Pricing · USD
Application Engineering
Web and mobile applications — real products with state, accounts and data. Price is the sum of the surface you need; the tiers bundle common combinations.
Common bundles.
Presets built from the line items below. Most projects start at one of these and move as scope becomes clear.
Starter
$2k – $4k
A focused MVP — a few screens, one job, done properly.
- Up to ~5 core screens
- Auth + one data model
- Free-tier-friendly stack
- Clean handover with docs
Standard
$5k – $12k
A real product with accounts, data, and a backend that holds up.
- Full screen set + components
- Auth, DB, storage, admin
- Payments or key integrations
- Tests + error handling
Custom
from $15k
Scale, real-time, or a native app alongside the web.
- Web + native or heavy real-time
- Eval harnesses + monitoring
- Load + security hardening
- Retained engineering
What makes up the price.
The line items
The price is the sum of the pieces you actually need. A row marked / unit is charged per that unit; the rest are once for the project.
- Product & flow design $400 – $1.5k Screen flows, states, and the data model before any code
- Screen build $250 – $700 / screen Each screen: UI, states, validation, wired to the backend
- Auth & accounts $400 – $1,200 Sign-up, login, sessions, roles and permissions
- Backend & database $800 – $4k Data model, API, storage, and an admin surface
- Payments $500 – $1,800 Checkout, subscriptions, webhooks and reconciliation
- Real-time / native feel $600 – $3k Live updates, offline, push, gestures — the bar above "a web app"
- Third-party integration $300 – $1,200 / integration Each external service, with its edge cases handled
- Tests, hardening & handover $400 – $2k Coverage on the risky paths, error handling, docs, deploy