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How Much Does UI/UX Design Cost in India?

UI/UX design cost in India for SMEs: what a ₹50,000 pack actually covers, what inflates quotes, Chennai floors for wireframes, Figma UI, and prototypes — not Dribbble retainers.

Brevia Tech SolutionsPublished 17 January 2027

Indian founders Google UI/UX rates and get a fog: student Fiverr gigs, “₹8,000 homepage,” and Bengaluru product studios quoting like a Series B dashboard. None of those numbers tell you what a Chennai clinic, a Coimbatore manufacturer, or an OMR SaaS team should actually pay to get screens that convert.

UI/UX cost in India is a function of screens, risk, and who owns the file after you pay. A 12-screen booking flow with wireframes, Figma UI, and a prototype is a different product from a moodboard. Brevia publishes the floor: UI/UX Design Pack ₹50,000 OTP for that scoped job.

What inflates quotes is rarely “talent.” It is missing brand, extra platforms, stakeholder theatre, and asking the designer to invent the business rules. Branding from ₹25,000 is cheaper than six rounds of “make the blue more premium.”

This guide is for operators who need conversion, bookings, and usable apps — not a Behance medal. We will map typical bands, what a honest pack includes, and how to read two PDFs that both say “UX.”

If you already know the stack, pair this with website development and Next.js so design and build are one sequence, not two vendors arguing in Figma comments.

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What Indian UI/UX quotes actually buy

A quote is a bundle: discovery, wireframes, visual UI, prototype, and specs. If the PDF only shows mockups, you are buying pictures. Pictures do not tell a developer what happens when UPI fails or the OTP times out.

Ask for a screen inventory: home, listing, detail, form, success, empty, error. Twelve named frames is a pack. “We’ll design the product” is a blank cheque.

Screens, not vibes — the 12-screen pack

Brevia’s ₹50,000 OTP pack is sized for ~12 high-fidelity screens plus wireframes and a prototype. A clinic site, a campaign funnel, or a first SaaS slice fits. A 40-screen ops console does not — that is a second pack or a product sprint.

Typical India price bands for 2027

Freelance landing reskin: often ₹15,000–₹40,000 if the brief is brutal and revisions are capped. Scoped SME pack (wireframe + UI + prototype): ₹50,000–₹1.5 lakh. Product UX for a funded app: several lakhs and a retainer. International “UX consultant” day rates do not magically apply to a Tiruppur exporter’s catalogue.

Cheap is only cheap if the file is usable. A ₹12,000 Dribbble clone that developers cannot inspect is a donation to the next agency.

What inflates a quote overnight

Second platform (iOS + Android + web) is not “one more export.” Extra languages, dark mode as a first-class product, and dashboard density all add frames. So does a founder who reviews on WhatsApp at 11 pm with “can we try another direction.”

Scope the happy path first. Edge cases belong in a punch list, not in round-one theatre. Related: design systems when SMEs need one.

Brand identity is a different invoice

No logo, no type, no colour rules means the UI designer is doing branding under a UX label. Buy brand identity from ₹25,000, then UI. Mixing them without saying so is how both jobs go over time.

Research, wireframes, and prototypes in the fee

Five customer task interviews and a competitor teardown are SME-scale research. Forty-person ethnography is not. If research is “included” but nobody talks to a user, you paid for a workshop slide. Practical: UX research on a small budget.

Wireframes catch the booking dead-end before colour. Skipping them is a known tax: Figma wireframes vs jumping to visuals.

Website vs app vs dashboard — different floors

A marketing site that needs a better form is closer to website craft plus a compact UX pass. A logged-in ops tool is dashboard UX. A mobile app is a different information architecture: app vs website UX.

Do not force one ₹50,000 pack to cover a store, an app, and an admin. Split the jobs or you will ship a pretty homepage and a broken product.

How to compare two vendor quotes without getting played

Line up: screen count, revision rounds, file ownership, prototype yes/no, and who writes microcopy. If one quote is half price and silent on those, it is not cheaper — it is incomplete. Handoff from Figma should be named, not implied.

Ask who tests on a ₹12,000 Android on Jio. If the answer is “we design for desktop first,” the India cost is about to include a rebuild.

How Brevia prices from Chennai

We start with the 12-screen pack at ₹50,000 OTP. Extra slices, native density, or a full rebuild are scoped after a screen list — not a vibe. Build floors sit next door: Business Website ₹28,000; custom Next.js from ₹50,000.

Bring the brief to consultation or contact. We will tell you if you only need a landing, not a product UX.

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At Brevia: wireframes, high-fidelity Figma UI up to about 12 screens, a clickable prototype, and dev-ready specs. It is not a 40-screen product, a native iOS+Android pair, or a full brand identity. Hub: UI/UX.

Usually no. A missing logo, colours, and type is a branding job from ₹25,000. Designers who “invent the brand in Figma” bill you twice when marketing later disagrees.

Screen count, research, brand-new product vs reskin, and whether they are selling a Dribbble case study. Compare deliverables, not adjectives. Pair: how to brief a designer.

Sometimes, for a landing reskin with a tight brief. Multi-flow booking or ops tools usually need an agency cadence. Honest split: agency vs freelancer.

If the journey is unproven, pay for a prototype you can click and test. If the journey is known (clinic booking, brochure site), finished UI that developers can ship matters more. Guide: prototype vs finished UI.

Template-led website builds include layout, not a custom 12-screen product UX. Custom Next.js apps almost always need a Figma pack first so engineering is not designing in code.

You can skip a 40-interview study. You cannot skip five real customer tasks. Cheap research still pays: UX research on a small budget.

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