Django development services - custom web apps, admin dashboards and APIs, secure and batteries-included.
Intention InfoService builds custom Django web applications - content and admin-heavy platforms, SaaS, portals and DRF APIs - by a small senior team, in clean, modern Python. Django ships the boring, security-critical parts in the box: a production admin, the ORM, auth and the common attack defenses - so your budget goes on the product, not the plumbing. You own 100% of the standard-Django code, with no lock-in, at transparent published fixed prices. It's the natural web app to put in front of your Python data or ML. For startups, SMBs and enterprises worldwide.
Fixed price, code you own, no lock-in.
- You own 100% of the code
- Published fixed pricing
- Django 6.0 + Python 3.13
Django in 2026v6.0
- Framework
- Django 6.0, 5.2 LTS to 2028
- Its signature
- The admin, built in
- Security
- CSRF, XSS, SQLi - by default
- Language
- Python 3.13, typed
The batteries-included Python web framework - security and admin in the box.
The web app with the boring parts already built
Django's lane is the real application - business logic, a data model, an admin, auth - where batteries-included saves the most. A typical Django engagement is one of these:
Content & admin-heavy web apps
The apps Django is built for: real business logic, a data model, and a production admin your team runs the operation from, out of the box.
Internal tools & back-office portals
Operations dashboards, staff portals, vendor and customer portals - auth, roles and permissions handled by the framework, not hand-rolled.
Custom content platforms
A real content platform with editorial workflow, page trees and structured content on Wagtail, the Django CMS - not a simple brochure site (that's WordPress).
Membership & auth-heavy apps
Sign-up, roles, subscriptions and permission-heavy products - Django's auth, sessions and object-level permissions are a genuine head start.
DRF APIs for a Django app
REST and JSON APIs with Django REST Framework or Django Ninja, exposed from the Django app you're already building - for a mobile app or a separate front end.
The web app in front of Python data or ML
The dashboard, admin and API that surface your Python data pipelines or ML models to real users - since Django is already Python, it sits there naturally.
Which job is really yours? Here's where each one goes
This page owns the batteries-included Django web platform - the admin, ORM, auth and DRF APIs. When your project is really one of these instead, we'll point you to the right place rather than force the fit:
A new API-first or async service where raw throughput is the point - Python the language - FastAPI, Flask, data and ML is the sharper call. Django 6.0 has genuine async, but for a pure API-first service FastAPI is still the 2026 default, and it lives on the Python page.
A simple content or blog site a non-technical team edits itself - WordPress, the off-the-shelf CMS for editors is usually the right call - less engineering than a custom build. Django earns its keep for custom content platforms, not a five-page editable site.
A finished AI product - a chatbot, RAG assistant or AI feature - our AI development service is a scoped service priced to the requirement. Django is the web app that sits in front of your data or model - not where we invent an AI price.
A broader web build - design, content and front end together - our web design and development service covers the full web build. Django ships its own front end via templates or HTMX, and we scope the bigger picture there.
Is Django still relevant in 2026? Yes.
Django 6.0 shipped in December 2025 with a built-in background-tasks framework, native Content Security Policy and template partials, and Django 5.2 LTS is supported into 2028 - an actively developed framework, not a legacy one. Its real edge is still the thing nobody else ships: a production-grade admin generated from your models, plus security defaults - CSRF, ORM-parameterised queries, template auto-escaping, clickjacking protection, now native CSP - that are on by default. Django runs large parts of platforms like Instagram and Pinterest, which is evidence the framework scales, not a claim about who we've worked with. The honest limit: for a pure API-first, high-concurrency async service where raw throughput is the point, FastAPI leads, so we'll point you there rather than force Django. Django's home ground is the complete web platform, and there it's one of the safest 2026 picks.
Why teams build web apps on Django
Django is the framework we reach for when the job wants an admin, an ORM and auth from day one, and security handled by default. Here's what it buys you - and, honestly, when it's the wrong tool.
The boring 80%, already built
The admin, ORM, migrations, auth, forms and common attack defenses ship in the box - so the budget goes on the 20% that's actually your product, not the plumbing every app needs.
The admin nobody else ships
A production-grade back office generated from your models, out of the box - the internal tool your team runs the business from, that Laravel needs a package for and FastAPI has nothing for.
Secure by default
CSRF, SQL-injection protection through the ORM, XSS auto-escaping, clickjacking middleware and, in Django 6.0, native CSP - the security you'd otherwise have to remember, on by default.
A natural home for data & ML
It's already Python, so Django is the obvious web app, admin and API to put in front of your data pipelines or ML models - the interface your users actually see.
