Cost guide
SaaS MVP Cost Guide
A focused production SaaS MVP typically falls within EVC Studios’ $15,000–$60,000 planning range. Multiple roles, multi-tenancy, complex billing, reporting, or deep integrations move work toward the upper end.
What this guidance assumes
- One clearly prioritized customer workflow
- Production-quality authentication and deployment
- A controlled first-release scope rather than a broad platform
Primary cost drivers
- Tenant and account architecture
- Authentication, RBAC, billing, and onboarding
- Administration, reporting, and integrations
- Product-design maturity and acceptance scope
How discovery produces an estimate
- 01Product definition
- 02Account, tenant, and data architecture
- 03Core workflow implementation
- 04Billing, administration, QA, and release
What increases uncertainty
- Uncontrolled feature expansion
- Unresolved billing rules
- Changing account model
- Slow acceptance decisions
Commonly excluded costs
- Payment-provider fees
- Post-launch feature roadmap
- Ongoing hosting and support unless scoped
Cost and timeline are connected
Scope changes affect engineering effort and elapsed time differently. Parallel work can shorten a calendar schedule only when decisions and dependencies are ready.
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