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Mobile development, Backend, Infrastructure / DevOps / SRE
Russian prices for 2026, VAT excluded. Mobile apps and large backend systems — either fixed price per project or by sprints (T&M). Ongoing support and DevOps — on a monthly retainer / SLA.
3.1
Mobile development
Breakdown — individual sub-services
| Service | Russian market, $ | inreallab, $ |
|---|---|---|
| MVP (1 platform / cross-platform) | from $12,500 | |
| Mid-complexity | from $44,000 | |
| Complex / enterprise | from $150,000 | |
| Super-app | from $250,000 | |
| iOS native (Swift) | from $14,000 / $32,500 / $62,500 | |
| Android native (Kotlin) | from $12,500 / $31,500 / $60,000 | |
| Flutter (cross-platform) | from $16,500 / $30,000 / $56,500 | |
| React Native (cross-platform) | from $16,500 / $30,000 / $56,500 | |
| PWA | from $5,700 | |
| Mini App (Telegram / VK / MAX) | simple from $4,400 / e-com from $8,800 / game from $19,000 | |
| Desktop (Electron/Tauri/.NET) | from $8,800 | |
| Publishing to RuStore (app not built by us) | from $750 |
Breakdown — individual sub-services
| Service | Russian market, $ | inreallab, $ |
|---|---|---|
| Publishing to the App Store (build, metadata, passing Apple Review) | from $600 | |
| Publishing to Google Play | from $440 | |
| Publishing to AppGallery (Huawei) / NashStore / Xiaomi GetApps | from $380 | |
| Registration and setup of developer accounts (Apple Developer $99/year, Google $25, RuStore) — setup service, vendor fees billed separately | from $190 | |
| ASO — store listing optimisation (title, keywords, screenshots, A/B) — one-off | from $600 | |
| ASO — ongoing retainer (rank monitoring, iterations) | from $440 / month | |
| Push notifications: setup (APNs/FCM/RuStore push, segments, triggers) | from $500 | |
| Mobile payments integration (YooKassa / SBP (instant payments) / in-app acquiring) | from $1,200 | |
| In-app subscriptions and purchases (App Store / Google Play billing, RuStore billing) | from $1,500 | |
| Mobile analytics: connection and setup (AppMetrica / Firebase / Amplitude, funnels, events) | from $750 | |
| Mobile QA testing (manual + automated tests on devices/emulators) | from $25/hour or from $1,900 | |
| App localisation (translation + UI adaptation to language/region) | from $440 | |
| CI/CD setup for mobile (Fastlane, automated builds, TestFlight / internal tracks) | from $1,500 | |
| App ongoing support and maintenance (SLA retainer: monitoring, fixes, releases) | from $750 / month | |
| App updates for new iOS/Android versions and new devices (no feature changes) | from $1,200 | |
| Technical audit + refactoring of mobile code (inherited project) | audit from $1,200 / refactoring from $3,800 | |
| Porting an app between stacks (native → Flutter/RN or back), rewrite | from $11,500 | |
| Apple Watch / WearOS app (additional target to the main one) | from $4,400 | |
| Home screen widgets (iOS WidgetKit / Android) | from $1,200 | |
| Tablet adaptation (iPad / Android tablet layout) | from $1,900 | |
| Maps and geolocation integration (Yandex Maps / 2GIS SDK, tracking, geofences) | from $900 | |
| Offline mode and background data synchronisation | from $1,900 | |
| Migration of the mobile backend from Firebase/Google services to Russian infrastructure (push, analytics, crash reporting) | from $1,500 |
Breakdown of "Mobile" — individual sub-services:
3.2
Backend
Breakdown — individual sub-services
| Service | Russian market, $ | inreallab, $ |
|---|---|---|
| API Start | from $7,500 | |
| API Business | from $19,000 | |
| API Pro | from $37,500 | |
| Microservice architecture | from $37,500 | |
| Highload system | from $75,000 (highload audit from $4,400) | |
| Integration layer | from $1,200 – $3,800 | |
| Bots and automations | from $1,200 |
Breakdown — individual sub-services
| Service | Russian market, $ | inreallab, $ |
|---|---|---|
| Simple Telegram bot (notifications / FAQ / enquiries, aiogram) | from $1,200 | |
| Telegram bot with integrations (CRM + payments + database + admin panel) | from $2,300 | |
| Shop bot / e-com bot with payments and catalogue | from $3,200 | |
