AI chatbot development company

AI Chatbot Development Company

We build custom AI chatbots that own their numbers: support bots that deflect tickets, lead-gen bots that book demos, knowledge bots that actually know your business.

A custom AI chatbot costs $5,000–$12,000 for a simple LLM bot (3–5 weeks), $12,000–$30,000for an integrated support bot with helpdesk and CRM connections (5–9 weeks), and $30,000–$75,000+for a multi-agent system (10–16+ weeks). Those are the ranges we publish and quote against; typical US and EU agency quotes for comparable scopes run roughly double.

An AI chatbot development company designs, builds and integrates those systems end to end: retrieval over your own documents, connections into the helpdesk and CRM you already run, and human handoff for the conversations a bot should not finish. ProCoders is provider-neutral across frontier APIs and open-weight models, and you own the code, the prompts and the conversation data in the contract. Every engagement starts with a free ~45-minute discovery call and a fixed-price proposal within 72 hours.

Get a scoped, fixed-price quote See our pricing guide

Published pricing, fixed-price scopes, 4–8 week builds — and you own the code, the prompts, and the data.

Proof

Numbers from production, not projections.

Case studies with the metric headlines already published on their pages.
3.4×

activation via conversational onboarding

WhatNextAI, EdTech
80%

of support tickets resolved automatically

Daytronx, SaaS
Choosing a vendor

How to compare AI chatbot development companies.

Six questions to put to every vendor on your shortlist, including us. The answers separate a production partner from a demo shop faster than any portfolio.
01

Published pricing

Ranges on the website before the call. Ours are on this page and in the cost guide.

02

Production proof with numbers

A metric per case study, not a logo wall. Ask what the number was before the build.

03

Evaluation before launch

An eval harness run against your real conversations, with the pass rate in the proposal.

04

Integration depth

Which helpdesk, CRM and internal APIs are in scope, named, not "and more".

05

Ownership and exit

Code, prompts and data in your name; a documented handover option priced up front.

06

Maintenance priced in writing

A percentage of build cost per year, or an hourly rate. Anything vaguer is a future invoice.

Want to see how we build before you compare? Our AI chatbot development service page covers the delivery process, stack and proof in depth.

Why us

Why teams pick us over the big-agency quote.

Transparent pricing.

We publish our ranges — see the complete chatbot cost guide and custom development cost breakdown. Most agencies make you book a call to learn a number.

You own everything.

Code, prompts, data — contractually yours. No per-conversation meter, no platform lock-in. We wrote up the switching-cost trap.

Fixed price, fixed timeline.

Scoped after a free discovery call; 4–8 weeks for most builds.

We say no.

If a $200/month SaaS plan solves your problem, we'll tell you — here's the honest build-vs-buy math.

Process

Five steps from first call to production.

A free discovery call, a fixed-price proposal within 72 hours, and weekly demos while we build.
01

Discovery (free, ~45 min)

Use case, systems, data audit, volume math.

02

Scoped proposal (48–72h)

Fixed price, timeline, integration list.

03

Build (3–9 weeks)

Weekly demos, evaluation harness against real conversations.

04

Launch

Staged rollout, handoff thresholds tuned live.

05

Maintain

Monthly retainer (10–20% of build cost/year) or full handover with docs — your choice at scoping.

Pricing

Our published price ranges.

The section none of the ranking competitors have. Scoped fixed-price quotes after a free discovery call. For the market-wide picture (SaaS plans, no-code tools, run costs) read the complete AI chatbot cost guide.
BuildRangeTimeline
Simple LLM bot$5k–$12k3–5 weeks
Integrated support bot$12k–$30k5–9 weeks
Multi-agent system$30k–$75k+10–16+ weeks

Typical US/EU agency quotes for comparable scopes run roughly double. Full breakdowns: chatbot cost guide · development cost · how agencies price

Tech stack

Provider-neutral, integration-heavy.

  • LLMs: OpenAI, Anthropic, and open-weight models (Llama/Mistral) where data residency demands
  • RAG pipelines grounded in your knowledge base
  • Channels: web, WhatsApp Business, voice/telephony, Slack
  • Integrations: Zendesk, Intercom, HubSpot, Salesforce, Shopify, custom APIs
  • Deployed on your cloud or ours
Industries

Which teams get the most out of a chatbot?

SaaS teams drowning in tier-1 tickets, fintechs qualifying leads at scale, and consumer brands handling thousands of conversations a week. Browse our industry pages for the specifics, or the deep dive on how we build chatbots.

FAQ

Things teams ask us first.

Need a clearer answer? Ask directly. We reply within 24 hours.
How do I compare AI chatbot development companies?
Compare on five things: published pricing (a vendor that will not show a range before a call will not show one after), production proof with numbers, what the quote includes (integrations, evaluation, handoff), who owns the code and data, and what maintenance costs after launch. Ask every vendor the same five questions and the differences show up fast.
What should a chatbot development quote include?
Scope in writing, the integration list, an evaluation plan against real conversations, a staged launch, a maintenance option with a price, and an ownership clause. A quote missing the evaluation plan is a demo, not a build.
Why do agency quotes for the same chatbot differ so much?
Location and overhead more than scope. Typical US and EU agency quotes run roughly double our published ranges for comparable builds because the engineering hours are priced at US and EU rates and padded for account management. Our ranges cover senior engineering, weekly demos and a fixed price after discovery.
Who owns the bot after launch?
You do: code, prompts and conversation data are yours in the contract, with no per-conversation meter and no platform lock-in.
What does maintenance cost with ProCoders?
10–20% of the build cost per year as a monthly retainer, or a full handover with documentation if you would rather run it in-house. You choose at scoping.
Where is the team and how do we work together?
Remote-first, registered in the US (Dallas, TX) with engineers in Denmark and Pakistan. Weekly demos, written decisions, async by default, and a named engineer on every build.

Ready for a number instead of a range?

Free discovery call → fixed-price proposal in 72 hours.

Get your quote contact@theprocoders.com