20 hours
$900
$45.00/h · Base rate
A handful of fixes or one small feature.
Buy 20 hoursPREPAID HOURS
Senior engineering hours, bought in blocks, starting at 20.
$45 an hour at 20 hours, 5% off from 40 hours and 10% off above 100. AI-native engineers do the work, a senior reviews every line, and you see where each hour went.
From $900 · 20-hour minimum · NDAs are standard
$45/h
Base rate at 20 hours
10%
Off above 100 hours
11
Roles your hours can go to
12 months
To use your hours
BLOCKS
How much do prepaid development hours cost?
Blocks of 40 hours or more take 5% off the base rate. Above 100 hours, it's 10% off.
40 hours
$1,710
$42.75/h · Save 5%
A feature with a new screen and its tests.
Buy 40 hours60 hours
$2,565
$42.75/h · Save 5%
A few features, or a round of cleanup after launch.
Buy 60 hours★ Recommended
80 hours
$3,420
$42.75/h · Save 5%
A month of steady changes on a live product.
Buy 80 hoursBest rate
120 hours
$4,860
$40.50/h · Save 10%
A larger feature across backend, frontend and QA.
Buy 120 hoursHours stay valid for 12 months and can go toward any of our services. Every role draws on them at the same rate. Need more than 120 hours a month? A retainer gives you a dedicated senior engineer for 150 hours, from $3,375.
CUSTOM AMOUNT
Need a different number of hours?
Pick any whole number from 20 to 120. From 40 hours you get 5% off, and above 100 hours you get 10% off.
WHO WORKS YOUR HOURS
Spend your hours on whichever role the task needs.
You don't pick one person for the whole block. We match each task to the right senior engineer, and a senior reviews every line before merge.
Every engineer is senior, and every role draws from the same balance at the same hourly rate.
Not sure who you need? Ask on a 30-min call →TRACKING
You see every hour, task by task.
EXAMPLE · 80-HOUR BLOCK
| Date | Task | Role | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2 | Repo access and local set-up | Full-Stack | 1h 30m |
| Oct 3 | Fix refund webhook retry | Backend (Laravel) | 2h 30m |
| Oct 4 | Test plan for checkout | QA (Manual) | 1h 30m |
| Oct 6 | Export orders to CSV | Full-Stack | 4h |
USED 9H 30M · LEFT 70H 30M OF 80H
- 01A shared ledger. Each entry has the date, task, role, time and a link to the pull request or ticket.
- 0230-minute increments. Time is logged against a task, never as a lump at month end. Set-up time, like getting access and reading your codebase, is logged the same way.
- 03A monthly statement by email with hours used, hours left and what shipped.
- 04A low-balance alert when 20% of your hours are left, and reminders 30 and 7 days before they expire, 12 months after purchase.
COMPARE
Which fits: prepaid hours, a care plan or a retainer?
| Prepaid hours | Care plan | Continuous Delivery Retainer | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | From $900 (20 h) | Flexible $2,000/mo · Dedicated $4,000/mo | From $3,375/mo for 150 hours |
| You pay | Once per block | Monthly | Monthly |
| Best for | A known list of changes, up to 120 hours | Keeping a live product healthy | A roadmap that needs 120+ hours a month |
| Monitoring and patches | Only if you spend hours on them | Included | Add a care plan |
| Response time | Within 1 business day | Flexible: 1 business day · Dedicated: 4 business hours | Within 1 business day |
| Link | You're here | See care plans → | See the retainer → |
PROOF
Small, steady work that ran for years.
“Arslan understood the requirements from day one and gave great advice on integrating AI into the platform.”
Local Health Marketing has worked with us for years, and our engineers stay on Slack after launch. 5.0 on Clutch across 4 reviews.
FAQ
Questions about prepaid hours.
$45 an hour at 20 hours. From 40 to 100 hours it's $42.75 (5% off), and from 101 to 120 hours it's $40.50 (10% off). The rate is the same for every role.