From a ₹25,000 business website to a ₹6 lakh web app: what you actually pay for, what changes the price, and how to get an accurate quote.
"How much will my website cost?" is the first question almost every client asks us, and the honest answer is: it depends on what the website has to do. A five-page company website and an online store with payments are both "websites", but they are very different amounts of work. This guide explains the typical price ranges in India, what drives them, and how to get a quote you can rely on.
Typical price ranges
These are starting ranges for a professionally built website in India, including design, development, testing and launch. They match the figures in our project cost calculator.
| Type of project | Typical starting range | Usual timeline |
|---|---|---|
| Business website (5–10 pages, enquiry forms, CMS) | ₹25,000 – ₹60,000 | 2–4 weeks |
| E-commerce store (catalogue, cart, payments, admin) | ₹80,000 – ₹1,50,000 | 5–8 weeks |
| Custom web app or SaaS (logins, roles, workflows) | ₹3,00,000 – ₹6,00,000 | 10–14 weeks |
| Mobile app (Android and/or iOS with an admin panel) | ₹2,00,000 – ₹3,50,000 | 8–12 weeks |
Larger projects — more modules, more user roles, more integrations — cost more. As a rule of thumb, a medium-sized version of the same product is about one and a half times the small one, and a large, enterprise-style build can be two to three times as much.
What you are actually paying for
A quote is mostly people's time. Understanding where that time goes makes it much easier to compare offers.
- Discovery and planning: agreeing the pages, features and user journeys before anyone writes code. Skipping this step is the most common reason projects overrun.
- Design: a ready-made theme adapted to your brand is the cheapest option; screens designed for your users and brand cost more; a premium design system with illustrations and motion costs the most.
- Development: building the pages, the admin panel and every feature, plus connecting third-party services such as payment gateways, SMS or maps.
- Testing: checking the site on real phones and browsers, testing forms, payments and edge cases.
- Launch: server set-up, SSL, backups, speed tuning and submitting the site to Google.
The seven things that change the price most
- Number of unique page layouts. Ten pages that share two layouts are quicker than five completely different ones.
- Logins and user roles. As soon as customers, staff or partners log in, you need accounts, permissions, password resets and security — a big step up from a brochure site.
- Payments. Online payments need a gateway integration, order states, refunds and invoices.
- Admin panel depth. Editing a few pages is simple; managing orders, bookings, reports and approvals is a project in itself.
- Integrations. CRMs, ERPs, shipping, accounting software and SMS gateways each add work, especially when their documentation is thin.
- Content. If you supply the text and photos, the price is lower. Copywriting, product uploads and photography are separate tasks.
- Deadline. A fixed launch date that is earlier than the normal schedule means more developers working in parallel, which costs more.
Costs people forget
- Domain and hosting: usually paid yearly to the provider. Shared hosting is enough for most business websites; web apps with many users need more.
- Paid services: payment gateway fees, SMS credits, email delivery and map usage are billed by those companies, not by your developer.
- Maintenance: software updates, backups, security patches and small changes. Budget a monthly amount from the start — a site that is never updated becomes slow and insecure.
Fixed price or hourly?
For a project with a clear scope, a fixed price with milestone payments is the safest choice: you know the total before work starts. For products that will keep changing — a startup testing ideas, for example — time and material or a dedicated developer on a monthly basis is usually better value, because you only pay for what you actually build.
How to get an accurate quote
The more precise your brief, the more precise the quote. Before you ask for prices, write down:
- who the website is for and what you want visitors to do (call, buy, book, sign up);
- the pages and features you need now, and the ones that can wait;
- two or three websites you like, and what you like about them;
- your budget range and your ideal launch date.
Be wary of quotes that are far below everyone else's: they usually leave out testing, the admin panel or support after launch, and those costs come back later.
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