The full answer
The single biggest lever is scope discipline. An MVP that proves one core journey for one user type, such as a customer booking a service and a provider accepting it, costs far less than one that also launches loyalty, analytics, multi-language and an admin suite. Creuto's discovery session is designed to make those cuts with you.
Platform choice is the next factor. A responsive web app or progressive web app is usually the cheapest way to reach users; a cross-platform mobile app in Flutter or React Native adds store presence and notifications; native apps cost more and are rarely needed at MVP stage.
Underneath, cost rises with custom back-end logic, real-time features, payments, third-party integrations and AI. Many AI MVPs are affordable because they use hosted models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google or Mistral through APIs, with retrieval over your data, and Creuto evaluates outputs with test sets before launch rather than training custom models too early.
Design finish and testing depth are choices too: a clean, consistent interface built from a small design system is enough for most MVPs. After launch, Creuto's post-launch iteration service continues the product with the same team. Book a discovery call to scope your first release and receive a fixed-scope proposal.