Comparisons
Compare your options — with the working shown.
Every page here does the sum other comparison pages skip: real numbers from checkable public sources, our own prices published beside them, and a plain section on when the alternative is genuinely the right call. If an option beats us for your firm, the page says so.
The agency build
What custom software development actually costs in the UK — a six-month team summed from published day rates (£134,000–£417,000) against the retainer, month by month. And when a big build is still the right call.
Hiring a developer
A median hire costs about £5,500 a month before recruitment, kit or cover — summed from ONS and GOV.UK. What one seat buys, what a retainer buys instead, and when hiring is genuinely the answer.
Off-the-shelf software
For standard jobs, buy the box — we say so plainly. The honest sum is the per-seat lines that grow with every hire, and the fit tax at the seams that no survey prices. When renting stops fitting, here's the working.
The house rule for these pages: every external figure traces to a primary source, dated and archived, and every self-derived sum shows its parts — the same standard as the working behind every number on this site.
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