Most agencies make you sit through a discovery call before they will tell you what a developer costs per month. That is a sales tactic, not a pricing model. Here is the whole rate card, plus the maths on when hiring individuals beats buying a managed team.
Monthly rates per specialist, full-time
These are full-time rates — 160 hours a month, dedicated to one client. They include management overhead, equipment and cover for leave, which is the part in-house budgets always forget.
- Frontend Developer — $1,200 junior / $1,900 mid / $2,900 senior
- Backend Developer — $1,300 / $2,000 / $3,100
- Full-Stack Developer — $1,400 / $2,200 / $3,300
- Mobile Developer (Flutter, React Native) — $1,300 / $2,100 / $3,200
- UI/UX Designer — $1,000 / $1,600 / $2,400
- QA Engineer — $900 / $1,400 / $2,200
- DevOps / Cloud Engineer — $1,500 / $2,400 / $3,600
- Data / AI Engineer — $1,600 / $2,600 / $3,900
- Project Manager — $1,200 / $1,900 / $2,800
What in-house hiring really costs
A developer’s salary is only about 60–70% of what they cost you. Add recruitment fees, equipment, workspace, software licences, training, paid leave, bonuses and the productivity gap during the first three months. Then add the risk: if they resign you are back to a six-to-ten-week hiring cycle with a half-finished feature. Three mid-level in-house hires realistically cost $6,500+ a month fully loaded. A managed pod covering the same output starts at $1,799.
Individual specialists versus a managed pod
Hiring individuals makes sense when you already have strong technical leadership and just need hands — you direct the work and own the process. A managed pod makes sense when you do not want to run a development process at all: it comes with a project manager, QA and DevOps built in, and one person accountable for delivery. Buying three individuals separately usually costs more than the equivalent pod, because you pay for capacity you cannot fully use.
Part-time is under-used and often the right answer
Many businesses need eight to twenty hours of engineering a week, not forty. Part-time specialists cost about 55% of the full-time rate. If you are considering a full-time hire to cover intermittent work, run the part-time numbers first — it is often half the cost for the same delivered output, because you stop paying for idle time.
Questions to ask before you sign
Ask who exactly is on the team, by name and CV — not “a senior developer”. Ask about notice periods and whether you can swap someone who is not working out. Ask how time is reported and verified. Ask what happens to the code, credentials and documentation if you leave. Vague answers to any of these are the warning sign, not the rate.
The short version
A dedicated team is a lever, not a cost centre. Priced honestly and managed properly it delivers more engineering per taka than any in-house equivalent at the same budget — and you can turn it up or down as the business changes.
Frequently asked questions
Between $900 and $3,900 depending on role and seniority. A mid-level full-stack developer working full-time is $2,200 a month; the same role part-time is about $1,210.
With us, no — plans are month-to-month with 14 days' notice. Many agencies require three to six months, so check before you commit.
You should insist on it. Anyone unwilling to let you interview the specific people who will do your work is planning to substitute them later.
Bangladesh is GMT+6, giving four to five overlapping hours with Europe and two to three with the US East Coast. We schedule core overlap hours into the engagement rather than leaving it to chance.
See the full published rate card
Every role, every seniority, in USD or BDT — with no form to fill in first.
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