| AI bot on an LLM (YandexGPT/GigaChat/GPT) with a knowledge base (RAG) | from $3,800 | |
| WhatsApp Business API — connection + chatbot | from $750 + from $100 / month | |
| Voice bot / IVR / robocall system | from $2,500 | |
| Integration with amoCRM / Bitrix24 (implementation + funnel/API setup) | from $1,200 | |
| Payment gateway integration (YooKassa / T-Kassa / CloudPayments / SBP (instant payments)) | from $900 | |
| Integration with 1C (data exchange / synchronisation of items, orders, stock) | from $1,500 | |
| Integration with marketplaces (Wildberries / Ozon / Yandex Market API) | from $1,900 | |
| Integration with state systems (Chestny ZNAK / EGAIS / SMEV / GIS ZhKH) | from $3,200 | |
| Authentication via Gosuslugi (ESIA, the Russian state services ID) / OAuth SSO / Keycloak | from $1,900 | |
| GraphQL API (development or REST → GraphQL conversion) | from $3,200 | |
| WebSocket / real-time layer (chats, live notifications, presence) | from $2,500 | |
| Queues / message broker (RabbitMQ / Kafka — implementation) | from $1,900 | |
| Redis caching + API response optimisation | from $1,200 | |
| API documentation (OpenAPI / Swagger, Postman collection) | from $750 | |
| Backend audit / code review (security, architecture, technical debt) | from $1,500 | |
| Legacy backend refactoring / splitting a monolith into services | from $5,000 | |
| Load testing (k6 / JMeter / Locust + report) | from $1,500 | |
| Backend ongoing support on a monthly retainer (SLA) | from $750 / month | |
| Backend development by the hour (staff augmentation, middle/senior) | from $45 /hour | |
| Data parser / scraper (collection, normalisation, export) | from $750 |
Breakdown of "Backend" — individual sub-services:
3.3
Databases
Breakdown — individual sub-services
| Service | Russian market, $ | inreallab, $ |
|---|---|---|
| Database design | from $1,500 | |
| Optimisation / audit | from $1,500 (or from $50/hour DBA) | |
| Data migration / DBMS move | from $1,900 |
Breakdown — individual sub-services
| Service | Russian market, $ | inreallab, $ |
|---|---|---|
| Express health check / database diagnostics (one-off performance audit) | from $380 | |
| PostgreSQL parameter tuning (postgresql.conf, autovacuum, memory, WAL) | from $500 | |
| Optimisation of specific slow queries (EXPLAIN ANALYZE, rewriting) | from $50/hour | |
| Indexing strategy development / index design | from $500 | |
| Partitioning of large tables (declarative / time-based) | from $750 | |
| Streaming replication setup (master-replica, logical replication) | from $900 | |
| Fault-tolerant PostgreSQL cluster (Patroni + etcd + HAProxy) | from $2,500 | |
| Backup and PITR setup (pgBackRest / WAL-G) | from $650 | |
| Database monitoring setup (Prometheus + pgwatch/Grafana, alerting) | from $650 | |
| Connection pool setup (PgBouncer / Odyssey) | from $320 | |
| Oracle → PostgreSQL migration (schema, PL/SQL→PL/pgSQL, data) | from $5,700 | |
| MS SQL Server → PostgreSQL migration | from $4,400 | |
| MySQL/MariaDB → PostgreSQL migration | from $2,300 | |
| Move to a Russian DBMS (Postgres Pro / Tantor / Jatoba, the Russian software registry) | from $4,400 | |
| Development of stored procedures / functions / triggers (PL/pgSQL) | from $45/hour | |
| DWH / data mart design and implementation (star/snowflake) | from $3,800 | |
| ETL/ELT pipelines (Airflow / dbt / NiFi) | from $2,300 | |
| ClickHouse deployment and setup (analytics, cluster) | from $2,300 | |
| NoSQL storage design (MongoDB / Redis / caching layer) | from $1,500 | |
| Setup of roles, permissions, encryption and database security auditing | from $650 | |
| Database administration on a monthly retainer (DBA as a service, SLA) | from $500 / month | |
| Emergency recovery / rescue of a failed database (urgent) | from $75/hour | |
| PostgreSQL training / consulting for the client's team | from $75/hour |
Breakdown of "Databases" — individual sub-services:
3.4
Infrastructure, DevOps, SRE
Breakdown — individual sub-services
| Service | Russian market, $ | inreallab, $ |
|---|---|---|
| CI/CD setup | from $1,500 | |
