What AI development costs with us
We publish our prices because you shouldn’t need three calls to find out whether we fit your budget.
A Venzpire engagement starts with a $1,500 fixed-fee discovery sprint. AI MVPs start at $5,000 (4–8 weeks), production AI products and agents start at $15,000 (8–16 weeks), and ongoing product partnerships start at $4,000 per month. Every build is quoted at a fixed price after discovery.
Discovery sprint
$1,500 fixed fee
1–2 weeks · credited to your build
- Product and user workshop with Venktesh
- AI feasibility, accuracy and cost-per-user model
- Clickable prototype of the core flows
- Architecture and fixed-scope quote
AI MVP
Most popularfrom $5,000
4–8 weeks · most clients start here
- Launch-ready web or mobile product
- LLM features grounded in your data
- Auth, payments, admin and analytics
- Code in your repo, 30 days of support
Production AI
from $15,000
8–16 weeks · agents and scale
- Multi-step AI agents with tool use
- Evaluation suites, guardrails, monitoring
- Integrations with your CRM, ERP or data
- Security review and load testing
After launch
Every build includes 30 days of support. After that, most clients keep us as their product team.
- Product partnership · from $4,000/monthA reserved block of senior design and engineering time each month for new features, model and prompt tuning, cost monitoring and app store updates. Cancel with 30 days’ notice.
- Included in every build30 days of post-launch fixes, monitoring and AI cost alerts, documentation and a recorded handover.
- Billed to you directly, at costAI model usage, hosting, app store fees and third-party services, in your own accounts. We never mark these up.
How we compare
Typical market ranges for AI product work in 2026, so you can judge our prices in context.
| Option | Typical cost | What you should expect |
|---|---|---|
| Freelancer or budget offshore shop | $1,000 – $10,000 | One person or a junior team, a demo-grade build, limited testing and support. |
| Venzpire | $5,000 – $60,000+ | Senior founder-led team, fixed scope, AI evaluation and guardrails, code you own. |
| US or Western European AI agency | $25,000 – $300,000+ | Strong teams, typically $100–$300 per hour and $25,000–$100,000 minimum projects. |
| Building an in-house AI team | $300,000+ per year | Right after product-market fit; months to hire before anything ships. |
Pricing questions
What is Venzpire’s minimum project size?
Our minimum project size is $5,000. Below that we can’t give a product the design, engineering and testing it deserves, so we’d rather refer you to someone who can do it well.
Why do you charge for discovery?
Because it produces real work you keep: a clickable prototype, an architecture and AI feasibility assessment, a cost-per-user estimate and a fixed-scope quote. It protects you from a quote built on guesses, and the $1,500 fee is credited to the build if you go ahead.
Do you work fixed price or time and materials?
Fixed price for the scope agreed after discovery, paid in milestones tied to working software. If you want to add something mid-build, we price the change before doing it, so the total never surprises you.
How are payments structured?
Typically 30% to start the build, 40% at the mid-project demo and 30% at launch. Monthly partnerships are billed at the start of each month and can be cancelled with 30 days’ notice.
Why choose Venzpire over a cheaper freelancer or a larger agency?
Compared with a freelancer, you get a full team (design, mobile, web, backend and AI) and continuity if someone is unavailable. Compared with large US or European agencies, which commonly set $25,000–$100,000 minimums, you get a senior, founder-led team at a lower total cost, with the same practices: fixed scope, weekly demos, evaluation and code ownership.
Have an AI product worth building properly?
Tell us what you are building. Venktesh reads every application himself and replies within one business day.
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