How much does a website cost?

Short answer: In India, a landing page starts around Rs 15,000. Most business websites land between Rs 40,000 and Rs 1,50,000. An ecommerce store on a platform like Shopify starts around Rs 45,000, and a custom-built platform runs Rs 3,50,000 and up. Indian freelancers quote roughly Rs 15,000 to Rs 60,000 for a small site. Where a specific project lands depends mostly on scope: a simple brochure site sits at the low end, ecommerce or booking functionality pushes the cost higher.

Why the range is so wide

Three very different things get called “a website”: a DIY builder subscription, a freelancer’s custom build, and a full studio or agency engagement. Each comes with a different level of design work, functionality, and ongoing support, which is why the bottom and the top of this market are so far apart.

A DIY builder is a monthly subscription rather than a project cost, typically a few hundred to a few thousand rupees a month depending on the plan. You are paying for software, not for anyone’s time, so the design, copywriting and maintenance stay with you.

What actually moves the price within a tier

• Number of pages and how much custom content each one needs.
• Whether the site needs ecommerce, booking, or other interactive functionality beyond static pages.
• Design work: a templated look costs less than a fully custom design.
• Whether content is written for you or handed back to you three weeks before launch.
• Ongoing maintenance and hosting, which some quotes include and others don’t.

Why the number changes with location

Every figure on this page is an Indian market rate. The same scope quotes several times higher when it is bought in the US, UK or the Gulf, and the difference is labour cost rather than output quality. That gap is exactly why so much of this work is delivered from India in the first place. Within India the variation is smaller but real, with Bengaluru, Mumbai and Delhi studios typically quoting above smaller cities for the same brief.

Where Web Eventuals fits

We build custom sites rather than working from a DIY template, and we quote per project based on actual scope. One differentiator worth knowing regardless of who builds your site: our builds deploy to an edge network, which removes the monthly hosting line entirely. Read more, and get an actual quote, on our website services page.

If the project is a store rather than a brochure site, the platform choice drives most of the budget, and that build sits under ecommerce websites.

Related cost breakdowns: how much an ecommerce website costs, what a website redesign costs, how long a website takes to build, and what a landing page is and how to create one.

Common questions

Can I build my own website for free? Yes, with a free-tier website builder or a no-cost platform like WordPress.org on free hosting. It works for a basic presence, but you take on the design, copywriting, and maintenance yourself, and free tiers usually come with real limits.

Is web design still worth paying for in 2026? For a business that depends on the site to bring in customers, yes. A design built around how visitors actually behave converts better than a template with a logo swapped in. For a side project or personal page, a DIY builder is often enough.