Compare the real cost of building in-house, hiring freelancers, or partnering with Aviga. See the numbers — including the opportunity cost of every month of delay.
Projected monthly value or cost savings generated post-launch.
and launch 2.5 months faster to market.
By waiting 2.5 extra months to launch with the alternative baseline, you forfeit 2.5 months of market traction. At $15,000/mo projected revenue, this delay alone costs you more than the actual software build.
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Start Your Project — Free Scoping CallThe calculator compares three approaches to building software: in-house hiring (US or India rates), budget freelancers/agencies, and partnering with Aviga. It factors in salary costs, hiring time, management overhead, time-to-market, and the opportunity cost of delayed launch.
An MVP with Aviga starts at $8,000 and is delivered in 4–8 weeks. Building the same product in-house typically requires hiring a developer ($80K–$150K/year in the US, plus 3–6 months to hire), resulting in $40K–$100K+ for the same scope. The in-house path also delays your launch by months.
Opportunity cost is the revenue you lose for every month your product isn't live. If your target monthly revenue is $15,000 and your in-house team takes 6 months longer than Aviga, you've lost $90,000 in potential revenue — before accounting for the higher engineering cost.
Not at the MVP stage. Hiring in-house is the right move after you've validated your product with real users and need to build a long-term team. Before that, partnering with an experienced engineering firm like Aviga gets you to market faster, at lower cost, with less management overhead.
A Fractional CTO is a part-time Chief Technology Officer who provides strategic technical leadership — architecture decisions, tech stack selection, team hiring — for 20 hours/month at $2,200/month. A full-time CTO in the US costs $180K–$300K/year plus equity. For early-stage startups, Fractional CTO saves 85–90% on technical leadership costs.
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