When Wavect is the right fit
- You want scope fixed before you commit a budget
- The product has real integration or compliance weight
- You need senior people and a clear handover
- You want a contract that matches your certainty
Cost guide
How much does custom software cost in Austria?
Budget the same scope across bids. Separate discovery, delivery to acceptance, migration and first-year operation. Wavect’s fixed EUR 3,500 Discovery sprint turns your requirements into a plan and build estimate. Compare pricing models after you know which dependencies and acceptance tests each quote includes.
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Cost is set by scope, seniority, integrations, and compliance. De-risk it with a Discovery sprint before you commit to a build budget.
Best for
- Founders who want a fixed scope before a fixed price
- Products with real integration or compliance requirements
- Teams that need senior people, not the cheapest hands
- MVPs that have to be investor-demo-ready fast
Not for
- Buyers shopping purely on hourly rate
- Throwaway internal scripts a freelancer can finish in days
- Projects with no decision-maker available for Discovery
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Compare the options
Compare discovery with the delivery phase.
What you are buying
Discovery sprint
MVP / full build
Goal
Fix the scope, plan, and risks
Ship working software
Starting cost
EUR 3,500 fixed
Quoted from Discovery output
Timeline
2 to 3 weeks
Weeks for an MVP, longer for full build
Output
Scoped plan, estimate, architecture
Production or pilot-ready product
Best when
Scope still uncertain
Scope is clear and signed off
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Where Wavect lands on this
Use Software Discovery to turn open questions into a scope, a build estimate and an acceptance plan.
A fixed price can work once you can define the result and its acceptance tests. Our fixed-price works contract uses a statement of work to record them. If priorities are still moving, agree a spend cap and review cadence for a time-based engagement.
Use the mobile app budget guide to compare complete app, backend, device QA, release and first-year operating assumptions.
Compare the same first-year scope
Ask each bidder for separate lines for discovery, the accepted build, migration and training, and the first year of operation. For example, EUR 3,500 for discovery, EUR 45,000 for a scoped build, EUR 6,000 for migration and EUR 1,000 a month for operations give EUR 66,500 before VAT. These figures model separately billed work. If a quote credits discovery against the build, subtract that credit once. The inputs are illustrative, not a quote or an Austrian market benchmark. State which items are included, when they are payable and whether VAT is recoverable for your purchase. For a domestic invoice subject to Austria’s standard 20% rate, EUR 66,500 net means EUR 79,800 gross. Austrian business portal on VAT
Check the units on any benchmark. Statistics Austria’s preliminary EUR 45.76 per hour for 2025 is an employer labour-cost figure across the sectors it covers, not a software developer’s billable rate. Compare bids by the cost of the same accepted scope, including who pays to resolve data quality, integration and release issues. Statistics Austria labour costs
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Cost, risk and timeline
Wavect Discovery
EUR 3,500 fixed2 to 3 weeks. Credited in full if you continue the build with Wavect.
Build schedule
Scope-dependentConfirm integration access, acceptance tests and decision dates before committing
Biggest cost risk
Wrong scopeBuilding the right thing beats building cheaply
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Where this usually goes wrong
- Asking for a full-build price before anyone has scoped the build
- Choosing the lowest hourly rate and paying for rework later
- Skipping compliance and integration questions until late in the build
- Signing a fixed price against a scope that is still changing
- No internal decision-maker available to answer Discovery questions
- Treating the MVP as the final product instead of the first version
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The checklist
Before you ask for a price, get these in order.
Tick items off as you go. Nothing is stored or sent.
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What this looks like in our work
These products show what a scoped, senior-led build delivers on a real timeline.
6 weeks
0 to Production
AI-native assessment platform, 0→production in 6 weeks under compressed market pressure.
NestJS
Next.js
LangChain
2 weeks
To Sellable MVP
Took a vibe-coded prototype to enterprise pilot-ready, no shortcuts.
Python
Flask
LLMs
+1,000
Concurrent Users
AR-RWA platform: $2M+ raised through the product, 1,000+ concurrent users, six weeks flat.
Solidity
Typescript
React
These are selected projects, not our full portfolio. We have shipped 100+ products since 2018.
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When this fits, and when it does not
When we are not the fit
- You are buying purely on the lowest hourly rate
- The job is a throwaway script or quick fix
- Nobody internal can answer Discovery questions
Once you understand cost drivers, the next question is who you hire to do the work.
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FAQs
Ask for a price against a written scope. Wavect’s EUR 3,500 Discovery sprint produces a plan and estimate for the build. The first-year example on this page shows how to budget migration and operations separately.
Ask what each bid covers through acceptance, including review, integration, testing and handover. Compare the total cost of that scope alongside the experience of the people assigned.
It is a short, fixed-cost engagement that turns your idea into a scoped plan, architecture, and estimate. It de-risks the build so you commit a budget to a known scope, not a guess.
A fixed price suits a defined result with agreed acceptance criteria. A time-based engagement suits work that needs reprioritising. Agree a cap, how changes are approved and which decisions the client needs to make.
Scope, team seniority, the number of integrations, and compliance requirements. Compliance and integrations are the costs founders most often forget to plan for.