--- title: "Dedicated Development Team Cost in 2026: One Monthly Fee" description: "Dedicated development team cost and offshore development team cost in one fee: managed developers from USD 2,200 a month, HR and office included." url: "https://azendo.co/pricing/" --- 1. [Home](https://azendo.co/) 2. Pricing # What a dedicated development team costs: one fixed monthly fee. The cost of your dedicated development team at Azendo is one fee, the same every month, for an agreed capacity in hours. A developer starts from USD 2,200 per month at junior level, fully managed, with everything included. The capacity is a yearly average with annual leave and public holidays already deducted, so the price never moves. [Get your price](https://azendo.co/pricing/#builder) [See price examples](https://azendo.co/pricing/#prices) Prefer to talk now? [Call +1 (855) 996-0993](tel:+18559960993) One invoice Per month, for the whole team No hidden fees No upfront fee, no management surcharge, no equipment invoice Monthly report Delivery and capacity, reported every month Replacements handled If a specialist isn't the right fit, we find the one who is Try us, at zero risk. * No deposit * No upfront fee * No commitment [Get in touch](https://azendo.co/pricing/#builder) ## The cost of a dedicated development team, with everything included. One monthly fee covers the developer and everything around them. We employ, equip, manage and develop your team, so you get a managed service and one invoice. With plain [staff augmentation](https://azendo.co/blog/engagement-models/staff-augmentation/) or [offshore staffing](https://azendo.co/blog/engagement-models/offshore-staffing/) you'd pay a rate and do the managing yourself. ### Price examples Junior level unless marked, working full time on your product. Mid-level and senior levels are priced in your proposal. Prices updated 22 October 2026. * [Full stack developer](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-software-development-team/full-stack-developer/) From **USD 2,200** per month * [Backend developer](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-software-development-team/backend-developer/) From **USD 2,200** per month * [Software architect](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-software-development-team/software-architect/) From **USD 4,500** per month, mid-level Other roles a team often needs * [QA engineer](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-qa-and-testing-team/qa-engineer/) From **USD 2,100** per month * [DevOps engineer](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-cloud-and-devops-team/devops-engineer/) From **USD 2,400** per month * [Data engineer](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-data-engineering-team/data-engineer/) From **USD 2,500** per month ### What every price includes 27 things you would otherwise arrange, pay for and manage yourself. Service We manage and develop the team * A service delivery manager who runs the team and answers for delivery * A 1:1 with our Head of Delivery every two weeks * Weekly delivery scoring and monthly capacity reports * A Talent Success Manager for every specialist * Training through the Azendo Academy, so every specialist is AI ready * Coaching every month and technical mentoring * 1:1 meetings and well-being check-ins every two weeks * 360-degree performance reviews every quarter * A development plan with skill targets * Handover planning when a specialist moves on HR We are the employer * Recruitment and technical assessment * Employment contracts * Salary and payroll * Tax and social security * Benefits, insurance and leave * Local labour compliance * IP and confidentiality agreements Facilitation We provide the workplace * A desk in our own office in Chiang Mai or Bangkok * A Workplace Experience Manager on site * Team events through the year * IT support * Secure network, access control and VPN * Backup power and connectivity Equipment We supply the tools * Laptop and hardware * Software licences * LinkedIn Learning access * Device security and management **All included in the monthly price.** No upfront fee, no management surcharge and no equipment invoice. ## How to estimate the cost of your dedicated development team. Four steps take you from the price examples to your monthly rate, and you probably know most of the answers already. 01 ### Choose the disciplines A QA engineer, a senior React developer and a data engineer each have their own rate. Scarcer disciplines cost more, and you see which is which up front. 02 ### Pick the seniority Junior, mid-level, senior or lead. Most roadmaps need a mix of levels, with senior people where they matter most. 03 ### Set the monthly capacity The monthly hours in the agreement. You pay for an agreed capacity, so there are no hourly invoices to check. 04 ### Decide team size and horizon One specialist beside your team, or a full team with its own lead. Larger teams share delivery management, and longer agreements let us invest more in training. Tell us those four and a service delivery manager replies with your monthly figure in writing, what it includes and what it takes to start. [Get your monthly rate](https://azendo.co/pricing/#builder) ## How the cost of a dedicated development team is calculated. At Azendo, the dedicated development team cost is one fixed fee for the whole team, with no per-person lines and no hourly billing. It's a committed monthly capacity, and that is the biggest difference from hiring contractors. The specialist is one part of the offshore development team cost. The rest is the organisation that keeps them delivering well for years: management, development, quality, workplace and administration. Capacity ### The developers' hours An agreed number of hours each month: a yearly average, with annual leave and public holidays already deducted. Service ### Everything around them The service, HR, workplace and equipment: the 27 things listed above. Your price ### One fixed monthly fee One agreement and one invoice, the same amount every month. The full calculation, including what happens when a specialist takes leave, is written out step by step in [how fixed monthly capacity is calculated](https://azendo.co/blog/pricing-and-capacity/how-fixed-monthly-capacity-works/). ## The support included in your monthly fee. Your team works inside an organisation of around a hundred people, in our own offices in Chiang Mai and Bangkok. Service delivery, Talent Success, training, the workplace team and HR all stand behind it. That support is part of the cost of a dedicated development team here, never an extra line on the invoice, so a remote team of three draws on the whole company. [Price your team](https://azendo.co/pricing/#builder) [Inside Talent Success →](https://azendo.co/talent-success-academy/) Your team. Talent Success Service delivery Head of Delivery Workplace HR and payroll Training