Transparent, flexible pricingfor growth-focused founders

Founders deserve clarity, not surprises. Manystack offers simple, milestone-based pricing for building your product, with clear ongoing plans once it is live. All packages are customizable to your idea, team size, ambition, and location.

Most of our clients are based in the US or Western Europe, but we're open to working with anyone, anywhere, and adapt our process to fit your timezone and workflow.

Project-based builds — fixed scope

These are one-off, milestone-based projects that take you from idea to a working product. You choose how far you want to go: Prototype, MVP, Full Product, or Custom and Legacy.

Full Product
Production-grade build with scale in mind

AI-Enhanced

$27,000–$50,000

AI-First

$35,000–$70,000+

Typical Length:

12–16+ weeks

Clickable Prototype
Pitch, showcase, pre-seed demo

AI-Enhanced

$3,000–$6,000

AI-First

$5,000–$9,000

Typical Length:

2–3 weeks

MVP
User-ready launch and feedback cycle

AI-Enhanced

$12,000–$20,000

AI-First

$17,000–$28,000

Typical Length:

6–8 weeks

Custom & Legacy
Unique, complex, or enterprise needs

AI-Enhanced

Starting at $10,000

AI-First

Quote on request

Typical Length:

Estimated after discovery

The lower ends of the ranges fit focused builds with fewer user types and simpler flows. Higher ranges reflect greater complexity, deeper integrations, and higher stakes for your business.

What's included in every project

  • End-to-end product thinking, UX, and system architecture
  • Fully documented, production-grade code built for long-term ownership and change. Our default stack includes Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind, Vercel, and Expo
  • AI features, workflow automation, or full AI-first UX, depending on what the product needs
  • Regular milestone demos and written updates, shared via email, Slack, or Linear
  • Async-first collaboration designed to work cleanly across time zones

Project pricing is fixed per milestone. If goals change, we pause, realign, and re-scope. There are no retroactive surprises.

All tiers are available as AI-enhanced or AI-first. We help you choose what fits your users and market.
If you'd like a clearer picture of what we mean by AI-enhanced, AI-first, and AI-assisted, you'll find a short explanation behind each link.

Ongoing partnership — retainers

Once your app is live, you can keep Manystack in your corner with a monthly retainer. We stay close to the product so decisions, fixes, and experiments don't drift or get lost. This is where we handle maintenance, improvements, and, if you want, act as an embedded part of your team.

We keep it simple: Basic – Keep it running and evolving. Growth – Hands-on product partner. Premium – Embedded product and tech team.

Capacity-Bound

Premium

Embedded product and tech team

$50,000+ / month

Embedded team, strategy, new features, training your hires, reserved capacity and access

Basic

Keep it running and evolving

$5,000–$7,000 / month

Bug fixes, security updates, scoped small features

Growth

Hands-on product partner

$7,000–$15,000 / month

Everything in Basic, plus UX refinements, AI or feature experiments, light roadmap support

What each level means

Premium - "Embedded product and tech team"

  • Everything in Growth
  • Deep involvement in roadmap decisions and prioritization
  • Training and onboarding for new hires to understand the product and key workflows
  • A model where internal developers gradually take over routine maintenance, while Manystack continues to lead complex or new features
  • Reserved weekly capacity and high-touch collaboration during business hours
  • Best for companies where the app is central to the business and Manystack operates as an integrated product and engineering team

Basic - "Keep it running and evolving"

  • Bug fixes and incident response within agreed boundaries
  • Security and dependency updates
  • Scoped improvements and small features on a predictable monthly budget
  • Best for stable products that mainly need reliability and a steady stream of changes

Growth - "Hands-on product partner"

  • Everything in Basic
  • A defined monthly capacity for UX improvements and AI or product experiments
  • Regular product health reviews, written summaries or calls, to look at usage and propose next steps
  • Best for teams actively iterating on product-market fit and growth
Premium retainers are capacity-bound. We only support a small number of these partnerships at once. If you are considering this level, ask about availability early.

These ranges reflect typical maintenance and evolution costs for serious apps and scale with how much surface area and responsibility you want your dev partner to cover.

Custom offers, legacy systems, or unusual setups

If you have legacy systems, special compliance requirements, or a setup that doesn't fit cleanly into a package, we can create a tailored proposal. Use the ranges above as orientation, and we'll shape a project or retainer that fits.

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