Free, No Email Required
Tools
Calculators, checklists, and templates that work without giving us your address.
Every number here comes from the same rate and cost bands published across the rest of the site. Nothing is gated, and nothing is stored.
Quick Answer
Updated August 22, 2026
What free tools help when planning a software project?
Four kinds are genuinely useful before you talk to any vendor. A rate calculator tells you what an engineer should cost by role, seniority, and region — $32–$45 an hour for a senior in India against $110–$200 in the US. A timeline estimator turns product type, scope, and team size into a realistic range, including the readiness factor most estimates ignore. A build-versus-buy calculator finds the licence-fee breakeven, usually around 40–60 seats. And a technical due diligence checklist tells you what to inspect before taking over a codebase. All of ours are free, ungated, and run entirely in your browser.
Tools
7
Cost
Free, no email
Data stored
None — runs in your browser
Best for
- Budgeting and planning before contacting any vendor
- Sanity-checking a quote or timeline you already have
- Due diligence on a codebase you are inheriting
Not best for
- A binding quote — that needs your actual scope
- Legal advice: the templates are starting points, not counsel
- Replacing a real architecture conversation
Calculators
Four inputs, real numbers out — using the same bands we publish everywhere else.
Checklists and guides
The questions we work through ourselves, written down so you can use them.
Document templates
Starting points you can copy, with notes on the clauses disputes come from.
Also On This Site
The interactive planners
These predate the tools section and live at their own URLs. They send a brief to us at the end, which the tools above deliberately do not.
Next steps
From a number to a scope
The guides these tools draw their numbers from.