Meridianstacks is a distributed team of senior engineers that builds software for Swedish companies on the same working day as you. You get the cost advantage of offshore development — typically 40–70% below a Stockholm or Gothenburg agency — without the timezone gap, the language friction, or the rotating bench of juniors. Your matched hub is Johannesburg (UTC+2) — the same clock as Stockholm in summer and never more than an hour out.
Offshore software development means engaging a skilled software team outside Sweden to build your product for less. Meridianstacks removes the usual trade-off: our fluent-English engineers work the same Swedish business day, so you keep real-time collaboration and same-day delivery, own all the code and IP, and pay 40–70% less than a local agency. Contracts are GDPR-compliant with SCCs, in line with IMY, and you meet your senior engineers before you commit.
From idea to launched product for Swedish startups and scale-ups — fast, scoped, and built to grow.
React/Next.js and Laravel on the web; Flutter & React Native for iOS and Android from one codebase.
Wallets, lending, KYC and trading platforms built by engineers with deep high-volume payments experience.
Vetted, full-time engineers embedded in your team and standups on a simple monthly retainer.
Add a specialist for a sprint or a stack gap — you manage, we resource and support.
LLM features, retrieval and workflow automation wired into your product and operations.
For Swedish companies the default reflex is nearshore — Poland, the Baltics or Ukraine — to keep the timezones close. That solves the clock, but not the rest. Meridianstacks works your full Swedish working day, with native-level English in every spec and code review, and senior engineers you video-call before you commit. With a national shortage of roughly 70,000 developers driving up local salaries, it is also the fastest way to add senior capacity.
| Option | Swedish overlap | Cost vs local agency |
|---|---|---|
| Meridianstacks | Full (same UTC day) | 40–70% less |
| Swedish agency | Full | Baseline (highest) |
| CEE / Baltic nearshore | Full | Mid — anonymous teams |
| In-house hire | Full | Highest + ~70k dev shortage |
| Build | Typical Swedish agency | Meridianstacks |
|---|---|---|
| MVP web app | SEK 320,000–850,000 | ~SEK 160,000–400,000 |
| Custom SaaS platform | SEK 530,000–1,600,000 | ~SEK 215,000–600,000 |
| Dedicated developer (monthly) | SEK 85,000–170,000 | ~SEK 35,000–65,000 |
Prices published from our Open Price Book (v1.0 · July 2026 · next review October 2026). All prices exclude VAT.
Indicative, approximate ranges in kronor; every engagement is quoted as a fixed price in SEK before work begins.
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