Modern without a heavy SPA
The Django and HTMX pattern ships rich, interactive server-rendered UIs with little client JavaScript - a genuine 2026 way to build polished apps fast, small team or not.
Mature, and hiring is easy
Django is over a decade proven, on a dependable LTS cadence, with a huge talent pool - so what we build is a safe, well-supported bet the next team can maintain.
When we'd tell you not to use Django
Django is our pick when the job is a real web application with an admin, an ORM and auth wanted from day one - content and admin-heavy platforms, SaaS, portals, internal tools. It is the wrong tool - and we'll say so - when the whole product is an API-first, async service where raw throughput is the point: Django 6.0 has genuine async now, but for that shape Python, FastAPI and the async API-first lane is the sharper default. When the product is hard real-time at scale - a chat backbone or high-fanout streaming - Node.js, for real-time and JavaScript-everywhere is sharper, though Django handles ordinary real-time fine with Channels. If you just need a content or brochure site a non-technical team edits, that's often WordPress, the off-the-shelf CMS for editors. And if what you actually want is a finished AI product, that's our AI development service. Not sure which way to go? We'll pick the right stack for the job, not the one this page happens to be about.
Django the 2026 way, not the Django 1.x way
There's no live Django running this static Next.js site to point at, so the proof is the depth. This is current to Django 5.2 LTS and Django 6.0 on Python 3.13 - the built-in admin, the ORM, DRF and HTMX, not the function-view, Python-2, 'just Rails for Python' Django its reputation is stuck on.
The ORM & data modelling
Models, relationships, typed fields and versioned migrations over PostgreSQL. The senior work is indexes, select_related and prefetch_related and a query budget - the ORM is easy to make slow, so killing N+1s and reading QuerySet.explain() is the real skill.
The Django admin as a real back office
The admin nobody else ships, turned into an actual internal tool: custom ModelAdmin, inlines, bulk actions, list filters and permissions, themed with django-unfold so it looks like your product. A genuine back office in days, not a raw scaffold left exposed.
APIs with DRF or Django Ninja
Django REST Framework for the mature, batteries-included REST toolkit - serializers, viewsets, auth, throttling - or Django Ninja for FastAPI-style typed, async, Pydantic-validated endpoints inside Django. Strawberry for GraphQL, versioning and pagination handled.
The interactivity choice
Django templates plus HTMX for the low-JS, server-rendered path that took over in 2026 - rich interactivity without shipping a SPA - or a decoupled React and Next.js front end on a DRF or Ninja API when the UI genuinely needs it.
Auth & permissions
Sessions out of the box, django-allauth for social login, MFA and email flows, dj-rest-auth or JWT for API clients, and Django's permission system extended to object-level and role-based access.
Async views & the async ORM, honestly
Async views on ASGI and the ORM's async query methods - aget, async iteration, the new AsyncPaginator - for high-concurrency I/O. And the honest line: much of Django is still synchronous, so we use async where it earns its keep and don't pretend Django is FastAPI.
Realtime with Channels
WebSockets and long-lived connections - notifications, presence, live dashboards, chat - with Django Channels over ASGI and a Redis channel layer. Socket auth, reconnection and scale-out thought through, with Node flagged when realtime is the whole product.
Background jobs & scheduling
Slow or flaky work - email, reports, exports, scheduled jobs - moved off the request path onto Celery with Redis, or the lighter built-in Tasks framework new in Django 6.0. Retries with backoff, periodic schedules and separate workers.
Security to Django's high defaults
Django's strongest card, used properly: CSRF protection, template auto-escaping against XSS, the ORM's parameterised queries against SQL injection, clickjacking and HSTS via the security middleware, and native Content Security Policy new in Django 6.0.
Content platforms with Wagtail
When the job is a real content platform - editorial workflow, page trees, structured content, a friendly editor experience - Wagtail on Django, not a raw admin. A custom platform your team runs, distinct from a brochure site you'd sooner edit in WordPress.
Testing with pytest-django
pytest-django with fixtures, factories and parametrization, feature tests driven through the real request path against a Postgres container rather than over-mocked, and coverage gates. Fast enough to run on every commit, so a green suite means something.
In front of Python data & ML
Django's natural home is the web app and admin on top of your data - dashboards, jobs you trigger and monitor, results from a Python data or ML backend surfaced to real users. The modelling itself is Python work; Django is the product around it, not where we invent an accuracy number.
