Pricing

Start with a short sprint priced up front, build on a fixed quote, then choose how much help you want after launch.

Start small

Two small ways to begin, priced up front.

Discovery sprint

$5,000

fixed · 1–2 weeks

Before you commit to a build, we map goals, users, integrations and risks, then hand you a scoped plan, a timeline and a fixed quote.

  • Stakeholder interviews and requirements
  • Working prototype of the key flows
  • Technical plan, timeline and fixed quote
  • Credited in full toward your build
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Launch-ready sprint

From $7,500

2–3 weeks

For a prototype built with AI tools or by a previous team. We audit it, fix what makes launch risky and get it into production.

  • Security, payments and data review
  • Performance and accessibility fixes
  • Tests on the flows that matter
  • Production hosting, monitoring and a handoff
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Build

A fixed quote, agreed before anything is signed.

Websites

From $20,000

fixed quote

Most land between $20k and $60k

Brand and marketing sites, custom-designed and custom-coded, with a CMS your team runs and search traffic protected through the relaunch.

  • Strategy, design and engineering under one senior lead
  • Sanity or the CMS you already use
  • Search and AI visibility built in, with redirect mapping
  • Accessibility and performance targets in writing
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Multi-location platforms

From $30,000

setup, then $200 a month per site

One platform that gives every location its own website. The setup covers the platform and your first site. Every site, the first included, then pays one flat monthly fee for hosting and care.

  • Each new location set up from its details, not a new build
  • Listings pulled in from the systems you already use
  • Hosting, care and updates in the monthly fee
  • Each site committed for its first 12 months
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Marketplaces & products

From $40,000

fixed quote after discovery

Most first releases land between $40k and $150k

Marketplaces, customer portals, SaaS and internal tools: accounts, payments, admin and the integrations behind them.

  • Scoped in a discovery sprint, credited to the build
  • Payments and payouts done properly
  • Admin and reporting tools for your operations team
  • Automated tests on critical paths
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Payment plans are available on every build. You get a fixed quote before anything is signed.

Have your own engineers? We can also join your team by the hour, in your meetings and on your Slack. Ask about it

After launch

From keeping things secure to shipping new features every month.

Care

$950/month

Keeps a finished platform secure, monitored and online.

  • Security and dependency updates
  • Uptime and error monitoring
  • Up to 3 hours of fixes and small changes
  • Response within 2 business days
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Core

$3,800/month

A senior engineer on your platform, one request at a time.

  • Everything in Care
  • New features as well as fixes
  • Design when a feature needs it
  • One request in progress at a time
  • Next-business-day response
  • Monthly roadmap check-in, with new findings
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Accelerator

$4,800/month

A standing design and engineering partner for a platform that is still growing.

  • Everything in Core
  • Design as well as engineering: new pages, sections and campaign landing pages
  • Two requests moving at once, with same-business-day response
  • One Lab experiment a month on your platform, with the results
  • A quarterly review in writing: speed, accessibility, and search and AI visibility, with a plan
  • A shared Slack channel
  • Hosting included when we run it, on our AWS or Vercel
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Plans cover platforms Flare built or took on through a launch-ready sprint. Outages are handled first on every plan. Pause or cancel anytime; a six-month commitment earns a reduced rate.

How Flare compares

Typical ranges, so you can tell early whether we are the right fit.

Template shop or AI builderFlareLarge agency
Typical website budget$2k–$15k$20k–$60k$100k+
Who does the workVaries, often outsourcedLed by the senior engineer you meet on the first callAccount team, work often delegated
CodeTheme or generated, hard to extendCustom, documented, yoursCustom, often agency-specific
SecurityPlugins or generated code, rarely reviewedSecure by default, checked for new threatsFormal reviews, often an extra cost
Payments, portals, integrationsPlugins and workaroundsEngineered in-houseEngineered, at enterprise cost
After launchUsually on your ownPublished plans and response timesRetainers with minimums

Questions about pricing

What drives the cost of a build?

Mostly scope: the number of distinct page types and user roles, integrations with other systems, payments, and how much custom design and motion the brand calls for. Page count matters less than people expect.

Why is discovery paid?

Because it produces real work you keep: interviews, a working prototype of the key flows, a technical plan and a fixed quote. If you go ahead with the build, the full $5,000 is credited toward it.

Do you offer payment plans?

Yes. Builds can be paid in milestones or spread monthly. We agree the schedule in the proposal, so there are no surprises.

What is not included?

If you run the platform in your own accounts, services such as hosting, CMS seats, email delivery and payment processing are billed by those providers directly to you. If we host and run it for you, that is a managed service, priced in the proposal. Either way we estimate the running costs up front and choose providers that stay affordable at your scale.

Can we get aftercare for a platform someone else built?

Yes, after a launch-ready sprint. We audit and harden the platform first, so we understand it before we are responsible for keeping it running.

Who owns what we pay for?

You do. The platform and the code written for it are yours once it is paid for, whether we host it or you do. Flare keeps its own reusable tools and gives you a permanent license to use them.

Ready for a fixed quote?

A website gets its fixed quote after a call. A marketplace or product gets it from a discovery sprint, whose fee comes off the build if you go ahead.

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  • A fixed quote before you sign
  • Discovery fee credited to the build
  • You own what we build
  • Aftercare you can cancel anytime