hours calculator
engineering hours estimate
Estimate engineering hours before discovery. Not a quote.
Hours are honest — rate is a separate conversation.
project type
platform
design level
auth & identity
payments & money
admin & dashboards
notifications
real-time & communication
content & media
location & maps
africa & mobile
AI & automation
conversational AI
content & generation
recommendations & personalisation
search & discovery
vision & document intelligence
workflow & agents
analytics & prediction
AI infrastructure
infrastructure & security
complexity
delivery model
timeline pressure
post-launch support
0 months
QA level
estimated build
388h – 547h
phasehours
discovery38h
design68h
frontend84h
backend106h
QA & testing46h
DevOps / deployment19h
project management19h
risk buffer (20%)76h
~11 weeks · 1 developer
~6 weeks · 2-person team
at $5–$30/hr: $1,940 – $16,410