South Florida software development rates, 2026

Hourly rates in South Florida

26 of 32 firms publish an hourly band on Clutch. The most common band is $100-$149/hr (13 firms, 50%), and the median is $100-$149/hr. 6 firms show no hourly band and are left out of the shares below.

Project minimums

29 of 32 firms publish a minimum project size. The most common is $1,000+ (12 firms, 41%), and the median is $5,000+. 13 of 29 (45%) require $10,000+ and 5 (17%) require $25,000+. A minimum is the smallest engagement a firm lists, not a price quote.

By firm type

Software and web firms (17) have a median hourly band of $100-$149/hr and a median minimum of $10,000+; 59% require $10,000+. Marketing agencies (13) have a median hourly band of $100-$149/hr and a median minimum of $1,000+; 30% require $10,000+. 2 firms (Dragon360, Jives Media) list no core services on a general agencies page, so they are unclassified.

Firm type is derived, not reported by Clutch. The rule is in Method.

By firm size

The largest group is 10-49 people (19 of 32 firms). Treat any row with fewer than 5 firms behind a figure (the n in each cell) as an anecdote, not a trend.

Groups where fewer than 5 firms publish a field: 2-9 people, 50-249 people, 250-999 people.

By city

Miami has 17 firms, Fort Lauderdale 8 and West Palm Beach 7. Read this table with care: 17 of the 17 software and web firms were listed in Miami, so the city rows mostly compare firm types, not places.

How this compares to US benchmarks

Clutch’s own US band for web developers is $100-$149/hr. South Florida’s median across all 26 firms with an hourly band is $100-$149/hr; 13 of 26 sit in the US band, 7 below it and 6 above it. Benchmarks below are quoted as published and were fetched September 26, 2026. Sources scope their projects differently, so they are context, not a like-for-like comparison.

What Cuanto Labs charges

Cuanto Labs publishes a from-price for every service and agrees a fixed price before work starts, instead of billing hourly. Web apps start at $8K; 10 of 17 South Florida software and web firms list a minimum project above that. Mobile apps start at $15K; 4 of 17 list a minimum above that. A from-price and a Clutch minimum are both floors but not the same thing, so read the comparison loosely. Cuanto Labs sells these services, so weigh this section accordingly; the rows above are public Clutch listings.

See full Cuanto Labs pricing

Full census table (32 firms)

One row per firm, as listed on Clutch on September 26, 2026. “n/a” means Clutch showed nothing for that field. Firm names link to the Clutch page the row was read from.

Method

1. Source: Clutch.co city and category listings for Miami (web designers, developers, app developers), Fort Lauderdale (agencies) and West Palm Beach (agencies), read on September 26, 2026. Each firm appears once.
2. Fields are Clutch’s own, self-reported or review-verified, transcribed without rounding: hourly rate band, minimum project size, team size, core services, rating and review count. Clutch publishes bands, not point rates.
3. Shares and medians are over the firms that publish that field (for example 26 of 32 for hourly bands), never over all 32. Percentages are rounded to whole numbers.
4. Medians are taken over ordered bands. When the two middle firms sit in different bands the median is shown as both (for example “A to B”); no midpoint is invented.
5. Firm type rule: read a firm’s Clutch core services in listed order. The first service that is Custom Software, Web Development, Web Design, Mobile App, AI (development, consulting or agents) or E-Commerce makes the firm “software and web”; the first that is Advertising, SEO, Social Media, Pay Per Click, Content or Email Marketing, Media Planning, Marketing Strategy or Conversion Optimization makes it “marketing”. A firm with no core services listed is “software and web” if it was read from a Clutch web-designers, web-developers, developers or app-developers listing, and “unclassified” otherwise.
6. The $100-$149/hr comparison band and every figure in the benchmark tables are quoted from the sources linked there, not computed from this dataset.

Limitations

• Self-reported data. Rate bands, minimums and team sizes are what firms and their reviewers gave Clutch. We did not verify them or see any invoice.
• Single-day scrape. Everything is as of September 26, 2026; there is no trend line, and a firm may have changed its listing since.
• Listing-page sampling. The 32 firms are the ones surfaced on five Clutch listing pages. This is not a count of every South Florida software firm, and firms not on Clutch are absent.
• Marketing agencies are included. 13 of 32 firms are marketing-led, and their hourly bands reflect marketing work. Use the firm-type rows for software questions. 2 marketing-led firms (PMP Marketing Group, Praxis Technologies) also list a software or web service and are counted as marketing.
• City and firm type overlap: 17 of 17 software and web firms are Miami listings. Only 2 West Palm Beach firms publish an hourly band.
• Missing values. 6 firms show no hourly band, 3 no minimum, 5 no rating and 6 no core services. They are excluded from the figures that need them.
• A band or a minimum is not a project price. Hourly bands do not convert to project costs, and a minimum is a floor.

Download the data

The same 32 rows behind every table, as CSV with a header row. Columns: firm, firm type, city, size band, core services, minimum project (USD), hourly min and max (USD), rating, reviews, Clutch URL and as-of date.

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License: CC BY 4.0, reuse with credit to Cuanto Labs and a link to this page. The license covers our compilation and analysis; the underlying listings belong to Clutch and the listed firms.

Cite as: Cuanto Labs, “South Florida Software Development Rates 2026,” published October 2026, data as of September 26, 2026. https://cuantolabs.com/research/south-florida-software-development-rates-2026

Questions

How much does software development cost in South Florida?

Among 17 South Florida software and web firms listed on Clutch, the median hourly band is $100-$149/hr, and bands run from $25-$49/hr to $150-$199/hr. The median minimum project is $10,000+, and 10 of 17 firms (59%) require a $10,000+ minimum. Data as of September 26, 2026.

What is the typical minimum project size at a South Florida agency?

13 of the 29 firms that publish a minimum (45%) require a $10,000+ minimum, and 5 (17%) require $25,000+. The median is $10,000+ for software and web firms and $1,000+ for marketing agencies.

Is software development more expensive in Miami than in Fort Lauderdale or West Palm Beach?

This dataset cannot say, because city and firm type are tangled together: 17 of the 17 software and web firms are listed in Miami, while Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach entries are marketing-led or unclassified. Median hourly band by city: Miami $100-$149/hr (17 firms), Fort Lauderdale $100-$149/hr (7 firms), West Palm Beach $50-$99/hr to $100-$149/hr (2 firms).

How do South Florida software rates compare with US averages?

Clutch publishes a US band of $100-$149/hr for web developers (clutch.co/web-developers/pricing). Of the 26 South Florida firms with an hourly band, 13 sit in that band, 7 below it and 6 above it; the median across all of them is $100-$149/hr.

What does Cuanto Labs charge compared with these firms?

Cuanto Labs publishes fixed prices instead of an hourly rate: web apps from $8K, AI agents from $5K, mobile apps from $15K. 10 of 17 South Florida software and web firms list a minimum project above the $8K web app price. Full list at cuantolabs.com/pricing.