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Pricing

How much would this cost?

Pick a starting point, then adjust the team and hours.

01Select a starting point
02Complexity
03Pace

Complexity scales hours, so it moves both cost and timeline. Compressing the schedule trades money for calendar time.

04Team and hours
0h

Model architecture, offline/online evaluation design, technical direction.

120h$6,000

Feature engineering, training pipelines, experimentation, inference code.

40h$2,200

Serving, CI/CD for models, monitoring, drift detection, infrastructure.

60h$2,700

Ingestion, warehouse modelling, feature store, data quality contracts.

60h$2,400

APIs, integration with your product, auth, queues, storage.

30h$1,200

Scope, metric definition, stakeholder alignment, delivery reporting.

0h

Test harnesses, evaluation datasets, regression suites, release gates.

Estimated project

Estimated cost $14,500

310 hours across 5 roles · blended $47/h

Delivery
5–7 weeks
Risk
low

Well-understood problem shape. We have shipped this pattern before.

Breakdown
  • ML Engineer120h$6,000
  • Data Engineer60h$2,700
  • Backend Engineer60h$2,400
  • MLOps Engineer40h$2,200
  • Product Manager30h$1,200
Cost against complexity
$0$25k$50k$75k$100kPOCSTANDARDCOMPLEXENTERPRISECOMPLEXITY →COPILOTRECSYSFORECASTVISIONAGENTS$15kYOUR SCOPE
Compare with similar projects
  • Internal AI Copilot4–8 weeks$8k$18k
  • Demand Forecasting1–3 months$10k$28k
  • Agentic Workflow6–12 weeks$13k$38k
  • Rates are blended day-one rates for a dedicated pod, billed monthly. Fixed-price is available once scope is frozen.
See what we shipped for these numbers
Typical projects

Benchmark projects, with prices.

Bands from a focused build to a multi-source one.

Internal AI Copilot

Loaded
  • RAG
  • Search
  • Citations
  • Tool calling
Price
$8k $18k
Duration
4–8 weeks

Baseline complexity: Standard

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Recommendation System

  • Retrieval
  • Ranking
  • Personalization
  • A/B testing
Price
$14k $42k
Duration
2–4 months

Baseline complexity: Standard

Demand Forecasting

  • Time series
  • Backtesting
  • Hierarchies
  • Capacity planning
Price
$10k $28k
Duration
1–3 months

Baseline complexity: Standard

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Computer Vision QA

  • Detection
  • Segmentation
  • Edge inference
  • Review loop
Price
$18k $56k
Duration
2–6 months

Baseline complexity: Complex

Agentic Workflow

  • Planning
  • Tool calling
  • Guardrails
  • Evaluation
Price
$13k $38k
Duration
6–12 weeks

Baseline complexity: Complex

FAQ

Straight answers.

The questions we get before a first call.

How do you price the work?

Hourly rates by role, quoted from a template. Fixed-price is available once discovery is done and scope is frozen.

How long do projects take?

Most production systems land in 4–16 weeks. The calculator on /pricing gives a range from the same model we use internally.

Who owns the IP and the models?

You do. Full transfer of code, weights, documentation and runbooks.

How do you handle sensitive data?

Least-privilege access, isolated environments, and no training on your data for anyone else. We will work inside your VPC when that is the constraint.

Prefer to talk first?

Send the outcome. We will say if ML is the right spend.

Talk to the engineers