Our team members are exclusively senior engineers and designers. Our process emphasizes a holistic approach to development where our team members work directly with you to gain a deep understanding of your needs, perform all necessary tasks, and take on multiple traditional roles. This means you are guaranteed to have the most skilled professional doing the work, and someone who knows your solution from the inside out. As a result, we bill at one flat rate irrespective of the task performed. This makes calculating costs simple and predictable. An architect, a team lead, and a developer all cost the same – as they are frequently the same person.

These are our fixed-price offerings for common tasks. All prices assume we are performing managed hosting for your Open edX® instance. For quotes on modifying and updating an existing instance, on migrating an instance to our management, or on deploying the instance to a non-traditional environment (such as a specific datacenter not within DigitalOcean or AWS), please book a consultation.

Hosting costs are based on usage rather than number of users or license seats. The Open edX® Platform has no license fees, and you are permitted as many users as you like! However, the hardware requirements for large numbers of users or specific workloads can vary. Here is a rough approximation of hosting:

While most of our clients look to us for heavy customization, some just want a basic setup backed by the foremost experts in the Open edX platform, available to help whenever the need arises.

Most clients at least need the platform installed and hosted for them. Many organizations need to be able to sign into their existing enterprise accounts and want to integrate these into the platform. These teams often have a need to retain full control of the instance and data, even if OpenCraft manages its maintenance.

These teams might need a custom dashboard with a handful of features. Using the Platform’s existing backend, we can make a custom frontend that displays just the information they need. Many times that dashboard also needs to display information from a third party service, like a social media site that isn’t supported out of the box. Here’s what those costs may look like:

At the 80/hour a month budget above, the development would be complete in seven and a half months. Add on an additional month for setup, and the project would enter its long-term maintenance phase after eight and a half months.

If you already have your own instance of the Open edX platform, you might just need a custom exercise specific to your audience. Every exercise is different, so this is a ballpark of costs (like all estimates on this page.)

Maybe you don’t have a big project to add. Maybe you have an instance that mostly works but you need help solving some persistent issues. In this case we recommend documenting a list of things you need, and telling us how many hours of budget you’re willing to spend. We’ll then fix as many issues as we can within the budget (taking your priority issues into account), and estimate what it would take to tackle the rest.

For some clients, a multi-year engagement involving multiple team members working at full capacity is the right choice. Creating a completely new online experience built on the Open edX® Platform might take many months for an initial release, a year or two of continued development, and an ongoing plan for maintenance and upgrades. What might that look like?