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Six questions, a real number, and the arithmetic behind it. Every result is a fixed price between $500 and $2,500 with a delivery window in days — because AI writes the first draft and senior engineers review, test and harden every build. No submit step, no email gate, no callback.
This calculator returns the price as you move the controls, shows the sum line by line, and states what the price does not buy. There is no submit step and no email gate, so nothing you enter leaves your browser. Base prices come from 79 published builds in our catalogue, with a median advertised price of $1,450 and a median quoted delivery of 13 days.
$1,500
13–23 days
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Your fixed price
$1,500
13–23 days
Because AI writes the first draft and senior engineers review, test and harden every build, PINCLER prices this admin panel or back office at $1,500, where traditional agencies quote the same scope far higher. It is a different production method, not a discount, and $2,500 is a ceiling rather than a starting point.
How this number was worked out
There is no model behind this figure. It is a base price taken from a real published project, plus flat rates for the things you added, rounded to the nearest $50.
| Line | Working | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Base build — admin panel or back office | Catalogue starting price for Admin Dashboard & Back-Office Panel | $800 |
| User accounts, sign-in and roles | Flat $250 | $250 |
| 2 extra screens or workflows | 2 included in the base, 2 more at $120 each | $240 |
| 1 integration | 1 x $200 per external system | $200 |
| Total, rounded | Nearest $50 | $1,500 |
$800 + $250 + 2 x $120 + $200 = $1,490, rounded to $1,500.
What the market publishes for this
AVIBE's 2026 custom software cost guide puts a focused internal tool at $75,000–$125,000 over one to three months, rising to $125,000–$250,000 for a small business application.
AVIBE, 2026
$75,000–$125,000 for a focused internal tool
PINCLER, this estimate
$1,500 · 13–23 days
That published floor is about 50× the $1,500 this project costs. The comparison is against the whole build, not against phase one on its own, which would make the gap look larger than it is. The gap is production method, not geography: AVIBE is describing teams where a person writes the first draft of every file. Here, AI writes it and senior engineers review, test and harden it. Source.
Measured against our published catalogue (n=79)
$1,450
median advertised price across all 79 published builds
13 days
median quoted delivery, range 3–30 days
$1,600
median in Dashboards (n=3)
This estimate sits in the Dashboards band, where 3 of the 79 builds in our published catalogue live. That band runs $800–$2,500 with a median of $1,600 and 14 days. Every one of the 79 is published at a fixed price between $500 and $2,500; these are advertised bands and quoted windows, not a record of delivered work. See the full dataset.
What $1,500 buys
- Create, read, update and delete screens over your core records
- Search, filtering, bulk actions and CSV export
- An audit trail of who changed what
- Accounts, sign-in and role permissions
- 2 extra screens or workflows, beyond the 2 the base build covers
- 1 external system connected, with field mapping agreed in writing first
In every build, at every price
- A senior engineer reviews every file before it ships — AI writes the first draft, a person signs it off
- Automated tests on the core paths, plus a security pass over auth, input handling and secrets
- Deployment into your own cloud and payment accounts, with the source code handed to your GitHub
- Written documentation and a recorded walkthrough, so another developer can pick the work up
What it does not buy
A vague cheap price invites disbelief. This one is scoped, so you can check it.
- Third-party licence and usage fees — model APIs, hosting, SMS, payment processing — billed to your own accounts
- Formal compliance programmes such as SOC 2 or HIPAA certification, and the audits that go with them
- Bespoke brand identity work: logo design, illustration systems, motion design
- Ongoing content production, copywriting beyond the pages in scope, and paid media
- Historical data entry or cleansing beyond one migration pass
- Native platform work outside a React Native or Flutter codebase, such as custom SDKs or hardware drivers
Enterprise platforms with heavy compliance, regulated data residency or a 12-month roadmap are not what this band is for. If that is your project, an agency quoting five or six figures is the right call.
This is an estimate produced by published arithmetic, not a contract. A written fixed-price quote follows a free 30-minute call, and it will not be above $2,500. If a call shows the build is simpler than these inputs suggest, the quote goes down.
