Project Cost Estimator
Estimates website project cost in 2 minutes from public rate data, no sign-up
Enter a project type, developer location, and freelancer-vs-agency, and it returns a cost estimate — hours times hourly rate plus a risk buffer — calibrated against 600+ real project quotes across six markets, targeting ±18% of market rates. It doesn't build websites itself, so the site argues the number has no reason to be inflated. The underlying dataset — geographic multipliers, hourly rates, methodology — is public JSON under CC BY 4.0, mirrored on Hugging Face and Kaggle with a free API.
What holds up
- +Publishes the full rate dataset as CC BY 4.0 JSON on Hugging Face and Kaggle — check the math yourself
- +Doesn't sell website builds, so it has no incentive to inflate the estimate
- +Free, no signup — a real number in about two minutes
- +Calibrated against 600+ real project quotes across six markets, targeting ±18% accuracy
Mind the limits
- −±18% is still a wide band — a $5,500 median project could reasonably land $1,000 either side
- −Only covers six markets (Asia, Europe, UK, Australia, US) — no rates for the rest of the world
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