Custom software cost estimator.

What the market charges depends on the hours and the rate, and this page shows both with their sources. Clutch’s guide puts its reviewed projects typically at 10,000 to 49,999 dollars and the average at 132,480 over 13 months; GoodFirms’ 2026 survey found 65.7 percent of projects between 30,000 and 100,000, and 56.3 percent of companies charging 20 to 50 dollars an hour. A small business that buys one narrow job at a time sits at the bottom of those ladders, and the estimate above says where yours lands.

From published breakdowns, named on every line. Thirty-nine types of build each carry a base from the guide that priced that type: Simpalm’s front-end and back-end hours for the small app behind an internal tool and a web app, Cleveroad’s hours for a chatbot and its prices at its own rate for a CRM and an LMS, and the project prices the specialist guides publish for a marketplace, an ERP, a booking system, a fintech app and the rest, read at 100 dollars an hour. A project price carries its discovery, design, QA and management inside, so the page divides it by one and a half before adding those phases back at their published shares. Netguru’s and Topflight’s dollar ranges give the parts. A few figures have no published source and are marked as this studio’s.

The nearest shape, not the nearest name. A system your team runs on is an internal tool, a CRM, an inventory system or a booking system by what it mostly does; a thing your customers sign in to is a web app or a portal; a thing that lives on phones is a mobile app; a thing that runs over your own data is a BI dashboard, a data platform or an AI product; a small addition to a tool you already have is an extension, a plugin or an automation. Then tick the parts, which is where most of the difference between two builds of the same type lives.

A slice of the type’s published range. Standard is the guide’s medium tier as printed, what a working business needs and no more. Core only is 0.6 of that, the first version with the smallest set that works; the guides’ simple tiers sit at 0.4 to 0.8 of their medium. Advanced is 1.8 times, custom logic, many roles, scale and polish; the guides’ complex tiers sit at 1.6 to 2.7 of their medium. Cleveroad, Naveck, Verticomply and Purrweb publish those ladders, and the page takes the middle of them.

A share of the build, from the guides that price it: privacy law 8 percent (Dataforest puts compliance at 5 to 10 percent for standard industries), HIPAA 25 (Verticomply, 20 to 30 on top of the base build), money rules 30 (Saigon Technology, 20 to 40, with PCI DSS alone at 15,000 to 50,000 dollars), SOC 2 and single sign-on 25 (Naveck, 20 to 40). It is not paperwork: it is audit logs, encryption at rest, access reviews, data retention, consent, a way to export and delete, and the tests that prove each of those, and those are hours.

Because the same hours cost four times more at 100 to 200 an hour than at 20 to 50, and both are real published rates: GoodFirms found 56.3 percent of companies at 20 to 50 an hour and 10.9 percent at 100 to 250, and Clutch’s most common rate is 24 to 49. Pick the region you would actually hire from. The hours do not change; the bill does.

No, and this studio charges far less than it. The number is what an agency would quote for the shape, which is worth knowing before any call, mine included. From this studio a build is one fixed price, agreed at the map stage, for your job, and the number you approve is the number you pay, so no rate of mine is on this page. The tile pulls out the lines inside the agency’s number that this studio does not bill: project management, design as a separate phase, deployment, and a retainer after launch. Pick "this studio" in the region row and the tile says the same in fewer words.

A mobile app is a front end for two phone platforms plus a back end plus the design a customer will judge, while an internal tool is one plain desk your team uses. Simpalm puts a small cross-platform app at about 540 hours before the phases and a native one at 400 hours per platform, and Cleveroad and Topflight both put the saving from one cross-platform codebase at 30 to 40 percent against two native builds. The estimator carries those, and adds the store memberships to the running cost.

On your own accounts, a few dollars a month: Cloudflare’s paid plan at 5, and 0.30 for every million requests past its ten million, the domain at 15 a year, SMS at 0.0083 a message plus 1.15 for the number if you send them, AI assistance at 2 to 5 if you use it, Apple’s 99 a year and Google’s 25 once for a phone app. The agencies’ norm is a maintenance retainer of 15 to 25 percent of the build a year, which the page shows beside the running cost so you can see the difference; this studio does not charge one, and a change is a small fixed job when you want one.

The hours divided by the team size times 25 productive hours a week. That figure is this studio’s: Zenhub’s survey found just under half of developers code less than 20 hours a week, and GitHub’s productivity studies put focused coding at four to five hours a day. The team the tile suggests follows the hours: one developer under 500, a lean pod to 2,000 (Raftlabs and Naveck describe it: a senior back-end engineer, a front-end developer, a designer and QA part-time), a team above that. A team of three does not finish three times faster in practice; the page keeps the arithmetic honest and you keep the caveat.

No, while the page’s script is running. The model runs in your browser. The only thing that carries your choices is the link you copy, which holds the fields of the form and nothing else, so that whoever opens it sees the same estimate. With JavaScript turned off the page still works, and then the fields do travel to my server in the address, the same way a link you copy does.