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SaaS build cost calculator
Pick the modules your product needs and the platforms you ship. See the hours and money a from-scratch build actually costs — and what the same scope costs on top of supastack's pre-wired modules.
Source on GitHubYour build
Estimated build
- From scratch
- 435 h · 10.9 wks · $32,625
- With supastack
- 37 h · 0.9 wks · $2,775
- You save
- 398 hours ≈ $29,850 saved
| Module | DIY | Kit | Saved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auth & sessions | 40 h | 3 h | 37 h |
| Payments & billing | 60 h | 4 h | 56 h |
| Database & ORM | 30 h | 2 h | 28 h |
| Workspaces & teams | 45 h | 4 h | 41 h |
| Background jobs | 35 h | 2 h | 33 h |
| Transactional email | 20 h | 2 h | 18 h |
| File storage | 25 h | 2 h | 23 h |
| i18n (13 locales) | 35 h | 1 h | 34 h |
| Admin panel | 30 h | 1 h | 29 h |
| Observability | 20 h | 1 h | 19 h |
| Marketing site | 30 h | 2 h | 28 h |
| Env & config | 15 h | 1 h | 14 h |
40 h = 1 wks
Where the estimates come from
DIY hours reflect designing, building and testing each module correctly — auth with sessions and OAuth, billing with an idempotent webhook ledger, multi-tenant workspaces with RLS, localized transactional mail, and the rest. Kit hours are configure-and-verify time, because supastack ships every one of these modules wired together.
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