Pricing
Engineering excellence at globally competitive rates.
Starting at $25/hour for engineering work, $35/hour for senior architects and AI specialists. Fixed-fee and retainer engagements quoted on discovery.
Fixed-fee Sprint
Defined deliverable: 'Build us a customer support agent.'
Quoted per project
Scoped on discovery call
Fixed scope, fixed price, fixed timeline. Discovery → SOW → ship.
Timeline: 2–8 weeks
Not for
- · Exploratory work without a defined deliverable
- · Engagements under $20K — overhead eats it
- Most popular
Monthly Retainer
Ongoing AI partner: roadmap, iteration, multiple workstreams in parallel.
Custom
Based on team size and hours/month
Capped hours/month · dedicated team · monthly check-ins · 3-month minimum.
Timeline: 3-month minimum
Not for
- · Single-shot builds with a fixed scope (use Sprint)
- · Teams who can't commit to 3 months
Hourly / T&M
Exploratory work, audits, advisory, niche extensions, post-launch tweaks.
$25 / hour
Senior architects & AI specialists $35/hour
Hourly rate · weekly invoicing · easy to start, easy to stop · 20-hour monthly minimum.
Timeline: No commitment
Not for
- · Anything where you need budget certainty upfront
- · Builds with 3+ engineers in parallel
Not sure which fits? Book a 20-min call — we'll tell you which model is wrong for you and why.
Pricing FAQ
The objections we hear most — answered upfront.
- Geography. We're engineered in India and ship globally. The same senior engineer who'd cost $180/hour at a San Francisco agency lives in Pune or Bangalore and costs us a fraction of that — so we charge a fraction of that, and pass the math to you. What we don't discount is what matters: senior engineers (no juniors on your project), production-grade code, clean handoff documentation, and the engineering DNA of Alian Software's 15+ years shipping enterprise systems. Our case studies are how we prove this — read them and decide for yourself whether the work looks like $25/hour work or $250/hour work. If you've been quoted $150–$250/hour by a US firm and the deliverable feels expensive for what you're getting, our pricing is going to feel uncomfortable until you see the output. After that it just feels obvious.
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