SaaS Development Cost Calculator
What it costs an agency to build a B2B SaaS product: team accounts, roles, subscriptions, admin and reporting, by sprint and by region.
Updated · By Niraj Kumar · 4 sources
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Project
The baseline: a React front end with a Node or serverless back end.
Unique layouts, not every page: a product page template counts once.
CRM, ERP, shipping, tax, analytics… 32 hours each.
Features
Email and social login, password reset; SSO or MFA is complex.
Profile pages, preferences and account deletion.
Who can see and do what; complex means custom policies.
Organisations, invitations and data isolated per customer.
Manage users, content and settings without a developer.
Listings, variants, cart, checkout and orders.
Stripe or similar: plans, invoices, webhooks and refunds.
Full-text search and facets; complex means a search engine.
Transactional email, push and in-app alerts.
Uploads to object storage, previews and image resizing.
Messaging over WebSockets, read receipts and history.
Maps, geocoding, distance search or live tracking.
Charts, exports and scheduled reports for users.
Chat assistants, summaries or retrieval over your data.
Translated interface, locale formats and RTL support.
Works without a connection and syncs changes later.
Design and quality
Team
Mid-market US agencies; big consultancies bill $200 to $300 an hour.
More developers shorten the calendar, not the hours.
A reserve for scope that changes once work starts. 15 to 20% is usual; more for a vague brief.
- Total effort
- 2,152 hours
- 1,001 hours of development
- Timeline
- 14 weeks
- 7 sprints of 2 weeks, up to 20 weeks if the scope grows
- Blended rate
- $129 an hour
- Across every role on the team
- Maintenance after launch
- $50,000 a year
- About 18% of the build: updates, fixes and small improvements
- Lowest-cost region
- Philippines & Vietnam
- $73,500, $205,000 less
- 1Front-end development$68,500
- 2Back end, platform and integrations$58,000
- 3Contingency reserve$36,500
- 4UI/UX design$35,000
- 5Project management$26,000
- 6QA and testing$22,500
- 7Hardening and launch$12,500
- 8DevOps and CI/CD$11,000
- 9Discovery (sprint 0)$8,300
| Sprint | Focus | Hours | Cost | Running total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sprint 0 | Discovery, backlog, architecture and first designs | 198 | $25,000 | $25,000 |
| Sprint 1 | Project setup, Sign-up and login and 2 more | 330 | $43,500 | $68,500 |
| Sprint 2 | Roles and permissions, Teams and multi-tenancy, Admin panel / CMS | 303 | $39,000 | $107,000 |
| Sprint 3 | Admin panel / CMS, Payments and subscriptions, Search and filtering | 303 | $39,000 | $147,000 |
| Sprint 4 | Search and filtering, Email and push notifications and 2 more | 303 | $39,000 | $186,000 |
| Sprint 5 | Reports and dashboards, Integrations | 303 | $39,000 | $225,000 |
| Sprint 6 | Hardening, acceptance testing and launch | 132 | $17,000 | $242,000 |
| Role | Hours | Rate | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Project manager / BA | 231 | $130/h | $30,000 |
| UI/UX designer | 302 | $120/h | $36,000 |
| Senior developer | 488 | $160/h | $78,000 |
| Mid-level developer | 601 | $125/h | $75,000 |
| QA engineer | 250 | $90/h | $22,500 |
| Total | 1,872 | $129/h | $242,000 |
- 1Philippines & Vietnamoffshore$73,500
- 2Indiaoffshore$77,000
- 3Eastern Europeoffshore$106,000
- 4Latin Americanearshore$119,000
- 5Canadaonshore$220,000
- 6Western Europeoffshore$226,000
- 7Australiaoffshore$249,000
- 8United Kingdomoffshore$250,000
- 9United Statesonshore$278,000
How is software development cost estimated?
A B2B SaaS product with team accounts, roles, subscriptions, an admin panel and dashboards takes about 2,150 agency hours for a first release. That is roughly $278,000 with a US agency and $77,000 with a team in India, over 7 two-week sprints with 3 developers.
build = Σ features (hours × complexity × stack) + screens × 10 h + integrations × 32 h + 40 h setup
total = discovery + design + build + 10% hardening + QA % + DevOps + PM (12% + time-zone overhead)
cost = Σ role hours × regional rate × agency tier; likely = cost × (1 + contingency)
sprints = 1 + ⌈build ÷ (developers × 40 h × weeks × 0.8)⌉ + hardeningThis page uses the same method as the Software Development Cost Estimator, which explains each term and assumption in full.
Worked example
A B2B SaaS product on Next.js: 25 screens, team accounts, roles, Stripe subscriptions, an admin panel, notifications and a reporting dashboard, three integrations, custom UI/UX and standard QA. Built by a US agency (mid-market rates), 3 developers in 2-week sprints, with 15% contingency.
- 1Discovery (sprint 0): 60 hours, $8,300
- 2UI/UX design: 290 hours, $35,000
- 3Front-end development: 492 hours, $68,500
- 4Back end, platform and integrations: 418 hours, $58,000
- 5Hardening and launch: 91 hours, $12,500
- 6QA and testing: 250 hours, $22,500
- 7DevOps and CI/CD: 70 hours, $11,000
- 8Project management: 201 hours, $26,000
- 9Contingency reserve: 281 hours, $36,500
- 10Blended rate: $129 an hour across the team
- 11Schedule: 7 sprints, 14 weeks
About $278,000, within a range of $218,000 to $362,000, and 14 weeks from kickoff to launch.
Frequently asked questions
What makes SaaS more expensive than an ordinary web app?
Multi-tenancy and billing. Every table and query has to keep one customer's data away from another's, invitations and roles multiply the screens, and subscriptions bring plan changes, proration, failed payments, invoices and webhooks. Together they add 250 to 400 hours before the product does anything specific to your market.
Should a SaaS MVP include multi-tenancy?
If you sell to companies, yes: bolting tenancy onto a single-user data model later is one of the most expensive rewrites there is. If you sell to individuals first, leave it out and keep a tenant ID on your tables so it can be added without a migration of every query.
How much does a SaaS web app cost to build with a team in India?
For the scope on this page, about $77,000, with a range of $60,500 to $100,000 at mid-market rates: 2,383 hours at a blended $32 an hour, delivered in about 14 weeks by 3 developers. Change the features and team above for your own scope.
Sources
- Accelerance, 2026 Global Software Development Rates & Trends · checked
- Accelerance, 2026 outsourcing rate trends in Asia, Europe and Latin America · checked
- US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wages, May 2025 · checked
- US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Outlook Handbook: Software Developers, QA Analysts and Testers · checked
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