Method
How the estimate is derived
Six steps of arithmetic. No model, no weighting, no hidden multiplier — the same sum you could do on paper, in both money and days.
- 1
Start from a real published project
Each build type in the calculator maps to a project already published in the PINCLER catalogue, with its own page, price band and delivery window. The base price is that project's published starting price — for example $500 for a landing page, $800 for an admin panel, $1,800 for a SaaS MVP. It is not a guess about your project; it is what a comparable build was actually quoted at.
- 2
Add flat rates for what you described
Two screens or workflows are covered by the base. Each further one adds $120. Each external system connected adds $200, which sits inside the $150–$400 per integration published on the pricing page. Accounts and roles add $250; taking payments adds $300.
- 3
Apply the schedule you chose
A compressed schedule adds 15% and shortens the delivery window by about 20%. The same scope is delivered with more senior review running in parallel, which costs more per day and less in elapsed time.
- 4
Add the days the same way
The delivery window is the base build's published window plus the days in the rate table for everything you added, added up with nothing trimmed off the top. A large scope can therefore show a window past the 30 days at the top of our catalogue range, and the result says so where it does rather than quietly capping the number. The one adjustment is a floor: no phase is scheduled in under 3 days, however small it is.
- 5
Round, then check the ceiling
The total is rounded to the nearest $50. If it lands above $2,500, the calculator does not quote a higher number. It splits the work into phases, each priced inside the $500–$2,500 band and each approved on its own. A final phase whose rates come to less than the $500 minimum project size is priced at $500, which is why the phases can add up to a little more than the scope sum; the result prints both figures and the difference between them.
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Show the market figure beside it
Every result appears next to an independently published cost figure for the same kind of build, named and linked. Stating the consensus number is part of the answer, not an omission from it.
Every rate the calculator applies
| Input | Price | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Each screen or workflow beyond 2 | $120 | +1 day each |
| Each external system connected | $200 | +1–2 days each |
| User accounts, sign-in and roles | $250 | +2–3 days |
| Taking payments | $300 | +2–3 days |
| Compressed schedule | +15% | about 20% fewer days |
Worked example: an admin panel with four screens, one integration and user accounts is $800 base + $240 for two extra screens + $200 for the integration + $250 for accounts = $1,490, rounded to $1,500. The days add up the same way: 8–16 for the base build, +2 for the two extra screens, +1–2 for the integration, +2–3 for accounts, giving 13–23 days. The median advertised price across our 79 published builds is $1,450.
Base prices
The starting price for every build type, and what the market publishes for the same thing
The left columns are PINCLER's own published bands, visible on each project page. The right column is an independently published figure for comparable scope, named and dated.
| Build type | PINCLER published band | Delivery | Independently published market figure |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marketing site or landing page | $500 – $1,000 | 3–7 days | $10,000–$49,999 for a typical project (Clutch, 2026) |
| Multi-page business website | $800 – $2,000 | 7–14 days | $10,000–$49,999 for a typical project (Clutch, 2026) |
| AI chatbot on your website | $800 – $1,800 | 7–14 days | $18,000–$80,000 for an AI-powered chatbot (Cleveroad, 2026) |
| WhatsApp or messaging assistant | $900 – $2,000 | 10–18 days | $18,000–$80,000 for an AI-powered chatbot (Cleveroad, 2026) |
| AI agent that takes actions | $1,200 – $2,500 | 12–20 days | $10,000–$49,999 for a typical project (Clutch, 2026) |
