MVP development for startups, from $5,800 in 14 days
A first version you can put in front of users while the idea is still cheap to change: the one thing a user comes to do, a sign-in, an admin for you, deployed and in your repository. Fixed price against a written scope, and nothing in it you will have to pay to remove later. If AI is the product, that is a different build.
$5,800 in 14 days for the fixed scope · around $8,000 in 2–3 weeks for more · you own the code from day one
Which MVP are you building?
The same three letters cover a $5,800 product and a $120,000 one. One question each decides which page you belong on.
A first version, without AI
Is the question whether people will use it? Then the cheapest honest test is one flow, built properly, in front of real users. That is this page: the 14-day MVP or the standard one.
From $5,800 →AI is the product
Does it only work if a model answers correctly? Then the data and the evaluation come before the screens, and the build is an AI MVP: $40,000–$120,000 over 8–12 weeks.
AI MVP development →A product sold to many companies
Will each customer be a company with its own users, data and subscription? Then tenancy belongs in the schema before the first feature: SaaS development, $40,000–$90,000.
SaaS development →Building it for your own business rather than for users? That is usually a custom CRM or an internal tool, $7,000–$12,000.
Two ways to build an MVP without AI
A fixed scope at a fixed price, or a broader first version quoted against yours.
| The 14-day MVP | MVP without AI | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $5,800 | Around $8,000 |
| Time | 14 days | 2–3 weeks |
| Scope | One main user flow, email sign-in, a simple admin, deployment | Written after the call: more than one flow, payments or an integration with another system |
| Not included | AI, payments, external integrations | AI, and accounts for many companies |
| Code | In your repository from day one | In your repository from day one |
The 14-day MVP is a standing offer rather than a sale: there is no deadline and no limited number of places. Anything beyond its scope is quoted as the standard MVP.
What is in the 14-day MVP
Four things, done properly, and three left out on purpose.
One main user flow
The thing a user comes to do — book, order, submit, track, compare — from the first screen to the result, built to be used rather than demonstrated.
Email sign-in
Accounts a real user creates with their email and signs in to, so the people testing your idea are people you can write to.
A simple admin
A screen for you to see and manage what users create, so you are not asking an engineer to query the database every time you want to know how it is going.
Deployed, in your repository
Live on the internet where you choose, with the code in your repository from the first day. The next version can be built by us, by your own engineer or by anyone else.
Left out on purpose
AI, payments and integrations with external systems. Each one adds its own failure modes and its own week, and none of them is needed to learn whether people want the flow.
When you need them
Payments or an integration move the build into the standard MVP, around $8,000. AI added to the running product later is AI integration, $15,000–$30,000.
How our MVP development services run
Short because the scope is small, not because steps are skipped.
A free 30-minute call
Who the user is, the one thing they come to do, and how you will know whether they want it.
A written scope and a fixed price
Inside 48 hours of the call: which offer fits, what is in it, and what is deliberately out.
The data model first
The records and the rules the database enforces, because they are the part that is expensive to change once users exist.
The flow, sign-in and admin
Built in your repository, so you can see every change as it lands.
Deployment
Live where you choose, ready for the first users.
What comes next
The next version with us, with your own engineer, or with a fractional CTO watching whoever builds it.
How much does MVP development cost?
From $5,800 to $120,000, and what moves a build up the ladder. It is not the number of screens.
A second flow, payments or an integration take a build from the 14-day MVP to the standard one, around $8,000 over 2–3 weeks. Each adds states the product has to survive: a payment that succeeds after the user has left, a partner system that is down when you call it.
Many companies as customers take it to a multi-tenant SaaS, $40,000–$90,000, because every query, role and invoice has to know whose data it is from the first table. How that decision is made in a live product is in multi-tenant architecture: lessons from a live SaaS.
AI at the core takes it to an AI MVP, $40,000–$120,000 over 8–12 weeks, because the data audit and the evaluation have to come before the product around the model. Where that money goes is written up separately.
What does not move the price much is the number of screens. What does is the number of rules the data has to obey — the kind of rule that is cheapest in the database, like refusing a double booking with a constraint rather than with application code.
Every band we publish · AI MVP development · SaaS development
What we have built from an empty repository
None of these is a 14-day MVP. They are why we know what to leave out of one.
ArendaOS
Our own multi-tenant SaaS for rental fleets, taken from an empty repository to a deployed system with tenancy in the schema before the first feature. The product you can open and check.
Read the case →One CRM, copied into three businesses
Built for one of our own local businesses, then copied file for file into two more: sign-in, roles, a website intake that never loses a lead, and the team chat as the manager’s screen.
Read the case →Metarun
A Web3 mobile runner built by six engineers in four months, which peaked at 39,000 concurrent players during an event. A larger build, and the same habit of deciding the hard part first.
Read the case →Common questions
What founders ask before the first call.
What is the one thing your user comes to do?
Tell us that, and who the user is. We will say which MVP it is — or that it is not an MVP yet — and put a fixed scope and price in writing within 48 hours of the call.
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