Software cost estimator

Estimate custom software development cost before you scope the team.

Use this page to turn budget research into a realistic delivery conversation. Estimate MVPs, product builds, workflow automation, AI/RAG features, and modernization work.

Estimate your software build

A planning range, not a fixed bid.

What are you building?

What moves the number

Cost depends on risk, not just screens.

The same number of pages can produce very different costs if the project includes sensitive data, legacy systems, AI behavior, complicated roles, or unclear workflow ownership.

Scope clarity

The biggest swing is whether the team is building from a validated workflow or discovering requirements while coding.

Integration load

Payments, ERPs, CRMs, legacy systems, identity providers, and third-party APIs add testing and edge-case work.

Security and data risk

Healthcare, finance, transaction workflows, and internal knowledge systems need stricter access, audit, and QA controls.

AI production complexity

RAG, LLM features, agents, evals, observability, and model behavior add a different kind of engineering risk.

Planning ranges

Use ranges to choose a model, then scope the actual job.

Lean MVP
$45k - $90k
A narrow first release with a small number of core workflows.
Product build
$85k - $180k
Customer-facing software with integrations, QA, and production release work.
AI/RAG feature
$100k - $240k
LLM features, retrieval, evals, vector databases, and AI product behavior.
Modernization
$130k - $300k+
Legacy system replacement, staged rollout, data migration, and high QA risk.

Ranges are planning estimates for US buyers using nearshore delivery. Final pricing depends on scope, team composition, security requirements, data access, and delivery timeline.

Common next steps

Route the budget into the right delivery conversation.

Nearshore legacy software modernization

For stabilizing, refactoring, replatforming, or selectively rebuilding a live product through controlled releases.

Nearshore software development services

For product builds, engineering capacity, and delivery teams with US-hours overlap.

RAG development company

For grounded AI search over documents, knowledge bases, internal content, and product data.

AI agent development company

For workflow agents, tool use, state, retries, approvals, observability, and human review.

Hire AI engineers

For staff augmentation when you want production AI engineers working inside your existing team.

Scoped estimate

Bring the budget range. We will pressure-test the scope.

Clarify must-have workflows and release constraints.

Identify engineering, QA, product, AI, and delivery roles.

Separate fixed project risk from staff augmentation needs.

Get a scoped estimate