Pricing
Senatio's pricing model is built around managed engineering capability, not raw payroll pass-through. You are paying for the ability to launch, operate, support, and scale a dependable engineering team from India, with practical execution support and internal solution work where needed.
When you work with Senatio, you are not simply buying engineers at a monthly rate. You are buying a lower-burden way to add real engineering capacity and improve execution without having to build the full operating layer alone.
That means the pricing model reflects more than compensation cost. It reflects team design, launch support, payroll and compliance support, continuity planning, operating structure, delivery visibility, and the practical support required to keep the team useful over time.
The commercial model has three layers. That structure matters because you should understand exactly what gets paid once, what gets paid monthly, and what gets scoped separately.
This covers the work required to launch the team properly. That includes team design, role planning, sourcing setup, hiring support, onboarding preparation, and the initial operating setup around the team. This is not invisible overhead. It is the work that makes the launch cleaner, faster, and less fragile.
Once the team is live, Senatio charges monthly managed pricing for the team and the operating layer around it. This is the core commercial model. It covers the live engineering capacity and the support structure that makes that capacity usable in practice.
If you need workflow automation, internal tools, dashboards, custom software, or deeper execution-improvement work beyond normal team operation, that can be scoped separately. Some lighter work may sit inside a broader engagement. More involved solution work should be treated as its own implementation scope.
The monthly pricing is not just paying for seats. It is paying for a managed engineering capability and the support structure around it.
A client building this model alone would usually need to carry more of the hidden burden directly: payroll handling, compliance exposure, continuity planning, replacement effort, operating setup, and the management overhead required to keep the team stable once it is live.
Senatio reduces that burden. That is a meaningful part of the commercial value. You are not only paying for output. You are paying to avoid a large amount of operational drag behind that output.
To keep the pricing transparent, The Following falls outside normal monthly managed team pricing.
Sometimes you need more than a team. It may also need workflow redesign, internal tooling, process digitization, or custom software tied to execution improvement. In those cases, separate scoping is the cleaner and more transparent approach.
This is not a hidden upsell. It is simply a different kind of work. Managed team pricing covers the team and the operating layer around it. Deeper internal solution work should be scoped according to the problem, complexity, and level of implementation required.
The real commercial variable is not just headcount. It is team shape, operating complexity, support level, and whether the engagement also includes execution-improvement work or internal systems support.
Most engagements begin with a 2-engineer team or equivalent managed scope. Final pricing depends on team structure, seniority mix, operating complexity, and the level of execution or internal solution support required.
The real comparison is not raw payroll cost. The real comparison is the total burden of expansion.
Senatio reduces that burden while still giving you the capacity you actually need. That is why the model is worth more than a cheaper but more fragile alternative.
Talk to us about your engineering team
If you are exploring how to build, operate, or scale your engineering team from India, Senatio can help. Talk to us about team structure, launch timelines, operating support, and commercial structure.