Pricing · Q3 2026

Three plans. Fixed prices. No surprises.

Every plan has a real number, a real timeline, and a written list of what's not included. You leave this page knowing exactly what you'd pay and exactly what you'd get — or you leave knowing it isn't a fit, which is also a useful answer.

The price is the price.

No change orders. No surprise invoices.

You sign one number. We deliver against one written scope. If we underestimate, that's our problem — not a line item on your next invoice. If something is genuinely out of scope, we'll tell you before we touch it, in writing, with a number attached.

Pricing · pick a lane

Three plans, one philosophy.

Every plan is a fixed number against a written scope, with explicit exclusions and a calendar deadline. Launch is the flagship — most teams start there. Scale and Custom exist for the projects that genuinely need more.

Flagship
Launch
$20,000
10 days · fixed price

One web product. Fully deployed. You own everything on day eleven.

What's included

  • Live web product on your domain
  • Two production environments — dev + prod
  • Full source code, in your GitHub org
  • Terraform infrastructure, in your repo
  • Auth, payments, and one core integration
  • Deployment runbook your future hire can read
  • 30-day fix guarantee on anything that breaks
  • One operator, accountable end-to-end

What's not included

  • Logo design or brand identity work
  • Native mobile apps
  • Pixel-perfect Figma deliverables
  • Ongoing infrastructure management

Payment ·50% to start, 50% on launch. Wire or ACH.

Scale
$45,000
20 days · fixed price

One web product plus a mobile surface, or a deeper build.

What's included

  • Everything in Launch
  • PWA install or single-platform RN app
  • Brand application across product surfaces
  • Two third-party integrations of your choice
  • Two production environments — dev + prod
  • Performance budgets enforced in CI
  • 60-day fix guarantee

What's not included

  • Native iOS + Android in parallel
  • Custom design system from scratch
  • SOC 2 / HIPAA compliance work

Payment ·50% to start, 50% on launch. Wire or ACH.

Custom
From $75,000
Scoped per project · fixed price

Enterprise scope, compliance, multi-product, or dedicated capacity.

What's included

  • Everything in Scale
  • Multi-product or multi-tenant architecture
  • Compliance scaffolding (SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR)
  • Dedicated operator capacity for the project window
  • Senior engineer pairing on critical surfaces
  • Defined cutover plan to your in-house team
  • 90-day fix guarantee

What's not included

  • Six-month enterprise procurement cycles
  • RFP responses or competitive bake-offs
  • Custom hardware or on-prem deployments

Payment ·Milestoned, against a fixed scope agreed in Discovery.

Add-ons

Two ways to extend any plan.

Discovery comes before a build, when you want a real plan before you commit. Retainer comes after, when the product is live and growing. Either can attach to any plan above, or stand alone.

Discovery
From $3,000
2–3 days · paid scoping sprint
Credits to the build if you proceed

From idea to a clickable plan you can hand to anyone.

We pressure-test your idea against the build, produce a clickable prototype on a real URL, write down the architecture and stack decisions, and hand you a fixed-price quote. If you proceed, the cost rolls into your build.

If you don't, you keep the prototype and the document. Either way, you leave with a plan.

Retainer
From $2,500 /month
Ongoing · month-to-month
No lock-in. Cancel any month.

A standing bucket of build hours, after the product is live.

A monthly bucket of build and iteration hours — bug fixes, new features, performance work, and infrastructure care. Hours roll over one month if unused. You can pause, resume, or cancel month-to-month with no penalty.

We don't take retainer slots from teams who don't have a live product yet — it's not what we're good at.

The honest cost story

What it actually costs to run after launch.

On day eleven, you own everything: your code, your infrastructure, your accounts. Here's what it costs to keep a typical Iro Studio build live each month — billed directly by each vendor, in your name, on your card.

Vercel Frontend hosting, edge & CI $20 Pro plan, fits most launches
Supabase Postgres, Auth, Storage $25 Pro plan, generous limits
Domain Annual cost, ÷ 12 ~$2 Whatever your registrar
Resend Transactional email Free–$20 Free up to 3,000 / month
Stripe Payments — only when you collect 2.9% +30¢ Per transaction, not monthly
All-in, typical month Live product, real customers, on your accounts ≈ $50 Not $5,000. Not per-seat.

Numbers above are starting plans for a typical launch — high-traffic products will scale up with use. We don't take a cut of any of these and we don't mark them up. You hold the credit cards.

Proof, not pitch

Want to see what $20K actually buys?

The numbers on this page are easy. The work is harder. Live builds replace pricing claims in the Receipts section — same product, same customer, same screenshot they'd see if they used it tomorrow.

See the Receipts
3 builds in flight
First cohort · Q3 2026
Common questions

Honest answers to the obvious questions.

Why is this so cheap compared to a regular agency?

It isn't cheap — it's focused. Most agency cost lives in layers we don't have: account managers, project managers, sales engineers, junior staff learning on your dime, office overhead, six-figure design systems built before line one of code.

One operator, a vetted senior network, and an automated platform means we can quote a real fixed price for a real fixed scope. Smaller scope than a six-month engagement, by design.

What happens if delivery slips past day ten?

If we miss day ten through our own fault, we keep working at no additional cost until it's launched, full stop. No re-billing, no scope renegotiation, no change orders for our own delays.

If you need to slow down — a stakeholder review, a content delay, a change of mind — we'll pause the clock and pick up where we left off, on the same fixed price.

Who actually does the work?

One accountable operator leads every project end-to-end. For builds that need more hands, we add senior engineers from a vetted network — every one of whom has shipped real production software, none of whom are learning on your project.

You always have one phone number, one Slack, one person responsible. No handoffs, no "let me check with the team."

Can you do native mobile in 10 days?

No, and we won't pretend otherwise. Launch ships responsive web with PWA install — the right answer for most products at this stage. Scale can include a single-platform React Native app if mobile is core. Native iOS + Android in parallel lives in Custom.

What if I want to leave, or hand the build to my own team?

You own everything from day eleven. Your code is in your GitHub org. Your infrastructure is on your accounts. Your domain is yours. Hosting is billed to your card directly by each vendor.

The deployment runbook is written for a future hire to read, not for us to gatekeep. Any competent senior engineer can take it from here in an afternoon.

Do I need to do Discovery first?

No. If you have a clear scope and you're ready to build, you can start with Launch directly. Discovery is for founders who want to pressure-test the idea, see a clickable prototype, or get a written architecture before committing to the build budget.

If you do Discovery and proceed, the cost rolls into the build.

Are taxes included? What about international?

Prices are in USD, exclusive of VAT or sales tax where applicable. We invoice from a US entity and accept wire and ACH for builds; retainers can also pay by card. We work with founders globally — most calls happen across CET / EST overlap.

Can I see the contract before I commit?

Yes. A two-page master agreement covers ownership, payment, timeline, and the fix guarantee. You'll have it before you wire a dollar. We don't use NDAs to gatekeep the contract — read it as part of evaluating whether to work with us.

Decide on the call, not the page.

30 minutes, no pitch deck, no high-pressure sales. Bring the project, the timeline, and the number you're working with — we'll tell you which plan fits, or that none do.

Or send a note: hi@iro.media