Dedicated development team pricing in 2026
Most providers quote dedicated-team pricing only after a sales call. Typical market pricing for senior engineers runs $40 to $100/hr through global providers. Match.dev publishes the rate up front: $50 to $80/hr per engineer, the same vetted pool and the same published rate as our staff augmentation engagements, whether you take one engineer or a full squad. For context, the only other platform in this market that publishes a client-facing rate is Lemon.io, at $55 to $95/hr (shown on its startups page; verified July 2026).
| Team size | Example composition | Monthly cost at $50 to $80/hr, full-time |
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| 2 engineers | Backend + frontend | $16,000 to $25,600 |
| 3 engineers | Backend, frontend, DevOps | $24,000 to $38,400 |
| 5 engineers | 2 backend, 2 frontend, QA automation | $40,000 to $64,000 |
Rates last verified: July 2026. Monthly figures are simple arithmetic on the published $50 to $80/hr at 160 hours per engineer. You pay for tracked hours, on one invoice for the whole team.
A dedicated development team is not outsourcing, and it is not one borrowed engineer. You get a stable squad (typically 2 to 5 engineers) reserved for your product long-term: they join your standups, work in your repository, and follow your product direction. Compared with staff augmentation, where individual engineers embed into a team you already run, a dedicated team gives you a complete engineering unit at once, and it stays yours from sprint to sprint. Every member comes from the same pool: senior engineers with 5+ years of experience who passed a 10-hour paid assessment on a real project before entering it.
When should you hire a dedicated development team rather than fill seats one at a time? Three signals show up over and over: the roadmap runs past a quarter or two, there is more than one workstream (say, an API rebuild and a mobile app in parallel), and you have someone to own product direction but no bandwidth for a months-long hiring pipeline. If any of those is missing, a single augmented engineer is usually the cheaper call. If you would rather hand over the project along with its management, that is outsourcing, which is a different trade.
Dedicated development team services also differ in what the fee actually buys. Some providers are matchmakers: they introduce candidates and step away. Others, Match.dev included, run the full back office as part of the service: sourcing, technical vetting, contracts, payroll, time tracking on one platform, and a free replacement when someone isn't the right fit. Pin that scope down before comparing hourly rates; a cheaper rate with no replacement guarantee tends to cost more the first time mid-project attrition hits.
How it works: you describe the product and the seats you need, we hand-pick candidates for each seat, and you get first profiles within 48 hours. You interview and approve every engineer, so the team is typically up and running within days, not the months an agency build-out takes. If the roadmap shifts, swap a role or resize the squad; if anyone underperforms, we replace them for free without disrupting the rest of the team. No fees until you hire, and a $150 credit just for attending the intro call. Request a team.
Related reading: Staff augmentation vs outsourcing · Staff augmentation services · Hire remote developers.
