At KodeThat, a mobile app MVP on one platform is ₹80,000* and takes about 6 weeks. A web SaaS MVP with 3 to 5 core features usually takes 4 to 8 weeks, and we quote it once we've agreed those features. A full multi-tenant SaaS platform with subscription billing costs from ₹2,50,000*. Hosting, payment fees and store fees come on top.
What is an MVP, in money terms?
An MVP is the smallest version of the product that someone will pay for. It should feel finished, with fewer features. The way to get there is to list every feature you want and cut most of the list. What's left is the MVP, and everything else goes on the roadmap. How strictly you hold that line decides, more than anything else, whether you launch in 2 months or 12, and whether the build costs an MVP price or a platform price.
What do the two starting points include?
Both are starting prices from our pricing page. The written quote confirms the final price, taxes and timeline before work starts.
App MVP, ₹80,000*
- 1 platform (Android or iOS)
- Core feature set (up to 10 screens)
- User auth (email/phone)
- REST API integration
- Basic admin panel
- Play Store / App Store submission
- Delivery in 6 weeks
SaaS Platform, from ₹2,50,000*
- Multi-tenant architecture
- Subscription billing (Razorpay/Stripe)
- Onboarding flows
- Usage analytics
- Custom domain per tenant
- Scalable cloud infrastructure
- Ongoing technical partner after launch
The app MVP suits a product your users open on their phones, such as a booking app or a field tool. Most B2B SaaS lives in the browser, so its MVP is a web app. We don't list a fixed price for a web SaaS MVP because scope varies too much. It leaves out custom domains per customer, usage analytics and most of the billing logic, so there is less to build. If you plan to sell to more than one business, we still build multi-tenancy in from the start, so you don't pay to rebuild it later.
How long does each stage take?
Validation, before any code
Talk to at least 10 people who have the problem. Look for one specific problem they already pay to solve, even badly, with Excel, a WhatsApp group or three different tools. If enough of them describe the same problem, that's your MVP. Market research is useful, but it won't tell you what those 10 conversations will.
Scope and design
We write down the core features, the screens and what a user can do on each, and you approve them before we write code. Stack choices are covered in our post on choosing a tech stack. Our usual SaaS stack is Next.js, Node.js and PostgreSQL, with Razorpay for payments.
The build, 4 to 8 weeks for a web MVP, about 6 for an app MVP
We work in two-week cycles and put something usable in front of you at the end of each one. Get your first users onto it by week 3 or 4, even if it's rough. A week of real use tells you more than a month of guessing.
A small launch, the first month
Launch to 10 to 20 users who match your target customer. Watch what they do as well as what they say. Support messages, feature requests and the reasons people cancel are the best information you'll have at this stage. Users often ask for one thing and then do another, and that gap is where the big product decisions come from.
Scaling, months four to six and after
Building out everything on the roadmap usually takes 4 to 6 months. Spend on it once you have paying users and understand why they stay and why they leave. Founders who scale before they understand retention tend to run out of money before they find out what the product should be.
What does an MVP cost to run each month?
- For hosting, Vercel's free Hobby plan is for personal, non-commercial use, so a paid product needs its Pro plan, listed at $20 a month per developer seat with $20 of usage credit included. A small server elsewhere costs about the same: DigitalOcean lists its 2 GiB Basic droplet at $12 a month.
- Razorpay charges 2% of each successful domestic payment plus 18% GST on that fee, with no setup or annual maintenance charge. At MVP stage you can collect payments through Razorpay before you build full subscription billing.
- If you ship a mobile app, Google Play has a one-time $25 registration fee and Apple's developer program is 99 USD a year. Our post on what an app costs covers the store steps.
None of these is large next to the build. The cost that grows is your own time, on support emails, onboarding calls and sales.
Our take
Sayed Zaid builds the back end of our SaaS work and Ravinder Kumar builds the screens. If you're a founder in Navi Mumbai with a B2B idea, start with a web MVP, not an app, unless your users really work on their phones. Charge from the first month, even a small amount, because a free user tells you much less than a paying one. Hold off on the full SaaS Platform build until 20 to 30 businesses pay you and you can explain why they stay. We can't show you a SaaS product of ours yet. Our named work is websites, and Ravi and Zaid work on software products in their day jobs. Bring your idea and your cut-down feature list to a call through the SaaS development page and we'll scope the MVP with you.
Where these numbers come from
- KodeThat's app MVP and SaaS Platform prices and features: our pricing page, read from the same price list as this post, 3 November 2026. The web MVP and full-build timelines are the ones on our SaaS development page.
- Vercel Hobby for non-commercial use, Pro at $20 a month per developer seat with $20 included credit: Vercel pricing, checked 3 November 2026.
- DigitalOcean Basic droplet, 2 GiB, $12 a month: DigitalOcean droplet pricing, checked 3 November 2026.
- Razorpay's 2% fee per successful transaction on domestic payments, 18% GST on the fee, no setup or annual charge: Razorpay pricing, checked 3 November 2026.
- Google Play's $25 one-time registration fee: Play Console Help, checked 3 November 2026. Apple's 99 USD a year: Apple Developer Program enrollment, checked 3 November 2026.
