How much does a Web3 MVP cost?

A Web3 MVP at 137 ranges from €19,000 for a 4-week testnet prototype to €79,000 for an 8-week tokenized product with frontends and integrations. The industry average is €50,000 to €250,000 over three to five months.

How long does it take to build a Web3 MVP?

Four to eight weeks, depending on scope. Industry timelines for the same scope average sixteen weeks.

What is included in a fixed-price MVP?

Fixed-price MVPs include discovery, smart contracts, frontend, wallet and auth integration, tests, and deployment scripts. Audit coordination is included from 6-week scope and up. We absorb the cost of overruns.

Which blockchains do you build on?

We build on Ethereum, Solana, and major EVM and L2 networks including Base, Arbitrum, and Optimism. Chain choice is part of the discovery sprint.

Do you handle smart contract audits?

We write contracts audit-clean from day one and coordinate with external audit firms. AI audit tools catch only about forty percent of what a human audit finds, so independent human review is non-negotiable.

Why not just use AI to generate the code?

In 2026, ninety-two percent of AI-generated codebases ship with at least one critical vulnerability and forty-five percent of AI-written code contains security flaws. In a SaaS app a flaw is a bug. In a smart contract it can drain the entire treasury.

The honest number

How much does a web3 MVP actually cost in 2026?

The answer most agencies will not give you in writing.

7 min read·Updated April 2026

Search this question and you will find a wall of agency landing pages quoting €25,000 to €375,000+. Three to five months. Wide ranges, no commitment, no real scope. The point of those pages is not to answer your question. It is to keep the question open until you book a discovery call.

This page is the opposite. Below are our actual prices, exactly what is in each tier, what changes the number, and what we explicitly do not charge for.

The market vs us

Industry average

€80,000

Sixteen weeks. Hourly billing. Scope creep absorbed by you.

137

€39,000

Six weeks. Fixed price. We absorb overruns, not you.

You keep

€41,000
10 weeks

Spend it on distribution, not on us learning your stack.

What we actually charge

Three tiers. Fixed price. Fixed deadline. We commit in writing before any work starts. If we underscope, we eat the difference. That is the contract.

4 weeks · €19,000

Validate.

Idea to working prototype on testnet. Wallets, auth, one contract, one chain. Built to put in front of users and investors before you raise.

6 weeks · €39,000

Mainnet.

Audit-ready code. Frontend, contracts, tests, deploy scripts. Mainnet on the day you say go. Most teams pick this one.

8 weeks · €79,000

Round-ready.

Tokens, frontends, integrations. Multi-chain. Built for the round you are about to raise, not the demo you are about to give.

What moves the price up

Honest list of the variables that take a quote past the published tier. We will name them on the scoping call before you sign anything.

Multi-chain deployment with cross-chain messaging or bridges
Custom token economics with vesting, staking, or rebasing logic
KYC, compliance flows, or jurisdiction-specific gating
Off-chain components: indexers, custom oracles, message queues
Native mobile wrappers (we ship web by default)
Production load testing for >10k concurrent users at launch

Most founder-tier MVPs do not need any of the above. If yours does, we say so on the call and quote a higher tier rather than discovering it in week three.

What we do not charge for

Anything billed by other agencies as a separate line item that we consider part of doing the job:

Discovery and scoping calls. Free. Either we agree on the work or we do not take it.
Project management overhead. We do not staff an account manager between you and the engineers.
Status reports, retros, sprint ceremonies. We send testnet links instead.
Code overruns. If we underscoped, that is our problem, not yours.
Thirty days of post-launch support on anything we shipped. Bugs are ours.

What sits outside the price

In the spirit of not surprising you on the invoice:

External audit fees. We coordinate with audit firms and write contracts audit-clean from day one. The audit firm bills you directly. Typical range: €10k–€30k for a six-week tier scope.
Mainnet gas to deploy. Usually under €500 on an L2. We can run this through your wallet or ours, your call.
Third-party services with metered pricing: RPC providers, indexer hosting, oracles. We pick sane defaults; you own the accounts.

Bring a deadline. Leave with a price and a ship date.

A scoping call takes 30–60 minutes. By the end of it we either agree on the scope, the price, and the date, or we do not take the work.