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Autopilot vs. a dev agency
Agencies bill by the hour, staff your project off the bench, and invoice you for every change. Autopilot is one flat monthly fee, an unlimited request queue, and a team that stays to run what it builds.
Side by side
Honestly, side by side.
| a dev agency | Autopilot | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Hourly or fixed-bid per project. Every scope change is a change order. | One flat monthly fee. Unlimited requests. No change orders, ever. |
| Time to launch | Weeks of scoping, SOWs, and kickoff before a line of code. | v0 live in production within 30 days — guaranteed. |
| Who does the work | Whoever’s on the bench — often juniors behind a senior pitch. | The Ramjet engine plus a senior human pilot on every deploy. |
| Changes after launch | New SOW, new invoice, new timeline. | Drop it in the queue. It ships. Same flat fee. |
| After the project | They move on. You inherit uptime, updates, and security. | We build AND run it — monitoring, backups, patching, SLA. |
| Ownership | Varies; sometimes licensed back to you. | Your repo transfers free at end of term. No lock-in. |
The difference
Agencies build and leave. We build and run.
An agency’s job ends at handoff — right when uptime, security, and the next feature become your problem. Autopilot treats launch as day one of running your software, under an SLA, for the same flat fee.
Priced in the open
The price is the price.
- No hourly billing.
- No surprise invoices.
- No change-order games.
Flat monthly numbers, published on this page. What you see is the whole deal.
The numbers
Questions
Straight answers.
For continuous work, almost always — because there are no change orders, no hourly overruns, and no separate maintenance contract. One flat monthly fee covers building and running your app.
Autopilot is built for software you keep improving and running. If you truly need a fixed, one-time build with no ongoing changes, an agency may fit better — but most software is never actually "done."
Yes. Complete your annual term and the full repository transfers to you, free, with no exclusivity. Your code was always yours.