Head to head

HyperBrain Labs vs IgnytLabs

Both studios ship MVPs in 21 days, both use AI in the build, and both publish their pricing, which already puts them ahead of most. The differences that actually affect your decision are the pricing model, whether design is included, and what each team builds with. Everything we attribute to IgnytLabs is quoted from their own site, checked on 26 July 2026.

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At a glance

The published figures, side by side

Their column is quoted from ignytlabs.com. Ours is on our own pricing section and has not been adjusted for this page.

	HyperBrain Labs	IgnytLabs
MVP pricing	$3,999 fixed, one time	“Starting at $5,497”, 60 hours per month
Stated timeline	21 days, clearly scoped	“Our fastest launch? 14 days. Our average? 21.”
Design included	Yes, design and user flows	“Minimal UI design”, custom UI/UX extends the timeline
Retainer after launch	$2,999/month, 40 hours	From $5,497/month, 60 hours
Same-day emergency support	No	Listed in their retainer
Landing page as a product	No	$1,997 to $3,497, 7 days
Repairs broken AI-built apps	Yes, free first audit	Not offered
Published launches	20+ products shipped	“40+ MVPs Successfully Delivered”
Published satisfaction score	None published	“4.95 Client Satisfaction”
You own the code	From day one	Full codebase handover offered

No scores, ratings or percentages have been assigned to either studio on this page. Anything we could not read directly from a published source is simply absent. Check their site yourself (opens in new tab).

The real differences

Four things that change the decision

Fixed deliverable versus monthly retainer

This is the difference that matters most. Our Production MVP is $3,999, paid once, for an agreed scope. IgnytLabs prices MVP development at 'Starting at $5,497' with '60 hours of development time per month'. One is a product you buy; the other is capacity you rent. Neither is wrong, but they suit different situations and they are not comparable on headline price alone.

What you get built with

Their FAQ states they use 'industry-standard AI tools like Lovable and Cursor to write clean, scalable code faster'. We use AI too and say so, but not Lovable, and we run App Rescue, a paid practice repairing Lovable and Bolt builds that failed in production. That is a real philosophical difference about where generated code belongs, and you should weigh it yourself rather than take our word for it.

Whether design is in the price

Their MVP FAQ says 'Minimal UI design (we skip traditional design tools like Figma to move faster)' and that custom UI/UX 'will extend the timeline a bit'. Our $3,999 includes design and user flows in the 21 days. If your product's value is in the interface, that difference is worth more than the price gap.

Retainer economics after launch

Ours is $2,999 per month for 40 hours, which is $75 an hour. Theirs is from $5,497 for 60 hours, which is roughly $92 an hour, and includes same-day emergency support that we do not offer. Cheaper per hour is not automatically better; compare against whether you need the emergency cover.

Being straight about it

Where IgnytLabs beats us

If this section were missing you should not trust the rest of the page.

More MVPs shipped, and they publish the number

They state '40+ MVPs Successfully Delivered' and 'Trusted by 20+ visionary founders'. Our published figure is 20+ products shipped. If volume of comparable launches is your main filter, they are ahead on the number each of us publishes.

A published satisfaction score

They publish '4.95 Client Satisfaction With Delivery'. We publish no equivalent score, because we have not collected one in a form we would be willing to stand behind. That is our gap, not a criticism of theirs.

Same-day emergency support

Their retainer lists 'Same-day emergency support'. Ours does not. We offer priority support on a retainer and we answer WhatsApp quickly, but we will not describe that as a same-day guarantee, because we are small enough that it would occasionally be untrue.

A dedicated landing page product

They sell Figma-to-Framer landing page design at $1,997 to $3,497, launch-ready in 7 days. We do not sell that as a standalone product. If a high-converting marketing site is what you actually need, that is a cleaner fit than hiring an engineering studio.

And where we are stronger

What we would put up against them

A fixed one-time price, backend included

$3,999 covers scoping, design, frontend, backend, database, auth, payments, admin, deployment, handover and two weeks of fixes. Agreed in writing before we build, and re-quoted before we build if scope changes. No monthly commitment to reach a launched product.

Externally verifiable proof

We built the app behind a Shark Tank India Season 5 pitch, which scaled to 50,000+ users across 20+ cities, and a client raised $3M after we shipped theirs. Those are checkable by someone who is not us, which is a different category of evidence from a self-reported score.

We repair broken AI-built apps for a living

Six pages of this site document how Lovable, Bolt, v0, Cursor, Replit and Base44 builds fail in production, because founders pay us to fix them. That is an unusual thing for a studio selling speed to be able to say, and it is the reason we are careful about where generated code goes.

We build and run our own products

SwiftPatch, an over-the-air deployment platform for React Native, and NovaX. Live products we cannot walk away from, which holds us to the standard we describe rather than only promising it.

FAQ

About this comparison

Is this page fair?+

We have tried. Every figure attributed to IgnytLabs was read from their own site on 26 July 2026 and most are quoted rather than paraphrased, so you can search their page for the exact string. We have included a section on where they beat us with four specifics, including two we would rather not admit. If you find something inaccurate here, tell us and we will correct it.

When should I hire IgnytLabs instead of you?+

When your scope genuinely is not knowable up front and a monthly retained arrangement fits better than a fixed sprint. When you want a Figma-to-Framer landing page as a standalone product. When same-day emergency support is a requirement. And if their published track record simply reassures you more than ours does, that is a legitimate reason and we would rather you acted on it.

You both say 21 days. Is that the same 21 days?+

Roughly, with one difference worth knowing. They state 'Our fastest launch? 14 days. Our average? 21' and that more complex projects may take 4 to 5 weeks. We quote 21 days for a clearly scoped build and put larger scopes on a written milestone plan instead. The bigger difference is not the number, it is that their 21 days produces 'minimal UI design' by their own description, and ours includes the design work.

Does using Lovable actually matter?+

It depends entirely on what you are building. For a prototype or a product where nothing sensitive is stored and no money moves, it is a reasonable and fast choice, and we have written that publicly. It starts to matter when the app holds payments or multiple users' data, which is the point where the builds we get paid to repair tend to have failed. Ask any studio, including us, what happens at that boundary.

Still deciding between us?

Book twenty minutes and describe the product. If a monthly retained model or a standalone landing page is what you actually need, we will tell you that, and you should go and get it.

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IgnytLabs is an independent company and is not affiliated with HyperBrain Labs. All quoted material is theirs and was published on ignytlabs.com as at 26 July 2026. Pricing and claims change, so verify before you decide. If anything here is inaccurate, tell us and we will correct it.