SaaS pricing · built in Lucknow, India
SaaS development cost in 2026: what a platform costs, built in India
A SaaS first version from us costs $5,000–$10,000: sign-up, one core workflow, Stripe subscriptions and an admin console.
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- First version $5,000–$10,000; multi-tenant v1 $10,000–$15,000
- 8 to 16 weeks, fixed price once the scope is agreed
- Running costs itemized from the vendors' own pages
- Code, IP and every account in your company's name
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Step 1: Send the brief
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Step 2: Questions back within 2 working hours (IST)
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Step 3: A free written quote within 24 hours
Scope, timeline and a fixed USD price, with what is excluded spelled out.
Step 4: You decide, no obligation
The price stays fixed once the scope is agreed. Projects are paid in US dollars, 40% at the start, 40% at a mid-project milestone and 20% at launch, by direct bank transfer to our USD account.
Overview
A multi-tenant v1, where each customer company gets its own workspace, roles, plan and audit log, costs $10,000–$15,000. Both are fixed USD prices from Codingclave's founder-led team in Lucknow, India. Below: what each building block adds in weeks, what the platform costs to run each month, and where an India-built SaaS sits against published US and offshore rates.
By Ashish Sharma, founder · Updated October 25, 2026
Quick answer
What does a SaaS platform cost to build and to run in 2026?
Our build prices are $5,000–$10,000 for a single-workspace first version and $10,000–$15,000 for a multi-tenant v1, delivered in 8–16 weeks. Published agency guides start higher: Rorix Technologies puts a SaaS MVP at $40,000 to $120,000 and NUS Technology a simple MVP at $15,000–$40,000 (both read on October 25, 2026). Running it starts near $45 a month on paid hosting and database plans, plus Stripe's share of every subscription charge.
- SaaS first version: $5,000–$10,000, 8–12 weeks
- Multi-tenant SaaS v1: $10,000–$15,000, 12–16 weeks
- Stripe takes 2.9% + 30¢ per US card charge, plus 0.7% for Billing
- Enterprise SSO and data residency are quoted separately
- Code, IP and accounts are yours on final payment
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Two first versions, and how to choose between them
Almost every SaaS starts in one of two shapes. The difference is not size but who the customer is: a person who signs up alone, or a company that brings its team.
| What you get | SaaS first version | Multi-tenant SaaS v1 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $5,000–$10,000 | $10,000–$15,000 |
| Build weeks | 8–12 | 12–16 |
| Who signs up | Individuals, or one company using it internally | Companies that invite their own teammates |
| Accounts | One login per customer | Workspaces with owner, admin and member roles |
| Billing | Stripe subscriptions on one or two plans, with a free trial | Plans per workspace, seat or tier pricing, upgrades, downgrades and invoices |
| Admin console | Customer list, plan status, refunds through Stripe | The same, plus usage per workspace and a support view of any workspace |
| Audit log | Not included | Who changed what, kept per workspace |
| Onboarding | Sign-up and a welcome email | Invitations, a setup checklist and sample data |
If your buyer is a company and more than one of its people will log in, choose the multi-tenant version now. Adding workspaces to a single-user data model later touches nearly every table and query, which turns the retrofit into a project of its own.
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What each SaaS building block adds, in weeks
These are our typical added times for each block, already inside the tier weeks above. They are planning estimates, not separate prices, and some blocks are cheaper to buy than to build.
| Block | Typical time | Build or buy |
|---|---|---|
| Sign-up, sign-in, password reset, Google sign-in | About 1 week | Supabase Auth or Clerk, free up to 50,000 monthly retained users per app on its Hobby plan, saves most of it |
| Roles and permissions | 1–2 weeks | Owner, admin and member are standard; roles that each customer defines take longer |
| Workspaces (multi-tenancy) | 2–3 weeks | Built, never bought: a tenant id on every row, enforced by the database |
| Subscriptions on Stripe Billing | 1–2 weeks | Stripe hosts checkout and the customer portal; webhooks keep access in step with payment status |
| Admin console | 1–2 weeks | Customer search, plan changes, refunds and a support view |
| Audit log | About 1 week | An append-only record of who did what, shown per workspace |
| Email and in-app notifications | Under 1 week | Sent through Resend or a similar service |
| Public API and webhooks | 2–3 weeks | API keys per workspace, rate limits and documentation |
| Enterprise single sign-on (SAML) | 1–2 weeks with a provider | Clerk's pricing page lists one SSO connection per app and $75 a month for each extra one |
Usage-based pricing (per message, per seat-hour or per API call) adds metering on top: a usage table, a nightly roll-up and meter events sent to Stripe. PayPerWA, one of our own products, bills this way from a prepaid wallet.
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Three ways to keep customers’ data apart
How tenants are separated is the decision that is hardest to change later, so it belongs in the first conversation, before any screen is drawn.
