10/02/2026 · 7 min
What a development team in Portugal really costs
The comparison that matters is not the hourly rate. It is the total cost of having the same capacity actually working — and there the gap is wider than it looks.
Senior engineers in your time zone and inside the European Union,
for 40 to 60% less than hiring in Paris, London or San Francisco.
35+ projects delivered
Web, mobile and cloud for over 15 years
Six areas covering the full product cycle — from the first call to production, and everything that comes after.
Web applications, customer portals and admin dashboards built from scratch — fast, secure and easy for whoever comes next to maintain.
Native or cross-platform experiences for iOS and Android, aligned with your brand and designed around real usage data.
LLM integration, agents and custom models — from prototype to something that survives real users in production.
Training pipelines, serving models in production, GPUs under control and monitoring that catches degradation before your customers do.
Dependable cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines and monitoring, so your service stays available and secure.
Research, wireframes and interfaces that carry your brand and make every interaction simple and memorable.
Senior engineers who answer at ten in the morning, work under European law and speak your customers' language — for a fraction of what an in-house hire costs in Western Europe or the United States.
We use AI every day, but the architecture we hand you is built to outlast this season's fashion.
We are based in Santar, Nelas — two hours from Lisbon and a short flight from any European capital. The same team from start to finish, with South America extending cover to the end of the American working day.
Thirty minutes on a video call to understand the problem, the context and the deadline. We leave with a clear picture of what is needed and what is not.
We put the scope, the cost, the schedule and exactly who will work with you in writing. No anonymous CVs, no teams that change halfway through.
Short iterations with regular demos in your time zone. You see the product working early and adjust before changes get expensive.
Production deployment, documentation, handover of all access and ongoing support. The code and the infrastructure stay in your name.
Straight answers to what people ask before starting: cost, time zones, contracts and who owns the code.
You sign a services agreement with a Portuguese company under European law and receive an intra-EU invoice. There is no offshore entity, no middlemen and no withholding tax. For an EU company it is the same as contracting in a neighbouring country. Non-EU clients contract the same Portuguese entity, with the same protections.
Portugal is on London time, one hour from Paris, Madrid or Berlin, and overlaps five hours with the US East Coast. Our team in South America extends that cover to the end of the American working day. In practice there are always shared hours to meet in.
It depends on the profile and the engagement model, but the benchmark is simple: the same senior engineer typically costs 40 to 60% less than hiring in-house in Paris, Amsterdam, London or San Francisco. After the intro call we send a fixed proposal with the scope and timeline in writing.
The code, the repositories and the infrastructure access are yours from day one — not at the end of the contract. We act as a data processor under GDPR and, when it is a requirement, host everything in EU regions.
Three reasons: the time zone, which lets us work at the same time as Europe and the Americas; the European legal framework, which removes a layer of contractual and compliance risk; and language — we work in Portuguese, English, Spanish and French, which removes the intermediary layer these models usually carry.
We work in short, renewable terms precisely so you can leave early if you are not happy. Because the code and the access are already yours, leaving does not mean losing the work. We never lock anyone into long contracts.
Anything from a two-week audit to a dedicated team for a year. If what you need is not a fit for us, we say so and, whenever we can, point you to someone who does it better.
No jargon and no hand-waving: what to ask, what to avoid and how to decide before investing in a project or a team.
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