Estimate your SaaS budget and timeline in 4 steps — type, stage, features, scale & complexity. Figures reflect competitive Ukrainian senior engineering rates. No email required.
What kind of SaaS product are you building? Base estimates assume MVP stage — competitive Ukrainian senior engineering rates.
Based on competitive Ukrainian senior engineering rates. Ranges reflect real project variance. Book a call for a fixed-scope written quote.
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A B2B SaaS MVP — covering authentication, team accounts, subscription billing, a core feature set, and a basic dashboard — built by a senior Ukrainian team typically costs $10,000–$22,000 and takes 10–16 weeks. Moving to a full production release with integrations, advanced RBAC, analytics, and solid QA brings the range to $25,000–$45,000. Enterprise-grade B2B SaaS with SSO, audit logs, and SOC 2 readiness runs $60,000–$120,000+.
B2C SaaS tends to be slightly cheaper than B2B at equivalent scope because it skips team/workspace features, but compensates with higher volume infrastructure. A B2C MVP costs $8,000–$18,000; a production release $20,000–$40,000. Consumer apps typically invest more in onboarding UX, notification systems, and analytics to optimise retention — which adds to the timeline and cost.
Two-sided marketplaces are among the most complex SaaS products — you need dual onboarding, trust/review systems, a payments layer (with splits and payouts), and often search/discovery. A marketplace MVP typically costs $15,000–$30,000 and takes 12–20 weeks. A production marketplace with dispute resolution, advanced search, and mobile apps runs $40,000–$90,000+.
The cheapest approach is a narrowly scoped MVP with a Ukrainian senior team: fix the scope ruthlessly (one user type, one core workflow, no admin panel), defer billing until you have users, and use managed services (Supabase, Render, Stripe) to avoid custom infrastructure. This can get a validatable SaaS to $8,000–$14,000. Avoid agencies that charge for discovery phases, design sprints, and project management overhead separately.
A SaaS prototype takes 4–8 weeks, an MVP 8–16 weeks, and a full production-ready platform 16–28 weeks. These timelines assume a dedicated senior team, a clear spec before development starts, and weekly demos. Adding enterprise features (SSO, audit logs, compliance) or high-scale infrastructure (Kubernetes, event-driven microservices) extends timelines to 32–60 weeks.
Ukrainian senior engineering studios are typically 2–3× cheaper than equivalent Western European or US agencies. A typical SaaS MVP engagement runs $10,000–$20,000 — the same scope would cost $22,000–$45,000 in Germany or $28,000–$60,000 in the US.
At MVP stage a SaaS needs: (1) authentication — email/password plus optional social login; (2) basic subscription billing — even a single paid tier with Stripe; (3) the one core feature that solves the problem you're selling; (4) a minimal dashboard the user can navigate; (5) CI/CD and basic error monitoring so you can ship fixes fast. Everything else — teams, SSO, advanced analytics, integrations — can wait until you have paying users who ask for it.
Break your idea into user types, core workflows, and must-have integrations. For each workflow, estimate the screens (frontend effort) and API endpoints (backend effort). Add 20% for auth/billing infrastructure, 15% for QA and deployment, and 10% for project management. Then multiply total hours by your team's hourly rate. The SaaS Cost Calculator above automates this — pick your type, stage, features, and scale to get an instant ballpark.
A focused B2B SaaS MVP typically runs $30,000–$70,000. A production platform with billing, roles, analytics and integrations lands around $70,000–$180,000, and enterprise SaaS with compliance requirements goes beyond $200,000. The calculator above narrows that to a range for your specific configuration in about a minute.
Five things dominate: how many user roles and permission rules exist, whether billing is subscription-only or usage-metered, how many third-party systems you integrate, whether the data model is single- or multi-tenant, and the compliance bar. Design polish and animation matter far less than founders expect.
The work is delivered by senior engineers in Ukraine. Senior rates there sit near $45–65/hour against $150–250/hour in the US and Western Europe for comparable seniority. The estimate is the same scope of work at a different labour rate — not a smaller scope or a more junior team.
It is a scoping range, not a quote. It is built from the effort our own delivered SaaS projects actually took, so it is usually within about 20% of the final fixed-scope figure. Anything unusual — a legacy migration, an exotic integration, a regulated data model — needs a conversation before the number means anything.
Discovery and architecture, UI and UX design, frontend and backend build, the automated test suite, CI/CD and deployment, and handover documentation. Excluded are your third-party running costs — hosting, model APIs, email and payment fees — which are billed to your own accounts and priced the same worldwide.
No. The calculator runs entirely in your browser and shows the full breakdown without any contact details. Send it to us only if you want it turned into a written fixed-scope proposal.