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Most Core70 engagements run between $40 and $50 per hour — roughly $6,400 to $8,000 per developer per month. No hidden bench fees, no inflated overheads, no blended rates designed to obscure where the money goes.
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Every dollar you pay us is allocated against a fixed internal structure. Not a suggestion. A rule. It is what makes long-term partnerships economically possible — for both sides.
Goes directly to the person writing your code. Salary, benefits, the things that keep senior engineers from leaving after eighteen months. In most agencies this is the line most commonly squeezed. We do not squeeze it.
Your dedicated relationship manager — not a middleman, a business operator with real authority. This line is what makes a ten-, fifteen-, eighteen-year engagement continuous rather than a series of reboots.
Recruitment, onboarding, compliance, HR, tooling, quality, operations. Capped at twenty percent, transparently. If this quietly grew to thirty, the first two numbers would have to shrink — so we keep it at twenty.
The most expensive mistake in software services is the one the client cannot see: turnover. Keeping the same team on a mission-critical system for eighteen years is not a cost-saving strategy. It is the entire strategy.
There is no minimum team size. There is no minimum contract length. Proofs of concept are welcome — most of our long-term engagements started with exactly that.
Many of our long-running partnerships started with a single contact-form message and one engineer on a small initial scope. From there they grew — into multi-country e-commerce platforms, agritech systems running across three continents, and Fortune 500 ERP deployments serving thousands of users.
The model rewards clients who start small and stay long. If a single engineer for a single month is all you need to find out whether we're right for you, that's a conversation we want to have.
Contact us and we'll come back within one business day with a specific quote inside the range above.
If your question isn't here, email hello@core70.com and we'll answer it directly.
Because engagements are shaped by real variables — seniority, stack, region, engagement length. A rate card would force us to quote the top of the range to everyone, or commit to numbers we cannot honestly deliver on. The range above is the honest answer: this is where the majority of our engagements land.
When the role requires an engineer based in a higher-cost market, or when seniority exceeds what the main range supports (lead architect, principal engineer). Both are uncommon. We will tell you in the first conversation whether your request is in or out of the main range.
The engineer's time, technical delivery, standard project management, standard QA, and the infrastructure for collaboration. Not included: third-party licenses, cloud spend passed through at cost, and travel if the engagement requires on-site presence.
The 70/10/20 structure already builds long-term continuity into the default pricing. We do not discount the 70% — that goes to engineers whose cost does not fall with scale. Where scale produces efficiency is in the 20% overhead layer, and those efficiencies are passed through as a matter of course, not negotiated.
Monthly, in USD, AUD, or GBP. Net 30 by default, adjustable for enterprise clients with standard procurement terms.
Standard notice is thirty days on either side. No long lock-ins. If you need to scale down or pause, the flexible team model — which in some of our engagements has moved between five and twenty engineers depending on season — is designed for exactly that.
One business day. Just a real number inside the range above.