Our default Django architecture: Django 5.2 LTS on Python 3.13 for anything that needs to sit still, or Django 6.0 when a build wants the newest. PostgreSQL as the store, DRF or Django Ninja for APIs, Django templates with HTMX or a decoupled React and Next.js front end chosen per app. Celery on Redis, or the built-in Tasks framework, when work needs to leave the request path; Channels over ASGI for realtime; pytest-django from the first commit; uv and Ruff for a fast reproducible toolchain. Deployed on ASGI behind Gunicorn with Uvicorn workers in multi-stage Docker, WhiteNoise or a CDN for static, Redis for cache and sessions. We reach for FastAPI when the job is a pure async API-first service, Node when realtime is the whole product, and WordPress when it's really a simple editable content site.
We won't pretend this page is Django.
Our React and Next.js pages can say 'this page is the technology, inspect it.' This one can't, and we won't fake it. Our site is a static Next.js and React build, and even the toolchain that compiles it runs on Node, not Python - so Django and Python power none of what you're reading: not the runtime, not the build, not a single view or query. Django is exactly the framework that could plausibly render a page like this, which is why bolting a 'Built with Django' badge onto one that isn't would be so easy - and so disqualifying. We didn't, because the moment we fake that is the moment nothing else here is trustworthy.
The depth on this page is the demo
The capability detail above is written by people who actually ship modern Django - typed models and the ORM, class-based and first-class async views, the admin as a real product surface, DRF for APIs, Celery on Redis for background work, Channels for WebSockets, Wagtail where content needs an editorial platform. It's current to Django 5.2 LTS and Django 6.0: the built-in background-tasks framework, native Content Security Policy, template partials, and async promoted to a first-class path. Dated or hand-wavy Django vocabulary is how you spot an amateur on a Django page. Ours is current, and that competence, stated as capability and never as a result we invented, is the proof that actually travels.
You own 100% of the code, schema and data
A standard Django project in your repository, deployed to your cloud - your AWS, GCP, Azure or a host you choose, your PostgreSQL, your domain. The source, the models, the migrations, the admin and the data live in your database and your repo, yours from day one. The schema and data are never held hostage on our side.
No lock-in, by construction
Standard Django and mainstream open source - the Django ORM, DRF, PostgreSQL, Celery and Redis, Wagtail where it fits - in the conventional Django project layout any competent Django team can read. We never wrap your app in an in-house abstraction only we understand.
Senior people, direct
You talk to the engineers who write your Django, design your models and shape your admin - no account-manager layer, no offshore hand-off, no juniors learning the ORM on your budget.
Transparent, published fixed pricing
The same published tiers as the rest of the site, no metered surprises and no quote wall. A Django web app or content platform lands on the upper web tiers; a genuinely bespoke system, SaaS or API enters through a fixed-price Discovery Sprint that ends in a written scope and a fixed build quote - never a mystery hourly rate.
Security-minded, honestly
We build on Django's own strong defaults - CSRF, the ORM's parameterised queries against SQL injection, template auto-escaping against XSS, clickjacking middleware, hashed auth and, in Django 6.0, native Content Security Policy - plus OWASP practices. We hold no SOC 2 report and no ISO 27001 certification, and there is no HIPAA certification for anyone to hold. There is no official Django partner program or certification to hold either, so we won't imply one exists. If your project legally needs a vendor who carries a formal attestation, we'll say so plainly.
A registered company since 2016
Intention InfoService is a real, incorporated company, small and senior on purpose - so a Django codebase stays architecturally consistent from the first migration to deployment instead of passing between rotating hands.
We ship web applications built from the same parts a Django app is - honestly labelled
Our production work is real, custom web builds - a professional-training platform rebuild and a financial-services site - built from the exact primitives a Django application is made of: structured, relational data models, an authenticated admin a non-technical marketing team runs itself, a large catalog turned into a fast filterable experience, enquiry and demo-class funnels, a real-time affordability calculator, and third-party integrations that have to not break. See our real builds, described honestly - and never relabelled as Django or Python projects, because they weren't, and we won't dress a web build up as something it wasn't. What they prove is one true thing: this team ships working software that models real data, handles a filterable catalog, enquiry funnels and an admin, and holds up in production. The Django-specific proof isn't a borrowed case study or a famous logo - it's the depth on this page and the standard-Django code, migrations, admin and database you'll own outright.
From data model to a running Django app
Django's natural build order is models, migrations, then the admin - so you get a usable back-office early, often in week one - and most builds go from kickoff to live in weeks, not months.
Discovery & data model
2-3 daysWe map the entities, roles and integrations, agree scope and a fixed price, and design the data model - which in Django is where the app really starts.
Models, migrations & admin
daysModels and migrations first, which gives you a working admin back-office early - often a usable internal tool in week one, before the front end exists.
