Pricing
- One simplified pricing
- Fixed monthly cost, no surprise invoices
- Cancel anytime
On demand
Minimum 20 hours per month
For one-off tasks, quick fixes and trial runs.
Developer time is booked as needed rather than reserved.
Booked as needed
Work is scheduled against our current capacity.
- Pay as you go: no upfront charges. Billed at the end of the month for the hours you actually used.
- Transparent estimates: you get an estimate before each task starts.
- Rollover support: unused hours carry over for one month.
- Unlimited requests: raise as much work as you like; it runs as hours allow.
Minimum commitment of 20 hours for the month.
Retainer: part time
For startups and lean teams that need consistent, cost-effective support.
One developer for four hours a day, Monday to Friday.
4 hrs/day, Mon–Fri
Half a developer day reserved for you, every working day.
- 1 Full-stack Developer: part-time availability, 4 hours a day, Monday to Friday.
- 1 Technical Project Manager: available for planning, coordination between our developers and your team, daily project updates and code reviews.Monthly technical audit — package and node module updates, technical debt, improvement recommendations
- 1 Technical SEO Analyst: available as needed for site optimisation, GA4, GTM and HubSpot support.Monthly SEO audit — site performance and technical SEO improvements
- Full access to CodalentAI: assign any task to Codalent AI on ClickUp and it will come back with a pull request and a preview link within minutes, so you are not waiting on human developer support.
- Unlimited development requests: handled one at a time and prioritised through a shared backlog.
- Weekly status updates: progress, roadblocks and next steps.
- Response within 1 business day: on task updates and new requests.
- Extra hours at $40/hour: whenever a month runs heavier than planned.
Need more than 4 hours a day in a given month? Extra hours are $40/hour.
Retainer: full time
For growing teams that need dedicated engineering support.
One developer for eight hours a day, Monday to Friday.
8 hrs/day, Mon–Fri
A full developer day reserved for you, every working day.
- 1 Full-stack Developer: full-time availability, 8 hours a day, Monday to Friday.
- 1 Technical Project Manager: available for roadmap planning, coordination between our developers and your team, daily project updates and code reviews.Monthly technical audit — package and node module updates, technical debt, improvement recommendations
- 1 Technical SEO Analyst: available as needed for site optimisation, GA4, GTM and HubSpot support.Monthly SEO audit — site performance and technical SEO improvements
- Full access to CodalentAI: assign any task to Codalent AI on ClickUp and it will come back with a pull request and a preview link within minutes, so you are not waiting on human developer support.
- Unlimited development requests: managed in a live backlog and executed sequentially by priority.
- Weekly status updates: progress, roadblocks and next steps.
- Response within 1 business day: on task updates and new requests.
Teams supported by Codalent
Ship without hour anxiety
Run tests, landing pages and optimisations without checking whether each one eats into a monthly limit. The team is already reserved for you.
We take complete ownership for improvements of your system
We do not wait for instructions. Monthly audits surface tech debt, and we fix issues and propose improvements before they turn into problems.
All hands on deck when something breaks, 7 days a week
Downtime, performance collapses and broken critical flows pull in whoever is needed, ahead of all planned work.
A retainer, an employee, or an agency?
The three ways most teams solve for developer capacity, and what each one actually gets you.
A dash means it depends on who you hire rather than on the arrangement itself.
Hear it from our clients
“They've been some of the best developers I've worked with.”
Kevin LofthouseUX Program Lead, Happiful“Their technical excellence, clear communication, and collaborative spirit have made them enjoyable to work with.”
Jenae LoofbourrowGraphic Web Designer, Planning Center“Codalent's quick reaction was impressive, and they were trustworthy.”
Albert LombarteCEO, KrakenD“He gave us a very clear project timeline and was able to deploy our brand new website within a few weeks. I HIGHLY recommend working with Arpit and would definitely do so again if we have more similar projects in the future.”
Nikki AngcoSr. Executive Administrator, DeepLearning.AI“Your work is always very high quality, with the utmost consideration of the user, and you are always willing to jump in to make changes on the sites.”
