The price where you live
A price on this site is set for the country you are in. This page shows how the number is worked out, with nothing hidden.
Prices are shown for the United States, in US dollars, because that is where you seem to be. The same work costs a different amount in different countries, so the price is set by what money buys where you are. See how this number is worked out.
Why the price changes with the country
The same work is worth a different amount of money in different countries. A bank exchange rate does not measure that. It measures what a currency trades for, not what it buys. Converting a Canadian price at the bank rate would charge a South African practice roughly twice what the same work costs a Canadian one, in real terms.
So the price is set against what money buys where you work. The idea is called purchasing power parity. The World Bank publishes a figure for every country that says how much local money buys what one international dollar buys. Two of those figures, divided, give the multiplier for your country.
Canada is the base. The Canadian prices are real prices, set by hand from Canadian costs, and published on the pricing page. Every other country is worked out from them. Nothing on this page is a guess: every number is either published by the World Bank or published by me.
It is a price, not a favour. The rule runs both ways. Against Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia are more expensive countries, so the same rule prices them higher. A reader in Johannesburg and a reader in Sydney each see the price for where they are.
The sum, for the United States
Shown for the baseplate, the build fee every engagement starts with. The same multiplier is applied to every block and every monthly fee on the pricing page.
Every derived figure is rounded to two significant figures. That is why US$2,173 is shown as US$2,200. The monthly fees round the same way.
The source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator PA.NUS.PPP, “PPP conversion factor, GDP (LCU per international $)”, figures for 2024. Published under CC BY 4.0. The figures on this site were pulled on 2026-09-23 and cover 195 countries.
The figures update about once a year. They are stored with the site and never fetched while you read, so a price cannot move while you are looking at it.
What binds
This page is a courtesy. Anyone can read any country's list, and nobody is asked to prove where they are. The number that binds is the one written into the signed work agreement, against the country the work is billed in.
Prices are shown in US dollars because that is the list for the United States. Billing follows the agreement.