Views, API & UI
weeksViews and DRF or Django Ninja APIs, with templates and HTMX or a decoupled React front end - demoed on a live URL every week, never a black box.
Test & harden
ongoingpytest-django, a security pass on Django's defaults, and a performance pass with eager loading and caching - so it ships solid and observable.
Deploy & hand over
on deliveryDeployed on ASGI behind Gunicorn with CI/CD and migrations in the pipeline, documented and handed over - a standard Django repo, admin and database you own outright.
The honest 2026 framework comparison
We're stack-agnostic, so this is fair, not a pitch. All three are excellent - the real choice in 2026 is about your language, your workload, and how much you want in the box.
| Django | Laravel | Node.js | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What it is | Full-stack Python framework | Full-stack PHP framework | JavaScript runtime on V8 |
| Best for | Content/admin-heavy apps, and apps in front of Python data or ML | Server-rendered, CRUD-heavy web apps & SaaS | Real-time, high-concurrency, API-first |
| In the box | ORM, auth, admin - included | ORM, auth, queues, admin - included | Assemble your own |
| View / front end | Templates, HTMX, DRF for APIs | Blade, Livewire, Inertia | Bring a front-end framework |
| Language | Python 3.13, type hints | PHP 8.4 / 8.5, typed | JavaScript / TypeScript |
| Our take | Our pick when the stack is Python | Fast, batteries-included PHP web apps | When real-time or JS-everywhere leads |
Django and Laravel, the same batteries-included idea in PHP, are close cousins. Need real-time or one JavaScript language across the stack? That's Node.js, for real-time and JavaScript-everywhere. And for a pure async API-first service, FastAPI on our Python page is the sharper default. We recommend the fit, not the framework we sell.
What Django development costs
No quote wall. A Django build is priced by our published web tiers - the same numbers on our pricing page and everywhere else. A web app or content platform usually lands at the upper tiers; a bespoke system or API is scoped up front. You always see the price before you commit.
Starter
1 week
A single-page site or landing page, live fast
- 1 to 5 page site or landing page
- Mobile-responsive, on-brand design
- SEO & schema baseline
Launch Sprint
2-3 weeks
Startups needing a fast, credible site
- Up to 8 pages
- Next.js + CMS
- SEO & schema baseline
Growth Site
3-5 weeks
SMBs that want a lead engine
- 8-30 pages
- Blog / CMS
- AEO/GEO content structure
Commerce Sprint
4-6 weeks
DTC / e-commerce brands
- Headless Shopify or Next.js commerce
- Payments
- Performance-tuned PDP & checkout
MVP Sprint
6-10 weeks
Pre-seed / seed founders
- Core-feature web app / SaaS
- Auth + database
- Deployed & measured
Pricing a SaaS, content platform or standalone API?
A Django web app usually lands at the upper tiers. A bespoke SaaS, portal, admin-heavy system or standalone API is genuinely scoped work, so it enters through our custom software Discovery Sprint from $1,000, which ends in a written scope and a fixed build quote. And if you need the broader web build - design, content and front end together - that's our web design and development service.
See full package details on pricing and our custom software service.
Django development, answered
What is Django used for?
Django is a batteries-included Python web framework for building complete web applications: content and admin-heavy sites, SaaS products, portals, dashboards and REST APIs. It ships an ORM, authentication, a production-ready admin, forms, security defaults and a templating engine out of the box, so a small team builds the whole application on one framework instead of assembling parts. Its natural home is a web app that leans on Python data or ML behind it.
Is Django frontend or backend?
Django is primarily a backend framework - it runs on the server and handles routing, business logic, the database, auth and APIs. It is full-stack in that it also renders the front end through its template engine, so a Django app can be the whole application rather than just an API. When you want a decoupled browser UI, Django with DRF serves the API and React, Next.js or Angular serves the front end.
Is Django good for web development?
Yes - for content and admin-heavy web apps and SaaS it is one of the strongest 2026 choices, precisely because so much is included and secure by default. Its built-in admin alone can save weeks of back-office UI, and no other mainstream framework ships one. It is a weaker fit for a tiny API-only microservice, where FastAPI is lighter, and for a simple editable brochure site, where a CMS like WordPress is less engineering than a custom build.
Django vs FastAPI - which should I use?
Different jobs, both Python. Use Django when you want a complete web platform with a built-in admin, ORM and auth out of the box - a content, admin or SaaS app where batteries-included saves the most time. Use FastAPI for a new API-first or async, high-concurrency service; it is the strongest 2026 default for that shape, and we cover it on our Python page. Many teams even run both. We pick per project and tell you why.
