MVP cost
calculator

Pick what your product needs. Get a price range and a build timeline in seconds, next to what freelancers and agencies typically quote.

1. What are you building?

Pick the closest match.

Every MVP includes: sign-up and login, your core workflow, database, Stripe checkout or a waitlist, a basic admin view, responsive UI, landing page, production deployment and 30 days of post-launch support.

2. What else does version 1 need?

Only pick what your first users cannot live without. Everything else can come after launch.

3. Third-party integrations

Tools the product connects to beyond payments and email: a CRM, Google Calendar, Slack, an industry API.

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4. Design

5. Platform

Get an exact, fixed quote

Send your estimate and one line about the idea. You get a fixed price and a week-by-week plan back within one working day. No sales sequence.

How the estimate works

The starting price covers a focused web MVP: one user type, one core workflow, Stripe checkout or a waitlist and a basic admin view, built and deployed in 30 days or less. Each feature you add has a price and a number of build days, based on what that feature has cost across the 20+ MVPs we have shipped. The range allows for details we only learn on a call, such as how many screens a workflow needs.

The price list behind the estimate

The core MVP is $5,000 and 30 days or less. Each add-on below has a fixed price and a number of extra build days. Third-party integrations are +$750 and about 1 day each. The calculator adds these up and shows a range, because some details only come out on a call.

Add-onPriceBuild time
Marketplace
Two sides, such as buyers and sellers, with listings and matching.
+$3,000+3 days
AI product
The core value is an AI workflow: chat, analysis, generation.
+$3,000+3 days
Subscription billing
Plans, trials, upgrades and a billing portal, beyond a simple checkout.
+$1,000+2 days
Teams and roles
Organisations, invites and permission levels.
+$1,500+2 days
AI features
Summaries, chat or extraction on top of an LLM.
+$2,500+3 days
Real-time
Live chat, notifications or collaborative updates.
+$2,000+3 days
File processing
Uploads, previews and reading data out of documents.
+$1,000+1 day
Analytics dashboard
Charts and reports for your users, with exports.
+$1,500+2 days
Search and filters
Fast search across your product's data.
+$750+1 day
Email automation
Onboarding emails, reminders and digests.
+$500+1 day
Compliance
Audit trails, retention and access controls for regulated data.
+$3,000+5 days
Custom brand design
Designed screens in your brand before the build starts.
+$1,500+2 days
Web + native mobile
Adds iOS and Android apps built with React Native.
+$6,000+15 days

What makes an MVP cost more

Native mobile apps

Two app stores, two review processes and device testing. A responsive web app is usually enough to validate.

AI features

Prompting, evaluation, guardrails and cost control take real build time, even on top of a hosted model.

Compliance

Audit trails, data retention and access controls for health, care or finance data. See compliance software.

Integrations

Each outside system brings its own auth, rate limits and edge cases. Well documented APIs are quick, legacy ones are not.

Questions

How accurate is this?

It is a range built from real project costs. A 30-minute call turns it into a fixed price that does not change unless you change the scope.

Why so much lower than an agency?

A small senior team, no account managers, a proven stack and a scope locked in the first days. You pay for building, not for layers.

What if it comes out above $20,000?

That is usually more than a minimum viable product. We launch the core in about 30 days and add the rest on the monthly SaaS retainer, once users show what matters.

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