| Workflow automation between apps | $500 – $1,500 | 4–10 days | $10,000–$49,999 for a typical project (Clutch, 2026) |
| Admin panel or back office | $800 – $2,000 | 8–16 days | $75,000–$125,000 for a focused internal tool (AVIBE, 2026) |
| KPI or analytics dashboard | $1,000 – $2,200 | 10–18 days | $75,000–$125,000 for a focused internal tool (AVIBE, 2026) |
| Booking or appointment system | $900 – $2,000 | 10–16 days | $25,000–$60,000 for a single-business booking MVP (LI Solutions, 2026) |
| CRM or customer database | $1,200 – $2,500 | 14–21 days | $75,000–$98,000 for a basic CRM (Purrweb, 2026) |
| Internal business system (HR, clinic, school, gym) | $1,000 – $2,200 | 10–18 days | $75,000–$125,000 for a focused internal tool (AVIBE, 2026) |
| SaaS product MVP | $1,800 – $2,500 | 18–28 days | $30,000–$80,000 for a B2B SaaS platform MVP (Upsilon, 2026) |
| Online shop | $1,500 – $2,500 | 16–26 days | $25,000–$80,000 for a basic MVP (Andersen, 2026) |
| Two-sided marketplace | $1,800 – $2,500 | 20–30 days | $25,000–$80,000 for a basic MVP (Andersen, 2026) |
| Mobile app (iOS and Android) | $1,500 – $2,500 | 18–28 days | $15,000–$50,000 for a simple app, against a $76,000 median for a cross-platform MVP (Netguru, 2026) |
| Integration between two systems | $600 – $1,800 | 5–14 days | $10,000–$49,999 for a typical project (Clutch, 2026) |
| Data pipeline or scraper | $500 – $1,500 | 4–12 days | $10,000–$49,999 for a typical project (Clutch, 2026) |
| Document OCR or data extraction | $1,000 – $2,200 | 10–18 days | $40,000–$120,000 for a simple or MVP-scope build (Keyhole Software, 2026) |
Every row on the left is a live project page with its own scope, technology stack and delivery window. The market column quotes each publisher's own words; the full sentences and links are in the sources list at the foot of this page.
The gap
Why the number is this low, stated plainly
The difference between this calculator and every other one is not scope, not geography and not a discount. It is who writes the first draft.
It is not geography
Accelerance's 2026 global outsourcing rate research, drawn from 60 software development partners worldwide, puts senior developer rates at $31–$41 per hour in Asia, $60–$75 in Latin America and $64–$76 in Central and Eastern Europe. Moving a project offshore moves the hourly rate; it does not remove the hours. A build quoted at 800 hours is still 800 hours at $35 an hour.
It is the production method
AI writes the first draft of the schema, the API, the screens and the test suite in minutes. Senior engineers then review every file, harden the security-sensitive paths and run the tests. The hours that disappear are drafting hours, which is why the price falls by an order of magnitude and the review does not.
The market figure, for context
FullStack Labs' 2026 Software Development Price Guide reports that 65.7% of custom software projects fall between $30,000 and $100,000, and that only 14.1% come in under $30,000 at the time of writing. DesignRush's software development pricing guide puts the average cost of custom software development at $50,000 to $250,000, noting that some projects reach into the millions.
What stays in, at every price
- A senior engineer reviews every file before it ships — AI writes the first draft, a person signs it off
- Automated tests on the core paths, plus a security pass over auth, input handling and secrets
- Deployment into your own cloud and payment accounts, with the source code handed to your GitHub
- Written documentation and a recorded walkthrough, so another developer can pick the work up
Cheap software is usually cheap because someone skipped the review, the tests or the handover. Those are the three things that do not move here — they are the reason a fixed price this low is safe to accept.
First-party data
Every base price traces back to 79 published builds
Median advertised price $1,450, median quoted delivery 13 days, full range 3–30 days. 33 of the 79 carry a quoted window inside two weeks, and all 79 are published at a fixed price inside the band. These are catalogue figures — advertised bands and quoted windows, not a record of delivered work.
