Cost calculator

The true cost of an in-house team.

A senior team looks like salaries. The real number is salaries plus benefits, recruiting, management, tooling — and the cost of running the software once it’s built. Set your own inputs and compare.

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What a team really costs. Side by side.

Drag the sliders. Every assumption is editable, because the price should be honest on both sides.

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$160,000
Compare against
Assumptions — edit any of these
In-house team
  • Salaries + benefits/overhead$37,333
  • Recruiting (amortized, yr 1)$5,333
  • Management overhead$5,600
  • Tooling & equipment$1,000
Per month$49,267

…and that's before anyone runs it — on-call, monitoring, backups, security.

Autopilot
$7,500/mo, flat
  • Unlimited request queue
  • A senior pilot on every deploy
  • Built and run — 24/7 ops included
  • v0 in 30 days, guaranteed

+ $15,000 one-time Ignition to stand it up

You save
$41,767/mo
That's $501,200 a year — reinvested in your roadmap, not your payroll.

Estimates for illustration, in USD. Every assumption above is editable — dial it to your reality. In-house figures reflect fully-loaded first-year cost and exclude the ongoing work of operating the software, which Autopilot includes.

The guarantee

Live in 30 days or less — or next month's on us.

Your v0 ships to production within 30 days of Ignition kickoff. If it doesn’t, your first month of Autopilot is free. No asterisks.

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