Django vs Flask - which should I use?
Flask is a minimal micro-framework: you assemble the ORM, auth and admin yourself, which is ideal for small, simple services. Django gives you all of that in the box, which is why it wins for larger, longer-lived applications where an admin, auth and structure matter. Flask and FastAPI are the lighter, API-first Python options we cover on our Python page; this page is about building full applications on Django.
Django vs Laravel - which should I use?
They're close cousins - both batteries-included, full-stack MVC frameworks with an ORM, auth and an admin story built in. Choose Django when Python is your language, especially if data or ML sits behind the app. Choose Laravel when your team is in PHP, or when Livewire, Filament and the Laravel hosting ecosystem fit the product. We build both and recommend the honest fit, not the one we feel like selling.
Django vs Node.js - which backend should I choose?
Django is excellent for content, admin and CRUD-heavy web apps, and for anything that leans on Python's data or ML ecosystem. Node.js is the better fit for real-time features, high-concurrency I/O and one JavaScript language across front and back end. Neither wins in the abstract - it depends on your product and team, and we build in both.
Is Django still relevant in 2026?
Yes. Django 6.0 shipped in December 2025 and Django 5.2 LTS carries security support into 2028, so it is actively developed, not legacy. The 'old and slow' reputation is dated: async views and async ORM methods have matured, DRF and Django Ninja cover modern APIs, the Django and HTMX pattern gives rich interactivity without a heavy JS SPA, and the built-in admin and security defaults remain things no other framework hands you for free. It is not the right pick for a pure API-first async microservice - that's FastAPI's lane - but for a full web platform it is a safe, well-supported 2026 default.
Is Django good for building APIs?
Yes, through Django REST Framework (DRF), the battle-tested API layer - serializers, viewsets, auth and permissions - ideal when the API is part of, or attached to, a larger Django app and you want the admin, ORM and auth alongside it. Django Ninja is the modern, async, Pydantic-based option when you want a FastAPI-style feel inside Django. For a standalone, API-first or high-concurrency async service with no web app around it, FastAPI is usually the cleaner default - that's on our Python page.
Django vs WordPress - which do I need?
Different jobs. If you need a content, blog or brochure site your team edits through a familiar admin with themes and plugins, that is WordPress. If you need a custom content platform with bespoke models, editorial workflow and real business logic, that is Django - often with Wagtail, the Django CMS. A useful rule: an editable content site is WordPress; a custom application or a content platform built to your own rules is Django.
Can you build a SaaS or admin dashboard on Django?
Yes - it's one of Django's biggest strengths. The built-in admin gives you a production back-office fast, and the framework's auth, ORM and permissions make multi-tenant SaaS, portals and dashboards natural. A SaaS platform is genuinely bespoke, so it's scoped as custom software through a fixed-price Discovery Sprint that ends in a written plan and a fixed build quote, rather than dropped into a fixed web tier sight-unseen.
Is Django secure?
Security is one of the reasons to choose it. Django protects against the common web risks by default - SQL injection through the ORM, cross-site scripting via auto-escaping templates, CSRF, clickjacking - and ships secure password hashing and a hardened auth system, with native Content Security Policy added in Django 6.0. Nothing is automatic if you fight the framework, but secure defaults you'd otherwise have to remember are exactly why teams reach for it.
Does this website run on Django?
No - and we won't pretend it does. This site is a static Next.js and React build, and even the build toolchain runs on Node, not Python, so Django powers none of what you are reading. We could have added a Built-with-Django badge in minutes; we didn't, because that is the moment you could no longer trust anything else on the page. The proof here is the engineering depth of this page and the standard-Django code, admin and database you own outright.
How much does Django development cost?
We publish fixed tiers instead of a quote wall: Starter from $300, Launch Sprint from $1,500, Growth Site from $4,000, Commerce Sprint from $7,000, and an MVP Sprint from $12,000 for a web app with a real backend. A Django web app or SaaS usually lands at the upper tiers; a bespoke system, platform or standalone API is scoped through a custom-software Discovery Sprint from $1,000 that ends in a fixed build quote. No hourly rates, no mystery pricing.
Do I own the Django code you build?
Yes - 100% ownership. It is standard Django on mainstream open-source packages, in your repository, deployed to your own cloud, so the code, database schema, data and IP are yours from day one and any competent Django team can take it over. No proprietary lock-in, no framework only we understand. Fixed pricing and code you own outright are the whole point.
Ready to build with Django?
Get a fixed-price quote for a Django web app, admin platform or API - standard Python you own outright, no lock-in, and a straight answer on whether Django, FastAPI or WordPress is the right call. No quote wall.