"How much does a website cost in India?" is usually the first question a business owner asks us, and the honest answer is: it depends on what you are building. But "it depends" is useless without numbers, so here are the realistic ranges we see in 2026.
These figures assume professional work. Not a Rs 4,999 template job that falls apart in six months - more on those below.
A basic business website - five to eight pages, mobile-friendly, a contact form and basic SEO setup - typically costs Rs 25,000 to Rs 75,000 with a competent freelancer or small studio. Agencies with a proper design process usually quote Rs 50,000 to Rs 1.5 lakh for the same scope, because you are also paying for strategy, testing and accountability.
A corporate website with custom design, 15 to 30 pages, a blog and CMS training generally lands between Rs 1.5 lakh and Rs 4 lakh. A single-page landing site for a campaign is cheaper - Rs 15,000 to Rs 40,000 done well.
E-commerce is a wider band. A Shopify or WooCommerce store with a standard catalogue, payment gateway and shipping integration runs Rs 75,000 to Rs 3 lakh, depending on product count and how custom the design gets. This is the bread and butter of our e-commerce development work.
Custom platforms - marketplaces, booking systems, member portals - start around Rs 4 lakh and can cross Rs 15 lakh. At that level you are paying for engineering, not pages.
Design depth is the biggest lever. A template with your logo dropped in is cheap. A design built around how your customers actually buy takes research, wireframes and revision rounds, and that is where the money goes.
Functionality comes second. Payment gateways, multi-language support, CRM integrations, booking engines - each one adds developer hours. If your site needs to talk to the other tools your business runs on, budget for proper automation and integration work rather than duct tape.
Content is the hidden third factor. If you have no copy, photos or product data ready, someone has to create all of it, and that effort shows up in the quote whether it is itemised or not.
Rs 5,000 websites exist because they cut everything that makes a website work. They are templates with your name pasted in, hosted on overloaded shared servers, with no speed optimisation, no SEO basics and no mobile testing.
The failure pattern is predictable: the site loads slowly, ranks for nothing, brings zero enquiries, and the developer stops answering calls within three months. Then you pay a second time to build it properly. The cheap site ends up costing more than the good one would have.
Before signing any low quote, ask one question: who owns the domain, hosting and code? Hesitation on that answer tells you everything you need to know. We regularly meet businesses paying yearly "renewal fees" for a website they thought they owned.
A serious quote covers discovery and sitemap planning, custom design, responsive development, on-page SEO, speed optimisation, SSL and security setup, analytics, and training so your team can update content without calling anyone.
It also puts ownership in writing: your domain, your hosting account, your code. And it states what support looks like after launch - response times, costs, and what is included.
This is how we scope every web development project, and it is a reasonable baseline to demand from anyone you talk to.
Work backwards from what the site has to do. If a website should bring you ten qualified enquiries a month, it justifies a very different budget than an online brochure nobody will ever market.
Budget for life after launch too. Hosting, maintenance and small updates typically run Rs 3,000 to Rs 10,000 a month for a business site, more for e-commerce with active promotions.
Finally, collect two or three detailed quotes and compare what is included, not just the totals. The cheapest number on paper is rarely the cheapest website over three years.
And insist on milestone payments - a deposit, a payment at design approval, and the balance at launch. It keeps both sides honest.
A professional five to eight page business website typically costs Rs 25,000 to Rs 75,000 with a freelancer or small studio, and Rs 50,000 to Rs 1.5 lakh with an agency that follows a full design process.
Those are template paste jobs on overloaded shared hosting, with no SEO, speed work or mobile testing. Most owners end up paying a second time to rebuild them properly within a year or two.
A Shopify or WooCommerce store with standard features runs Rs 75,000 to Rs 3 lakh in 2026, depending on catalogue size and design customisation. Custom marketplaces and platforms start around Rs 4 lakh.
Plan for Rs 3,000 to Rs 10,000 a month covering hosting, security updates, backups and small content changes. E-commerce stores with frequent campaigns usually sit at the higher end.
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