Agency Project Quote Calculator

Project Quote Calculator: A Credible Estimate Before the Sales Call

Asking what a website costs produces answers ranging from a few hundred to six figures, all of them technically true. The range is that wide because "website" describes a brochure page and a booking platform equally.

This calculator narrows it by asking the questions that actually determine cost, then returning a range and a timeline you can plan around — no call required.

Seven Project Types

Website · Web App · E-commerce · Mobile App · SaaS MVP · Automation / Integration · Branding / UI-UX

This first choice does most of the work. A web app and a website differ by the presence of user accounts, data, and application logic — the difference between pages that display content and software that does things. That distinction, more than page count, sets the floor on cost.

Scope, Modules, Design, Options

Scope size — small, medium, large, or enterprise — sets the overall shape.

Key modules and features is where the real cost lives. Payments, user accounts, dashboards, third-party integrations, and admin tooling each carry their own build and testing effort.

Design level offers template, custom, or premium. Templates are quick and constrained; custom design means original work; premium means bespoke design system, motion, and detail. This single choice can move a total substantially, which is worth knowing before you assume design is the cheap part.

Options cover ongoing support and maintenance, and a rush timeline with its premium — because compressing a schedule means more people working in parallel, and that costs more than the same work spread over a sensible period.

What You Get

A cost range, a timeline, and a scope summary listing what the estimate assumes. Download it as a PDF.

The scope summary is the part worth keeping. When you speak to an agency, handing over a written list of what you assumed is included prevents the most common source of dispute — where the client assumed a feature was in scope and nobody wrote it down.

A Realistic Example: A Founder With a Board Meeting

A founder needs to tell her board what building the MVP will cost. She has a feature list and no engineering background.

She selects SaaS MVP, sets scope to medium, ticks the modules she needs — accounts, payments, a dashboard, and two integrations — and chooses custom design without the rush premium.

She gets a range, a timeline in weeks, and a scope summary. The PDF goes into her board pack.

Two useful things happen. The board sees a defensible figure instead of a guess. And when she later approaches development partners, she can tell immediately whether a quote is roughly aligned with the market or wildly outside it — which is a strong position to negotiate from.

Why Rush Timelines Cost More

Because you cannot compress software delivery by working faster. You compress it by adding people, which adds coordination, and by running tasks in parallel that would ordinarily be sequential, which adds rework.

If your deadline is genuinely fixed, price that in from the start. If it is aspirational, the standard timeline usually produces a better result for less money.

Who Uses It

Founders sizing a build. Marketing managers scoping a website rebuild. Operations leads pricing an internal tool. Agencies producing fast ballpark figures. For narrower estimates, the Mobile App Cost Calculator and Website Cost Calculator go deeper. Our SaaS product development service delivers projects like these — the Seotly case study walks through a full platform build end to end.

Scope Your Project Now

A number you can defend beats a number you guessed. Set your project type and modules above and take a range, a timeline, and a written scope into your next conversation.