How much does a website cost in 2026

What drives the price of a website

When people ask how much a website costs, they are often comparing things that cannot be compared. A one-screen page and a site with a product catalog, customer accounts and online payments are different products, even though both get called "a website". So it helps to split the price into five plain parts.

1. Number of pages. One page, five or thirty: each needs design, copy and a check on a phone.
2. Features. A contact form is simple. Online payments, a customer account, appointment booking and a CRM connection (the tool where customers and deals are stored) are separate modules, each with its own price.
3. Languages. Another language is not a "translate" button. It means translation, editing and its own search setup.
4. Copy and photos. If you have no materials, someone has to write and source them. That is time, and time is money.
5. Deadline. A 24-hour job is possible only with a proven routine and only if the brief and materials are ready.

The good news: most small-business sites fit into three or four standard packages. Next we show their prices, and in the calculator below you can build your own from blocks and see the range and the timeline right away.

Website design cost by type

Below is our price list (version v0.4, prices in euros). It works as a benchmark for other vendors too: this is what an honest ladder from simple to complex looks like.

Business card site and landing page

If you only need to say who you are and how to reach you, a business card website at €990 is enough. If you are running ads for one service, a landing page at €790 works better: it has one goal and one button. The difference is covered in detail in "What Is a Landing Page and How a Selling One Works".

Business website

When customers should find you in search, one page is not enough. You need a separate page for each service, a blog and a setup for search queries. A business website at €2,490 is built for exactly that.

When the price goes higher

A product catalog, customer accounts, paid subscriptions and online payments make it an online store or a portal. A store starts at €2,490, a corporate portal at €14,900, and platforms with accounts and roles are sold through a paid architecture session at €3,500, which is credited toward the project.

How much does a small business website cost, turnkey

"Turnkey" means different things at different agencies. To compare offers fairly, check what exactly is in the price.

• Design built from your brief, not a template with your logo swapped in.
• Layout and responsiveness: the site looks equally good on a phone and a desktop.
• Copy and photo selection. If you write the texts yourself the price is lower, but have them ready before the start.
• A contact form that emails you and sends a confirmation to the customer.
• Legal pages: privacy policy, terms, company details. These are templates for your country, and your lawyer does the final check.
• Domain, email on the domain and a secure connection (HTTPS).
• Analytics and basic SEO setup.
• Handover of access. The site, domain and accounts must be registered to you.

The last point matters most. If the site lives on the contractor's account, you can lose it when you part ways. With us the domain, code and accounts are registered to the client from day one, and we work through invitations. How to check this with any agency is covered in "How to Choose a Web Development Company".

One more rule of our pricing: you pay for the domain (about €10–15 a year) and third-party services directly, as you use them. We add no markup on infrastructure. At the start, hosting, protection and forms run on free plans, so the first year of a site in your country costs the development fee plus the domain.

What market prices show

So that you do not have to take our numbers on faith, let us compare them with public guides. An important caveat: most of these guides are written by agencies and services that sell websites themselves, so treat the figures as orientation.

• Shopify's guide puts a small-business site at roughly $120–10,000, from building it yourself to hiring professionals. The upper end is agencies where strategy, design, development and content are all in the price.
• According to Domain.com, a freelancer costs roughly $500–10,000 per project, while a web agency runs from a couple of thousand dollars to $50,000 and more.
• A site you build yourself on a website builder costs about $300 for the first year, according to Ueni's estimate.
• Hosting, per the same Domain.com guide, costs from $30 to $1,700 a year depending on type, and a domain usually runs about €10–15 a year.

We deliberately do not chase the market average. Our approach is standard packages with a fixed price, assembled from ready, proven blocks rather than from scratch. That is why a business card site costs €990 with a fixed scope. If an offer is far cheaper, ask whether it is a template and what is not included. If it is far more expensive, ask what was added: strategy, copywriting, a photo shoot, ongoing support. The difference is often justified, but you should understand it.

If you are comparing vendors in your city, ask each of them for an itemized breakdown using the checklist in the previous section. The price gap almost always comes down to the scope of work. If you serve customers in the UK or EU, also ask whether the cookie banner and privacy pages are included, since those are expected by law there.

Hidden costs after launch

The development price is only the beginning. So that the budget holds no surprises, keep four recurring costs in mind.

1. Domain: once a year, about €10–15.
2. Hosting and services. We start on free plans. But they have limits: on the free plan, a database project "falls asleep" after a week without activity, and an email service caps the number of messages per day and per month. When your site outgrows them, we tell you in advance which plan you need and what it costs.
3. Support and updates. If you do not want to edit texts and watch security yourself, support is sold monthly.
4. Promotion. A site does not bring traffic by itself. Plan a separate budget for search and ads: how to estimate SEO is covered in "How Much Does SEO Cost".

One more point: nobody can promise search rankings or a bank's approval based on a website. We say so openly at the start, and you can use that sentence to test any contractor.

How timeline relates to website price

Timeline and price are linked, but not the way it seems. Fast work does not have to be expensive if the process is well tuned. Delays come not from the amount of code but from waiting: while the client looks for a logo, approves texts or decides which services to show, the hours tick by.

• One page with a ready brief: from 24 hours. The clock starts when we have the brief, the materials and access to the domain.
• Landing page or business card site: 2–5 days.
• Business website: 10–14 days.
• Corporate website: 2–3 weeks; an online store from two weeks.

The typical reason for a delay is not the studio's work but approvals. Name one person who makes decisions on your side: five opinions on one page stretch the timeline two or three times and add rounds of edits, which are limited in the packages (two rounds in the business card site, for example). Set aside time to answer questions in the first three days, because that is when services, texts and structure are settled and everything else depends on them.

To see what happens at each stage, read "How to Make a Website for Business: Step by Step", which also breaks down what happens inside those 24 hours.

How not to overpay: five rules

1. Start with the goal, not the pages. Write one sentence: "the site is needed so that customers book, call or pay". Postpone everything that does not serve it.
2. Launch with the minimum. A five-page site now beats a perfect fifty-page one in six months. Modules can be added later, and you will not have to rebuild the site from scratch.
3. Prepare materials before the start. Logo, photos, list of services, company details. It saves both money and days.
4. Ask for a fixed price and a list of what is not included. "Custom quote" without a range is a reason to be cautious.
5. Make sure the site will be yours: domain, code and accounts registered to you.

Prefer to see it in numbers? Our pricing page lists every package and module with its scope and timeline.

What to choose in your situation

• If you need a site yesterday for a bank, payment provider or partners, take the Website in 24 hours at €599. It will not replace a full site, but it covers the check. Requirements for such a site are in "What Website a Bank and Stripe Need".
• If you are an expert or craftsperson who just needs to be found and called, a business card site at €990 is enough.
• If you are running ads for one service, take a landing page at €790 and put the savings into advertising.
• If you expect customers from Google search, you need a business website at €2,490: pages for services, a blog, SEO setup.
• If you need to accept payments, offer a customer account or a catalog, look at an online store or a portal. The store is covered in "How to Start an Online Store".
• If you do not know what you need, do not buy the biggest package "just in case". Write to us: we will honestly tell you if the simplest option is enough.

All prices are on the pricing page, and how we work step by step is on the How we work page.