average cost of SAP
50%. Tweet. SAP costs average $1,518 per user, per year, but new research reveals that two routes to consolidation can bring big savings. SAP customers running multiple instances and versions of the vendor's software could save 25% by switching to a single-instance approach, according to HCL.nly 6% of respondents are running on a single instance of SAP, but their costs are 25% lower than the average of $1,518 per user, per year.