LinkedIn Clone Development Cost: $3,399, Fixed
The white-label platform is $3,399 as a one-time purchase, deployed in six working days. That is the whole number, not a starting point that grows once scoping begins. Below is what the price covers, what genuinely sits outside it, and the regional rates that let you size the from-scratch alternative yourself rather than take our word for the gap.
Get a Fixed Quote →See FeaturesWhat a LinkedIn-Style Platform Costs Each Way
Four routes to a professional network, and what each one actually costs you in money, time and ownership.
| Route | Typical cost | What you end up owning |
|---|---|---|
| Freelance team | $8,000 - $40,000 | Whatever was finished when the budget ran out. The entitlement model and moderation layer are usually the parts left unbuilt. |
| Miracuves ready-made | $3,399 fixed | The whole platform, source included, deployed in six working days on infrastructure you control. |
| Custom agency build | $60,000 - $250,000 | A bespoke platform, and a timeline measured in quarters before the first member signs up. |
| Enterprise programme | Six figures and up | A senior team over eighteen to thirty months, which is the honest figure for building this layer from nothing. |
The ranges above are market observations for comparable scope, not quotes from us. Our number is the one in the highlighted row and it does not move after scoping.
What the Price Includes
The handover is the whole system rather than a licence to run somebody else's platform.
The tier configuration line is the one worth reading twice. What Premium unlocks and what each tier costs are set up with you during the six days, not handed over as defaults to discover later.
What Moves the Number
The base price is fixed. These are the things that genuinely sit outside it, and roughly what each is shaped like.
Credential verification
The base build lets a member add certifications; it does not check them against an issuing body. A verification workflow, a sector badge scheme, or an integration with a credentialing authority is a custom module. For a regulated-sector network this is usually the single largest addition, and it should be quoted at the start.
iOS builds
The Android build is in the price and the web app installs as a progressive web app. A native iOS application brings its own developer account, signing setup, store submission and review cycle, and is quoted as separate work rather than folded in.
Integrations beyond the two
Salesforce and HubSpot sync ship in the base build. A different CRM, an applicant tracking system, an HRIS, or a single sign-on provider your members already use are each scoped separately because each one has its own auth model and its own failure modes.
Governance above the base
Reports, moderation actions, appeals and IP bans are included. Four-eyes approval on a permanent ban, an escalation tier above moderation, or a compliance export on a fixed schedule are custom modules.
How different your tiers are
Five tiers ship and their boundaries are operator-set, so repricing is configuration. A tier that needs an entirely new surface, rather than a different entitlement on an existing one, is development work and is scoped as such.
Data migration
If you are moving an existing membership onto the platform, the shape of what you are bringing decides the work. A clean member export is straightforward; years of profile data spread across a CRM and a spreadsheet is a project of its own.
Anything beyond the base is quoted at two to eight weeks depending on scope. That is a range, not a starting point that grows.
The Six-Day Path to Live
What happens in the six working days, in the order it happens.
Scope, audience and tier model
We confirm who your network is for, which of the five tiers you actually intend to sell, and what each one should unlock. A professional network with no defined audience is a feed with nobody in it, and we would rather establish that before you pay than after.
Branding across every surface
Name, logo, colour scheme and splash across the member web app, the company surface, the recruiter and sales surfaces, the operator console and the Android build, plus the progressive web app manifest and icons.
Deploy and wire your accounts
The application goes onto your infrastructure with your database. Your Stripe keys, mail and push provider, and any OAuth apps for contact import are connected using credentials you hold, so nothing critical sits in an account we control.
Tiers, entitlements and flags
The five tiers get their prices and their boundaries, InMail credit allowances are set per tier, and the feature-flag console is configured so anything you are not launching with is dark rather than half-visible.
Operator walkthrough and handover
Your staff accounts are created with the right roles, and we walk a report through moderation to an appeal so the trust workflow is understood before it is needed rather than during an incident. Source code lands in your repository.
Support window
Sixty days of launch guidance, six months of priority bug fixes and twelve months of updates. That window exists because the questions that matter arrive after the first few hundred members, not during deployment.
Six working days assumes your infrastructure and your provider credentials are ready on day one. That is the dependency that most often moves the date.
Regional Development Rates
We do not publish a dollar figure for a from-scratch build, because the honest measure the documentation gives is time: an eighteen to thirty month programme with a senior team. Here are the rates that let you size that yourself.
| Region | Senior engineer, blended hourly | What an 18-30 month programme implies |
|---|---|---|
| North America | $120 - $220 | The high end of any build-versus-buy comparison, and the reason most operators in this bracket buy |
| Western Europe | $90 - $170 | Comparable to North America once employer costs and notice periods are included |
| Gulf and Middle East | $60 - $130 | Often the market being sold into, which makes local hiring attractive and the timeline no shorter |
| Eastern Europe | $45 - $95 | The common outsourcing choice, where the risk shifts from cost to specification quality |
| Latin America | $40 - $85 | Time-zone overlap with North America is the usual reason, not the rate |
| South and Southeast Asia | $25 - $60 | The lowest rate, and the one where domain knowledge of entitlement and trust systems varies most between teams |
Why we give you the rate instead of the total
A from-scratch total depends on your team size, your region, and how much of the entitlement and moderation work you scope correctly at the start rather than rebuild after the first abuse incident. Publishing one number would mean inventing four assumptions and presenting them back to you as a finding. The rate and the duration let you build the estimate from your own inputs, and it will be more honest than ours.
Rates are indicative blended figures for platform engineering, not quotes. They exist so you can do the arithmetic rather than take ours on trust.
Why the Price Is Fixed, Not "Starting At"
What a fixed number commits us to
The scope is the demo. What you see across the six surfaces is what ships. There is no discovery phase that discovers the price was optimistic, because the platform already exists and is already running.
No revenue share, ever. We take nothing from member subscriptions, recruiter seats, sales seats, company plans or InMail credits. A revenue share is charged against your best months forever; a one-time price is not.
No licence callback. The source has no encrypted files and phones nothing home. That matters commercially as well as technically - a platform that calls back to its vendor cannot be resold to your own clients, whatever the contract says.
Additions are quoted before they start. Custom modules are scoped and priced up front, at two to eight weeks depending on what is involved. You approve a number rather than watch one accumulate.
The enterprise route exists for compliance-heavy and high-scale deployments and is quoted against the final scope rather than listed here.
Hidden Costs Most Quotes Leave Out
None of these are ours to charge. They are yours to budget, and they are easier to plan for named than discovered.
The last line is the one founders underestimate most. The platform is six days; the audience is the actual programme.
Who you hire decides what the number means
The six-step process, a modelled reference deployment, the questions worth asking any provider and the red flags worth walking away from - on the Development Company page.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is $3,399 really the whole price?
Do you take a percentage of subscriptions or credits?
What does a custom module actually cost?
Why is there no from-scratch dollar figure on this page?
Can I start on one tier and add the others later?
What happens after the six days?
One fixed price, no cut of your subscriptions
Bring your tier model and your audience. We will tell you what is configuration, what is a custom module, and what it costs, before you commit to anything.
Explore the LinkedIn Clone
$3,399 fixed. Six days. Full source code.
Five entitlement tiers, six surfaces, the hiring pipeline, the sales surface and the operator console, deployed on your infrastructure under your branding with no revenue share and no licence callback.
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“LinkedIn Clone” is used descriptively. It is how the software industry refers to building a platform with functionality similar to LinkedIn, and how clients search for it.
The entire design and codebase is built by our own team. The product contains no code, design, graphics, or content originating from the LinkedIn website or applications.
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