Website Development Cost in 2026
Website quotes vary wildly because scope varies wildly. Here are realistic bands, what pushes a project up or down, and the costs quotes often leave out.
Landing page
$150 – $400
1 page, conversion-focused, forms and analytics
Business website
$400 – $1,200
5–12 pages, CMS, SEO basics, contact flows
Ecommerce store
$900 – $3,000
Catalogue, payments, shipping, order management
Web app / SaaS
$2,500+
Auth, database, dashboards, custom business logic
Indicative ranges based on our own delivered projects. Final quotes depend on scope and are confirmed in writing before work starts.
What actually moves the price
Page count matters less than people expect. Custom design, integrations and content production are the real cost drivers.
- Custom design vs adapting a proven layout
- Integrations: CRM, payments, booking, ERP
- Content: do you supply copy and images, or do we produce them
- Multilingual versions and region-specific pages
- Ongoing maintenance vs one-time handover
Costs quotes often hide
Before comparing two quotes, confirm domain and hosting, premium plugin or theme licences, stock imagery, post-launch support window, and whether source code is included.
Cost by website type
Total project cost tracks the type of site you are buying far more closely than the number of hours anyone quotes. These are the five shapes most business projects fall into, and each carries a different amount of design, integration and testing work.
- Single landing page for one campaign or offer
- Five to twelve page business or service website with a CMS
- Ecommerce store with catalogue, payments, shipping and order management
- Booking or portal site with logins and customer accounts
- Web application with custom business logic and dashboards
Feature-based costing: what each addition really adds
Once the site type is fixed, the remaining budget movement comes from features. Price each one separately when comparing quotes, because this is where two proposals for 'the same website' diverge.
- Online payments or subscriptions — checkout, tax and refund handling
- Booking or scheduling with calendar sync and reminders
- CRM, ERP or accounting integration
- Customer logins, roles and account areas
- Multi-language or multi-location page sets
- Content production — copywriting, photography, product data entry
How to set a realistic project budget
Work backwards from the outcome: what the site has to achieve in the first year, what a new customer is worth, and how many enquiries would repay the build. Then place your requirement in one of the bands above and hold back roughly 15% for content, licences and post-launch changes. If you are still comparing hourly quotes rather than project scope, our guide on what web developers charge per hour explains how to normalise those numbers before you convert them into a budget.
How payment works here
No advance. We build the agreed scope, you review the live preview, and the invoice is raised only after approval — so a quote can never turn into money spent on something you did not want.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why are website quotes so different from each other?
Different scope, not different greed. Compare deliverables line by line — design source, revisions, SEO, support window and code ownership.
Is there a monthly cost after launch?
Only hosting and domain, unless you choose an optional maintenance plan. There is no mandatory subscription.
Do you charge extra for revisions?
Revisions inside the agreed scope are included before approval, because approval is what triggers payment.
Should I budget by hourly rate or by project scope?
Budget by scope. Hourly rates are useful for checking whether an estimate is plausible, but the total you pay is decided by site type, features and content — which is what the bands on this page describe.
Where to go next
Zero advance. Pay after delivery.
Tell us what you need. We build it first — you pay only after you approve the result.
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