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Our prices, in public.

Most firms in our line make you ask. We would rather you knew before the first call whether we are in your range — it saves us both a fortnight.

How this works


Three sizes of each thing, and a fixed price for each.

You do not have to negotiate with us, and we will not negotiate with you. If a price does not fit, we change the size of the job rather than quietly reducing the care that goes into it.

  • Fixed price against a written scope. It does not move unless you ask for something that was not in it, and we price that separately for you to approve.
  • Nothing starts before you have the proposal. Scope, timeline and price, in plain language.
  • No hourly meter. You are never charged for a phone call or an email.
  • You own everything — code, accounts, domains and data.
  • Thirty days of fixes after launch at no charge, for anything in scope.

Pricing


Websites & Web Applications

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Launch

A complete, fast, findable website of up to five pages, built on our own system.

Fixed price

₹75,000

or $1,750 for clients outside India

  • Up to 5 pages
  • Works properly on every phone and computer
  • Set up for Google from day one
  • You can edit the words and prices yourself
  • Live in about two weeks
  • Domain, hosting and accounts in your name

Commerce & Applications

An online store, or a web application that people log into and use.

From

₹4,50,000

or $10,000 for clients outside India

  • Products, stock, payments, delivery and tax
  • Or logins, dashboards and customer portals
  • Built in stages you see every week
  • Tested properly before it takes any money
  • Thirty days of fixes after launch at no charge

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Mobile Apps & Custom Software

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Discovery & Design

Understand the problem properly and draw every screen. Ends with a firm price for the build.

Fixed price

₹1,10,000

or $2,500 for clients outside India

  • A written statement of what the software must do
  • Every screen designed and clickable
  • A fixed price for the build, with no obligation
  • The designs are yours whether or not you continue with us

Mobile App, first version

A real, published app for your customers — Android, iOS, or both.

From

₹6,75,000

or $15,000 for clients outside India

  • Built once to run on Android and iOS where that suits you
  • Published under your own developer accounts
  • Tested on real devices, not only a simulator
  • Source code and everything behind it is yours
  • Thirty days of fixes after launch at no charge

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AI, Data & Automation

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Assessment

We look at your data and your manual work, and come back with a costed list of what is worth automating.

Fixed price

₹90,000

or $2,000 for clients outside India

  • Where your data lives and what condition it is in
  • Every manual task worth automating, with the time it would save
  • A price against each one, so you can choose
  • The document is yours whether or not you continue with us

Data Foundation

Your data brought into one place you can actually trust and ask questions of.

From

₹3,35,000

or $7,500 for clients outside India

  • Sources brought together and cleaned
  • Agreed meaning for every field, written down
  • Reporting you will actually look at, on a phone
  • The base that makes any later AI work honest

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Digital Marketing & Social Media

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Essential

Keep the lights on and the enquiries coming from one channel, done properly.

Per month

₹45,000

or $1,000 a month for clients outside India

  • One channel chosen with you, not by habit
  • Monthly plain-English report: what we did, what it cost, how many enquiries
  • Enquiries tracked back to their source
  • All accounts in your name

Full

Everything, run as though it were our own business.

Per month

₹1,35,000

or $3,000 a month for clients outside India

  • Search, content, paid, social and email
  • Landing pages built and tested as needed
  • Fortnightly review call
  • First call on our time when something urgent comes up

Keeping it running


Optional monthly care, cancellable at any time.

Nothing built stays finished. Software needs updating, sites need monitoring, and small changes come up. This is what that costs.

PlanPer monthOutside IndiaWhat it covers
Launch care₹6,000$150Hosting, updates, backups, monitoring and small text changes.
Business care₹12,000$250Everything in Launch care, plus an hour of changes each month.
Commerce & software care₹20,000$450Everything above, plus monitoring of payments and integrations, and priority response.

No minimum term, no notice period, no exit fee. If a month was not worth what you paid for it, you should be able to stop, and you can.

Our flagship, priced publicly


Arth Messenger starts at ₹199 a month.

WhatsApp automation is a product rather than a project, so it is sold by subscription and you can try the whole thing before you pay anything.

  • Free to explore before you connect a number. No card needed to look around.
  • Guided setup included with every plan, at no extra cost.
  • WhatsApp’s own message charges passed through at cost. Most platforms add around 20 per cent. We add nothing.
  • No lock-in. Cancel from your account at any time.

The small print, in normal words


Five things worth knowing.

All prices exclude tax. Clients in India are charged 18% GST on top, and the total is always shown before you pay.

Clients outside India are billed in US dollars and no GST applies.

Everything except the monthly plans is a fixed price against a written scope. It does not move unless you ask for something new, and we price that separately for you to approve first.

Monthly plans have no minimum term and no notice period. Stop whenever you like.

Advertising budget is paid by you, directly to Google or Meta, into your own account. We never take a percentage of your advertising spend.

Common questions


About money, specifically.

Are these the real prices, or a starting point for a negotiation?

They are the real prices. Everything except the monthly plans is a fixed price against a written scope, and we would rather publish it than make you ask. If your budget does not reach the tier you want, we will tell you what a smaller version costs rather than quietly cutting corners on the same one.

Why is a website more than the quotes I have seen elsewhere?

Because these prices include the parts that are usually left out and charged for later: the setup that lets Google find you, testing on real devices, written handover, training, and thirty days of fixes after launch. A cheaper quote is not always a cheaper project. If price is the deciding factor, the Launch tier exists for exactly that reason.

Can we start small and add more later?

Yes, and most clients should. A Launch website can grow into a Business one, and an assessment can turn into one automation before it turns into ten. We would rather you bought the smallest thing that solves the problem and came back.

What is not included in these prices?

Domain and hosting fees, which you pay directly and which are yours. App store developer accounts. Advertising budget. Paid fonts, photographs or third-party services, which we always price and get approved before buying. Everything else is in the quoted figure.

Do you charge GST?

Yes, 18 per cent on top of the prices shown, for clients in India, and we issue a tax invoice for every payment. Clients outside India are billed in US dollars and no GST applies.

What if the project takes longer than you thought?

That is our problem, not yours. A fixed price is fixed. The only thing that changes the figure is you asking for something that was not in the written scope, and we price that separately for you to approve before doing it.

Not sure which size you need?

Book a free 30-minute call. We will tell you which tier fits, and if none of them does, we will say that too.