Pricing for startups and scale-ups

Your QA team, without the hiring.

Clear prices. Month-to-month. Your first certified tester joins your team within 5 working days, not 3 months.

Start with a $990 QA Audit Compare with hiring

One QA engineer, per month

Hire in the US$8,000+

ThoughtCoders$2,800

US figure is a typical salary-plus-benefits estimate. No recruiting fees, no notice periods.

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QA Audit

See our work before you commit.

$990one-time

1 week

Exploratory testing of one product
Prioritized bug report in your Jira
QA gap review and test plan
100% credited toward any package

Find 10 bugs or it's free

Book the audit

Automation Starter

A test suite your team can own.

from$3,500

3–4 weeks · up to $5,500

Playwright or Cypress framework
40 smoke and regression tests
Running in your CI (GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins)
Handover doc and walkthrough call

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Release QA Retainer

Every release tested before it ships.

from$1,800/mo

Monthly · up to $3,000

Regression run before every release
Automation suite kept up to date
Release sign-off report
Monthly quality dashboard

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Dedicated QA Engineer

A tester on your team, minus the hiring.

$2,800/engineer/mo

Full-time · month-to-month

Starts within 5 working days
Joins your standups, Slack and Jira
Manual and automation testing
Scale from 1 to 5 engineers monthly

Add a QA engineer

Ad-hoc testing: $22–30/hrQA consulting and hybrid teams: custom quoteAll prices in USD

Hiring a QA engineer vs. adding one from ThoughtCoders

Hire in-house (US)

ThoughtCoders

Time to first tester

2–3 months

5 working days

Monthly cost

$8,000+ with benefits

$2,800

Recruiting fees

15–25% of salary

None

Scale down

Notice periods, severance

30 days' notice

Tools and certifications

Your cost

Included (ISTQB, AWS, Azure)

Startup program

15% off your first 3 months

For YC, Techstars and seed-funded companies. Applies to the Release QA Retainer and Dedicated QA Engineer plans.

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Every plan includes

NDA on day one
Named point of contact
US, UK and EU hours overlap
Daily or weekly reports
Month-to-month, no lock-in
Clean handover, always

200+

testing projects delivered

Top Rated Plus

on Upwork, 100% Job Success

Startup India

recognized company

Questions founders ask

Something else? Book a 20-minute call and we'll answer it straight.

What happens after the QA Audit?

You get the bug report and a test plan. If you continue with any package, the full $990 comes off your first invoice.

What if you find fewer than 10 bugs?

The audit is free. You keep the report.

Can we scale up or down?

Yes, monthly. Add engineers with a week's notice; reduce with 30 days' notice.

How do payments work?

Fixed packages: 50% upfront, 50% on delivery. Monthly plans: invoiced at the start of each month, by bank transfer or card.

Who owns the test code?

You do. Everything lives in your repo from day one.

Start with one week. Decide with real bugs in hand.

Book the $990 QA Audit, or send us your product URL and we'll test it free for an hour first.

Book a 20-minute call Get a free bug report

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