| Category | Projects | Median price | Median delivery |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cloud, DevOps & Modernisation | n=3 | $850 | 5 days |
| Websites & Landing Pages | n=4 | $1,025 | 8 days |
| Data, Scraping & Pipelines | n=4 | $1,100 | 9 days |
| Integrations & APIs | n=5 | $1,200 | 10 days |
| AI Content & Productivity Tools | n=4 | $1,300 | 11 days |
| AI Chatbots & Assistants | n=6 | $1,375 | 13 days |
| Dubai Real Estate & Speed-to-Lead | n=10 | $1,450 | 12 days |
| AI Agents & Workflow Automation | n=7 | $1,450 | 13 days |
| E-commerce Solutions | n=4 | $1,525 | 13 days |
| GTM Engineering & Revenue Automation | n=7 | $1,600 | 14 days |
| Dashboards & Analytics | n=3 | $1,600 | 14 days |
| Computer Vision & OCR | n=3 | $1,600 | 14 days |
| Internal Tools & Industry Systems | n=6 | $1,725 | 16 days |
| Mobile Apps | n=5 | $1,850 | 19 days |
| Web Apps & SaaS MVPs | n=8 | $1,925 | 18 days |
Scope
What the price never includes
- Third-party licence and usage fees — model APIs, hosting, SMS, payment processing — billed to your own accounts
- Formal compliance programmes such as SOC 2 or HIPAA certification, and the audits that go with them
- Bespoke brand identity work: logo design, illustration systems, motion design
- Ongoing content production, copywriting beyond the pages in scope, and paid media
- Historical data entry or cleansing beyond one migration pass
- Native platform work outside a React Native or Flutter codebase, such as custom SDKs or hardware drivers
Honesty
When this calculator is the wrong tool
The band suits one core system, standard integrations and a delivery window measured in days. It does not suit a regulated platform that needs a formal compliance programme, a build with data-residency obligations across several jurisdictions, or a roadmap with a year of committed engineering behind it. For those, an agency quoting five or six figures is the correct answer and this page will only mislead you.
It is also the wrong tool if an off-the-shelf product already covers most of what you need. A team that would be served by configuring an existing CRM should configure the existing CRM. We build custom software when the workflow is genuinely yours, not when a subscription would do the job for less.
And it is an estimate, not a quote. It cannot see the state of your data, the quality of the API you need to integrate with, or the decision that has not been made yet. Those come out in a 30-minute call, and the written quote that follows is the number that binds — still capped at $2,500.
Related builds
Three projects priced by exactly this method
Each has a full page with scope, technology stack, delivery window and its own fixed band.
FAQ
Questions about this calculator
How does this software cost calculator work out a price?
It adds published numbers together. The base is the starting price of a real project in PINCLER's catalogue of 79 documented builds, and the calculator then adds $120 per screen or workflow beyond the two the base covers, $200 per external system connected, $250 for accounts and roles, $300 for payments, and 15% for a compressed schedule. The total is rounded to the nearest $50. Every line of that sum is shown on screen.
Is $2,500 really the maximum, and what happens if my project is bigger?
$2,500 is a hard ceiling, not an average. When the inputs add up to more than that, the calculator does not quote a larger figure — it splits the work into phases and prices each one separately inside the $500–$2,500 band. Phase one is a working, deployed system with the source code in your repository; you approve phase two only after phase one is live. The phases are never summed into one larger contract.
Why is this so much lower than other software cost calculators?
The difference is production method, not geography or scope-cutting. Clutch's pricing guide puts a typical custom software project at $10,000–$49,999 with an average of $132,480 over about 13 months, because those teams have a person writing the first draft of every file. PINCLER has AI write the first draft and senior engineers review, test and harden it, which removes most of the hours a traditional quote is built from. The reviewing, testing and hardening stay.
Do I have to give an email address to see the price?
No. The number appears as you move the controls, with no submit step, no email gate and no lead form in front of it. Nothing you enter is sent anywhere — the arithmetic runs in your browser, and the shareable link is just your inputs encoded in the URL. You get the figure and the working that produced it, in one screen, without waiting for a callback.
How accurate is the estimate?
It is an estimate from published arithmetic, not a contract. Across PINCLER's published catalogue of 79 fixed-price builds the median advertised price is $1,450 and the median quoted delivery 13 days, and every entry sits inside the band. A written fixed-price quote follows a free 30-minute call and will not exceed $2,500. Where the call shows the build is simpler than the inputs suggest, the quote goes down rather than up.
What is not included in the price the calculator shows?
Third-party licence and usage fees — model APIs, hosting, SMS, payment processing — are billed to your own accounts, not ours. Formal compliance programmes such as SOC 2 or HIPAA certification, bespoke brand identity work, ongoing content production, and historical data cleansing beyond one migration pass all sit outside the price. Enterprise platforms with heavy compliance or a twelve-month roadmap are not what this band is for.
