How much does it cost to build an app?
A functional prototype costs roughly $875 to $3,000. A real MVP that pilot users can use costs roughly $1,875 to $12,000. A full public launch with payments, roles, and integrations costs roughly $4,250 to $40,000. The range within each band is driven by four things: screen count, number of integrations, how clearly the data model is defined, and whether compliance is in scope.
Three bands, and what actually ships in each.
These are our published fixed prices, not industry averages. Scope is locked at kickoff, so the number you agree is the number you pay.
The 7-day sprint
A functional prototype for pilot users, investor calls, or a hackathon deadline.
- · Up to 6 core screens, pixel-designed
- · Auth (sign-up, sign-in, session)
- · One primary data model + one CRUD flow
- · Deployed to Vercel with a real URL
The 14-day MVP
A real product for real users. Pilot cohort, waitlist, or paid beta.
- · Up to 15 screens, responsive on mobile + desktop
- · Full auth + role-based access
- · 3-5 primary data models with relationships
- · Payments (Stripe) or a single custom integration
The 30-day launch
Fundraising, public launch, or a product about to hit revenue.
- · Unlimited screens, tuned for Core Web Vitals
- · Auth + RBAC + audit log
- · 10+ data models with proper foreign keys
- · Payments + up to 3 custom integrations
Starting prices assume a clear brief and a defined data model. The estimator on the Launch page adjusts for your screen count, integrations, and expected users, and returns a band rather than a single number, because a single number before scoping would be a guess dressed as a quote.
What your kind of app typically costs.
Different shapes carry different amounts of inherent complexity. A marketplace has two sides and split payments; a dashboard has one side and a chart library. The tier each shape usually lands in:
What actually moves the price.
Feature lists are a poor predictor of cost. These four things explain most of the variance between a cheap build and an expensive one.
Number of screens
The single most predictable driver. Each distinct screen carries design, state, edge cases, and tests. A 6-screen prototype and a 40-screen product are not the same job even when the feature list sounds similar.
Integrations
Every third-party service adds authentication, error handling, retries, webhook verification, and a failure mode you have to design for. Stripe plus a CRM plus one webhook is three integrations, not one line item.
Who owns the data model
A product with five clean entities is cheap. A product where nobody has decided what a 'customer' is costs far more, because the ambiguity gets discovered during the build rather than before it.
Compliance scope
SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR, and PCI each impose code-level controls, audit trails, and artifacts. They are not a phase at the end; they change how the thing is built from day one.
The questions behind the question.
Why do quotes for the same app range from $5k to $150k?+
Is it cheaper to build it on no-code first?+
Does offshore actually cost less?+
What about using AI to build it?+
The cost nobody quotes you.
Build cost is the smaller half. A live product carries hosting, monitoring, dependency updates, security patches, and the engineering time to keep shipping. Budget for it before launch rather than discovering it in month three.
A build that skips typed data models and tests costs less on day one and more every month afterwards. We price the version that stays maintainable, which is why our starting prices are not the lowest you will find.
You can generate an app in an afternoon.
Owning one is a different job.
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