Hire Strapi developers

We provide Strapi developers as a small team, not as individual freelancers: one developer or a pair working inside your repository, tracker and chat, with a tech lead on our side reviewing every change before it reaches your reviewers. You pay a fixed price for a defined scope or a fixed monthly block of hours. We work in UTC+3, which covers the whole European business day and the morning of the US East Coast.

Where people usually look, and what they get

Search "hire strapi developers" and the first pages are two kinds of offer. Large offshore outsourcers list an hourly rate, a monthly rate for a full-time developer and a trial period. One of the top results advertises 22 dollars per hour, 2,880 dollars per month for a senior at 160 hours, a 15-day risk-free trial, two weeks' notice and "23+ certified Strapi experts", with case studies described by industry rather than client name. Marketplaces sit next to them: vetted platforms quote 60 to 100 dollars per hour and up and promise a freelancer within 72 hours, general marketplaces start around 10 dollars per hour.

Both models work for some jobs. The problems show up on production projects:

• the developer you interviewed is not always the one who does the work, and replacements restart the learning curve;
• nobody reviews the code except you, so you need a senior on your side anyway;
• a freelancer who takes another contract leaves with all the context;
• "Strapi experience" often means Strapi 3 or 4 tutorials, while your project needs Strapi 5 and its Document Service.

We are not the cheapest option per hour, and we do not try to be. The price is lower per finished feature because the work gets reviewed before it lands, and because the estimate is fixed before we start.

What our Strapi developers know

This is the working stack on the projects we run, not a keyword list:

• Strapi 5 on Node.js 22 or 24 LTS: content modelling with components and dynamic zones, custom controllers, services, routes, middlewares and policies.
• Document Service rather than the removed Entity Service: strapi.documents(), documentId, draft and published versions under one document, locales under one document.
• Next.js frontends reading the flat REST response, draft preview wired to the admin, sitemap generation.
• Docker deployments: Strapi, PostgreSQL, Next.js and Nginx in one Compose file, server-side calls by container name inside the network, media on a volume.
• PostgreSQL in production, MySQL 8 or MariaDB when your company standard requires it.
• S3-compatible storage for media through the official upload provider and its s3Options config.
• i18n in Strapi 5 core, multilingual content types, per-locale routing on the frontend.
• Migrations from Strapi 4 to 5: codemods, the manual pass after them, plugin replacements, and moving content between environments with strapi transfer.

What the developers have shipped: two corporate sites on Strapi with Next.js frontends that we run in production. Both have editor-managed page blocks through dynamic zones, and between them multilingual content, project galleries, draft preview, sitemaps, regional contacts, lead forms stored in Strapi, CAPTCHA on forms with server-side verification, and Docker deployments on the clients' servers. We do not name those clients. Next to Strapi, the same team runs a warranty claims portal and an e-commerce site on Payload CMS with Next.js, so if your project suits Payload better, you will hear it from us.

Engagement models

Fixed price per scope

You describe the work (a new section, an integration, a set of content types with frontend pages). We read the code, break it into tasks with hours per task, and give a total and a timeline. Changes in scope get re-estimated in writing. Good for projects with a clear outcome.

Monthly block of hours

A fixed number of hours per month for a developer or a pair, used on whatever your backlog needs. The price is fixed for the month, the report shows where every hour went. Good for product teams with a steady backlog.

Support plan

If what you need is mostly updates, backups and small fixes rather than development, a support plan is the cheaper format.

Migration project

If your project is still on Strapi 4, the upgrade usually comes first, as a separate fixed-price job: see Strapi 4 → 5 migration.

How we start

1. Call and access. A short call to understand what you are building, then read access to the repository.
2. One-day estimate. We read the code, the content model and the deployment setup and send back the proposed scope, hours, price and the risky parts we found.
3. First sprint. One to two weeks on a scoped piece of real work, not a test task. You see the pull requests, the review comments and the pace.
4. Decision. Continue on the same terms, change the format, or stop. If you stop, the code is yours and merged.

What we do not do

• We do not lease out juniors under a senior's CV. The people on the estimate are the people on the work.
• We do not publish anonymous "case studies" with invented metrics. What we have built is described above in plain terms.
• We do not bill open-ended hours without a scope or a monthly cap.
• We do not start new projects on Strapi 4.
• We do not take work we would have to learn on your budget. If the stack is outside what we run, we say so.

Time zone and working hours

We work in UTC+3. For European teams that means the same working day. For US East Coast teams, the first half of your day overlaps with the second half of ours: good for standups, reviews and handovers, while the rest of our day is uninterrupted implementation. Urgent production issues on projects we support are handled according to the support plan's response times.

Rates in context

Market rates for Strapi work in 2026: agencies 60 to 150 dollars per hour, freelancers 15 to 50, with offshore teams in Asia advertising from 5 to 50 depending on seniority, US developers 60 to 100 and European ones 55 to 80. Our quotes sit in the agency range and come as a fixed number. If you are also budgeting hosting and licences, those numbers are on what Strapi really costs.

Get an estimate

Send us a repository link or a short description of the work, plus your time zone and how you prefer to work (fixed scope or monthly hours). By the next business day you get a proposed scope, hours per task, a price and who would work on it. More about the team on the home page.