How We Bill · Veles Labs
Pricing — fixed price per job, quoted after a free scoping call. How Veles Labs bills.
Every job quoted on its own scope.
One fixed number for the whole build — agreed before work starts, and it doesn’t move.
Model
Fixed price, per job
Quoted after
A free 30-min call
Hourly billing
Never
Ownership
Yours, day one
What we build
01 — The Principle
We don’t sell packages,because no two builds are alike.
So the number comes after the conversation, not before it — one fixed price for the whole build, in writing, before work starts.
02 — Where Projects Land
Not a menu. A range,and yours sits somewhere on it.
Site and platform work shares enough shape to publish a range. Everything else is quoted from zero.
01
From $2,000
A complete custom site, integrated with the systems you already run.
02
$5,000 – $15,000
A site with a backend: database, accounts, an admin your team operates.
03
$15,000 – $50,000
Software, not a website: internal tools, custom workflows, systems joined.
04
$50,000 +
Platforms carrying live operations, built to hold under load.
03 — Quoted From Zero
Some disciplines have no shape.We won’t invent one.
These vary too widely between engagements to print a number we’d have to walk back — so they’re scoped individually, every time.
AI agents & automation
From one recurring process to an entire business function.
Game development
From a vertical slice to a shipped title.
Bespoke systems
Replacing, joining, or carrying obligations that can’t go down.
Brand & digital identity
From a single mark to a system across every surface.
04 — Hosting & Care
Hosting keeps it on.Work orders change it.
The one thing we can print a price for. Every plan runs on private infrastructure with 99.9% uptime — the same stack we deploy our own work on.
01
Hosted.
$80/month
Hosting, and only hosting.
Private server, sized to the site
SSL, firewall, 99.9% uptime ensured
Weekly backups, off-server
Managed DNS + global CDN
Changes by work order — $110/hr, quoted first
02
Hosted & Kept.
$150/month
Hosting, plus the upkeep.
Everything in Hosted
Monthly updates & security patches
Daily backups, 30-day retention
Hardened edge + web application firewall
Up to 1 hour of changes each month
03
Hosted & Handled.
$325/month
The site becomes our problem, not yours.
Everything in Hosted & Kept
Up to 3 hours of changes each month
Priority response — typically within 1–2 hours
Quarterly performance & security review
Further work at $95/hr, quoted first
Month to month — cancel with 30 days’ notice; the site, the data and the domain leave with you.
Traffic overages pass through at cost. Outgrow the server and the next tier is quoted before anything changes.
A site we didn’t build: one-time setup from $250, quoted with the plan.
05 — Getting To A Number
Four steps.The price is fixed at step two.
01
Scoping call
Thirty minutes, free, no pitch. If we’re not the right team, we say so here.
02
Fixed proposal
One number, scope written beside it, timeline committed — before any code exists.
The price is fixed here
03
Build, with weekly demos
Something you can click every week, not a status report.
04
Handover
Source, docs, design files, deployment access — all of it, day one.
Payment Schedule
Payments release against the work, never the calendar.
Projects from $5,000 — three stages
40%
Puts the job in the schedule; work starts.
40%
When you can use the build yourself in a review environment.
20%
Source, docs, access transferred.
Under $5,000 — two stages
50%
Half up front; smaller jobs don’t need a midpoint invoice.
50%
Balance on delivery, everything transferred.
06 — Questions, Answered
Pricing, plainly.
Why are there bands for sites but not for the rest?
Because site and platform work repeats enough that a range tells you something true, and the other disciplines don't. An automation brief and a game brief can each swing by an order of magnitude on details that only surface in conversation. Publishing a figure we'd immediately have to qualify would be a guess dressed up as a price — you'd plan around it, and one of us would end up disappointed.
What if the project turns out bigger than we thought?
If we estimated wrong, that's ours to absorb — the price is fixed. If you add scope, we quote the addition separately and you approve it before work starts.
Can we start small and expand?
Usually the better plan. Phase one stands on its own in production; phase two gets quoted when you've seen it run.
We already have something. Do we pay for a review?
The first look is free — we'll tell you honestly whether to fix it, rebuild it, or leave it alone. If you want the full audit in writing, that runs $200–$500 depending on size, credited in full toward the build if we proceed.
On a hosting plan, what counts as a change?
Anything that alters the site — a new page, a feature, a design tweak, content swapped in by us. Hosting covers the server, the certificate, the backups and the uptime. Changes are quoted as work orders, or drawn from your plan's monthly hours if you're on Kept or Handled.
Can you host a site you didn't build?
Usually, yes. We'll look it over first — free — then a one-time setup from $250 moves it onto our stack, and any tier applies from there.
Something more specific? [email protected] answers at any hour — typically within four.