Shared tables with a tenant id
Every row carries the workspace it belongs to, and Postgres row-level security filters out every row that belongs to another workspace. It is the cheapest model to build and to run, and it suits nearly every first version. The risk is a single missing filter, which is why the rule lives in the database and has its own automated tests.
A schema per tenant
Each customer gets its own set of tables inside one database. Isolation is easier to show an auditor, but every migration runs once per tenant, so releases slow down as the customer list grows. It fits when a contract asks for logical separation by name.
A database per tenant
Each customer gets a database of its own, sometimes in its own region. It answers data-residency and large-enterprise demands, and it multiplies backups, monitoring and hosting by the number of tenants. Build it when a signed customer needs it, not before.
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What a SaaS costs to run each month
Prices below were read on each vendor's page on October 25, 2026, for a common stack: a Next.js app on Vercel, Postgres and sign-in on Supabase, email through Resend and error tracking on Sentry. The right-hand column assumes 120 customers paying $99 a month with US cards.
| Line item | At launch | 120 customers on a $99 plan |
|---|---|---|
| Hosting: Vercel Pro | $20 | $20, plus any usage beyond the included $20 credit |
| Database and sign-in: Supabase Pro | $25 | $25, plus compute if you outgrow the included Micro instance |
| Email: Resend | $0 (3,000 emails a month) | $20 on Pro (50,000 emails) |
| Error tracking: Sentry | $0 on the one-user Developer plan | $29 on Team, billed monthly |
| Card fees: Stripe, 2.9% + 30¢ per charge | A few dollars | $380.52 on $11,880 of charges |
| Stripe Billing, 0.7% of Billing volume | Cents | $83.16 |
| Total before AI usage | About $45 | About $558, or 4.7% of revenue |
Once customers pay, Stripe is the largest line: card fees plus Billing come to about 3.9% of revenue at 120 customers in this example, and international cards add another 1.5%. AI features bring a line of their own: 120 customers each running 300 requests a month, at 1,500 tokens in and 400 out on a model listed at $2 and $10 per million tokens (OpenAI gpt-6.1-sol), comes to $108 of input plus $144 of output, or $252 a month.
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What team location does to a SaaS quote
Every guide we read lists team location among the biggest drivers of a SaaS budget. Each rate below is the publisher's own figure, read on October 25, 2026.
Agency rates by region
Rorix Technologies lists $55 to $250+ an hour for North America, $30 to $130 for Eastern Europe and for Latin America, and $20 to $85 for India and South Asia. NUS Technology puts US and EU agencies at $80–$180 an hour and Vietnam and Southeast Asia at $25–$50.
Freelance marketplace rates
On Upwork, Indian app developers cost $18–$39 an hour. A marketplace rate buys one person's time; scoping, design review, testing and a second developer when the work needs one are yours to arrange.
The same hours, priced in two places
A scope that takes 1,000 hours comes to $180,000 at the top of the US and EU agency range NUS Technology publishes, and $25,000 at the bottom of its Southeast Asia range. That arithmetic, more than any feature list, is why quotes for one product can differ seven-fold.
Where we sit
We don't sell hours. The two tiers above are fixed prices for a written scope, so a slow week is our problem and not a line on your invoice.
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Costs a SaaS build quote usually leaves out
These sit outside any developer's price, ours included. Knowing them early stops a launch from stalling on paperwork.
Terms of service and a privacy policy
Written or reviewed by a lawyer who knows your market. Templates are a start, but the documents bind you to how the product handles data, so they should match what was built.
Sales tax on subscriptions
US states treat SaaS differently, and some tax it. Registering and collecting is your company's job; Stripe sells tax automation that plugs into the billing we set up, and your accountant decides whether you need it at launch.
Security reviews from enterprise buyers
Larger customers may send a security questionnaire or ask for a SOC 2 report. That audit is between your company and an auditor; Rorix Technologies puts readiness and audit at $10,000 to $150,000. Plan for it only when a deal depends on it.
Moving existing data
Customers arriving from spreadsheets or another tool expect their records to come with them. Imports are quoted per source once a sample file has been checked.
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A US tax point to raise with your accountant
Software development counts as research spending under Sections 174 and 174A of the tax code, according to Baker Tilly's summary of the 2025 tax law (July 18, 2025). Domestic research costs can be deducted right away again, from 2025, but foreign research must still be capitalized and amortized over 15 years. Development done by a team in India may fall on the foreign side for your company, which changes the after-tax comparison with a US team. We are not tax advisers: ask your accountant how this applies to you, ideally before you sign with anyone.
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Still testing demand? Start smaller
The tiers on this page assume people will pay and you know what for. If that is still the open question, a lean MVP at $2,500–$5,000 tests one workflow in 6–8 weeks, and MVP development cost covers when a builder such as Lovable or Bubble is enough with no developer at all. A SaaS first version can later reuse that code, provided it was written to be kept.
