Size your software project. Verify any vendor's quote.
Upload your requirements document and receive an independent project sizing — functional size, complexity rating, module breakdown, and industry cost benchmarks — using COSMIC Function Points (ISO 19761), the standard used in billion-dollar government procurement.
Sample Report
What your output looks like
Software Project Analysis Report
340 COSMIC Function Points
Project Size: medium Complexity: medium
8 Modules · 85 Functional Processes
Industry Cost Benchmark (US Onshore)
P25
$173k
Median
$322k
Range
$86k–$104k
Based on a real 340 CFP inventory management platform. Your calibrated benchmark range is generated from your specific requirements.
Methodology grounded in internationally recognized standards
COSMIC Function Points
ISO/IEC 19761:2011
ISBSG Benchmark Database
12,500+ projects globally
ISO 19761 Standard
International sizing standard since 1998
The Problem
When you outsource software, you have no independent view of its size or complexity.
Vendors describe scope in their own units — story points, sprints, team-weeks. These measure how the vendor works, not how large or complex your software actually is. Two vendors can describe the same project in completely different terms, and you have no way to compare.
One quotes $180,000. Another quotes $420,000. Without an independent measure of scope, you cannot tell which quote reflects the actual work — and which has quietly understated features that will resurface as change orders.
The root cause is not technical complexity. It is that the buyer has no independent unit of measurement.
The Solution
Measure your project's scope independently. In an internationally recognized standard.
COSMIC Function Points measure software by what it is required to do — its functional requirements — using a counting method defined in ISO/IEC 19761:2011.
The same requirements document, sized with COSMIC, produces the same count regardless of which vendor measures it. It is a unit of scope that belongs to the buyer — not the seller.
Software Gauge makes this measurement available to any procurement team, CIO, or IT buyer — without requiring a specialist or a consulting engagement.
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Get your project's functional size, complexity rating, module breakdown, and industry cost benchmarks in a shareable PDF report.
Why COSMIC
The only software sizing unit that means the same thing to every vendor, in every country.
COSMIC Function Points measure software by counting inputs, outputs, reads, and writes. The unit does not change with the vendor, the technology stack, or the team performing the estimate.
That is why governments and regulated buyers use COSMIC when independent scope verification matters.
EU-LISA, 2020: EUR990 million software contract using COSMIC as the mandatory sizing methodology.
Italy — Regione Piemonte: public software contracts priced at EUR350-400 per COSMIC Function Point.
Poland — Ministry of Foreign Affairs: RFPs require vendors to quote a gross price per COSMIC Function Point.
United States — GAO: COSMIC is listed as an approved software sizing methodology in the Cost Estimating Guide.
Construction analogy: no serious building contract is signed without blueprints defining scope. COSMIC is the software equivalent.
Why IT Leaders Use It
Used before vendor selection, not after vendor lock-in.
What IT Leaders Say
Used before RFPs. Presented to boards. Defended in procurement.
"We received three vendor proposals ranging from $210,000 to $480,000 for the same requirements document. Software Gauge sized the project at 312 CFPs — consistent with ISBSG benchmarks for this class of work. The highest bidder was quoting nearly three times the industry median. We knew that before we sat down to negotiate."
Director of Enterprise Technology
Manufacturing Company — Ohio, USA
"Our board expects IT outsourcing decisions to be defensible, not just cost-effective. Software Gauge gives me an independent sizing report I can present before any vendor is engaged. The COSMIC methodology is auditable — no vendor can argue with ISO 19761."
VP Digital Transformation
Financial Services Group — Singapore
"We had a £1.2M project that came in at £2.9M. After the post-mortem, the root cause was simple — we had no independent view of scope before we signed. We have used Software Gauge before every RFP since. It removes the information asymmetry that caused that failure."
Head of Technology Procurement
Retail Group — United Kingdom
"We outsource to multiple vendors across three continents. Having a standardized scope metric that does not change based on who is quoting means we can compare proposals properly. It has changed how our procurement team approaches vendor selection entirely."
Chief Information Officer
E-commerce Platform — Bengaluru, India