D8N does not publish a price list, because a serious answer depends on your markets, your volumes and how much of trust and safety operations you want to run yourself. What we can do is set out the cost structure honestly, including the parts that are invisible in a first-year budget and dominate the third.
Design, build, app store submission and launch marketing. This is the number that appears in pitch decks, and it is the smaller half. A competent from-scratch dating build reaches a launchable state in months, not weeks, and reaches a defensible state considerably later.
These do not go away, and most of them grow with members rather than with revenue.
Every item on that second list is amortised across every brand on a shared platform and paid in full by a single company on a bespoke build. A fraud classifier trained on three brands' traffic is better than one trained on yours alone, and it costs you a fraction of what it cost to build. That is the actual economic argument for white label, and it is a stronger one than the launch-speed argument people usually lead with.
Commercially it is a platform fee plus usage on the metered capabilities — verifications, authenticity checks, payment volume. Custom engineering and run-with-you trust and safety operations are priced per engagement. We will tell you what shape fits before you spend time on a proposal, and we will tell you when the answer is that none of them do.
If the answer you need isn’t here, ask us directly — we will tell you plainly when D8N is not the right fit.
The build is the smaller number. Assume a serious team for several months to reach launch, then a permanent ongoing cost for identity verification, fraud detection, moderation staff, payment operations and infrastructure — most of which scales with members rather than revenue and none of which stops. Budgets that model only the build are the ones that run out in year two.
At launch, almost always. Over three years, the gap usually widens rather than closes, because the recurring cost of keeping trust and safety current is shared across every brand on the platform instead of carried alone.
Because the honest number depends on your markets, your verification volumes and how much of trust and safety operations you run yourself, and a published number that ignores those would be wrong for almost everyone who read it. Tell us the shape of what you are launching and we will give you a real one.
Yes. Your name, domains, theme, copy, pricing, app store listings and member relationships are yours. The only D8N marks members see are the trust marks — Protected by D8N and D8N Verified — which exist because a visible mark is what makes verification worth passing.
Tell us the market, the audience and whether you are launching a new brand or adding D8N to an app you already run. Those three answers decide whether white label, the API, or a custom build is the right shape, and we will say plainly if it is none of them.