One platform or three? All-in-one RMM is 1.5–4.8× cheaper on list; the catch is depth

01Published prices: three vendors landed on $129, and most of the market is a quote

Atera charges per technician with unlimited devices. Its MSP plans are Pro $129, Growth $159 and Power $209 a month; its IT Department plans are Professional $149, Expert $189 and Master $219, all on annual billing in USD, read from its pricing table on 30 September 2026.¹ Syncro, the direct per-technician rival, lists Core at $129 and Team at $179 per user a month on annual billing ($159 and $209 monthly), with RMM and PSA in both.² SuperOps, the Chennai-engineered platform, publishes two price books: MSPs pay per technician, PSA-only $79, Standard RMM $99, Pro (PSA plus RMM) $129 and Super $159, each RMM licence carrying 150 endpoints; internal IT teams pay per endpoint, $1.50 a month at the 100-endpoint minimum, sliding to $1.20 above 1,000, with the service desk included.³

That is where the published numbers stop. NinjaOne publishes a band, $3.75 per device a month at 50 or fewer endpoints down to $1.50 at 10,000, and quotes the exact rate.⁴ ConnectWise publishes a price for ScreenConnect only, $30, $45 or $55 per concurrent technician a month billed yearly; its RMM, Automate and PSA are quoted.⁵ Kaseya quotes Datto RMM, VSA and Autotask; the one published Kaseya figure is Kaseya 365 Ops at $129 per user a month, which includes Autotask Ultimate, and the $5.25 and $2.25 per-endpoint figures circulating for Kaseya 365 Endpoint are third-party reports, not Kaseya’s own.¹⁰⁶

02Worked: the all-in-one wins on licence at every size, by 1.5× to 4.8×

The assumptions, because the result depends on them. One technician per 200 endpoints, so 3, 5 and 10 technicians at 500, 1,000 and 2,000 endpoints; that is a lean Indian MSP or IT team, and a fatter team moves every per-technician line up. Annual billing, USD list, licence only: no onboarding fees, no add-ons, no support subscriptions. INR at ₹83 to the dollar for scale, the conversion TechBag’s guides use, before 18 per cent GST.⁶

The all-in-one lines. Atera Professional is $149 times technicians: $447, $745 and $1,490 a month, about ₹37,100, ₹61,800 and ₹1,23,700.¹ SuperOps Prime is per endpoint at the published slide: $1.40 at 500, $1.30 at 1,000 and $1.20 at 2,000, so $700, $1,300 and $2,400, about ₹58,100, ₹1,07,900 and ₹1,99,200.³

The three-tool stack. NinjaOne is the natural best-of-breed RMM, a 2026 Magic Quadrant Leader with the deepest third-party patch catalogue in the category, and we price it at the $3 per device the TechBag guide uses as its illustrative midpoint: $1,500, $3,000 and $6,000.⁴⁶ HaloPSA, the PSA an MSP outgrowing a bundled desk most often moves to, showed £69 per agent a month on annual billing for ten UK agents in TechBag’s mid-2026 comparison, about $89, so $267, $445 and $890 for 3, 5 and 10 agents.⁸ Splashtop Remote Support is $399 a year per concurrent technician with 300 managed computers per licence, stacking to 1,200, so two licences at 500 endpoints ($66.50 a month), four at 1,000 ($133), and four again at 2,000 as a floor, because above 1,200 computers Splashtop Enterprise is quoted.⁹ Stack totals: $1,834, $3,578 and $7,023 a month, about ₹1,52,200, ₹2,97,000 and ₹5,82,900.

Two stress tests, because the midpoint is ours. Put NinjaOne at the bottom of its published band, $1.50, and the stack falls to $1,084, $2,078 and $4,023: still 2.4× to 2.8× Atera and 1.5× to 1.7× SuperOps Prime. That is where the headline’s 1.5× to 4.8× comes from.⁴ And swap SuperOps Prime for its MSP plan, Pro at $129 per technician: the 150-endpoint cap on each licence means 4, 7 and 14 licences, not 3, 5 and 10 technicians, so $516, $903 and $1,806. “Per technician” at SuperOps is really per 150 endpoints, and it is still below the stack at every size.³

03What one platform actually joins, and why that is not where the saving comes from

The original piece sold the single platform on workflow: an alert that becomes a ticket, a ticket that opens a remote session, a session that becomes a time entry, a time entry that becomes a line on an invoice, with no connector in between. That mechanism is real. In Atera and SuperOps the device record is shared by the monitor and the desk, so the ticket an alert raises is already tied to the device and the client, the remote session launches from inside the ticket, and the time lands on the contract the client is billed under.³¹

But look again at Figure 2. Take the NinjaOne line out of the stack at 1,000 endpoints and the two remaining tools, HaloPSA and Splashtop, cost $578 a month, already three-quarters of Atera’s entire $745 bill. The gap is made by two commercial decisions, charging per technician rather than per device and bundling the desk, and the connectors are a rounding error on it. NinjaOne-to-HaloPSA is a supported integration on both sides; the hand-offs in the figure cost hours of a technician’s month, not lines on the licence invoice.⁶

04Where one platform is thinner: each module, and the exit

The price you pay for the price is depth. On the desk, both all-in-ones say so themselves: project management is minimal at SuperOps, procurement largely absent, and reporting stops short of per-contract profitability, which is exactly what a 30-client MSP needs when it renegotiates.¹³ On patching, Atera’s third-party updates ride on WinGet, Chocolatey, Homebrew and APT rather than a curated catalogue, and SuperOps’s catalogue is thinner than NinjaOne’s, the broadest in the category; the TechBag guide’s advice is to build the list of your twenty most-used applications and check every one in the trial, because a miss means manual patching forever.⁶ On remote access, the embedded tool (Atera builds in Splashtop and AnyDesk) is fine for a fix; what it does not give you is the central, tamper-evident session recording and per-session approval that a regulated client’s auditor asks for, which is what TeamViewer Tensor and BeyondTrust sell, on quote.⁷

Then the exit. One tenant holds the device inventory, every ticket, every time entry, every contract and every invoice. Export is by API, and the data moves; what does not move is years of boards, workflows and agreement setup, a warning TechBag’s PSA comparisons attach to every PSA, including HaloPSA and Autotask.¹⁰ Per-technician pricing has its own lock: at Atera every login is a paid seat with no read-only tier, so the account manager who “just needs to look” is a $149 line, and legacy accounts were moved onto current list prices in 2026.⁶¹ With three tools, the PSA, the system of record for money, can outlive two changes of RMM. With one, changing the RMM is changing the ledger.

So the honest answer is a threshold, not a side. Below roughly 25 technicians, which is almost every Indian MSP and most in-house teams under 2,000 endpoints, the all-in-one wins on price by a margin no integration story is needed to justify, and its thinness is a nuisance rather than a blocker. Above it, or the day a client’s auditor asks for the session recording, or the day you need per-contract margin to renegotiate, the desk and the remote tool are worth buying on their own, and the RMM becomes the thing you shop for.¹³