Is SP Online easier to administer than On-prem?

I have been doing sharepoint "DevOps" for over 7 years now, and am currently at a non profit with on-prem sharepoint 2013.
One thing I have been deliberating is whether SharePoint Online has a lower Total Cost of Ownership than on-prem. We don't have an enterprise class administration environment so keeping the dev, test, prod, and other environments in sync is a manual effort,
moving datacenters, changing SQL Instances, all the fixes for those are done manually by me. And of course there is tracking down errors in the event logs, etc. This administration takes a large effort from me, which means it costs my non profit money they
could spend on other things, as well as my time I could be spending delivering solutions. (Not to mention, I just heard the .Net Rocks podcasts on doing Dev or Ops, and DevOps being a master of none :)
Our environment is pretty simple, mostly out of the box, so migrating is more a question of picking a tool and uploading files (no BDC or other issues).
I have been pushing to move to Online and doing research on what is required for that. But one thing I am having trouble finding is any metrics for exactly how much money (or person-hours) could be saved by moving to online. Does anyone have metrics? Or
even anecdots? Did you move from on-prem to Online? What was the effect and how did that help you?
Thanks

If you're primarily doing OOTB functionality, then yes SPO is likely less expensive.
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