Mobile team Cloud and DevOps Data and AI QA team Design team Other software teams Inner ring: your support A service delivery manager, the Head of Delivery, a Talent Success manager, Academy trainers, a Workplace Experience manager and HR, none of them billed separately. Outer ring: the other teams Around a hundred people across our disciplines and partner teams, in the same two offices, so there are colleagues to ask when a question is new to your team. What it produces Specialists who keep learning, with a development plan, coaching every month and a 360-degree review every quarter. ## No costs on top of your monthly fee. The cost of your dedicated development team covers the specialists we assign to you, their workplace, equipment, the software licences we provide, management by a service delivery manager, and the Talent Success programme that keeps them current. There is no separate line for any of it. ### Never charged separately * Upfront or assessment fees * Management or coordination surcharge * Hardware, desk or facility costs * Training costs * Software licences and tools we provide * Reporting, meetings or account management ### Your side of the cost Your own product ownership, the cloud and tooling licences for your systems, and the time it takes to set priorities and accept work, much like any team member. You need no legal entity in Thailand, no local contracts and no payroll setup. One agreement, one invoice. [See where the line sits →](https://azendo.co/how-it-works/) Third-party costs you would pay anyway, such as your own cloud spend or SaaS licences, stay in your name. If anything is unclear for your setup, [talk to a service delivery manager](https://azendo.co/get-in-touch/) before you ask for a rate. ## How dedicated development team pricing models compare. Four common ways to pay for software development, side by side. Each fits a different situation, and each asks something different of you. __Pricing models for a dedicated development team compared__ | | Fixed monthly capacity, Azendo | Hourly contractor or staff augmentation | Fixed-price project | Local hire | | -------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ | ----------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------- | | What you pay for | Agreed hours every month, with the service around the people included | Hours worked, invoiced each month | A defined scope | Salary, benefits, recruitment, office and equipment | | Who manages the people | Azendo, with a service delivery manager | You do | The vendor | You do | | Your management time | Setting priorities and accepting the work | Azendo's estimate: four to eight hours a week per specialist | Scope changes and acceptance | All of it, from hiring to reviews | | Office and equipment | Included | Agreed contract by contract | The vendor's | Yours to provide | | Leave and public holidays | Deducted in the yearly average, so the fee stays the same | Unbilled, and the hours drop that month | Planned by the vendor inside the timeline | Paid, on top of salary | | If a person leaves | We recruit and onboard the replacement | You find someone new | The vendor's concern, inside the scope | You recruit again | | Does the invoice change month to month | No | Yes, with the hours worked | By milestone | Salary is fixed; the other costs vary | Behind every rate on this page is a real team you can meet before you commit. Chiang Mai, Thailand · UTC+7 ## Questions about the cost of a dedicated development team. What does a dedicated developer cost per month? A junior full stack developer starts from USD 2,200 per month, a backend developer from USD 2,200 and a mid-level software architect from USD 4,500\. Each works full time on your product and is fully managed by Azendo: delivery management, training and coaching, office and equipment, HR and payroll are all in the price. Your exact fee depends on the discipline, seniority and capacity you need, and you get it in writing in your proposal. How does this compare to building the team locally? The monthly rate is usually lower, and the bigger difference shows in total cost. Building the same team locally means search time, management load, equipment, training and the risk of a seat standing empty for months. Most of that is already inside our rate. What happens if we need less capacity? Talk to your service delivery manager early. Every specialist works full time for one partner, so a smaller need means changing the size of the team, and the agreement sets out how that works. Do we pay for overtime or extra hours? No. The agreement sets a monthly capacity in hours and the rate covers it. Hours are tracked in our own system and reported monthly, so you can see delivered against committed. If you regularly need more, we raise the committed capacity, so the invoice never surprises you. What exactly are we paying for each month? A committed monthly capacity in hours, and a service delivery manager accountable for what is delivered against it. Around that sit the four groups listed above: the service that manages and develops your team, HR and employment, the workplace and the equipment. Our specialists work from our offices on our equipment, and we train, review and develop them throughout the agreement. How is the monthly fee calculated? Our fee is for a committed monthly capacity, not an hourly rate. We count a specialist's working hours across a full year, subtract annual leave and public holidays, then divide by twelve. That average becomes the capacity in the agreement and the fee attached to it. The effect is that April, which has fewer working days than May, produces the same invoice. So does a month that contains Songkran. Both are already priced in. Why a committed capacity instead of hourly billing? Because the fee is a committed monthly capacity, an ordinary month never produces an invoice you have to check line by line. That is the practical difference between a managed offshore team and an hourly contractor. If you're comparing against a per-hour arrangement, [IT staff augmentation services](https://azendo.co/services/it-staff-augmentation-services/) shows what each model costs once management time is counted. For a whole team, the [dedicated software development team](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-software-development-team/) page shows how one is set up and priced. ## Tell us what you need and get a monthly rate. Tell us the disciplines, seniority and capacity you have in mind, or send a few lines about where your team is stretched. A service delivery manager replies with your monthly rate, what's included and what it takes to start. 1. 01A reply within one business day, then a written rate and capacity proposal 2. 02A clear recommendation on the team you need 3. 03No obligation, no follow-up sequence, no newsletter [Talk to our team Book a meeting](https://azendo.co/book-a-meeting/)