$20K to $30K.Fixed. In writing.
No mystery timelines, no hourly clock running, no scope quietly creeping upward. One number, agreed before day one, and it's the number you actually pay.
Fixed price, in writing
Fixed timeline
Cash-first, always
Code, infra, and IP
The price isn't the differentiator.The reason behind the price is.
Freelancers
$10K to $40K
Small Agencies
$50K to $150K
Canadian Agencies (Production SaaS)
$100K to $300K+
Enterprise Software Firms
$300K to $1M+
Tzaric (Production-Ready Multi-Tenant SaaS MVP)
$20K to $30K
Without cuttingwhat matters.
The gap isn't corners we cut. It's overhead we never had in the first place. No project managers relaying messages. No bench of junior devs learning on your dime. No layers between you and the person actually writing your code. You're paying for engineering, not for the org chart underneath it.
Traditional agency
Tzaric
Project manager as your main point of contact
Direct access to the senior engineer building your product
Multiple layers of communication
Fast decisions, direct collaboration
High overhead baked into pricing
You pay for engineering, not overhead
Developers can change mid-project
Same engineer, architecture through launch
Focused on delivering a project
Focused on building a scalable business
You get to launch a production-ready MVP for $20K to $30K instead of committing $100K to $300K+ before you've even validated the idea, and you're not trading scale for savings. You still get a real architecture built to grow, and a technical partner who sticks around past launch day, not a vendor who disappears once the invoice clears.