Web and app development cost calculator

A marketing website starts around $3,000 to $4,000 and a custom web application starts around $12,000 to $17,000, with most business projects landing somewhere between those two figures once you add the features that make the product genuinely useful. E-commerce sits in the middle, starting near $7,500. What moves the number is rarely the page count. It is user accounts, payments, an admin dashboard, third-party integrations and anything that has to update in real time, because each of those carries its own design, build, test and failure-handling work rather than just another screen. The calculator prices those individually instead of hiding them inside one headline figure, so you can see what each decision costs before you commit to it. Timelines follow the same shape: a straightforward site takes three to four weeks, a custom application takes closer to two months.

A mobile app starts around $13,500 to $19,000 for one platform, which is higher than an equivalent web build because a phone app carries work a browser does not: app store review, device and operating system fragmentation, offline behaviour and push notifications. Choosing both iOS and Android raises the figure, though nowhere near double, because we build from a single codebase with React Native or Flutter and only the platform-specific pieces get written twice. Features drive the rest. Payments, real-time updates and an admin back office each add meaningfully, while push notifications and analytics add less. The calculator shows these as separate line items so you can shape a first release around a budget rather than discovering the number at the end. Most apps reach a usable first version in eight to ten weeks, then improve from there with real users telling you what matters.

It gives you an honest range, not a quote. The figures come from the same pricing model we use internally, which is why a website starts at $3,000 rather than at a teaser number designed to get you onto a sales call. Within that model the estimate is reliable for a project matching one of the four shapes we price: a website, a web application, an e-commerce build or a mobile app. It will be less accurate if your project carries an unusual constraint, such as a legacy system that must be integrated, a regulatory requirement, or a data migration out of something old and undocumented. Those are exactly the things that move an estimate most, and no calculator can see them from six questions. Treat the output as a budgeting range you can take to a stakeholder with a straight face.

Complexity in the data, not the number of screens. Two products can look nearly identical and differ by a factor of three because one of them has roles and permissions, an audit trail and a billing engine behind it. The features that consistently move a budget are user accounts, payments, an admin dashboard, integrations with systems you do not control, and anything real-time, because real-time changes how the whole application is built rather than adding one more page to it. Design level matters too: a template costs less than a custom interface, and a full brand and design system costs more again. Timeline is its own multiplier, since compressing a schedule means adding people, and adding people adds coordination rather than raw speed. The cheapest lever is almost always scope, so shipping a smaller first version usually beats guessing at everything up front.

Yes, and it is how we prefer to work. The calculator gives you a range in about a minute. A fixed quote needs a conversation first, because we have to understand what you are actually trying to achieve before committing to a price, and that usually takes one call plus a short written scope. From there we break the work into two-week increments, price them before anything is built, and show you a working demo at the end of every one, so the estimate stops being a promise and becomes something you can check as it happens. We do not change the price partway through unless you change the scope, and if you do, you see what that change costs before we act on it. You own the repository, the pipeline and the documentation throughout.