Who to hire to develop a mobile application: freelance developers or a studio?

Question

Mobile development

Good afternoon!
We want to make a mobile application for ordering services for home and comfortable life (tutors, photographers, cleaners, etc.). There will be a separate application for clients and performers.
Taking into account the fact that there will be the possibility of paying with bank cards, integration with CRM, automation of settlements with contractors, etc., it is obvious that in addition to a mobile developer, we will also need a backend developer. Hence the question, is it worth hiring individual remote performers, or is it better to immediately order services from the studio (considering that this is our first experience of creating a mobile application)?
PS Development budget 1-3 thousand dollars
PS2: the design is ready

Answer 1

Recently I had the experience of a similar order - though the application is much simpler, without payment and automation, just orders. The price tags of the studios started from 500 thousand rubles. I ordered on one of the freelance exchanges - out of 25-30 who answered, there were 20 studios, and everything was mowed down for individual freelancers. With a deeper search, I found adequate 100-350 thousand.
Even according to your list - the price tag will be at least from the lyama. And you need to look for studios, because the project is serious.
To simplify, just 2 applications where people simply receive and send orders, and a server like mine, then you can meet 1.5 -3 kilodollars.
Payment, automation, integration is wildly expensive.
As an option, you can stay on a site with the described functions and adaptive design for the time being, it will come out much cheaper.

Answer 2

We want to make a mobile application for ordering services for home and comfortable life (tutors, photographers, cleaners, etc.). There will be a separate application for clients and performers.

Not only applications. And also + a server (or something like firebase, but in any case - not free).
Don't hire anyone. Forget it.
However, there are students who will agree. But they won't bring it to mind.
The cost of such a project is about 10 times more.
PS:
Individual performers directly without a studio - cheaper ceteris paribus. But questions of the organization of work - will lie on you.
The studio is more expensive, but less time-consuming for you, the studio will take care of the organizational work with the final performers.
Plus, it's not just about spending your time - but can you organize the work of performers?
PPS:
If the studio is cheap, then it will simply hire performers - the same freelancers that you can hire directly.
Normal studio - much more expensive.

Answer 3

Studio and at least a million trees.