Sales Cycle Length Benchmarker
Enter your average sales cycle and profile. See how you compare to similar companies, your percentile ranking, and specific recommendations to shorten your cycle.
Your sales profile
Your cycle vs benchmark
Typical stage distribution for your cycle
Based on your 0-day benchmark, here is how time is typically distributed.
Recommendations to shorten your cycle
Questions about sales cycle benchmarks
What is a typical B2B SaaS sales cycle?
For SMB-focused SaaS, cycles typically range from 14 to 45 days. Mid-market deals average 45 to 90 days. Enterprise deals (deals over $100K ACV) average 90 to 180 days. These ranges shift significantly by industry - healthcare and financial services add compliance and security review steps that can add 30 to 60 days regardless of deal size.
Which stages can be shortened most easily?
The biggest opportunities are usually in evaluation (where deals go dark while the buyer waits for internal champions to re-engage) and procurement (which can be pre-empted by sharing standard security and legal docs early). Discovery is often unnecessarily long because reps run too many exploratory calls - a structured discovery process and pre-call prep cuts this stage by 30 to 40% for most teams.
How does selling motion affect sales cycle length?
Product-led growth (PLG) models have the shortest cycles because buyers arrive with hands-on product experience - they have already self-qualified. Inbound deals are faster than outbound because the buyer has already identified a need. Outbound cycles are longer because the rep has to create urgency that did not exist. Channel cycles are longest due to the additional layer of partner coordination and the rep's reduced control over the buyer relationship.
How does Airspeed help shorten sales cycles?
Airspeed shortens cycles primarily in three ways: automated prep sheets before every meeting (so discovery calls are focused rather than exploratory), automated post-call CRM updates (so no time is lost to admin between meetings), and real-time deal alerts when engagement drops (so reps re-engage before a deal stalls rather than after). Customers report 25 to 35% shorter cycles within the first quarter.
Airspeed customers report 30% shorter sales cycles
Automated prep sheets, post-call CRM sync, and real-time deal alerts keep every deal moving without rep admin overhead.