| Containerisation and K8s | from $3,200 | |
| Infrastructure as Code | from $2,300 | |
| Monitoring and alerting | from $1,700 | |
| Russian cloud setup (Yandex/VK/Selectel) | from $1,900 | |
| Cloud migration | from $3,800 (pilot from $1,900) | |
| Highload infrastructure | from $6,300 | |
| Load testing | from $1,900 | |
| DevSecOps (infrastructure hardening) | from $2,300 | |
| Testing (QA) | from $1,900 |
Breakdown — individual sub-services
| Service | Russian market, $ | inreallab, $ |
|---|---|---|
| Turnkey server/VPS setup (initial) | from $320 | |
| Moving an application/website to another server or hosting provider | from $250 | |
| SSL/HTTPS setup + reverse proxy (nginx/Traefik) | from $130 | |
| Express infrastructure audit (health check, checklist) | from $1,000 | |
| Backup setup + DR plan | from $750 | |
| Self-hosted K8s cluster installation (kubespray / bare metal) | from $3,200 | |
| Kubernetes cluster audit (security, resources, cost) | from $1,500 | |
| Helm chart development / packaging an application into Helm | from $650 | |
| Ingress + cert-manager + TLS automation setup | from $600 | |
| Service Mesh implementation (Istio / Linkerd) | from $2,500 | |
| GitOps implementation (ArgoCD / FluxCD) | from $1,700 | |
| Artefact repository setup (Nexus / Harbor / JFrog) | from $900 | |
| CI/CD migration between systems (Jenkins → GitLab CI etc.) | from $1,700 | |
| Self-hosted runners / build agents setup + build speed-up | from $650 | |
| Terraform module development / refactoring | from $1,200 | |
| Centralised logging (ELK / OpenSearch / Loki) | from $1,500 | |
| Distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry / Jaeger / Tempo) | from $1,300 | |
| Grafana dashboard development / Zabbix setup | from $600 | |
| Secret management (HashiCorp Vault / OpenBao) | from $1,300 | |
| Cloud cost optimisation (FinOps / rightsizing) | from $1,500 | |
| Database fault tolerance (PostgreSQL HA / Patroni / replication) | from $1,900 | |
| Replacing the K8s platform with a Russian one (Deckhouse / migration off OpenShift) | from $4,400 | |
| Outsourced DevOps engineer (part-time retainer) | from $1,500 / month (or from $45/hour) |
Infrastructure support (SLA): Basic — from $750/month (response ≤8 h, 8×5, up to 10 h); Standard — from $1,900/month (≤4 h, up to 25 h); Business — from $3,500/month (≤2 h, 12×7, up to 50 h); Enterprise/SRE — from $5,700/month (≤30 min, 24×7 on-call).
Application support: Light — from $500/month (monitoring + hot fixes); Support — from $1,200/month (+ store updates, minor customisations); Growth — from $2,300/month (product development, sprints).
Breakdown of "Infrastructure-DevOps-SRE" — individual sub-services:
3.5
Rate card (outstaffing / T&M / dedicated team)
Breakdown — individual sub-services
| Service | Russian market, $ | inreallab, $ |
|---|---|---|
| Junior developer | from $15 | |
| Middle (mobile/backend) | from $35 | |
| Senior developer | from $40 (standard) / from $50 (named selection, rare stack) | |
| Team lead / architect | team lead from $50 / architect for a specific task from $70 | |
| DevOps engineer | from $35 | |
| SRE (on-call) | from $40 | |
| DBA | from $40 | |
| QA / load testing | from $30 | |
| Systems analyst | from $35 | |
| Project manager | from $35 |
Breakdown — individual sub-services
| Service | Russian market, $ | inreallab, $ |
|---|---|---|
| iOS developer (Swift/SwiftUI), Middle→Senior | from $40 /hour | |
| Android developer (Kotlin/Compose), Middle→Senior | from $40 /hour | |
| Flutter / React Native developer (cross-platform) | from $35 /hour | |
| Frontend developer (React/Vue/TS) | from $35 /hour | |
| Fullstack developer | from $40 /hour | |
| Go / Golang developer (scarce stack) | from $50 /hour | |
| QA automation engineer (SDET, automated tests) | from $35 /hour | |
| Manual QA tester, Junior→Middle | from $20 /hour | |
| Intern / Trainee (under a mentor) | from 800 /hour — only under a mentor and by agreement, not a standard line | |
| UX/UI designer (product/interface), Middle→Senior | from $30 /hour | |
| Business analyst (requirements, processes) | from $35 /hour | |
