On 1 October 2026 we read the MVP pages of 95 software agencies and wrote down every price and timeline they publish. Each figure in our data comes with the sentence it was taken from, and you can download all of it.
41 of the 95 agencies (43%) say what they charge themselves: a package, a "from" price, their own range or prices from their own projects. Their median starting price is $13,234, the same as across all 71 agencies that show any price. The middle half of those 71 start between $6,617 and $20,000.
30 agencies publish only a general "an MVP costs $X to $Y" range and make no claim about their own fees. Those ranges start at about the same price as agencies' own price tags, then climb much higher.
| Median, USD | Own price (41 agencies) | Market range only (30 agencies) |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | $13,234 | $13,500 |
| Midpoint of range | $23,159 | $77,500 |
| Top of range | $39,701 | $150,000 |
Midpoint and top use the 29 agencies in each group that give an upper bound.
The 45 agencies that state their own timeline promise 6 to 12 weeks at the median. General cost guides stretch it to 6 to 24 weeks. Divide each agency's own price by its own timeline, using the midpoint of each range, and a week of MVP work comes to about $3,618. That figure rests on the 27 agencies that publish both.
Eastern European agencies don't undercut Western ones on published prices. Their median starting price ($30,000) is higher than the Western one ($19,851), and the midpoints are close ($56,250 and $55,000). Small Western studios that sell fixed $10,000 to $15,000 packages pull the Western floor down. The big gap is offshore, where agencies start at a median $7,250.
We also regrouped six agencies by where their site says the developers sit. Starting prices barely move (West $19,926, Eastern Europe $27,500, offshore $7,500). The Eastern European midpoint does drop, to $42,500 against $66,250 in the West. On either grouping, Eastern Europe's published floor is the higher one.
| Region | Agencies | Median starting price | Median midpoint | Median price per week |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US, Canada, UK, W. Europe, Australia | 15 | $19,851 | $55,000 | $7,084 |
| Eastern Europe | 11 | $30,000 | $56,250 | $4,167 |
| Asia, Latin America, Middle East, Africa | 10 | $7,250 | $13,750 | $2,273 |
Agencies that state their own price. Five agencies that give no head office are left out. The midpoint and price-per-week columns rest on 7 to 9 agencies per region.
20 of the 41 agencies with their own price sell at a fixed price or in fixed packages. They are cheaper and promise faster delivery, with a median start of $8,200, a median midpoint of $13,125 and an upper timeline of 8 weeks. The 18 agencies that state a price but no billing model start at $25,000, sit at a $61,250 midpoint and quote up to 13.5 weeks. Only three agencies describe their own pricing as hourly or monthly.
16 of the 71 agencies with a price give AI work its own line, usually an "AI MVP" tier or an add-on for AI features. 15 of them also price a regular MVP. At the same agency, the cheapest AI MVP costs a median 4.8 times the cheapest regular MVP, with the middle half between 3.0 and 5.7 times. Two agencies go the other way. One sells AI MVPs at the same price as any other MVP, and another starts AI MVPs at $5,000 while its general MVP pricing starts at $15,000.
Offshore agencies are the least likely to state their own price: 10 of 28, or 36%. The figure is 44% for Western agencies and 46% in Eastern Europe. Western agencies, though, are the most likely to show no figure at all (10 of 34).
Five agencies sell an MVP for under $5,000 and six promise one in four weeks or less. That makes nine agencies in total, and eight of them sell at a fixed price. Only six agencies publish an hourly rate, from $20 to $100.
Six agencies give conflicting numbers on their own site. One MVP page quotes $30,000 to $80,000 and, further down, $25,000 to $40,000, while the same agency's homepage says $45,000 to $130,000. Another lists $35,000+ on its service page and $10,000 to $30,000 in its own cost guide. Two pairs of agencies publish the same cost table or article almost word for word.
Rocketech builds MVPs too. We publish $5,000-15,000 and 2-4 weeks for our own, and we kept those numbers out of every figure on this page. See what that price covers on our MVP development page, or get a free project estimate for your idea.
The list came from four sources. First, the top results for "mvp development company", "mvp development services" and "mvp development cost" in a US web search index, checked in late September and early October 2026. We added more than ten nearby searches, including AI MVP cost and versions for the UK, India, Poland, Ukraine and Latin America. Second, agencies named in 16 "best MVP company" lists we had already collected. Third, MVP firms that appeared in search snippets of Clutch rankings. Clutch's own category pages answered automated requests with a bot check, so we left them alone. Fourth, the agencies in an earlier comparison on our own site.
That gave 100 agencies whose sites we could read. We dropped five. Two sites put up a bot check, and we did not try to get past it. Three turned out to be one-person or freelance shops. Ten more candidates had no working MVP page and were never counted, which leaves 95.
For each agency we opened the MVP service page, the pricing page if there was one, and the agency's own MVP cost article. We saved the visible text of each page. Every price, timeline and hourly rate in the dataset carries the sentence it came from, and a script checked all 230 quotes against the saved pages.
We report medians and the middle 50% (the interquartile range) because a handful of $300,000-plus ranges would drag an average up. Our own prices are left out of every figure.
The CSV has one row for each of the 95 agencies. It lists the page we read, the head office and region, every MVP price, timeline and hourly rate we found in the original currency and in US dollars, the sentence each figure came from, how we coded the claim and the date we read the page. If you use it, please link to this page as the source.
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| Measure | Value | Based on |
|---|---|---|
| Agencies checked | 95 | MVP, pricing and cost pages, 1 Oct 2026 |
| State their own MVP price | 41 (43%) | 95 agencies |
| Show no MVP price at all | 24 (25%) | 95 agencies |
| Median starting price | $13,234 | 71 agencies with any price |
| Middle half of starting prices | $6,617 to $20,000 | 71 agencies |
| Median midpoint, own prices | $23,159 | 29 agencies |
| Median midpoint, market ranges | $77,500 | 29 agencies |
| Median own timeline | 6 to 12 weeks | 45 agencies |
| Median price per week of build | $3,618 | 27 agencies |
| AI MVP vs regular MVP, starting price | 4.8x | 15 agencies that price both |
| Sell at a fixed price | 20 of 41 | agencies with their own price |
Source: Rocketech, "MVP development cost and timelines in 2026: what 95 agencies publish" (October 2026).
Rocketech (2026). MVP development cost and timelines in 2026: what 95 agencies publish. Prices and timelines published by 95 software agencies, collected 1 October 2026. https://rocketech.it/mvp-development-cost-report
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