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Pricing

Our price is in black and white.Senior engineers. $20/hour. In writing.

Senior engineers from about $20/hour. No quote wall, no surprises — you'll know what you're paying before you ever get on a call. Switch currency from the menu.

How we compare

Senior craft, without the Silicon Valley invoice.

A senior engineer here starts at about $20/hour. The same person in London or San Francisco bills $100$250. Same code, same care, same ownership — you just skip the overhead.

$200/hr what a typical US/UK agency bills

$20/hr what you pay here — senior engineer

A typical US / UK agency
$100$250 / hour for a senior engineer

The Contrast
From about $20 / hour for a senior engineer

A typical US / UK agency
"Request a quote" — price hidden until a call

The Contrast
Rates on the page — no quote wall

A typical US / UK agency
Hand-offs between juniors, PMs and account managers

The Contrast
One accountable team, first call to long after launch

A typical US / UK agency
Long retainers and lock-in

The Contrast
Paid weekly — cancel anytime

A typical US / UK agency
Code held in vendor repos until final invoice

The Contrast
Your repos, your cloud, your IP — from day one

A typical US / UK agency
You find out who you actually got, later

The Contrast
You talk to the actual engineers building it

Estimate it yourself

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1,440 hours · at $20/hour

A US/UK agency ~$150/hr $216,000
Your savings 87% less −$187,200
You, with The Contrast $28,800

A rough, transparent estimate in your currency — paid weekly as you go. The precise number (and what we'd cut to ship faster) comes from a 15-minute call.

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Ways to work with us

Pick the model that fits — change it anytime.

Pay as you go

from $20/hr

A senior engineer's time, billed for what you use. Best for ongoing work and flexible scope.

  • Paid weekly · cancel anytime
  • Talk to the engineer directly

Dedicated engineer

from $3,200/mo

A senior engineer, full-time and embedded in your team (~160 hrs/month). You manage them directly.

  • Fluent English · your timezone
  • Scale up or down anytime

Fixed-scope project

One written price

Your whole build — scoped on a call, quoted in writing, delivered in milestones. Best when the spec is clear.

  • The quote is the price — in writing
  • Milestones, not hours

Dedicated team

from $9,600/mo

A small senior team (≈3) — design, build and ship a product end to end, owned from first call to launch.

  • One accountable team, no hand-offs
  • Weekly demos · transparent progress

Monthly figures are indicative, derived from the $20/hour rate (≈160 hrs/engineer/month). Your exact number comes from a 15-minute call.

Questions

Pricing, answered.

Is $20/hour really the price?

Yes — that's the starting rate for a senior engineer, stated plainly. It's the India cost base, not a quality cut: no Western salaries, no agency middlemen, no expensive offices. You pay for the work, not the overhead.

What does a typical project cost?

Use the calculator above for a rough number in your currency. A small MVP is often a 2–3 person team over 6–12 weeks; a precise estimate takes one 15-minute call.

How do you bill?

Weekly, for the work done — and you can cancel anytime. No long retainers, no lock-in. You see the work before you commit further.

What's included in the rate?

A senior engineer's time and end-to-end ownership — you talk to the people building it, not an account manager. Design, PM and QA are scoped in per project.

Who owns the code and IP?

You do, from the first commit. Work happens in your GitHub and your cloud accounts; IP assignment is in the contract; and we'll sign an NDA before the first call if you want one.

Fixed price or hourly?

Either. Hourly/dedicated for evolving scope; fixed-scope for a well-defined build. We'll recommend the one that's cheaper for you, honestly.

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