A website is one fixed number. A web application and AI work are billed by the hour, because the hours follow what the system has to do.
How the number is set
The same project, priced two ways. The column on the right is how this studio works, and the rest of the page is just the detail behind it.
ANALYTICS DEV
MUMBAI, INDIA
WORDPRESS OR FULLY CODED
RECOMMENDED
FIXED
₹35,000 to ₹45,000
ONE NUMBER, AGREED BEFORE THE WORK STARTS
ANALYTICS DEV
MUMBAI, INDIA
LOGINS, DASHBOARDS, PAYMENTS
RATE
₹700 to ₹800 / hr
HOURS ESTIMATED IN WRITING BEFORE WORK STARTS
ANALYTICS DEV
MUMBAI, INDIA
AGENTS, AUTOMATION, ML, ANALYTICS
RATE
$10 / hr
BILLED IN INR AT THE RATE ON THE INVOICE DATE
Build fee, subscriptions, renewals and the cost of leaving, added up over 36 months.
The range here is the website tier. Hourly work is not in this comparison, because it is not sold as a package.
What you pay before anything is live.
The line that quietly overtakes the build fee. A hosted builder charges every month for the privilege of staying online, and an agency retainer does the same under a different name. A static site on a free CDN tier costs nothing to keep running.
Three years of renewals.
What you walk away with if you leave.
A builder subscription looks small next to a build fee, until you multiply it by thirty six. These are list prices anyone can check, not quotes I have invented.
Not small, medium and large. Three different things to build, paid for in two different ways. Pull a shade up or down, and click a window to read what that one actually involves.
Every one of these is optional. Nothing renews on its own and there is no lock-in, because the code and the accounts are already yours.
Security updates, dependency upgrades, backups, uptime checks and small fixes. Anything that adds a feature counts as a change, not maintenance, and is quoted before it starts.
Cancel whenever. There is no notice period and no minimum term.
Once the free support window closes, new work is billed at the published hourly rate. You approve the hours before I start, the same way the original estimate worked.
Anything that was meant to work and does not is fixed at no cost.
₹2,500 for a 90 minute working session, taken off the invoice if you go ahead with the project. The first 30 minute call is free either way.
Written down so there is nothing to argue about later. Pick a row to read the detail.
Before you pay anything
You read this document before the first payment, not after.
No. The only costs that keep running are your domain registration, roughly ₹800 to ₹1,400 a year, and hosting, which is ₹0 a month on Vercel or Cloudflare at normal traffic. On a web application the first year of domain and hosting is on me. Maintenance is optional and priced in the table above. I charge no markup on third-party services and hand every account to you.
A website is split across delivery milestones: 40% on signing the scope of work, 30% when you approve the working preview, and 30% on final testing and going live. Hourly work is billed every two weeks against a timesheet you can read, and you approve the estimated hours before any of it starts.
A website carries one month of support, a web application two months, and AI work one month. Fixing something that was meant to work is part of that and costs nothing. After the window closes, changes are ₹500 an hour on a website, ₹700 to ₹800 an hour on an application and $10 an hour on AI work, or you can take the monthly maintenance instead.
Let's talk. We will help you identify the highest-ROI features for your budget and deliver a written fixed-scope proposal in 24 hours.
