Software development cost in India at Redqubes runs from Rs 9,999 for an informative website to Rs 5,99,999 for a multi-app quick-commerce platform. A mobile app with admin panel costs Rs 99,999-2,49,999 and takes 8-12 weeks. Every quote is fixed-price, milestone-billed and itemised in writing before any advance is paid.
The table below is the same one we quote from — real ranges, real timelines, published so you can sanity-check any proposal you receive. See the delivery and operations platforms we have shipped to judge the output behind the numbers.
Indicative ranges for the six project types we build most often. GST at 18% applies (SAC 998314); the exact figure depends on final scope.
| Project Type | Typical Range (INR) | Timeline | What's Included |
|---|---|---|---|
| Informative website | Rs 9,999 - 74,999 | 2-4 weeks | Design, up to 10 pages, CMS, basic SEO |
| Business/CRM platform | Rs 21,000 - 1,50,000 | 4-8 weeks | Admin panel, user roles, reporting |
| Mobile app (single app + panel) | Rs 99,999 - 2,49,999 | 8-12 weeks | 1 app, admin panel, API, deployment |
| Marketplace/delivery platform | Rs 2,49,999 - 4,49,999 | 10-16 weeks | 2-3 apps, vendor + admin panels, payments |
| Multi-app quick-commerce | Rs 4,49,999 - 5,99,999 | 14-20 weeks | 3-4 apps, full panel suite, logistics |
| Custom ERP | Rs 2,49,999 - 5,99,999 | 10-16 weeks | Modules to spec, roles, reporting, integrations |
Prices are indicative and scope-dependent — a written, line-item scope is agreed before any figure is final. All amounts attract GST at 18% under SAC 998314. Every tier includes full source-code handover on final payment and an admin panel from which you edit content, prices and users yourself — a text change should never cost you a developer.
Each service page breaks its tier down further — deliverables, process, stack and its own FAQ.
Hourly billing rewards slowness; a lump sum up front rewards disappearing. Milestone billing splits the software development cost in India's most common failure points — vague scope and stalled delivery — into three payments, each released only when you have inspected something concrete.
Paid only after the line-item scope document is written and agreed. It books the team and starts discovery — you know exactly what the money buys before it leaves your account.
Due when you approve the clickable designs for every screen and role. If the designs are not right, the milestone — and the payment — waits until they are.
The balance is paid when the system passes UAT against the written scope. Source code, database and deployment configuration are handed over with it.
The build price is only half the story — running cost is where many projects spring their surprises. Ours is published: one flat monthly figure, no per-user fees, and a clean exit to your own servers whenever you want it.
Hosting and maintenance are free for the first month after go-live. From month two the optional plan is Rs 2,600/month for the server plus Rs 1,000/month for maintenance — Rs 3,600/month in total, or Rs 38,880/year with a 10% annual discount.
Maintenance covers bug fixes, monitoring and keeping the deployment healthy. New features are scoped and billed separately as small work orders. Self-hosting is always allowed — you own the code and can move to your own servers at any time.
Six factors explain most of the spread inside each range in the table above.
One customer app is one price; adding driver, vendor or rider apps multiplies design, development and testing effort.
Every role — admin, manager, vendor, agent — needs its own screens, permissions and workflows to be built and tested.
Payment gateways, SMS/WhatsApp, maps, accounting exports — each external system adds scoped integration work.
Live order tracking, dispatch boards and instant notifications need socket infrastructure that simple CRUD apps skip.
A dashboard with five KPIs is quick; exportable, filterable reports across branches and date ranges are a module of their own.
Moving years of records out of Excel or a legacy system into clean tables is real work and is scoped as its own line item.
This is also how to read competing proposals: if two quotes for the same idea differ by lakhs, they almost certainly assume different answers to these six questions. Ask each vendor to state their assumptions in writing and the real software development cost becomes comparable line by line — which is exactly how our own scope documents are laid out.
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A single mobile app with an admin panel costs Rs 99,999 to Rs 2,49,999 at Redqubes and takes 8 to 12 weeks. That price includes the app itself, the admin panel, the API backend and deployment to the stores. Multi-app platforms — customer, driver and vendor apps sharing one backend — start at Rs 2,49,999.
An informative business website costs Rs 9,999 to Rs 74,999 and is delivered in 2 to 4 weeks. The range covers design, up to 10 pages, an admin-editable CMS and basic on-page SEO. The lower end suits a simple brochure site; the upper end adds custom design and more content sections.
Because "the same idea" can hide very different scopes — the number of apps, user roles, integrations and reporting screens drives most of the cost. A quote that skips a written scope is guessing, which is why Redqubes prices every project item by item before any advance is paid, so two quotes can be compared line by line.
The main extras outside our quote are GST at 18%, third-party usage fees and hosting from month two. Payment gateways, SMS/WhatsApp providers and app store accounts bill you directly at their own rates. Our written scope lists every such third-party item up front so nothing appears mid-project as a surprise.
You pay 50% as an advance to book the team, 25% after you approve the UI/UX designs, and the final 25% on delivery. Each payment is tied to something you can inspect — a signed scope, clickable designs, a working system — never to hours logged or vague progress percentages.
The first month of hosting and maintenance is free with every project. From month two an optional plan costs Rs 2,600/month for the server plus Rs 1,000/month for maintenance — Rs 3,600/month in total, or Rs 38,880/year with a 10% annual discount. Maintenance covers bug fixes; new features are scoped and billed separately.
Yes — self-hosting is allowed on every project. You receive the full source code and Docker-based deployment configuration on final payment, so your team can run the system on any cloud or on-premise server. Our monthly hosting plan is optional, not a lock-in.
Yes, GST at 18% applies on top of all quoted figures under SAC code 998314 (IT design and development services). Every invoice is a proper GST invoice, so registered businesses can claim input tax credit on the full project cost.
The agreed scope stays at the agreed price — changes are written up as separate small work orders with their own price and timeline. This keeps the original milestones intact and gives you a clear yes/no decision on every addition instead of a quietly growing bill.
Share what you want to build and we will return an itemised scope with a fixed price and timeline. No advance is due until the scope is written down and signed.