Your Own Offshore Development Center in India
A long-term strategic engagement: your branded team in India, managed by us. We handle everything — HR, payroll, compliance, infrastructure, and talent acquisition.
Explore ODC ModelAn offshore development center is your own engineering unit in India — your brand, your roadmap, your engineers — without you having to register an Indian company, run local payroll, or learn Indian labour law. You keep full control of what the team builds and how it works. We own everything underneath: the legal entity, hiring, compliance, infrastructure and retention.
It is the right model once you are past renting individual developers and want a permanent team that compounds knowledge of your product year after year. Most companies reach that point around 10 engineers. Below that, a dedicated development team is usually the cheaper fit. Want the numbers first? Run your headcount through the remote developer cost calculator or check the developer rate card.
What We Handle for Your ODC
Legal & Compliance
Entity setup, employment contracts, statutory compliance under Indian labor law.
Talent Acquisition
We hire and vet developers to your specifications, at scale (10–100+ engineers).
Payroll Management
Monthly payroll, tax filings, PF, ESI — fully managed.
IT Infrastructure
Laptops, VPN, security policies, cloud access, communication tools.
HR Operations
Leave management, appraisals, performance reviews, retention programs.
IP & Data Security
NDAs, IP assignment, data handling policies, ISO-aligned processes.
How much does an offshore development center in India cost?
A 10-engineer offshore development center in India runs from about $22,000/mo all-inclusive. That single number covers salaries, payroll, statutory contributions, compliance, laptops, office and security, plus the HR and account management around it. The equivalent team hired locally in the US, UK or Australia costs $90,000+/mo once you load salaries with benefits, recruiter fees and office overhead — so the offshore development center cost lands roughly 75% lower for the same engineering output.
There is no entity-setup fee and no per-hire recruitment commission. You are not paying a percentage margin on every headcount the way you would with a staffing agency — you pay a transparent monthly cost per engineer, and it does not change when the team grows. Scale from 10 to 50 engineers and the unit economics stay flat.
The variable that actually moves your number is seniority mix, not headcount. A team weighted toward tech leads and architects costs meaningfully more than one weighted toward mid-level engineers. Model your specific mix in the cost calculator, or see per-role pricing on the rate card.
ODC vs staff augmentation vs a dedicated team
These three models get used interchangeably and they should not be. Staff augmentation plugs individual developers into your existing team, billed per person — best when you need two React engineers for six months. A dedicated development team gives you a managed squad with its own PM, working your backlog — best from roughly 3 to 15 people on a defined product.
An offshore development center is a different commitment. It is a long-term branded extension of your company — your onboarding, your engineering culture, your career ladders — that happens to sit in India. You interview and select every engineer. You set the roadmap. We are the infrastructure layer underneath, invisible to your team and your customers.
The practical test: if you would be unhappy losing this team in 12 months, you want an ODC. Retention is the whole point — engineers who stay three years know your codebase better than any contractor will, and India's engineering talent pool is deep enough to sustain that at scale.
Offshore development center FAQs
How much does an offshore development center in India cost? +
An offshore development center in India typically runs from about $22,000/mo for a 10-engineer team, all-inclusive — salaries, payroll, compliance, infrastructure and management. The same team hired locally in the US or UK would cost $90,000+/mo. There is no separate entity-setup fee and no recruitment commission per hire.
What is the difference between an ODC and staff augmentation? +
Staff augmentation adds individual developers to your existing team, billed per person. An offshore development center is a long-term branded unit of your own company in India — your team, your culture, your processes — with us handling the legal entity, HR, payroll and infrastructure underneath it. ODC makes sense from roughly 10 engineers upward.
How long does it take to set up an offshore development center? +
Because we already hold the legal entity, compliance framework and office infrastructure, your offshore development center is operational in 4 to 6 weeks. Setting up your own Indian subsidiary from scratch typically takes 6 to 9 months and needs local legal and tax counsel.
Who owns the intellectual property built by the ODC team? +
You do, without exception. Every engineer signs an IP assignment agreement and an NDA before starting, and all work product transfers to your company on creation. We run ISO-aligned data-handling policies, NDAs and access controls across the whole offshore development center.
Can I hire the ODC team onto my own entity later? +
Yes. Many clients run an offshore development center with us for two to three years, then transition to their own Indian entity once the team is large enough to justify it. We support that build-operate-transfer path and there is no buyout penalty for taking your team with you.
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