| ML/Data Scientist (models, ML pipelines) | from $50 /hour | |
| Data engineer (ETL, data marts, warehouses) | from $45 /hour | |
| MLOps engineer | from $60 /hour (by agreement, scarce profile) | |
| 1C developer (outstaffing) | from $35 /hour | |
| Technical writer / documentation | from $25 /hour | |
| Scrum master / Agile coach | from $40 /hour | |
| Support engineer L1 / L2 / L3 | L1 from 900 / L2 from $25 / L3 from $40 /hour | |
| Turnkey dedicated team (pod of 4–5 specialists) | from $16,500/month | |
| Partial allocation (part-time < full-time) | +20% on the base rate | |
| Urgent / out-of-hours work (nights, weekends, overtime) | ×1,5 (nights/weekends), ×2,0 (crunch/deadline) | |
| Onboarding / ramp-up of a specialist into the project | usually included or by agreement; where billed — from $500 or the first 20 h at a 50% discount | |
| Trial period + specialist replacement guarantee | 1-week trial, free replacement within the first month | |
| Minimum engagement volume (T&M) | from 40 h/month per specialist |
Breakdown of "Rate card" — individual sub-services:
3.6
Localisation and i18n for applications and software
Breakdown — individual sub-services
| Service | Russian market, $ | inreallab, $ |
|---|---|---|
| Turnkey application / software localisation into a language | from $700 | |
| Project i18n architecture (internationalisation framework) | from $1,800 | |
| Interface translation and adaptation | from $320 per language | |
| Language switcher + per-language SEO (hreflang) | from $320 | |
| RTL adaptation (Arabic / Hebrew / Farsi) | from $1,200 | |
| Store listing localisation (ASO) into a language | from $150 per language | |
| Continuous localisation (Crowdin/Weblate), retainer | setup from $900 + from $230 / month |
Breakdown — individual sub-services
| Service | Russian market, $ | inreallab, $ |
|---|---|---|
| i18n readiness audit — report on hardcoded strings, formats and layouts | from $380 | |
| Moving hardcoded strings from code into resource files (string externalisation) | from $600 | |
| LQA — linguistic testing of the localisation, per language | from $230 per language | |
| MTPE — machine translation + native-speaker post-editing (cheaper than full translation) | from $150 per language | |
| Localisation glossary and style guide (terminology management) | from $380 | |
| i18n library integration (i18next / FormatJS / Flutter intl / iOS-Android native) | from $440 | |
| Localisation pipeline automation (CI/CD + Crowdin/Lokalise API, auto-sync) | from $600 | |
| Localisation of push notifications, e-mail and SMS templates, per language | from $100 per language | |
| Localisation of legal documents (Privacy Policy / ToS / EULA), per language | from $230 per language | |
| Localisation of documentation / help / knowledge base, per language | from $320 per language | |
| Localisation of graphics, screenshots and banners for the locale | from $190 per language | |
| Transcreation — cultural adaptation of marketing copy | from $380 per language | |
| Localisation of subtitles and voice-over in an app or video | from $250 | |
| Adding one more language to an existing locale set (incremental, on the existing framework) | from $250 per language | |
| Express localisation (urgent language launch) — rush surcharge | +35% on the rate |
Breakdown of "Localisation-i18n" — individual sub-services:
Sources: [Purrweb](https://www.purrweb.com/ru/blog/skolko-stoit-razrabotka-prilozheniya/), [AppCraft](https://appcraft.pro/blog/stoimost-razrabotki-prilozheniya/), [YuSMP — Flutter](https://blog.yusmpgroup.ru/razrabotka-na-flutter-cena), [Surf — backend](https://surf.ru/backend/), [Selectel](https://selectel.ru/solutions/daas/), [g-lab — DevOps](https://www.g-lab.ru/services/devops-i-qa/devops-prices/), [Augment — 2026 rates](https://augment-tech.ru/news/blog/skolko-stoit-autstaffing-it-spetsialista-v-2026-tablitsa-stavok-po-rolyam/), [ICL — Yandex Cloud migration](https://icl-services.com/services/migratsiya-v-oblako/migratsiya-infrastruktury-v-oblako-yandex-cloud/).
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