MVP development services for founders who need a launch date
An MVP is the smallest product that real customers can use, pay for and react to. We help you cut the scope to that core, price it feature by feature and ship it in 8 to 12 weeks.
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MVP
Hours per feature
Typical range
$25,000 to $60,000
What a typical MVP costs in our model
A web MVP with accounts, roles, subscriptions, a dashboard, email notifications and an admin panel comes to 516 to 731 hours, or $46,000 to $65,000, in 6 to 9 weeks with two developers. MVPs in our model range from $26,000 for the base package to $79,500 for a large first version. Your own estimate replaces these numbers with yours.
- 01 Price range, $46,000 to $65,000
- 02 Hours, 516 to 731
- 03 Timeline, 6 to 9 weeks
How we scope an MVP that ships
The hardest part of MVP development is deciding what stays out. The estimate makes the trade-off visible: every feature shows its hours, so you can see that real-time chat adds 40 to 80 hours while email notifications add 12 to 24.
Read the full guide on MVP development cost and timeline.
- 01 Start from the one job your first customers pay for
- 02 Keep accounts, payments and an admin panel, because you need them to sell
- 03 Replace complex automation with a manual step behind the scenes for now
- 04 Leave multi-language, public APIs and native apps for version two
- 05 Measure the few events that tell you whether the product works
MVP in four paid stages
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Discovery and scope, about one week: user stories, data model and the fixed price of the next stages.
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02
Design, about two weeks: flows and screens for every page in scope.
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03
Build sprints, two weeks each: a live build to click through at the end of every sprint.
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04
Launch and handover: production release, analytics, documentation and your code.
You never prepay the whole MVP. Each stage is paid when you accept it, so you can pause after any stage. See software development pricing.
After the MVP
Most founders keep building once customers start using the product. You can continue with new build stages, move to a maintenance plan, or grow it into a full SaaS product. The code is yours either way. Founders planning past the first release can compare priced examples from a pre-seed MVP to a post-seed version one on software development for startups.
MVP development questions
Most MVPs in our model take 8 to 12 weeks from Discovery to launch. Smaller ones can ship in 6. The estimate gives the sprint count for your features.
Yes. A React Native or Flutter MVP covers iPhone and Android from one codebase, which usually keeps a mobile MVP within the same budget band as a web one plus about 25 percent.
No. We build MVPs on the same stack and standards as full products, with tests and clean architecture, so version two extends the code instead of replacing it.
Scope your MVP in about a minute
Pick the features you need to launch and see the price, timeline and team.