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Almost every page answering this question hides behind the words it depends, so this one does the opposite. Here are the real price bands, a typical quote taken apart line by line, the arithmetic behind every driver that lifts a number, the bill that arrives every year after launch, and an honest account of the times when the cheaper option is the one we would tell you to take.
Most articles on this subject stop at "buy a maintenance plan". This one walks through the real twelve months after handover with the hours and the money written out: how noisy the first month is, the four kinds of work that never stop, what a year of care actually costs, and the four honest ways of owning it. It also says plainly where we tell a client to buy less support than we would happily sell them.
Nearly every guide to this question quotes a build price and stops there, which is why owners get a shock in month seven. This one prices the whole life of the app: the three bands we actually quote, the small bills nobody itemises, the two operating system releases a year that force paid work, the costs that arrive with users rather than with code, and a worked five year total showing the build is usually under half of what you really spend.
