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App development in 2026: a simple cross-platform app costs €25,000–€50,000, medium complexity €50,000–€100,000, complex apps €100,000+. Native with two codebases runs 1.6–1.8x that. Plus the part nobody budgets: 15–25% of the build cost per year to keep it alive.

Custom web application development in Germany: internal tools run €15,000–€40,000, customer portals €30,000–€80,000, complex platforms €80,000–€250,000+. The price drivers are user roles, ERP/CRM integrations, compliance and data migration — not the number of screens.

€2,000–€6,000 for a simple one-way sync, €8,000–€20,000 for bidirectional sync with mapping, €20,000–€50,000+ when a legacy system has no real API. The cost is rarely the happy path — it's error handling, auth lifecycles, and data mapping.

Incremental modernization of a typical SME system costs €40,000–€150,000 spread over 6-18 months. Full rewrites cost 2-4x that and fail more often. Here's how to estimate your case — and the situations where doing nothing is correct.

German software agencies charge €85–€180/hour in 2026. Freelancers range from €60–€140, enterprise consultancies from €160–€250. The real question isn't the rate — it's the cost per shipped feature. Here are the numbers.

A RAG chatbot on your own docs costs €8,000–€25,000 to build and €50–€500/month to run. A fully integrated support agent runs €25,000–€60,000. Here's the breakdown — and when you shouldn't build one at all.

We've built 30+ MVPs. Simple ones start at €25,000. AI-powered SaaS products go up to €120,000. Here's exactly where the money goes — with real numbers from our projects.