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$0 to $0 for a typical job through Hyrde, which works out at $30–$75 an hour depending on seniority. A small, well-defined piece of work lands near the bottom of that range; a whole build sits at the top.
The price is agreed before anyone starts and only changes if you change the scope. Your first three projects carry no Hyrde fee — you pay the specialist their price and nothing else.
01—Three jobs people buy
Hours at a vetted specialist's rate, as a range — an estimate that pretends to be exact is a lie.
01
A question answered from data you already have
One business question, the analysis behind it, and an honest statement of what the data cannot tell you.
$800–$1,200
About 20 hours of data work at $50/hr for a mid-level specialist.
02
A dashboard for the numbers you check weekly
The five metrics that matter, wired to real sources, refreshing without anyone touching it.
$1,200–$1,800
About 30 hours of data work at $50/hr for a mid-level specialist.
03
A model in production, not in a notebook
Trained, evaluated against a baseline, deployed, and monitored for the day its accuracy quietly drops.
$6,600–$9,900
About 110 hours of data work at $75/hr for a senior-level specialist.
02—By the hour
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Junior
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Mid
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Senior
What a vetted specialist costs here. For what the open market charges by city, see the rate index.
03—What moves the number
04—Before you hire
How much does it cost to hire a Data Scientist in 2026?
Through Hyrde, $800 to $9,900 for a typical job. A question answered from data you already have costs $800 to $1,200; a model in production, not in a notebook costs $6,600 to $9,900. Hourly, a vetted Data Scientist works out at $30 to $75 depending on seniority.
Is it cheaper to hire a freelance Data Scientist or an agency?
A freelancer, usually by a wide margin: an agency prices the same work with account management, overhead and margin on top. What an agency buys you is someone else managing the work. On Hyrde the scoping and the quality check are automated instead, so you get the structure without the markup — and no commission is added to the specialist's price.
What makes a Data Scientist quote go up?
How clean and complete the data is. Whether labels exist or must be created. One-off answer or something that keeps running. Where it has to live afterwards. Each of those is asked before you get a number, which is why the price does not move later unless you change the scope.
Can I get a fixed price instead of an hourly rate?
Yes, and that is the default. The work is priced per milestone before anyone starts, you approve each milestone, and an AI checks the delivered work against your brief before you pay. Your first three projects carry no Hyrde fee at all.