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SaaS products we built
These are our own products, not client projects, and we don't name US clients on this page. Between them they cover most of what a SaaS first version needs.
PayPerWA: usage billing from a prepaid wallet
PayPerWA, the WhatsApp Business API platform we operate, charges per message from a prepaid wallet, refunds failed sends automatically, and offers a REST API with webhooks and a shared team inbox.
Multi-tenant hotel software
Our multi-tenant hotel management software runs many hotels from one super-admin console. Each hotel has isolated data, its own users, plan, billing and branded login, with role-based access and audit logs.
Society management software
Built for housing societies, our society management software runs recurring maintenance bills with reminders and online payment, complaint tracking, visitor logs and a resident mobile app.
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Owning the platform: code, accounts and handover
Accounts in your name from day one
Stripe, hosting, the database, the domain and email sending are opened by your company and shared with us, so nothing needs transferring at the end and no account of yours depends on ours.
Code and IP
All source code and IP pass to you on final payment. No license fee or platform charge from us follows it.
A handover another team can pick up
You get the repository, a list of environment variables, deployment notes, the database schema and every admin login, so any developer can carry on without needing us.
Care after launch, if you want it
Store & App Care, $300 a month, is optional for web apps once they are live, billed month to month. Without it, the code and the handover notes are enough for your own developer.
Prices in US dollars
SaaS build prices in US dollars
Both tiers are fixed once the scope is agreed. The running costs in the table above are separate and billed by each vendor to your own accounts.
SaaS first version
$5,000 – $10,000
In US dollarsSaaS first version: sign-up, one core workflow, Stripe subscriptions, admin · Typical timeline: 8–12 weeks
Sign-up and sign-in, one core workflow, Stripe subscriptions on one or two plans with a trial, transactional email and an admin console.
Get a quote for this planMulti-tenant SaaS v1
$10,000 – $15,000
In US dollarsMulti-tenant SaaS v1: workspaces, roles, plans and billing, audit log, onboarding · Typical timeline: 12–16 weeks
Workspaces with owner, admin and member roles, plans and billing per workspace, invitations, an audit log and onboarding, with tenant isolation enforced in the database.
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Also available
Enterprise features (SSO, audit-log exports, data residency)
SAML single sign-on, exportable audit logs, and a database per customer or per region, priced when a customer asks for them.
Billing or workspaces added to an existing SaaS
Stripe Billing, seats or workspaces added to a product already in use, with a migration plan for current customers.
Rebuilding a no-code SaaS in code
A Bubble, Lovable or Base44 product rebuilt on a coded stack, with users and data moved across.
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Project prices are our international USD price list, the same figures as on our service pages; the tier prices inside each band were set in October 2026. You get one fixed USD price once the scope is agreed. Projects are paid in US dollars, 40% at the start, 40% at a mid-project milestone and 20% at launch, by direct bank transfer to our USD account. Invoices come from Codingclave Development LLP in India, in US dollars, with no Indian GST added. Ask your accountant about any US tax on services bought from abroad.
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What happens next
Send the brief
Use the form, email hello@codingclave.com or WhatsApp. A few lines and any links are enough to start.
Questions back within 2 working hours (IST)
Usually by email. A video call only if you ask for one, at a time we agree in writing.
A free written quote within 24 hours
Scope, timeline and a fixed USD price, with what is excluded spelled out.
You decide, no obligation
The price stays fixed once the scope is agreed. Projects are paid in US dollars, 40% at the start, 40% at a mid-project milestone and 20% at launch, by direct bank transfer to our USD account.
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How we put this page together
Every price and rate on this page was read on its publisher's own page on October 25, 2026: Rorix Technologies, NUS Technology, Classic Informatics, Upwork, Stripe, Vercel, Supabase, Resend, Sentry, Clerk, OpenAI and Baker Tilly. The running-cost and AI totals are our arithmetic from those prices, and the weeks per building block are our estimates. Drafted with AI help and reviewed by Ashish Sharma before publication. Both SaaS tiers were set by us in October 2026 and sit within our published custom software band of $2,500–$15,000.
Sources (12)· public sources cited on this page
- Rorix Technologies: SaaS development cost, 2026 pricing guide (October 14, 2026)
- NUS Technology: Cost to build a SaaS platform in 2026 (March 21, 2026)
- Classic Informatics: SaaS development costs, what you will actually pay in 2026
- Upwork: Indian app developer hourly rates
- Stripe pricing (United States), including Billing
- Vercel pricing
- Supabase pricing
- Resend pricing
- Sentry pricing
- Clerk pricing
- OpenAI API pricing
- Baker Tilly: Domestic research expenditures and Section 174 under the OBBBA (July 18, 2025)