Kathmandu Valley · Based in Bhaktapur · Est. 2022
Software Company in Kathmandu
Antbytelabs is a software company in the Kathmandu Valley, building custom software, web and mobile apps, and AI systems for businesses here and overseas. Founded in 2022 and registered in Bhaktapur, we ship production systems you can open and use: the Blurkart eyewear store, a tour and travel booking platform, and two e-commerce builds, each with full source-code ownership and a fixed price agreed before work starts.
Reviewed by the Antbytelabs engineering team · Last updated September 2026
What can a software company in Kathmandu build for you?
From a single website to a full platform — engineered and owned by you.
Web development
Fast, SEO-ready React & Next.js websites and web apps.
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Cross-platform iOS & Android apps with Flutter / React Native.
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ERP, CRM, SaaS, and internal tools built to your workflow.
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Forecasting, document intelligence, and LLM integrations.
Learn moreE-commerce
Online stores with eSewa, Khalti & IME Pay.
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The full picture of what we build.
Learn moreWhy build with a Kathmandu software company?
Kathmandu is Nepal's technology hub, and our office in Bhaktapur sits inside the same valley, with strong engineering talent and English as the working language of almost every software team here. On cost, we would rather you checked than took a number on faith: our prices are published, starting at NPR 25,000 for a brochure site and $3,000 for a custom web application. Compare those against quotes you hold. Antbytelabs pairs that with senior engineers, fortnightly demos, and full source-code ownership, whether you are a Kathmandu business or an overseas team looking for a Nepal partner.
Industries We Have Actually Built For
Most agency pages list every industry they can think of. This is the shorter, checkable version: the sectors we have shipped production software in, and the client each one is based on.
Retail and e-commerce
Bigmart, Shishyastra
Catalogues, carts and stock admin built for Nepali payment rails. Checkout is the part that decides whether an online store works, so it gets the most testing: eSewa and Khalti integration, server-side verification, and a reconciliation view your finance person can actually use.
Education
Vidhyalaya Pro
Learning platforms and school systems. The constraints here are attendance that a teacher can mark in under a minute on a shared phone, fee cycles that follow the Nepali financial year, and reports that match the accounts a school actually files.
Transport and mobility
Gen Go
Ride-sharing and delivery platforms. Live location, driver and rider apps from one codebase, and a backend that keeps working when a rider goes through a valley and comes back twenty minutes later with queued trips to sync.
Security and monitoring
Cammitra
Camera and monitoring systems with an AI layer. Video is heavy and networks here are not, so the interesting work is deciding what gets processed at the edge and what is worth sending onward.
Tourism and travel
In-house tour booking platform
Booking and enquiry systems for operators and hotels. Published itineraries with real detail, a form someone answers the same day, and pages that load on a phone in Europe rather than only on office fibre in Kathmandu.
Where we have not worked
Said plainly
We have not built for banking, insurance or hospitals. Those carry regulatory obligations we would have to learn on your project, and you should weigh that. If your work sits in one of them, ask us who else in Kathmandu has done it.
A sector we have not listed is not a reason to stop reading. Most business software has the same shape underneath: records, roles, approvals and reports. What changes is the vocabulary and the rules, and those you already know better than any vendor will.
What to check before you hire
Most people searching this are trying to pick between several companies, not read about one. So here is the checklist we would use, including the things that go wrong specifically in Nepal. It applies whether or not you end up talking to us.
Who actually writes your code
Agencies win work with a senior and staff it with juniors. Ask who is on your project by name, how long they have been shipping, and whether that changes after the contract is signed.
Ownership at handover
The source code in your repository, the domain in your company name, the hosting and DNS logins with you. If any of it lives in the agency's account, leaving means rebuilding rather than moving.
Fixed price after scoping
A number before anyone understands the work is a guess that gets corrected later, upward. Expect a scoping call, then a fixed quote you can hold them to.
Something live you can click
Not a slide, not a mockup. A URL that loads. Ask what broke on it and how they found out, because everything breaks and the answer tells you how they operate.
A .com.np they are not billing you for
Nepal's country domain is issued free at register.com.np. An annual line item for one is a charge for paperwork done once. Small thing, but it tells you how the rest of the invoice was built.
Who answers when it breaks at 9pm
Ask what support actually covers, what the response time is, and whether it costs extra. Get it in writing before launch rather than discovering it during an outage.
Further reading before you sign
If you are still building a list, start with software companies in Nepal: our shortlist for 2026. Each of the points above has a longer version:
- How to choose a software company in Nepal, the full checklist with the questions to ask on the first call.
- What a software contract should say, clause by clause, before anything is signed.
- Owning your source code, and what to check at handover so leaving is possible.
- In-house developer or agency, for when you are not sure you should hire a company at all.
The local integrations that decide the project
Building for Nepal is not building for anywhere else with the currency changed. Payments are the part that most often goes wrong late, because the sandbox behaves and production does not. eSewa, Khalti, IME Pay and Fonepay each have their own flow, their own settlement timing, and their own failure modes when a user closes the tab mid-payment.
On the Blurkart eyewear store we run Fonepay in its own service, separate from the main application, so a change to the catalogue cannot take checkout down with it. That is the sort of decision worth asking any company about before work starts: not which gateways they support, but what happens to an order when one of them times out halfway through.
The same applies to the parts nobody demos. Devanagari rendering in PDFs and invoices, Bikram Sambat dates next to Gregorian ones, and SMS delivery through Nepali providers all tend to be discovered after launch if they were never specified. Ask early.
Software companies in Kathmandu — frequently asked questions
How do I choose a software company in Kathmandu?
Ask four questions. Who writes the code, a senior engineer or a junior on their first project? Do you own the source code and the domain at handover, in your name? Is the price fixed after a scoping call, or open-ended? And can they show you something live that you can click? Any company worth hiring answers all four without hedging. Antbytelabs has built software in the Kathmandu Valley since 2022; our live work includes the Blurkart eyewear store, a tour and travel booking platform, and two e-commerce builds.
Is Antbytelabs located in Kathmandu?
No. Antbytelabs is based in Bhaktapur (Surya Binayak, Bhaktapur 44800), Bagmati Province, inside the Kathmandu Valley. We work with clients across the valley, including Kathmandu and Lalitpur, as well as the rest of Nepal and international clients, meeting in person or over video calls.
What software services do you offer in Kathmandu?
Custom software (ERP, CRM, SaaS), web development, mobile app development (iOS & Android), e-commerce, AI & machine learning, cloud & DevOps, and digital marketing — all with full source-code ownership and post-launch support.
How much does it cost to build software in Kathmandu?
It depends on scope: a brochure website starts from NPR 25,000, a business website from NPR 40,000, an online store from NPR 60,000, a custom web application from NPR 80,000, and a mobile app from NPR 150,000. Those are floors, not ceilings, and the figure that matters is the fixed quote you get after a scoping call. Every price here is published on our pricing page rather than quoted on request.
Do Kathmandu software companies work with international clients?
Yes. We take remote engagements from outside Nepal, working async-first over Slack and a shared issue tracker with a scheduled call each week. English is the working language of Nepali software teams. On cost, compare our published rates directly rather than trusting a percentage: a custom web application starts at $3,000, which is where a Western agency's discovery phase alone often lands.
Elsewhere in Nepal
We work across the Kathmandu Valley and beyond. If you are searching locally, there are pages for a software company in Lalitpur and a software company in Pokhara. For work delivered to clients outside Nepal, see offshore software development in Nepal. Common questions are answered on the FAQ.
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