Tool Sprawl & Software
Spend Statistics 2026

SaaS apps run by the average company, down from a 2022 peak of 130, the first sustained decline in over a decade.

SaaS apps used by the average department. Sprawl is not just an IT problem, every team builds its own stack.

applications the average employee uses every day, switching between them roughly 25 times a day.

average annual SaaS spend per employee, a 22% jump in a single year.

the average organization wastes on unused SaaS licenses every year, up 14% year over year.

of the SaaS licenses companies pay for go unused for 90 days or more.

the global SaaS market, the pool that per-team sprawl and consolidation both draw from.

times a day the average employee toggles between apps and websites, about 4 hours a week just switching context.

of the average employee's work time is lost to app switching, roughly 200 hours a year per person.

to fully refocus after toggling to a different app, per a joint Qatalog and Cornell study.

of workers say switching between too many apps makes them less productive, and 43% call it mentally exhausting.

a day the average knowledge worker spends just searching for information across apps and data silos.

of US small businesses already use AI-enabled tools, and generative-AI use nearly doubled to 40% in a year.

of SMBs using AI say it boosts their revenue, and 83% of growing SMBs use AI versus just 55% of those in decline.

the number of SaaS apps per company fell for the first time in over ten years as teams began consolidating.

a 10-person team's yearly shelfware bill, applying the ~50% unused rate to the $4,830 average SaaS spend per employee.

of each employee's year handed back if you halve app switching, based on the 9% of work time lost to toggling.

the consolidation the bundle is built on: lean teams routinely run eight or more overlapping tools one agentic platform replaces.