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How much does it cost to build a Flutter app?

This Flutter app planning estimate starts at $37,500–$181,300 for an agency build for the preset below. Budget another $3,339–$6,219 a year for the recurring costs shown. Adjust the scope and compare DIY, freelancer, agency, and Superapp costs; these are model estimates, not quotes.

USD · Last updated November 5, 2026

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App platform
Complexity
Custom design
Who builds it?
Features
Yearly running costs view
Custom hosting budget / year
Maintenance hours / year
Other services / year

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What drives the cost?

The preset includes flutter plugins and platform bridges plus accounts / profiles, payments / subscriptions, external integrations, notifications. Shared core screens with a small, verified plugin set on iOS and Android.

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Build optionOne-off laborRecurring budget
DIY builder$0 paid labor; your time excluded$339 + your maintenance time
Freelancer$27,000–$144,300$2,499–$5,019/year
Agency$37,500–$181,300$3,339–$6,219/year
Superapp ProYou build and review the app$639/year illustrative budget

Default preset breakdown and assumptions

Estimated effort
1500–3700 hours
Delivery effort at 30 productive hours/week
50.0–123.3 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.

Selected feature assumptions
FeatureHours
Accounts / profiles40–80
Payments / subscriptions40–100
External integrations60–160
Notifications20–50
Flutter plugins and platform bridges240–570

Flutter plugins and platform bridges

Shared UI reduces duplicated implementation, but plugins, permissions, payments, and OS upgrades still need platform testing. Missing plugin behavior can require native bridge code.

Is Flutter output a Superapp feature

This is a market development estimate, not a promise that Superapp exports Flutter. Compare a focused iOS or web implementation in Superapp with a separately commissioned Flutter build.

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.

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Sources 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.

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