Structured by AI vs hiring a freelancer
An individual contractor, billed hourly or per task. The cheapest headline rate, and the most management.
Low commitment and a low hourly rate. For a small, self-contained task you can specify precisely, a good freelancer is efficient and hard to beat on price.
You write the specs, you do the QA, and you carry the continuity. They start from an empty folder every time, they are not there when something breaks at the wrong moment, and the good ones become unavailable exactly when you have come to rely on them.
Wide range — roughly $25–150+/hour depending on market and seniority. The true cost includes your own time specifying and reviewing the work. Market range, not a figure from our clients.
To be fair: If you have one small, precisely specified task and no expectation of a second one, a freelancer is cheaper and you should use one. Our model only makes sense when the work keeps coming.
See the platform you'd be starting from
This is the difference the comparison above keeps coming back to: with hiring a freelancer, week one starts from nothing. Here it starts from software that is already running.