Live estimator
Price it. Before you talk to anyone.
Most studios hide pricing behind a discovery call. We'd rather you knew the number now and decided whether the conversation is worth having. Pick the shape of the work and the price is the price — not an hourly guess that grows once the invoices start.
01 / What you need
Within the 3 included in this band
Normal delivery cadence
02 / Fixed price
Investment
$85k–$140k
12–18 weeks, fixed scope
Full product launch — what's included
- Everything in the MVP band
- Billing and subscription handling
- Roles, permissions, and an internal admin tool
- CI/CD, monitoring, and error tracking
- Documentation and handover
Fixed price · confirmed in a 30-min scoping call
No black box
Fixed price, not an hourly guess.
Every service has three bands — a focused version, a standard engagement, and a platform-scale build. Each band states its own price, its own timeline, and exactly what is included. You pick the one that matches the work; the price is the price for that scope.
Two things adjust it, and both are published rather than buried. Integrations beyond the number a band includes are $4k–$8k each. Urgency adds 25% on the fast track or 60% when we drop other work to take yours, because that displaces someone else's project.
For a multi-feature programme, cost is additive but calendar time compresses with pod size — down to a floor set by the longest single feature, because adding people cannot shorten a critical path.
The largest band in each service is quoted as a starting figure rather than a range. Work at that scale is genuinely bespoke, and a published ceiling would only tell a client with a bigger programme that we are not their vendor — which would not be true. Enterprise integration work is scoped and priced individually after a paid discovery phase.
The range narrows to a single number on a thirty-minute scoping call, and that number goes in the statement of work. If scope changes later, we price the change before doing it — you never receive an invoice larger than the one you agreed to.
We also do time-and-materials work — small change requests, ad-hoc support — at $185/hour. Project work is priced on the bands above, not on that rate.
How this compares
Where these bands sit in the market.
US software development is billed at roughly $70 to $200+ per hour in 2026. Offshore and nearshore teams sit at the bottom, domestic contractors in the middle, and established agencies at the top — typically $200+, because that rate carries account management, sales, and layers of overhead.
Our bands price out as a senior US team, deliberately below the established-agency tier. The difference is where the money goes: there is no sales team, no account manager, and no junior bench for the work to be handed down to, so more of the budget reaches the person writing your code.
We quote fixed prices rather than hours because an hourly quote transfers the risk of an inaccurate estimate onto you. If a band turns out to be harder than we judged, that is our problem to absorb — which is a real incentive for us to scope it honestly in the first place.
If you are comparing us against a $40/hour quote, we will lose on price and should. That is a different service. The comparison worth making is against what the alternatives actually cost you — below.
The alternatives
What the other options really cost.
We are not always the right answer, and pretending otherwise wastes your time and ours. Here is an honest read on each route.
Hire in-house
$150k–220k+ per year, loaded
Salary plus payroll tax, benefits, equipment, and management. Recruiting a senior engineer typically takes three to six months, and you carry the cost permanently whether or not there is a year's worth of work. A bad hire costs roughly a year of salary to unwind.
Pick this if: the work is continuous and central to your business. Long term, in-house is cheaper than any agency — including us.
Offshore or freelance
$20–60 per hour
Genuinely cheaper per hour, and there are excellent engineers working at these rates. The cost lands elsewhere: specification has to be far more precise, review and rework fall on you, and someone on your side has to hold the architecture. That job is usually unbudgeted and usually yours.
Pick this if: the spec is unambiguous and you have someone technical who can review the output. For a well-defined build with a competent reviewer, this is often the right call.
No-code and off-the-shelf
$0–2k per month
The correct answer more often than most developers will admit. It stops working when you need real integrations, unusual logic, data volume, or ownership of the thing you have built — and migrating off it later costs more than building properly would have.
Pick this if: you are still testing whether anyone wants this. Validate first, then build. We will tell you when that is our honest read.
A larger agency
$200+ per hour
More capacity, formal process, and a certified supplier if procurement requires one. You are also paying for account management and sales, and the people who pitched are usually not the people who build.
Pick this if: you need a large team in parallel, on-site presence, or a supplier holding certifications we do not have.
Number look about right?
Send the scope you just configured and we'll come back with how we'd actually build it — or tell you where the estimate is wrong for your case.
We reply to every serious enquiry within one business day