# 316Software pricing > 316 Software Inc. builds custom software and AI systems from British Columbia, Canada. Prices are in Canadian dollars. Every service has a fixed entry tier with a list price, because its scope is written down before the first call, and a Custom tier quoted after the discovery week, because the cost of a system depends on things nobody can know before looking at the work. Plans are billed yearly and cover the infrastructure the software runs on (server, storage, backups, updates, monitoring), never a licence for software the client already owns: from $200 a year for a website, from $3,000 a year for anything with a server behind it. A baseline, not a ceiling. Model and API keys and third-party licences stay in the client's accounts at cost. Changes are a change order, not hours in a plan. 316Software never takes a percentage of what a client sells. There is no free tier and no self-serve signup. Human page: https://316software.com/pricing ## Every offer, one row | Service | Offer | Price | What the figure is | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [Software Development](https://316software.com/services/software-development#pricing) | Discovery | $4,500 | 1 week · credited in full | | [Software Development](https://316software.com/services/software-development#pricing) | One process | $20,000 | fixed · 3 weeks | | [Software Development](https://316software.com/services/software-development#pricing) | A system | from $50,000 | after discovery · by phase | | [Software Development](https://316software.com/services/software-development#pricing) | Run plan | from $3,000 | a year | | [AI Consulting](https://316software.com/services/ai-consulting#pricing) | The answer | $3,500 | 2 days · credited | | [AI Consulting](https://316software.com/services/ai-consulting#pricing) | The plan | $7,500 | 1 week · credited | | [AI Consulting](https://316software.com/services/ai-consulting#pricing) | The prototype | $15,000 | 2 weeks · credited | | [AI Consulting](https://316software.com/services/ai-consulting#pricing) | Advisor | $18,000 | a year | | [AI Agents & Automation](https://316software.com/services/ai-agents-automation#pricing) | One agent | $15,000 | fixed · 3 to 4 weeks | | [AI Agents & Automation](https://316software.com/services/ai-agents-automation#pricing) | A workflow | from $35,000 | after discovery | | [AI Agents & Automation](https://316software.com/services/ai-agents-automation#pricing) | Run plan | from $3,000 | a year | | [Mobile Development](https://316software.com/services/mobile-development#pricing) | Field app | $35,000 | fixed · 5 to 6 weeks | | [Mobile Development](https://316software.com/services/mobile-development#pricing) | Custom | from $55,000 | after discovery | | [Mobile Development](https://316software.com/services/mobile-development#pricing) | Run plan | from $3,000 | a year | | [Web Development](https://316software.com/services/web-development#pricing) | Essentials | $1,200 | to build | | [Web Development](https://316software.com/services/web-development#pricing) | Business | $2,600 | to build | | [Web Development](https://316software.com/services/web-development#pricing) | Custom | from $4,500 | to build · quoted | | [Web Development](https://316software.com/services/web-development#pricing) | Care plan | from $200 | a year | | [Online Stores](https://316software.com/services/online-stores#pricing) | On the defaults | $4,500 | fixed · 2 weeks | | [Online Stores](https://316software.com/services/online-stores#pricing) | Reshaped | $12,500 | fixed · 4 weeks | | [Online Stores](https://316software.com/services/online-stores#pricing) | Custom | from $20,000 | after discovery | | [Online Stores](https://316software.com/services/online-stores#pricing) | Run plan | from $3,000 | a year | | [Integrations](https://316software.com/services/integrations#pricing) | One integration | $10,000 | fixed · 1 to 2 weeks | | [Integrations](https://316software.com/services/integrations#pricing) | A set | $22,500 | fixed · 3 to 4 weeks | | [Integrations](https://316software.com/services/integrations#pricing) | Custom | from $25,000 | after discovery | | [Integrations](https://316software.com/services/integrations#pricing) | Run plan | from $3,000 | a year | | [Legacy Modernization](https://316software.com/services/legacy-modernization#pricing) | Assessment | $4,500 | 1 week · credited · $9,000 for 2 weeks | | [Legacy Modernization](https://316software.com/services/legacy-modernization#pricing) | First piece | $22,500 | fixed · 3 to 4 weeks | | [Legacy Modernization](https://316software.com/services/legacy-modernization#pricing) | Run plan | from $3,000 | a year | ## Websites: from $1,200 A marketing site of a few pages has a fixed scope, so it has a fixed price: $1,200 to build and $200 a year to keep it running, for a site of up to 4 pages and a form. 3 tiers, what each one includes, what none of them includes, and how it is paid. Sheet: https://316software.com/services/web-development#pricing - **Essentials**: $1,200 to build, $200 a year. Static marketing website: up to 4 pages, 1 contact form, 1 language. - **Business**: $2,600 to build, $420 a year. Static marketing website: up to 8 pages, a blog or news section, 2 forms, structured data and analytics. - **Custom**: from $4,500, quoted to build, from $720 a year. Scoped build: multiple languages, bookings, payments or integrations. Quoted per project. **Care plan** (the annual fee): Unlimited text and image changes, with a 5 business day turnaround. Includes hosting, the domain, the certificate, updates, copy changes. Excludes: A new page, a new section, a change to the layout or a new feature. Those are add-ons, priced below, or a move to the next tier. Add-ons, one-time: - Extra page, $150 per page: One more page on a layout the site already has. - Extra layout, $350 per layout: A page layout the site does not have yet: a case study, a