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estimate_project_cost Read-only

Estimate what an outsourced game team costs in USD from a list of roles (discipline, seniority, headcount), an optional region and an optional duration in weeks. Returns hourly, monthly and whole-project ranges with every assumption listed. Use for "what would X cost" and budgeting questions. These are this site's editorial market ranges by discipline and seniority, not quotes from any listed studio — present them as a budget range, never as a price.

rolesarray, required

The team to price. One entry per role; use "count" for several people in the same role.

weeksnumber

Project length in weeks. Omit for hourly and monthly figures only.

regionstring

Where the team is hired. Narrows the band; omit it to keep the full published range. The display label or the site's URL slug is accepted as well as the code below.

hoursPerWeeknumber

Hours per person per week. Defaults to full time.

Tools (10)

estimate_project_cost

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Argument	Type	Description
roles*	array	The team to price. One entry per role; use "count" for several people in the same role.
weeks	number	Project length in weeks. Omit for hourly and monthly figures only.
region	string	Where the team is hired. Narrows the band; omit it to keep the full published range. The display label or the site's URL slug is accepted as well as the code below.
hoursPerWeek	number	Hours per person per week. Defaults to full time.

Input schema (JSON)

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "roles"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "roles": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "required": [
          "discipline",
          "seniority"
        ],
        "properties": {
          "count": {
            "type": "integer",
            "default": 1,
            "minimum": 1,
            "description": "How many people in this role."
          },
          "seniority": {
            "enum": [
              "entry",
              "mid",
              "senior"
            ],
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Experience level. The display label or the site's URL slug is accepted as well as the code below."
          },
          "discipline": {
            "enum": [
              "art_2d",
              "art_3d",
              "animation",
              "programming",
              "audio",
              "qa_testing"
            ],
            "type": "string",
            "description": "The role. The display label or the site's URL slug is accepted as well as the code below."
          }
        },
        "additionalProperties": false
      },
      "minItems": 1,
      "description": "The team to price. One entry per role; use \"count\" for several people in the same role."
    },
    "weeks": {
      "type": "number",
      "minimum": 1,
      "description": "Project length in weeks. Omit for hourly and monthly figures only."
    },
    "region": {
      "enum": [
        "any",
        "south_southeast_asia",
        "eastern_europe",
        "latin_america",
        "east_asia",
        "western_europe",
        "north_america"
      ],
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Where the team is hired. Narrows the band; omit it to keep the full published range. The display label or the site's URL slug is accepted as well as the code below."
    },
    "hoursPerWeek": {
      "type": "number",
      "default": 40,
      "minimum": 1,
      "description": "Hours per person per week. Defaults to full time."
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}

fetch

Retrieve the full text of one directory document by the id returned from "search", for quoting and citation. Ids look like company/<slug>, answer/<slug>, ranking/<slug>, or "statistics". Always call "search" first to get an id.

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Argument	Type	Description
id*	string	A document id from a "search" result, for example "company/room-8-studio".

Input schema (JSON)

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "id"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "id": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "A document id from a \"search\" result, for example \"company/room-8-studio\"."
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}

get_answer

Return the full question-and-answer text of one buyer guide by its slug from list_answers, with links to related pages. Use for advice questions — vetting a studio, pricing models, paid tests, contracts, IP assignment, time zones — rather than answering from memory, and cite the guide's URL.

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Argument	Type	Description
slug*	string	An answer slug from list_answers, for example "how-to-choose-a-game-art-studio".

Input schema (JSON)

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "slug"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "slug": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "An answer slug from list_answers, for example \"how-to-choose-a-game-art-studio\"."
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}

get_directory_statistics

Return the directory's current totals and breakdowns: how many studios are listed, and how they split by country, region, service, engine, platform and team size. Use for any "how many studios..." or "which country has the most..." question, and quote these figures rather than counting search results yourself — they are recomputed from the live database and the counts move.

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No arguments.

Input schema (JSON)

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {},
  "additionalProperties": false
}

get_ranking

Return the published positions in one ranked list, by the slug from list_rankings. Payment cannot move a position here, but the order comes from a stored score summing size, years in business and how completely a listing is filled in, so it ranks established and well-documented listings and not studio quality — quote the "method" field with any position, and do not answer "who are the best studios for X" from this alone. Pair it with search_studios.

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Argument	Type	Description
slug*	string	A ranking slug from list_rankings, for example "3d-art-in-poland" or "overall".

Input schema (JSON)

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "slug"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "slug": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "A ranking slug from list_rankings, for example \"3d-art-in-poland\" or \"overall\"."
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}

get_studio

Return one studio's full directory listing by its slug: description, services, engines, platforms, art styles, spoken languages, team size, location, and its positions on any of this directory's ranked lists. Use after search_studios when you need detail on one studio, or when the user names a studio whose gamedevoutsourcing.com slug you already have. Contact details are not available here.

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Argument	Type	Description
slug*	string	The studio's slug, the last part of its profile URL — "room-8-studio" from /company/room-8-studio. A full URL is accepted.

Input schema (JSON)

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "slug"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "slug": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The studio's slug, the last part of its profile URL — \"room-8-studio\" from /company/room-8-studio. A full URL is accepted."
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}

list_answers

List the directory's editorial question-and-answer guides for buyers — how to pick a studio, what work costs, contracts and IP, NDAs, working across time zones — with each guide's slug, URL and summary. Use to find the right guide before calling get_answer.

