Transparent Pricing

Premium execution with clear pricing, sane ranges, and no agency inflation.

These ranges are designed to help you budget realistically before we scope the work in detail. No hidden costs, no vague “starting from” games, and no bloated team overhead.

Project range
$3.5K - $150K+
Hourly range
$95 - $195
Engagement style
Fixed-price, milestone, or retainer
Response window
Usually within 24 hours

Fixed-price packages

Best for teams that want a defined scope, a clear number, and a straightforward launch plan.

Starter Website

$3,500

Perfect for small businesses and early-stage launches.

Up to 5 pages
Responsive implementation
Basic SEO setup
Contact form integration
2-week delivery window
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Business Website

$7,500

For established businesses that need stronger structure and conversion polish.

Up to 10 pages plus blog setup
Custom design and branding system
Advanced SEO optimization
CMS integration
4-week delivery window
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E-Commerce Build

$15,000+

Full online store experience with scalable checkout and operations.

Unlimited pages and products
Shopping cart and checkout
Payment gateway integration
Inventory workflows
6-8 week delivery window
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Custom product builds

For SaaS, internal tools, platforms, APIs, and product infrastructure that need tailored scoping.

MVP SaaS Platform

Launch-ready SaaS MVP with core product flows, subscription billing, and admin tooling.

Typical range
$20,000 - $45,000

Enterprise SaaS

Multi-tenant platforms with deeper integrations, security controls, and enterprise-ready architecture.

Typical range
$75,000 - $150,000+

Custom Web App

Bespoke internal tools, booking systems, dashboards, CRMs, and workflow platforms.

Typical range
$15,000 - $75,000

API Development

REST or GraphQL APIs, integrations, backend services, authentication, and monitoring.

Typical range
$7,500 - $30,000

Digital marketing services

Monthly retainers for SEO, content, paid media, social, and lifecycle email. Stack any combination, or run them as one coordinated program.

SEO Starter

$1,063/mo

On-page SEO, technical fixes, keyword tracking, and monthly reporting for small sites.

Up to 15 target keywords
Technical SEO audit & fixes
On-page optimization
Monthly performance report
Google Search Console setup
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Growth SEO & Content

$2,438/mo

Full-funnel SEO with editorial content production for compounding organic growth.

Up to 40 target keywords
4 long-form articles / month
Link-building outreach
Core Web Vitals optimization
Conversion tracking setup
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Paid Ads Management

$1,563/mo

Google Ads and Meta Ads management with creative iteration and weekly optimization.

Up to $15K/mo ad spend managed
Google + Meta campaigns
Landing page recommendations
Weekly optimization cycles
Conversion & ROAS reporting
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Social Media Management

$1,188/mo

Consistent organic social presence across 2 platforms with brand-aligned content.

12 posts / month per platform
Branded graphics & captions
Community engagement
Monthly content calendar
Performance analytics
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Email Marketing

$938/mo

Newsletter, lifecycle, and nurture sequences set up and run inside your ESP.

4 campaigns / month
Automation flows
A/B testing
List hygiene & segmentation
Deliverability monitoring
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Full-Stack Marketing Retainer

$4,938/mo

SEO, content, paid, social, and email running as one coordinated growth engine.

All Growth SEO deliverables
Paid ads management included
Social + email programs
Dedicated strategist
Bi-weekly strategy calls
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Hourly and retainer work

Ideal for ongoing support, audits, product iteration, emergency fixes, or senior technical guidance.

$95/hour
Standard delivery
$145/hour
Complex product work
$195/hour
Urgent and recovery work

What moves the number

Scope and complexity

Custom workflows, deeper user roles, integrations, and edge-case handling all change build time meaningfully.

Design ambition

A sharper visual system, stronger motion, and conversion-focused UX require more deliberate implementation.

Integration surface

Payment providers, CRMs, ERPs, analytics, and third-party APIs increase delivery effort and QA depth.

Speed requirements

Rush timelines are possible, but they shift scheduling and engineering bandwidth, so pricing moves with them.

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Send the brief, the timeline, and the outcome you care about. I'll translate that into a practical scope and a transparent number.

