Audio Plugins and Virtual Instruments, Built to Ship

At Edge Audio Labs, a single-purpose VST3 and AU plugin with your branding and signed installers costs US$ 5,000 through the Simple Plugin or App program. Adding a sales page, a store and a licensing system brings it to US$ 10,000 through the Flagship Product program. Plugin lines with shared infrastructure start at US$ 10,000. Projects that need custom architecture, hardware integration or research are quoted individually.

The Simple Plugin or App program at Edge Audio Labs takes 4 to 6 weeks, Flagship Product takes 6 to 12 weeks, and Custom AI, Integrations or Platform takes 12 weeks and up. The date is agreed before the project starts, and it is part of the fixed scope rather than an estimate.

No-code platforms work well when the plugin can be assembled from the audio blocks they provide. Custom DSP, hardware emulation, machine learning models, integration with hardware or custom file formats, and anything that talks to a backend service need code. That is the work Edge Audio Labs does, in C++ and JUCE, with PyTorch and ONNX when there is a model involved.