Lynn HeData-centric AI, DeepLearning.AI
What working with Codalent looks like
One Slack channel, one shared board, one weekly call — the same access you'd have with people sitting in your office.
Onboarding in the first week
We set you up with access to your stack, repositories, hosting and analytics, and introduce the team who will run the work.
A dedicated Slack channel
Questions get answered in hours, not scheduled into a call. Our AI bots post daily updates, flag errors as they happen and turn conversations into tasks.
A live Kanban board in ClickUp
Every task is visible on a shared board. Raise your own, set the priority, and follow each one from backlog through code and client review to deployed.
A weekly sync on Zoom or Google Meet
Once a week we cover what shipped, what is in flight and what comes next.
Assign a task to Codalent AI and get a PR in minutes
Codalent AI is our in-house development agent. Assign it a task on the board you already use, exactly as you would a human developer, and it starts work straight away.
- ClickUp
- Trello
- Jira
- Asana
- Linear
- Notion
- GitHub Issues
Assign it like a teammate
Pick Codalent AI as the assignee on any task in your tracker. No new tool to learn and no separate queue to manage.
It reads the whole task
The description, the requirements and the comment thread all become context before a single line of code is written.
You get a PR and a preview
It posts a summary back in the comments with a link to the GitHub pull request and a preview link, ready for review.
Codalent AI runs on Claude's latest and most intelligent models, and is included in every retainer at no extra cost. It is best suited to the quick, self-contained tasks that would otherwise sit in a queue waiting on a human developer.
Pricing FAQs
What does “unlimited development requests” actually mean?
You can raise as many requests as you like, and there is no cap on the backlog. They are worked on one at a time in the order you prioritise them, within the developer hours your plan reserves. It means no gatekeeping on what you ask for, not unlimited output in a month.
How is the retainer billed?
Monthly, in US dollars, in advance of the month it covers. There is no setup fee. On-demand work is the reverse: we bill at the end of the month for the hours consumed, with a 20-hour monthly minimum.
How do the commitment discounts work?
Committing to three months takes $200/month off the part-time retainer and $300/month off the full-time one. Six months takes off $400 and $650. The discount holds for the length of the commitment and is reflected in the prices above when you switch the commitment toggle.
Can I switch between plans or cancel?
Yes. Rolling monthly retainers can be changed or stopped at the next renewal, and you can move between part-time and full-time as your roadmap changes. If you are inside a 3- or 6-month commitment, the change takes effect when that term ends. Exact notice terms are confirmed in your agreement.
What happens if we need more than the reserved hours in a month?
On the part-time retainer you can add hours at $40/hour, which is below the on-demand rate. On the full-time retainer you can add a second developer, design or QA support. We flag it before the extra work starts, never after.
Do unused hours roll over?
On the on-demand plan, unused hours roll over for one month. Retainers reserve capacity rather than sell hours, so unused time does not carry forward — the trade-off is guaranteed availability and response times in the months you need them.
What timezone does the team work in?
The team is based in India and works 9am to 6pm IST, Monday to Friday. Technical project managers stay reachable until 11pm IST for weekly calls and urgent launches, and one of our project managers is based in Japan and works Japan hours, which helps if your day starts earlier.
Which hours does the team work?
Monday to Friday, with a working window agreed at onboarding so it overlaps your team's day. Emergency coverage for outages and broken critical flows runs seven days a week on both retainers.
What is not included?
Third-party costs sit with you: hosting, licences, SaaS subscriptions, paid media and any tooling we recommend. Design and QA are add-ons rather than part of the core retainer, and large migrations or rebuilds are usually better scoped as a project alongside the retainer.
Who owns the code and the accounts?
You do. Repositories, hosting, domains and analytics stay in your accounts, and we work with named access. If the retainer ends, nothing has to be handed back because nothing was ever held hostage.
Get started with Codalent
Tell us what you are building and what is stuck. We will recommend the plan that fits the work — and say so if an hourly arrangement would serve you better than a retainer.
No prepared brief required. If a retainer is not the right fit, we will tell you on the call.