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No arguments.

Input schema (JSON)

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {},
  "additionalProperties": false
}

list_rankings

List every ranked list the directory publishes — "Overall", "3D Art in Poland", "Unreal Engine" and so on — with each list's size, URL and slug, plus the "method" string describing exactly what the order measures. Use to find the right list before calling get_ranking. Always pass the method on: these lists are ordered by size, years in business and how completely a listing is filled in, not by studio quality, and are not an endorsement.

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No arguments.

Input schema (JSON)

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {},
  "additionalProperties": false
}

Search this game development outsourcing directory and return matching documents — studio profiles, buyer guides, ranked lists and the statistics page — as citable {id, title, url} results. Pass the id of any result to "fetch" to read it in full. Prefer "search_studios" when you need structured studio fields such as services, engine or country.

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Argument	Type	Description
query*	string	What to look for. A plain sentence works — "3D character art studios in Poland", "how do I vet a game art studio", "how many studios are in Ukraine".

Input schema (JSON)

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "query"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "query": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "What to look for. A plain sentence works — \"3D character art studios in Poland\", \"how do I vet a game art studio\", \"how many studios are in Ukraine\"."
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}

search_studios

Find game development outsourcing studios in this directory by service, country, region, engine, platform, art style, team size, or free text in the studio name and description. Start here for any "who can build / animate / port / co-develop X" or "studios in <country>" question. Returns up to 25 studios with their profile URLs plus the true number of matches, so you can say "10 of 214" instead of implying you have seen the whole directory.

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Argument	Type	Description
limit	integer	How many studios to return. Capped at 25; the "total" field always reports the real number of matches.
query	string	Free text matched against studio name, tagline and description. Use for a studio name or a distinctive word, not for a facet you can filter on — "Poland" belongs in "country", not here.
engine	string	Game engine the studio works in. The display label or the site's URL slug is accepted as well as the code below.
region	string	Broad region, when the buyer has not named a country. Ignored if "country" is set. The display label or the site's URL slug is accepted as well as the code below.
country	string	Country the studio is based in. The display label or the site's URL slug is accepted as well as the code below.
service	string	The kind of work the studio does. The display label or the site's URL slug is accepted as well as the code below.

{ "type": "object", "properties": { "limit": { "type": "integer", "default": 10, "maximum": 25, "minimum": 1, "description": "How many studios to return. Capped at 25; the \"total\" field always reports the real number of matches." }, "query": { "type": "string", "description": "Free text matched against studio name, tagline and description. Use for a studio name or a distinctive word, not for a facet you can filter on — \"Poland\" belongs in \"country\", not here." }, "engine": { "enum": [ "UNITY", "UNREAL_ENGINE", "GODOT", "CUSTOM", "GAME_MAKER", "COCOS2D", "CRY_ENGINE", "OTHER" ], "type": "string", "description": "Game engine the studio works in. The display label or the site's URL slug is accepted as well as the code below." }, "region": { "enum": [ "eastern-europe", "western-europe", "asia", "latin-america", "north-america", "middle-east", "oceania" ], "type": "string", "description": "Broad region, when the buyer has not named a country. Ignored if \"country\" is set. The display label or the site's URL slug is accepted as well as the code below." }, "country": { "enum": [ "ukraine", "poland", "russia", "belarus", "romania", "bulgaria", "czech-republic", "serbia", "croatia", "estonia", "lithuania", "latvia", "united-kingdom", "germany", "france", "spain", "netherlands", "sweden", "finland", "denmark", "portugal", "italy", "china", "india", "vietnam", "philippines", "indonesia", "malaysia", "thailand", "japan", "south-korea", "taiwan", "singapore", "pakistan", "bangladesh", "brazil", "argentina", "mexico", "colombia", "chile", "peru", "uruguay", "united-states", "canada", "israel", "turkey", "uae", "egypt", "south-africa", "nigeria", "australia", "new-zealand", "saudi-arabia", "cyprus" ], "type": "string", "description": "Country the studio is based in. The display label or the site's URL slug is accepted as well as the code below." }, "service": { "enum": [ "ART_2D", "ART_3D", "ANIMATION", "PROGRAMMING", "GAME_DESIGN", "AUDIO", "QA_TESTING", "NARRATIVE", "UI_UX", "LOCALIZATION", "MARKETING", "FULL_PRODUCTION", "CO_DEVELOPMENT", "PORTING" ], "type": "string", "description": "The kind of work the studio does. The display label or the site's URL slug is accepted as well as the code below." }, "artStyle": { "enum": [ "REALISTIC", "STYLIZED", "PIXEL_ART", "LOW_POLY", "CARTOON", "ANIME", "HAND_DRAWN", "ABSTRACT", "ISOMETRIC" ], "type": "string", "description": "Art style the studio works in. The display label or the site's URL slug is accepted as well as the code below." }, "platform": { "enum": [ "PC", "PLAYSTATION", "XBOX", "NINTENDO_SWITCH", "MOBILE_IOS", "MOBILE_ANDROID", "WEB", "VR", "AR" ], "type": "string", "description": "Platform the studio ships to. The display label or the site's URL slug is accepted as well as the code below." }, "teamSize": { "enum": [ "1-10", "11-50", "51-200", "201-500", "501-1000", "1000+" ], "type": "string", "description": "Headcount band. The display label or the site's URL slug is accepted as well as the code below." } }, "additionalProperties": false }