The real cost analysis

Use Euron Systems, or build your own?

Even with AI writing half the code, a platform that does what this one does is a twelve to eighteen month project with a team behind it. Here is what that actually costs, in India and in the United States, against switching one on this afternoon.

₹3,27,30,000
To build it in India, year one
₹87,00,000 a year
To keep it running, every year after
One subscription
The Euron standard, live in 30 seconds

Figures are market estimates for a twelve month build, not quotes. Salaries are annual employer cost at mid to senior level. United States figures exclude benefits and payroll tax, which typically add another 25 to 30 percent.

Building it in India

Where the money actually goes.

Three cost centres, twelve months, before a single learner has signed up.

Engineering team, twelve months

₹2,29,20,000
  • Senior full stack engineers (3)24L each per year₹72,00,000
  • Frontend engineers (2)14.4L each per year₹28,80,000
  • Backend engineers (2)16.8L each per year₹33,60,000
  • Mobile engineers, iOS and Android (2)16.8L each per year₹33,60,000
  • DevOps engineer18L per year₹18,00,000
  • Product designer14.4L per year₹14,40,000
  • QA engineer10.8L per year₹10,80,000
  • Product manager18L per year₹18,00,000

Infrastructure and services, year one

₹30,00,000
  • Cloud hostingCompute, storage, backups₹12,00,000
  • CDN and video deliveryCourse content at scale₹6,00,000
  • Managed databasesPrimary and replicas₹3,60,000
  • Third party APIsPayments, SMS, email₹4,80,000
  • Security, SSL and auditsCertificates and reviews₹1,20,000
  • Monitoring and analyticsAPM and logging₹2,40,000

Everything else

₹68,10,000
  • AI developmentAgents, tutoring, support₹50,00,000
  • App store accountsApple and Google₹10,000
  • Legal and complianceData protection review₹5,00,000
  • Testing and hardeningPre launch and after₹10,00,000
  • Documentation and trainingInternal enablement₹3,00,000
Total to build it yourself in India
Year one, about ₹27L a month
₹3,27,30,000
The Euron standard

Or switch the same capability on today.

Everything in that build list already exists here, maintained by us, on one subscription with no commission on what you sell.

  • Complete LMS with live classes, courses and batches
  • Memberships, bundles and recurring billing
  • White label web academy and branded mobile apps
  • AI agents for sales, support, marketing and operations
  • Protected video delivery with watermarking
  • Built in CRM, campaigns and funnels
  • Global payments with zero commission on your sales
  • Managed hosting, CDN, backups and security
  • Analytics, reporting and exports
  • Guided migration and human support

No build. No hiring. No twelve month wait before the first learner can pay you.

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Time, not just money

The calendar cost is the one you cannot buy back.

Every week spent building is a week not spent teaching or selling.

StageBuild your ownEuron Systems
Requirements and planning4 to 6 weeks1 day
Design6 to 8 weeksIncluded
Core LMS build16 to 20 weeksIncluded
Payments integration4 to 6 weeksIncluded
Mobile apps12 to 16 weeksIncluded
AI features20 to 24 weeksIncluded
Testing and QA6 to 8 weeksIncluded
Deployment and launch2 to 4 weeks1 to 2 days
Total time to launch12 to 18 months1 to 3 days
It does not stop at launch

Keeping it alive in India.

Year one is the cheap year. This is the bill that repeats for as long as the platform exists.

  • Servers and infrastructure₹12,00,000
  • Engineers to keep it running (2 to 3)₹36,00,000
  • Security patching and audits₹6,00,000
  • Bug fixes and user support₹9,00,000
  • New features to stay competitive₹18,00,000
  • Third party service fees₹6,00,000
Every year, forever₹87,00,000 a year
What the spreadsheet misses

The costs that do not show up in the estimate.

Technical debt

Rushed development produces code that is expensive to fix later, and the bill always arrives after launch.

Talent retention

One senior engineer leaving mid build can set the whole project back months.

Scope creep

Estimates expand once real users arrive. Doubling against the original plan is common.

Security gaps

A custom platform carries the full weight of patching, audits and breach liability.

Opportunity cost

Twelve to eighteen months of building is twelve to eighteen months of not selling.

AI is its own project

Agents and tutoring need specialist engineers, evaluation pipelines and ongoing model spend.

But AI writes the code now

AI changes the build. It does not remove it.

Code generation genuinely speeds up the first eighty percent. The remaining twenty is where platforms live or die.

Generated code still needs owners

Someone has to review it, secure it, test it and be on call when it breaks at two in the morning.

Integrations are the hard part

Payment gateways, streaming, DRM, tax rules and app store review are not a prompt away.

Compliance is not generated

Data protection, refunds, learner privacy and payment rules need people who are accountable for them.

AI features need AI engineers

Agents that actually work need evaluation, guardrails and ongoing model spend, not a one off script.

Scale reveals everything

The first hundred learners hide the problems the first ten thousand will find in an afternoon.

The maintenance never stops

Whatever AI helped you build, you still own it, patch it and pay for it for as long as it runs.

Spend the year teaching, not building.

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