Sources
Every external figure on this page, in the publisher's own words
Each market figure is reproduced in full here so it can be checked without running the calculator. First-party figures come only from PINCLER's published catalogue.
Clutch — 2026
Clutch's software development pricing guide, updated September 2026, reports that most software development companies listed on the platform charge $24–$49 per hour, that a typical project runs $10,000 to $49,999, and that the average custom software project costs $132,480 and takes about 13 months to deliver.
https://clutch.co/developers/pricingCleveroad — 2026
Cleveroad's chatbot development cost guide, updated January 2026, puts a rule-based bot at $2,000–$15,000, an AI-powered chatbot of medium complexity at $18,000–$80,000, and an enterprise-grade deployment at $50,000–$250,000 and above.
https://www.cleveroad.com/blog/chatbot-development-cost/AVIBE — 2026
AVIBE's 2026 custom software cost guide puts a focused internal tool at $75,000–$125,000 over one to three months, rising to $125,000–$250,000 for a small business application.
https://www.avibeweb.com/blog/how-much-does-custom-software-cost/LI Solutions — 2026
LI Solutions' 2026 booking system cost analysis puts a booking MVP for a single business at $25,000–$60,000 over eight to sixteen weeks, a full booking product at $80,000–$180,000, and a multi-property platform at $120,000–$250,000 and climbing.
https://li.solutions/blog/booking-system-cost-2026/Purrweb — 2026
Purrweb's 2026 custom CRM cost breakdown puts a basic CRM at $75,000–$98,000 over four to six months, a mid-complexity system at $98,000–$140,000, and an enterprise CRM at $140,000–$180,000 and above.
https://www.purrweb.com/blog/crm-development-cost/Upsilon — 2026
Upsilon's 2026 MVP guide puts a B2B SaaS platform MVP at $30,000–$80,000 over three to six months, with MVPs overall spanning $15,000–$120,000 and most startups landing at $20,000–$65,000.
https://www.upsilonit.com/blog/how-to-develop-a-minimum-viable-product-the-ultimate-guideNetguru — 2026
Netguru's mobile app development cost guide, updated August 2026, reports a median cost of $76,000 for a cross-platform MVP across the 200-plus apps it has built, with simple apps at $15,000–$50,000 and complex builds at $150,000–$300,000 and above.
https://www.netguru.com/blog/mobile-app-development-costAndersen — 2026
Andersen's 2026 custom software development cost guide puts a basic MVP at $25,000–$80,000 over two to four months, a moderately complex build at $80,000–$250,000, and an enterprise platform at $250,000–$500,000 and above.
https://andersenlab.com/blueprint/custom-software-development-costs-in-2026Keyhole Software — 2026
Keyhole Software's 2026 custom software pricing benchmarks put a simple or MVP-scope build at $40,000–$120,000 over two to four months, a medium-complexity project at $120,000–$300,000, and a high-complexity build at $300,000 to $1,000,000 and above.
https://keyholesoftware.com/cost-custom-software-development/FullStack Labs — 2026
FullStack Labs' 2026 Software Development Price Guide reports that 65.7% of custom software projects fall between $30,000 and $100,000, and that only 14.1% come in under $30,000 at the time of writing.
https://www.fullstack.com/labs/resources/blog/software-development-price-guide-hourly-rate-comparisonAccelerance — 2026
Accelerance's 2026 global outsourcing rate research, drawn from 60 software development partners worldwide, puts senior developer rates at $31–$41 per hour in Asia, $60–$75 in Latin America and $64–$76 in Central and Eastern Europe.
https://www.accelerance.com/blog/2026-outsourcing-rate-trends-asia-europe-latamDesignRush — 2025
DesignRush's software development pricing guide puts the average cost of custom software development at $50,000 to $250,000, noting that some projects reach into the millions.
https://www.designrush.com/agency/software-development/trends/software-development-costs
12 published sources are cited on this page. Where a figure could not be confirmed on the publisher's own page it has been left out rather than rounded into place, and no market figure here is PINCLER's own estimate of what anyone else charges.
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