Cost of a React Native
job portal app.

Ask five agencies what a Job Portal costs on React Native, and you will get five different numbers. That is because they are quietly answering different questions. The honest range: ₹70,000–1.5 lakh for an MVP built to test one core flow with real users, ₹3–6 lakh for a full build with the features job portal actually needs to keep users around, and ₹12–25 lakh+ once you add enterprise needs like SSO or multi-region setup. iOS + Android, one codebase It decides how much of that budget goes into the product itself, versus fixing platform differences. Founders who skip the scoping call and just ask "what does it cost" tend to get quoted for whichever tier the agency wants to sell.

Makes sense if you already have a React or Next.js web team and want to share patterns (sometimes logic) between web and mobile. In practice, for something like a Job Portal, that means a specific bet about where engineering time goes. Every stack choice is really a choice about which problems you make easy and which ones you make harder. Cross-platform tools give you shared logic and faster updates across devices. Native development gives you tighter control over performance and platform behavior. job portal tends to make this trade-off very real, not abstract, because it has genuine needs, like fast response times or deep device access, that either fit the stack's strengths or force extra work. Knowing where your product sits on this before you start avoids an expensive surprise later.

What Actually Drives The Price

Every job portal has a few features that look similar on paper but cost very differently to build. Almost every time, here is where that gap comes from: Resume parsing/matching quality, the feature that separates a job board from a job portal. It is easy to miss in early conversations, because it does not sound like a technical detail, it sounds like a business detail. But details like this turn directly into extra design work, edge cases, and testing. A team that scopes job portal without asking hard questions about this early will either underquote and cut corners later, or find out mid-build that the simple version they priced does not match what the business actually needs.

How We Scope And Build It

Good studios do not quote a Job Portal off a feature list alone. They run a founder workshop first, usually a few hours, to pressure-test the actual scope, users, and trickiest parts of the product before writing down any estimate. That workshop should produce a rough architecture and a prioritized backlog, not just a list of screens. Once development starts on React Native, work should happen in sprints with a working demo at the end of each one, an actual build you can click through, not a slide deck. Weekly demos keep the founder in the loop without turning into daily interruptions that slow the team down.