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What drives the cost?
The preset includes evaluation and model routing plus accounts / profiles, ai features, payments / subscriptions, admin dashboard. One constrained assistant with a small evaluation set and usage limits.
Compare build options
Public example using the default preset. Get your free estimate above for a breakdown of your selected scope.
| Build option | One-off labor | Recurring budget |
|---|---|---|
| DIY builder | $0 paid labor; your time excluded | $339 + your maintenance time |
| Freelancer | $24,975–$134,063 | $2,499–$5,019/year |
| Agency | $34,688–$168,438 | $3,339–$6,219/year |
| Superapp Pro | You build and review the app | $639/year illustrative budget |
Default preset breakdown and assumptions
- Estimated effort
- 1388–3438 hours
- Delivery effort at 30 productive hours/week
- 46.3–114.6 person-weeks
- Global agency hourly range
- $25–$49
- Global freelancer hourly range
- $18–$39
- Custom design adjustment
- +25% effort (planning assumption)
- Hosting / platform
- $240/year
- Maintenance labor
- $3,000–$5,880/year
- Additional services
- $0/year
- Apple membership
- $99/year
Hours include implementation and testing, not a delivery guarantee. Website scope starts at 12–140 hours plus 2–5 hours for each additional page. App scope starts at 400–5,000 hours depending on complexity. Selected features add the effort below. Annual domain and hosting budgets are placeholders, not provider quotes.
Selected feature assumptions
Incremental engineering hours used by this calculator.
| Feature | Hours |
|---|---|
| Accounts / profiles | 40–80 |
| AI features | 80–200 |
| Payments / subscriptions | 40–100 |
| Admin dashboard | 60–140 |
| Evaluation and model routing | 90–230 |
Evaluation and model routing
Evaluation datasets, model routing, response monitoring, and failure handling need engineering beyond calling a model. Start with one task and define what a useful answer looks like before adding agents.
How should I budget model usage
Token, image, audio, and retrieval usage depend on traffic and input size. Treat provider bills as operating expenses and test representative requests before forecasting annual extras.
A cheaper way to start with Superapp
Build a focused version yourself before commissioning a full custom project. Superapp Pro is $25 a month; the subscription covers its plan allowance, while your time, extra usage, integrations, hosting, and specialist work remain part of the budget. A Superapp site is an alternative implementation, not a guarantee of WordPress or Shopify compatibility.
Compare Superapp plansSources and methodology
Rates are global marketplace benchmarks, not US-only agency quotes. Freelancer and agency ranges overlap because they describe different samples. WordPress.com Personal and Shopify Basic use annual billing, exclude introductory promotions and taxes, and replace the hosting budget. Feature hours and recurring budgets are our explicit planning assumptions.