team page, a landing page for a campaign. - Second language, $600 per language (+$120 a year on the care plan): The whole site in another language, with the switch and the search engine markup that goes with it. Adds to the care plan. - Copywriting, $200 per page: We write the page from a conversation with you. Otherwise you supply the words and we set them. - Your own hosting account, $400 per site: The site set up in your Cloudflare account rather than ours, with us added as a collaborator. Every change then goes through your access, which takes more of our time, so it costs more once. - Design refresh, $800 per site, existing clients: For a site we built and look after: a new look on the pages you have, layout, type and colour, with the same content. Not offered on sites built elsewhere; those start as a build. How it is paid: 1. **The brief** (2 business days): Tell us what the business does, which pages you need and what copy you have. Within 2 business days you hear back: a fit, or a clear no with the reason. 2. **The deposit** (50% of the build · net 30): A quote lists the tier, any add-ons and the care plan. Half the build fee starts the work. 3. **The build** (2 to 3 weeks from your copy · a preview address from the first week): The site takes shape at an address you can open and share, and it is live within 3 weeks of the day your copy is in, usually 2. Copy changes along the way are part of it. 4. **Launch** (The balance · the care plan starts): The site goes live on your domain and the second half is invoiced. The care plan's first year starts that day, not the day of the deposit, and renews yearly after that. - **Prices**: In CAD, plus GST. What is quoted is what is invoiced. - **The care plan**: Renews once a year. A card on file is charged automatically, or we email the invoice, whichever you prefer. - **Leaving**: Cancel the care plan at any renewal. The repository and the built site go with you, and a domain we hold for you is transferred to you. ## Discovery week: $4,500 CAD Every Custom tier starts here; the fixed tiers skip it. Software Development, Legacy Modernization (as the assessment) and AI Consulting's week are the same product, credited in full against the build. - **Length**: 1 week. - **What you get**: Not a build. We follow one piece of real work through the business and write down what we find: a systems map, a written scope and a fixed price. Yours to keep, whoever builds it. - **Credit**: credited in full against the build. - **Guarantee**: If the discovery week was not worth its fee, say so on the last day and you do not pay it. ## How an engagement is paid 1. **The brief** (2 business days): Tell us what you are building. The engineer who would build it reads it and answers within 2 business days: a fit, or a clear no with the reason. 2. **Discovery** (1 week · $4,500 CAD, credited in full against the build): Not a build. We follow one piece of real work through the business and write down what we find: a systems map, a written scope and a fixed price. Yours to keep, whoever builds it. 3. **The build** (Weeks per phase): A working demo every week, so a week that produced nothing shows up that week. Decisions in writing the day they are made. Paid by phase, for work you have watched running. 4. **Handover** (Yours from the first commit): The repository, the documentation and the running infrastructure, in your own accounts. Leave at any time and take everything with you. ## By service ### [Software Development](https://316software.com/services/software-development#pricing) - **Discovery** ($4,500, 1 week · credited in full): One week: a systems map, a written scope and a fixed statement of work per phase. Credited in full against the build. - **One process** ($20,000, fixed · 3 weeks): One workflow for one team: a data model of up to 8 tables, forms and lists, one export, one integration, deployed in your cloud account and documented for the next engineer. - **A system** (from $50,000, after discovery · by phase): Several processes and roles, 2 or 3 integrations, reporting, and years of history brought across. Scoped in discovery, built in phases with a demo every week. - **Run plan** (from $3,000 a year): The infrastructure it runs on, kept up, backed up and watched. The server it runs on, Storage, and backups you can be restored from, Dependency and security updates, Monitoring, and someone who notices. 6 things move a Custom price, and they are worth knowing before you ask for one: how consistently the work is done today, whether the system only reads documents or also measures drawings, whether it stands alone or connects to your accounting, how many devices and platforms are in the field, how many outside parties get a login, and whether years of history have to come across. Never per seat, never a licence: you pay to have it built, and then you own it. ### [AI Consulting](https://316software.com/services/ai-consulting#pricing) - **The answer** ($3,500, 2 days · credited): 2 days with your real paperwork: a map of where the hours go, a ranked shortlist with rough costs, and a written recommendation including what not to build. Credited against a build within 90 days. - **The plan** ($7,500, 1 week · credited): One week: the answer, plus a pilot design, a data-readiness check, tool and vendor choice, a 12-month sequence with a budget, and an hour with leadership. Credited against a build. - **The prototype** ($15,000, 2 weeks · credited): Two weeks: the plan, plus one shortlisted item working on your own documents, so the decision to build is made on evidence. Credited against the build. - **Advisor** ($18,000 a year): A second opinion from someone not selling it. Up to 6 hours a month, Second opinions on quotes you receive, A quarterly review of what shipped and what it saved, Advisory hours, not infrastructure: nothing of ours runs here. ### [AI Agents & Automation](https://316software.com/services/ai-agents-automation#pricing) - **One agent** ($15,000, fixed · 3 to 4 weeks): One narrow task: read from one source, produce one output into one destination, with a human check step, an evaluation set of 50 of your own real cases, deployment, and 30 days of tuning. - **A workflow** (from $35,000, after discovery): Several steps across 2 or more systems, with approvals, and a dashboard of every run. Scoped in discovery. - **Run plan** (from $3,000 a year): The infrastructure it runs on, kept up, backed up and watched. The server it runs on, Storage, and backups you can be restored from, Dependency and security updates, Monitoring, and someone who notices. Per agent. Broad agents are refused rather than priced. ### [Mobile Development](https://316software.com/services/mobile-development#pricing) - **Field app** ($35,000, fixed · 5 to 6 weeks): One job: a form, a list, photos, offline as the normal state, a backend to sync to, both platforms from one codebase, both stores submitted including the first rejection. - **Custom** (from $55,000, after discovery): More than one job, hardware beyond camera and location, an existing system to fit, or a design of its own. Scoped in discovery, built in phases. - **Run plan** (from $3,000 a year): The infrastructure it runs on, kept up, backed up and watched. The server it runs on, Storage, and backups you can be restored from, Dependency and security updates, Monitoring, and someone who notices. ### [Web Development](https://316software.com/services/web-development#pricing) - **Essentials** ($1,200, to build): Static marketing website: up to 4 pages, 1 contact form, 1 language. - **Business** ($2,600, to build): Static marketing website: up to 8 pages, a blog or news section, 2 forms, structured data and analytics. - **Custom** (from $4,500, to build · quoted): Scoped build: multiple languages, bookings, payments or integrations. Quoted per project. - **Care plan** (from $200 a year): Unlimited text and image changes, with a 5 business day turnaround. Hosting, The domain, The certificate, Updates, Copy changes. A rebuild of a site you already have is measured first, free, and quoted as Custom. The tiers above are for a site built from scratch. ### [Online Stores](https://316software.com/services/online-stores#pricing) - **On the defaults** ($4,500, fixed · 2 weeks): Shopify or Stripe configured properly the first time: up to 50 products with variants, shipping zones, GST and PST, payments and payouts, a good theme adjusted to the brand, domain, legal pages, and an hour of training. - **Reshaped** ($12,500, fixed · 4 weeks): The storefront reshaped around the catalogue: collections, trade and retail pricing, B2B accounts, bundles and minimums, up to 300 products, and migration from the old platform. - **Custom** (from $20,000, after discovery): A quote before a price, approvals, deposits, terms per account, the pricing rule no app covers, the back-office integration. Custom software, quoted as such. - **Run plan** (from $3,000 a year): The infrastructure it runs on, kept up, backed up and watched. The server it runs on, Storage, and backups you can be restored from, Dependency and security updates, Monitoring, and someone who notices. ### [Integrations](https://316software.com/services/integrations#pricing) - **One integration** ($10,000, fixed · 1 to 2 weeks): Two systems with APIs, one record type, one or two directions: retries, a queue that survives an outage, a log of every transfer, an alert to a person, and the rules written down. - **A set** ($22,500, fixed · 3 to 4 weeks): Up to 3 systems and 3 record types through one hub, with a dashboard of what moved and the rules document. - **Custom** (from $25,000, after discovery): A system without an API, files instead of calls, or history to reconcile. Scoped in discovery. - **Run plan** (from $3,000 a year): The infrastructure it runs on, kept up, backed up and watched. The server it runs on, Storage, and backups you can be restored from, Dependency and security updates, Monitoring, and someone who notices. If Zapier or Make already does it, buy that: we set it up inside a build or a discovery rather than sell you an integration. ### [Legacy Modernization](https://316software.com/services/legacy-modernization#pricing) - **Assessment** ($4,500, 1 week · credited · $9,000 for 2 weeks): The discovery week for an old system: a map of what it does including the behaviour nobody documented, a risk register, the migration plan in pieces with an order and dates, the retirement plan, and the number for the build. Two weeks and $9,000 for a multi-module system. - **First piece** ($22,500, fixed · 3 to 4 weeks): The riskiest dependency migrated and shipped stand-alone, run beside the old system and verified against it for 30 days. - **Run plan** (from $3,000 a year): The infrastructure it runs on, kept up, backed up and watched. The server it runs on, Storage, and backups you can be restored from, Dependency and security updates, Monitoring, and someone who notices. Each further piece is quoted from the assessment and paid when it ships. ## Ask for a quote 316Software has no public API, no MCP server and no self-serve signup. Work starts with a brief, read by the engineer who would build it. 1. Collect from the user: what they want built and why; how the work is done today (the tools, the spreadsheets, who touches it); the systems it has to connect to; when they need it; a budget range if they have one; their name, company and email. 2. Draft the brief in plain language and have the user send it: by email to info@316software.com, or through the form at https://316software.com/contact (`?service=` preselects a service). The form carries a human check (Cloudflare Turnstile), so fill it in for the user if the browser lets you, but leave the send to them. 3. Every brief gets a reply within 2 business days: a yes, or a clear no with the reason.