Vendor pricing is where an operator has the most leverage and the least information, because a quote only reads as high or low beside what comparable operations pay. Concentration is the quieter risk: a top-vendor share that crept up over three years is a negotiating position you gave away without deciding to.
Who you buy from and what it costs: total monthly vendor spend, how much of it sits with a single vendor, how long relationships last, and how the operators using each vendor actually rate them.
What Gets Measured
Monthly Spend
Active Vendors
Top Vendor Share
Average Vendor Tenure
Satisfaction
Vendors Rated
Each one is read against operators filtered to your size, service mix, and region, so the comparison is to businesses like yours rather than the industry averaged into mush.
Where You Land
Vendor Cost and Concentration
We'll show you exactly where you land, the moment you're in.
Become a memberWhere It Comes From
Vendor invoices and payments in your accounting, plus peer ratings from operators using the same vendors. Verinode reads what those systems already produce. There is no form to fill in and nothing to migrate, and every connection is read-only: Verinode never writes back into a system you own.
When It Appears
A peer line on this dimension does not appear until enough distinct operators have contributed to it. That is deliberate: a benchmark built on a handful of businesses is not a benchmark, and a thin cohort cannot protect anyone’s anonymity. You will see fewer numbers early, and the ones you see are honest. Because these are competitively sensitive figures, they also publish only after a 90-day historical lag, never live.
Common Questions
6 metrics: Monthly Spend, Active Vendors, Top Vendor Share, Average Vendor Tenure, Satisfaction, Vendors Rated. Each is compared against operators filtered to your size, service mix, and region rather than the industry as a whole, so the peer line reflects businesses actually like yours.
Vendor invoices and payments in your accounting, plus peer ratings from operators using the same vendors. Verinode reads what those systems already produce, so there is nothing to migrate and no form to retype your business into. Every connection is read-only, including accounting: Verinode never writes back into a system you own, and every document processed returns a receipt showing exactly what was read.
Enough that it is honest, or it is not shown at all. No statistic publishes until a minimum number of distinct operators have contributed to it, one operator counts once regardless of size, and medians and interquartile ranges are used rather than averages so no single business can move a line. Early on that means you will see fewer benchmarks, which is the intended trade: a peer figure built on a handful of businesses is not a benchmark and cannot protect anyone's anonymity. The full statistical treatment is published at verinode.ai/methodology.
They are deliberately not live. These are competitively sensitive figures, so they publish only after a 90-day historical lag, which is one of the safeguards that keeps an independent benchmark on the right side of competition law. Verinode is a neutral administrator: operators contribute to Verinode rather than to each other, no operator ever sees another's raw data, only anonymized aggregates are published, and Verinode never recommends or scripts a price or a wage. The full reasoning is at verinode.ai/fair-benchmarking.
Why Operators Join
Your own figures you can already pull. What you cannot pull is where they sit against operators your size running the same work, and that is the part that tells you whether to act.