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Real numbers, real breakdowns — so you know what you're paying for before you sign anything.
Here's the honest answer: website costs in India vary from ₹5,000 to ₹50 lakh — and both numbers are real. The ₹5,000 one is a WordPress template with stock images and no strategy. The ₹50 lakh one is a full-scale custom platform for a business with serious requirements. Most businesses reading this need something in between, and this guide will help you understand exactly what that looks like.
We build websites out of Greater Noida for clients across India. So these numbers aren't guesses — they're what we actually charge and what the market looks like right now.
A single-page website designed to do one thing: convert a visitor into a lead or customer. Think a coaching institute promoting admissions, a local clinic's appointment page, or a product launch page. No blog, no complex navigation — just a clear message, some trust signals, and a call to action.
At this price range, you're getting a professionally designed page, mobile-optimised, with a contact form or WhatsApp button. What you're not getting: custom development, a content management system, or anything particularly unique in terms of design.
This is the most common type we build — a proper company website with 5–8 pages (Home, About, Services, Portfolio/Gallery, Contact, maybe a Blog). The kind of website that makes a business look legitimate when a potential client Googles you.
The range is wide because design complexity matters. A clean, straightforward site for a logistics company is different from a feature-rich, animation-heavy website for a design agency. Both are "business websites" but they require different levels of work.
The moment you want to sell products online with a cart, payment gateway, and order management — costs jump. And for good reason. Payment integration (Razorpay, PayU, or Cashfree) needs proper setup and testing. Product catalogues need structure. Order management, shipping integration, returns — all of this takes real development time.
₹50,000 gets you a basic WooCommerce or Shopify setup with a limited number of products. ₹1,50,000 gets you a properly custom-built storefront with features like discount logic, inventory alerts, and a proper admin panel. If you're planning to scale, the extra investment upfront pays off.
Booking systems, SaaS platforms, CRMs, ERP tools, marketplace portals — if your website needs to do things that off-the-shelf software can't handle, you're in custom app territory. The cost depends entirely on features and complexity. We've built custom platforms starting at ₹2 lakh for relatively simple tools, all the way up to multi-month enterprise projects. This requires proper scoping, technical architecture decisions, and a development team that knows what it's doing.
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Beyond the type of site, these factors add to the bill:
Custom design vs template: A custom-designed website (where a designer creates the look from scratch) adds ₹15,000–30,000 over using a premium template. Worth it if your brand needs to stand out. Not worth it if you're a local tuition centre just needing an online presence.
Content creation: Most developers don't include copywriting. If you need someone to write the text for your website — your About page, your service descriptions, your homepage — that's extra. Budget ₹8,000–25,000 for professional web copy depending on how many pages.
SEO setup: A website without basic SEO is like a shop with no signboard. On-page SEO (proper title tags, meta descriptions, site speed optimisation) should be included in any decent build. If it's not, ask why.
Ongoing maintenance: Websites need maintenance — plugin updates, security patches, small content changes. Budget ₹2,000–8,000/month for an AMC (Annual Maintenance Contract) with a reliable developer, or factor in your own time if you're handling it.
Freelancers are cheaper. That's the honest truth. A freelancer on Fiverr or Upwork might build your 5-page website for ₹8,000. An agency like us might quote ₹40,000 for the same page count. Here's what you're actually comparing:
A freelancer is one person. If they're sick, busy, or just disappear (it happens), your project stalls. There's no backup, no project manager, no QA process. For simple, straightforward websites, a good freelancer is perfectly fine.
An agency has a team — designer, developer, copywriter, project manager — working together. There's accountability, a process, and someone to call when things break six months later. For anything complex, or if your website is genuinely important to your business, an agency is the safer bet.
Middle ground: look for a small studio or boutique agency (3–8 people) rather than a 50-person corporate IT firm. You get team expertise without enterprise pricing or being treated like a small account nobody cares about.
This is important. The Indian web development market has some genuinely bad actors, and a low quote isn't always a deal.
"We'll build it in 3 days." No good website is built in 3 days. Design, development, testing, content — even a basic site needs 2–3 weeks if done properly.
No contract or written scope. If a developer won't put scope in writing, you have no protection when they deliver something completely different from what you discussed.
They don't ask about your business. A developer who doesn't ask about your target customers, your competitors, or what you want the website to achieve is building you a pretty picture, not a business asset.
No mentions of who owns the domain and hosting. Some unscrupulous developers register your domain in their name and hold your website hostage if you stop paying them. Insist your domain is registered in your name and get hosting login credentials.
₹2,000 websites. Run. You're getting a template upload with your logo slapped on it, probably hosted on shared hosting in the developer's GoDaddy account. You'll own nothing.
Domain registration: ₹700–1,500/year for a .in or .com. Hosting: ₹3,000–12,000/year depending on traffic and requirements. SSL certificate: usually free now (Let's Encrypt) but some hosts charge for it. Premium plugins: if your site needs certain functionality, premium WordPress plugins can add ₹3,000–15,000 one-time or annually. Email hosting: if you want yourname@yourdomain.com, that's separate from web hosting — Google Workspace starts at ₹136/user/month.
A realistic total cost of ownership for a business website in year one: ₹35,000–90,000 for development + ₹8,000–15,000 for domain, hosting, email = ₹43,000–1,05,000 all-in. Not a surprise if you plan for it.
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