in each extended year.

#### Premium for the years you plan to contract

**Key:** prem_total

**Expr:** prem_year * years

**Format:** currency

#### Runway gap after mainstream maintenance ends

**Key:** gap

**Expr:** max(0, duration - months_left)

**Format:** months

**Primary:** true

**Description:** Months your project runs past 31 December 2027.

#### Extended years your timeline implies

**Key:** implied_years

**Expr:** min(3, ceil(gap / 12))

**Format:** years

#### Premium your timeline implies

**Key:** implied_cost

**Expr:** prem_year * implied_years

**Format:** currency

**Primary:** true

#### Months beyond end of 2030

**Key:** beyond

**Expr:** max(0, duration - months_left - 36)

**Format:** months

**Description:** Above zero means customer-specific maintenance or a contractual transition option is needed.

#### Dual running cost

**Key:** dual_cost

**Expr:** dual_monthly * dual_months

**Format:** currency

**Chart:**

#### Implied extended premium vs project duration

**Type:** line

**X:** duration

**From:** 6

**To:** 60

**Steps:** 28

**Series:**

- implied_cost

**Disclaimer:** Planning estimate only. Your maintenance base, rate and any extended maintenance or transition terms come from your own SAP contract; confirm them with SAP before budgeting.

## Content

**Intro:** This calculator estimates what SAP ECC 6.0 extended maintenance from 2028 to 2030 will cost on your maintenance base, and how many extended years your migration timeline actually needs. It flags when a plan runs past 2030, where only customer-specific maintenance or a contractual transition option remains.

**Sections:**

#### The dates and the premium

**Body:** In February 2020 SAP announced that mainstream maintenance for SAP Business Suite 7 core applications, which includes ERP 6.0, runs to the end of 2027, with optional extended maintenance to the end of 2030 at a premium of two percentage points on the existing maintenance base. This applies to ERP 6.0 on enhancement package 6 or higher; EHP 0 to 5 only had mainstream maintenance to the end of 2025, so a system below EHP6 must first move to EHP6, 7 or 8 to use the 2027 and 2030 dates. After the end of extended maintenance, or after 2027 if you do not take it, a release falls into customer-specific maintenance, with no new legal changes or fixes as standard. In 2025 SAP also announced a transition option for customers moving ECC into SAP ERP, private edition, under a RISE contract, with support to the end of 2033; that is contract specific and not modelled here.

#### How the formulas work

**Body:** Standard fee = base x rate / 100. Extended premium per year = base x premium points / 100, paid on top of the standard fee. Runway gap = project months from today to go-live minus months left until 31 December 2027, floored at zero. Implied extended years = the gap divided by 12, rounded up and capped at 3, because extended maintenance ends with 2030. Implied premium = premium per year x implied years. Months beyond 2030 = duration minus months left minus 36. Dual running cost is entered separately because it often exceeds the premium. Note that contracted extended maintenance is usually bought in whole years, which is why the implied years are rounded up.

#### Worked example

**Body:** Base $2,000,000, rate 22%, premium 2 points, 14 months left to the end of 2027 and a 24-month programme. Standard maintenance is $440,000 a year. The premium is $40,000 a year. The project runs 10 months past mainstream, which implies one extended year and $40,000 of premium. If the programme slips to 40 months, the gap is 26 months, implying three years and $120,000; at 52 months it overruns 2030 by 2 months, the warning case. The chart sweeps duration from 6 to 60 months to show the steps. In most programmes the premium is small next to the cost of a slip, so use the result to argue for schedule contingency, not to skip extended maintenance.

#### Common mistakes

**Body:** Do not apply the premium to the annual fee; it is points on the maintenance base, so 2 points on a 22% rate is a 9% fee increase, not 2%. Do not assume your rate is 22%: Standard Support, Enterprise Support and negotiated contracts differ. Check your enhancement package in System, Status, component SAP_APPL before counting on 2030, and remember that the database and operating system have their own support dates, which can end before SAP's. Finally, extended maintenance covers ECC; separately licensed products such as BW or PI have their own schedules.

**Cta:** If you will run ECC for several more years, we can add a private AI layer on your own servers that helps your team query and support it while the migration is planned.

**Faq:**

#### Is SAP ECC 6.0 still supported?

**Answer:** Yes, ECC 6.0 on enhancement package 6, 7 or 8 is in mainstream maintenance until 31 December 2027. Extended maintenance can be contracted for 2028 to 2030. ERP 6.0 on EHP 0 to 5 left mainstream maintenance at the end of 2025 and needs an EHP upgrade to stay in mainstream.

#### How much does SAP ECC extended maintenance cost?

**Answer:** SAP announced a premium of two percentage points on the existing maintenance base for extended maintenance from 2028 to the end of 2030. On a $2 million base that is $40,000 a year on top of the standard fee. Your actual base, rate and terms come from your contract.

#### What happens to SAP ECC after 2030?

**Answer:** After extended maintenance ends, ECC moves into customer-specific maintenance: SAP still answers support messages, but new legal changes and standard fixes are no longer delivered as before. SAP has also announced a contractual transition option for ECC moved into SAP ERP, private edition, with support until the end of 2033.

#### Do I need extended maintenance if go-live is in 2028?

**Answer:** If production ECC still runs in 2028, even for a few months, you need either extended maintenance for that year or to accept customer-specific maintenance. Include dual running and hypercare: the old system often stays live for months after go-live for audits and open items.

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