What does a website cost?

The short answer

With us a one-pager costs a fixed €699. A company website with several subpages usually lands in the low four figures, a web app with login and data above that. Both we estimate after a conversation, before any work starts, and then bill €80 per hour against the agreed scope. New: the website subscription for €99 a month, with domain, hosting, ongoing changes and SEO care, no one-off price.

Why such a range? Because “a website” can be anything from a business card with a phone number to a customer portal. The number of pages is not the most important factor.

The five cost drivers

Five things set the price almost entirely. Answer them for yourself before the conversation and you get a more precise estimate.

• Content: are text, photos and logo ready, or do they still have to be made? Missing content costs more time than the technology.
• Scope: a one-pager, six subpages or thirty? Every page needs structure, copy and a reason to exist.
• Features: contact form and map are standard. Booking, login, shop, interfaces to other programs are projects of their own.
• Design: an existing look with logo and colours is adopted. A new look is design work that comes before the build.
• Languages: every additional language means translation, its own addresses and language links. The effort grows with every page.

Three examples with prices

These are the three scopes that come up most often with small businesses.

What is in the price and what is not

The one-pager includes: a conversation about goals and customers, a review of the existing site, five to ten search terms, a look at three competitors, design for phone and desktop, your text and images with a polish, contact form, imprint and privacy policy as templates, the technical SEO basics, launch on your domain and one round of corrections.

Not in the price: writing copy from scratch, photos and logo, domain and hosting, additional languages. We say that before the quote, not on the invoice.

What a website costs per month

After launch two items remain: the domain, renewed yearly at the registrar, and hosting. Both run in your name, not ours, so you can switch at any time. What they cost depends on the provider and is in our estimate.

Maintenance is optional. A static site without a CMS needs hardly any care, because nothing ages that opens security holes. If you want ongoing changes, we agree that as its own scope.

Page builder or have it built?

A page builder is cheaper to start and online in an afternoon. The price comes later: the site loads slowly, looks like a thousand others, and if you want to leave the platform you take nothing with you. For a site that stays unchanged for two years and does not need to be found on Google, that is still fine.

Having it built pays off as soon as the site should bring enquiries. Then loading time, one page per service, clean addresses and copy in your customers' language matter. No page builder gets that done without you doing the work yourself.