How much does it cost to build an app?
Honest, planning-grade cost ranges by app type — what drives the price, a feature-by-feature breakdown, and a calculator that gives you a real number in under a minute. Fixed price, you own the code.
Cost guides by app type
MVP
$5,000 – $15,000
An MVP is the smallest version of your product that proves the core idea with real users. The goal is to spend the least you can to learn the most — so the cost conversation is really a scope conversation.
View cost guideFinTech app
$15,000 – $60,000
FinTech is where architecture decisions carry real money and real risk. The cost of a FinTech build is dominated by the parts users never see: security, compliance, reconciliation, and the payment rails underneath.
View cost guideeCommerce app
$8,000 – $40,000
An eCommerce app is only as good as its conversion rate and load time. The cost is driven by how much of the store is off-the-shelf versus custom, and by everything that happens after checkout — fulfillment, inventory, and support.
View cost guideSaaS platform
$12,000 – $50,000
SaaS is a long game — you are building a product you will run and grow for years. The initial cost is driven by the foundations: accounts, tenancy, billing, and permissions, which everything else is built on.
View cost guideHealthcare app
$15,000 – $55,000
Healthcare apps handle sensitive data and real clinical workflows, so the cost is dominated by privacy, reliability, and the integrations that connect your app to how care actually gets delivered.
View cost guideMarketplace app
$12,000 – $50,000
A marketplace is really two products that have to launch together — one for supply, one for demand — plus the payments and trust layer in the middle. That is what shapes the cost.
View cost guideSocial media app
$10,000 – $45,000
Social apps live or die on feel — fast feeds, instant messaging, and content that loads without a beat. The cost reflects the real-time infrastructure and media handling under that experience.
View cost guideAI app
$10,000 – $50,000
The model is the easy part — the cost of an AI app is in the retrieval, the guardrails, the evaluation, and the product that makes the intelligence useful and trustworthy.
View cost guidemobile app
$5,000 – $50,000
"How much does an app cost" has no single answer because "an app" ranges from a one-screen MVP to a multi-platform product with payments, chat, and AI. The honest answer is a scope conversation — here is how to think about it.
View cost guidereal estate app
$10,000 – $45,000
Real estate apps live on search, maps, and trust. The cost is shaped by how rich the listing and discovery experience is, and by the operations tooling behind it — agents, tenants, and property managers each need their own flows.
View cost guidefitness app
$8,000 – $35,000
Fitness apps win on habit — fast tracking, content that keeps people coming back, and progress they can feel. The cost reflects the tracking, content, and integrations behind that experience.
View cost guiderestaurant app
$8,000 – $35,000
A restaurant app is really an ordering and fulfillment engine with a menu on top. The cost is shaped by how far you go past the menu — payments, delivery, tracking, and connecting to the kitchen or POS.
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