Hire a dedicated offshore team of senior engineers that works as an extension of your company. A stable team in Shenzhen — developers, QA and a project lead — with overlap hours, direct access to engineers and monthly pricing.
Planning a budget? Start with How Much Does a Dedicated Development Team Cost in 2026? and Software Development Cost in China: What You'll Pay.
A dedicated team of three to five people usually costs $10,000 to $45,000 a month. As a guide, three developers run about $10,000 to $24,000 a month, and a project manager plus three developers and QA about $16,000 to $38,000. Asian offshore rates typically sit at $20 to $50 an hour, against $120 to $200 in the US and Western Europe.
Through an agency, a mid-level developer typically costs $3,000 to $5,500 a month and a senior developer $5,000 to $8,000 a month — roughly $15 to $50 an hour depending on seniority.
Choose fixed price when the scope is small, stable and well documented. Choose a dedicated team when the product will keep evolving, you want to reprioritise every sprint, or you need long-term engineering capacity without hiring in-house.
We schedule overlap hours for live calls in English, Mandarin or Portuguese, give you a dedicated group with direct access to the engineers, and build in short, transparent iterations.
Guides
Distance is the real objection to outsourcing to China. How time zones, language, and process actually work, and what a China-based team needs from you to ship.
13 min readA practical guide to offshore development for the Middle East: the China time-zone advantage, realistic costs, Saudi and UAE data rules, Arabic/RTL, and how to pick a partner you can keep.
10 min readA practical playbook for working with a China-based software team: communication rhythm, contracts, IP, quality checks, and the mistakes that sink projects.
10 min readTeam augmentation adds senior engineers to your existing team, on your codebase, under your lead. Here is when it beats hiring and outsourcing, what it costs, and how to run it well.
9 min readA realistic look at software development costs in China: hourly and monthly rates, how pricing works, and where the money actually goes.
9 min readHiring a team or outsourcing is not a cost question. Here is how to compare the two honestly, when each wins, and the dedicated-team middle option.
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