WeebPal publishes six Drupal project levels, with custom-build budgets from $1K–$200K across Micro through Enterprise. Strategic programmes require a scoped quote: call for pricing. Starting from a ready-made product gives you a separate development and customization option when the product fits your requirements.
The tables below explain our current published pricing, what changes a quote, and what to budget after launch. All prices are in US dollars. These ranges guide budgeting; the agreed scope and architecture determine the fixed project quote. A range’s upper endpoint is not a guarantee that every possible scope will fit within it.
Drupal project prices and timelines
A custom build is developed around your requirements. Each level describes a scope and budget range, with delivery time sized to that work.
| Level | Budget range | Timeframe | Typical scope |
|---|---|---|---|
| Micro | $1K–$5K | 1–2 weeks | Basic informational website |
| Small | $5K–$10K | 1–2 months | Professional corporate website |
| Medium | $10K–$30K | 2–4 months | Advanced website or web application |
| Large | $30K–$80K | 4–10 months | Content, transaction or secure portal system |
| Enterprise | $80K–$200K | 8–16 months | Integrated business system or multisite |
| Strategic | Call for pricing | 12–24 months | Mission-critical digital ecosystem |
Starting from a ready-made product
If a WeebPal product already supports the core workflow, the work starts with that existing product and focuses on your branding, workflows and integrations. These prices cover product-based development and customization, including the change-request hours below.
| Level | Budget range | Timeframe | Included change requests |
|---|---|---|---|
| Large | $10K–$20K | 1–3 months | 100–200 hours |
| Enterprise | $20K–$50K | 3–5 months | 300–400 hours |
| Strategic | Call for pricing | 5–6 months | 500 hours |
No separate product-based offer is published for Micro, Small or Medium. Product-based offers include no licence fee and no lock-in. The product's fit and the changes you need determine which offer applies. The quote confirms the exact scope and included change-request hours.
What changes the budget?
- The starting point. Which requirements are already covered by a product, and which need new development?
- Integrations. Which systems exchange data, how often, and what should happen when an exchange fails?
- Roles and approvals. Who can see, edit, approve and publish each type of information?
- Existing content and data. What must be moved, what access is available, and what needs cleaning or remapping?
- Acceptance requirements. Which workflows, security controls, accessibility requirements and performance targets must be demonstrated before launch?
Page count helps describe the content workload, but templates, data structures and business rules explain more of the development effort. A useful brief names the required outcomes and the systems involved, rather than only listing pages.
Hourly development rates
Hourly development ranges from $25 to $50/hour across six service groups. The group range covers the roles listed; the role-specific range applies to the work commissioned. A fixed project quote is agreed against its scope, rather than calculated by multiplying every role's lowest hourly rate by the whole delivery period.
| Group rate (USD/hour) | Service group and role-specific rates |
|---|---|
| $30–$50/h | Consulting & Architecture Technical Consultant: $30–$50/h. Solution Architect: $35–$50/h. |
| $25–$35/h | UI/UX Design UI/UX Designer: $25–$35/h. |
| $25–$30/h | Front-end Engineering Front-end Engineer: $25–$30/h. |
| $25–$45/h | Back-end & Integration Engineering Back-end & Integration Engineer: $25–$45/h. |
| $30–$50/h | AI, Automation & DevOps AI & Automation Engineer: $30–$50/h. DevOps & Support Engineer: $30–$40/h. |
| $25–$40/h | QA, Security & Accessibility QA, Security & Accessibility Engineer: $25–$40/h. |
Payments and discovery
A working demo comes before any payment, and payments follow approved milestones. The schedule depends on project size:
- Micro–Small: 0% at proof of concept, 50% at kickoff and 50% at go-live and handover.
- Medium–Large: 0% at proof of concept, 30% at project kickoff, 40% at UAT and approval, and 30% at go-live and handover.
- Enterprise–Strategic: 0% at proof of concept, a 20% deposit, then payments milestone by milestone.
For custom builds from Large upward, the published offer includes a discovery fee credited on award. A working demo before payment does not mean that every discovery and architecture activity is free.
What is included, and what continues after launch?
Every size includes analysis through launch, full code delivery, documentation, team training and a dedicated project manager. Initial launch content is included. Free content migration requires full access and an integration method to be ready. Launch includes zero-downtime cutover and an SEO and performance baseline.
Warranty is one year for Micro through Large, and 1–3 years for Enterprise and Strategic. The pricing offer includes security updates, uptime monitoring and a locked hourly rate for change requests; that locked rate does not make additional development free. Product-based offers have the change-request hours listed above. Enterprise and Strategic include security and accessibility audits before go-live. At Large, those audits are included for secure portal or intranet scope; they are not an automatic inclusion for every Large project.
Ongoing maintenance and support is separate from the project warranty. The standard planning range is $100–$5K per month, agreed against the system you run with no lock-in period. Larger retainers require a separately scoped proposal. Traffic, environments, modules, integrations and ticket volume affect the price. Out-of-hours coverage is optional and costs extra. For a system we did not build, a paid takeover audit comes first.
How to choose a realistic starting budget
Start with the project type in the first table, then check whether an existing product covers your core workflow. Before asking for a quote, list:
- The workflows and user roles the system must support.
- The systems it must connect to and the data it must migrate.
- The changes you need if starting from a ready-made product.
- Your launch priorities and acceptance requirements.
Use the full Pricing page for each offer's current inclusions and conditions. Those details give you a sound basis for comparing scope, delivery time, payments and ongoing support before commissioning the work.