Aakalanआकलन
30,000 possible costs of one project

Price what gets built.

What should this software cost, now that AI writes much of the code? Aakalan prices it feature by feature, the way teams build it today, with the low, likely and high cost.

Feature by feature · AI-era hours · checked against 56 real Indian projects

Hourly rates were made for a world where people typed every line. AI tools now draft code, tests and documents in minutes, and someone still has to read, test and fix what they write. A fair price counts both.

Priced by the hour

How the work is counted
Hours a person would spend typing every line
AI tools
Ignored, or a vague discount at the end
What the total includes
Building only
Where a number comes from
Ask the person who made the sheet

Priced by Aakalan

How the work is counted
Each feature at the level you need: basic, standard or advanced
AI tools
Saving worked out task by task, with the time people spend checking the AI's work
What the total includes
Building, launch, servers, support for the years you choose, and tax
Where a number comes from
Every line traces back to a feature, a rate with its source, and a formula

Nothing hidden inside the total. Every part of the price is on the page, with its reason.

A low, likely and high cost. For building, launch, servers, support for the years you choose, and tax.

Example estimateClinic booking app19% less with AI tools
Likely ₹19 L
₹14 L₹26 L
FeatureWithout AIWith AI
Bookings and appointmentsStandard₹3.3 L₹2.6 L
Online fee paymentBasic₹1.4 L₹1.1 L
Mobile appBasic₹3.9 L₹3 L
SMS reminders₹1.1 L₹0.9 L
About 4 people for 3 months

Each feature on its own line. With and without AI tools, so you can drop one and see the price move.

Each feature on its own lineWithout AIWith AI
  • Bookings and appointments₹2.6 L
  • Online fee payment₹1.1 L
  • Mobile app₹3 L
  • SMS reminders₹0.9 L

Every number has an address. AI only reads the document. Fixed formulas and dated rates work out every figure, so the same answers always give the same price.

Where one number comes from · example
  1. Clause 4.2, page 4“book, move and cancel…”
  2. FeatureBookings · Standard
  3. Work226 h, of which 38 h check AI work
  4. Rate card v8₹1,150 / h, source listed
  5. Cost line₹2.6 L

What is not priced is listed. Penalties, warranty, handover: with the page they are on, plus questions to send the client.

In the document, but not in this price
  • Penalties for delaypage 12
  • One year of warrantypage 13
  • Source code handoverpage 15

Three steps, about as long as making tea.

The full walk-through →
  1. 01

    Say what you want to build

    Pick the kind of software and tick its features, write a few lines about it, or upload the requirement document.

    requirement-document.pdf · page 4

    4.2 Patients shall book, move and cancel appointments online, and receive an SMS reminder.

    Bookings · clause 4.2SMS reminders · clause 4.2
  2. 02

    Answer ten short questions

    How many people will use it, where it runs, how long it should be looked after. Not sure? Say so and the range widens.

    Question 3 of 10

    How many people will use it?

    Up to 100100 – 1,0001,000 – 10,000Not sure
  3. 03

    Get the range and the reasons

    Low, likely and high cost, each feature with and without AI tools, the team needed and what the document asks for that is not priced.

    Team needed · example
    • Developer
    • Senior developer (checks AI code)
    • Tester
    • Designer

A range, because nobody knows the exact number yet.

Aakalan prices the hours the work takes, not what vendors charged, and shows what 56 real Indian projects of the same size were bought for next to it, as published. Contract prices are not hours, so they cannot prove the estimate, and the range has not yet been checked against what finished projects really cost. So Aakalan shows a range, says where it comes from, and widens it when you answer “not sure”.

How we test the prices →
The same app, answered twiceAll answered3 × Not sure
Likely ₹19 L
₹15 L₹24 L₹12 L₹30 L

Find out the answers and calculate again for a narrower range.

Estimate

Put the spreadsheet down.

Describe your software in a few lines and let Aakalan do the sums.