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Pricing & Next Steps

How to read developer rates without being fooled

Hourly rates are the most-quoted and least-useful number in software engagements. A senior at $200/hour ships work that a mid-level at $90/hour can't ship at all — meaning the senior is often cheaper per outcome. The math is counter-intuitive until you've watched it play out.

Rate vs throughput vs outcome

What you're actually buying is outcomes per dollar, not hours per dollar. A senior engineer who delivers a working feature in 3 days at $200/hour costs $4,800. A mid-level pair who delivers the same feature in 3 weeks at $90/hour costs $21,600. The rate comparison is meaningless; the outcome comparison is decisive.

Where geography actually matters

US senior rates ($175–$300/hour) cluster tightly. Nearshore rates ($60–$120/hour) are now competitive on quality at the senior tier. Offshore rates ($25–$60/hour) save sticker money and frequently lose it back in rework, time-zone friction, and architectural debt. The pattern that wins for US founders is usually a small senior US-or-nearshore team.

Fixed-price vs T&M vs retainer

Fixed-price quotes always include a risk premium — usually 20–40%. Time-and-materials is cheaper if scope is well-defined and trust is high. Retainers (4–8 hours/week) are the right model for ongoing relationships post-launch. See our SaaS MVP cost breakdown for line-item ranges on common scopes.

Pricing deep dive

What developers actually cost in 2026 (and what you get at each price point)

Developer rates in 2026 span a 10× range globally, and the cheapest option is rarely the cheapest outcome. The decisions a senior engineer makes in week one of a project compound into either a maintainable codebase or a six-month rescue engagement two years later. Below is an honest breakdown of what each rate tier actually buys — calibrated against the engineers we have worked with, hired, and replaced.

These are blended rates that reflect a salaried engineer's fully-loaded cost, a freelancer's standard rate, or an agency's effective hourly rate after overhead. They are not the gross hourly wage paid to the engineer.

$25–$80
Junior offshore (per hour)
$50–$120
Mid-level nearshore
$110–$180
Senior onshore freelance
$150–$350
Specialist consulting

What junior rates ($25–$80/hr) actually buy

Junior engineers ship code that works in the happy path. They produce well-formatted pull requests, can implement a clearly-specified feature, and are responsive to code review. What they do not yet have is judgement — the instinct to push back on a brittle requirement, to spot the performance regression before it ships, or to know which library will quietly stop receiving security updates in 18 months.

Junior rates are economical when paired with strong senior oversight and a well-defined backlog. They are catastrophically expensive when used to make architectural decisions in week one of a greenfield project — the rework cost typically exceeds the cumulative billing savings by an order of magnitude.

Mid-level ($50–$120/hr): the productivity sweet spot

Mid-level engineers are the workhorses of most successful teams. They have shipped multiple production systems, understand the failure modes of the stack they work in, and can take a feature from specification to deploy without supervision. The rate range is wide because the variance in talent at this level is wider than at any other tier.

Mid-level rates are the right default for the majority of feature work on an established codebase. They are not the right choice for architectural decisions, performance forensics, or any work where the cost of getting it wrong dwarfs the rate.

Senior ($110–$180/hr): where rate becomes irrelevant

Senior engineers earn their rate by what they don't build. They reject features that won't scale, simplify designs before they ship, and shorten timelines by spotting the 80/20 cut on every requirement. The hourly cost is higher; the total project cost is consistently 30–50% lower than the equivalent mid-level team for any project above three months in duration.

Hire senior engineers for architecture, for greenfield work, for rescue engagements, and for any project where speed-to-market is the dominant constraint. The rate is not the right metric — outcomes per dollar is.

Specialist consulting ($150–$350/hr): when generalists hit a wall

Specialist rates apply to engineers with deep expertise in a single domain — Postgres performance, Kubernetes networking, ML infrastructure, regulated industries. Use them for time-boxed engagements: a week of performance tuning, a month of compliance architecture, a quarterly security audit. Trying to staff a full project at specialist rates is poor capital allocation; not bringing in a specialist when you genuinely need one is worse.

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