What does €5,000 actually buy?

A working product with real users and at least one measurable number — sign-ups, activity or payments. That beats any pitch deck, and it is exactly what a first version must achieve.

Is MVP code good enough to build on?

Here — yes, by design: when the assumption holds, the system grows rather than gets rewritten. A throwaway MVP means paying twice.

How do you keep the scope honest?

The quote lists what is excluded, not just included. Projects blow up on what was left outside the lines — so we draw the lines in writing before work starts.

What if the idea turns out not to work?

Then you learned it at the lowest possible price — a good outcome. The bad outcome is spending a year building something nobody needs. On a fair share of first calls we talk founders out of building, because a cheaper test exists.

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How much does MVP development cost in 2026?

At Corera, a first working product version starts at €5,000 and ships in 2–6 weeks. The budget is driven less by feature count than by integrations and user-flow complexity — a well-trimmed first version often costs far less than the version founders first scope. You receive a fixed quote with milestones within 3–5 business days after a free 30-minute call.

What drives the cost?

Scope discipline. An MVP exists to test one assumption. Every feature that doesn't test it is cost without an answer — which is why our first call usually shrinks the scope rather than grows it.
Accounts and payments. Sign-up, authentication, subscriptions, invoices — infrastructure whose cost barely depends on your idea, but without which you can't collect money.
The AI layer. If an LLM sits at the product's core, cost engineering — model tier, caching, structured output — is designed in from day one. Otherwise the model bill quietly overtakes the server bill.
What survives validation. A good MVP is built so that when the assumption holds, you grow the system instead of rewriting it. Those architecture choices cost little now and save a great deal later.

How long does it take?

A typical path: one week for scope and quote, 2–6 weeks to a first working version, then measurement with real users. If two months in you still have nothing to show a user, something was scoped too wide.

When is it not worth buying?

If the assumption can be tested without code — a simple one-page site, a spreadsheet, a manual process — building an MVP is premature. Code is the most expensive way to learn an idea doesn't work. Build when a working product is genuinely required for the test, or when a manual process is already drowning in demand.

Further reading: AI-era software development from the Baltics — the full guide

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