Freelance web developer in Bangalore: rates and what to check

A freelance web developer in Bangalore usually charges somewhere between ₹575 and ₹2,875 an hour for Indian clients, and most small business websites in the city are quoted as a fixed price of ₹25,000 to ₹1,00,000. Online stores start higher, and custom web apps higher again. The price matters less than three checks: who owns the domain and the code, what exactly is in the quote, and who looks after the site once it is live.

I'm Mohit, a freelance web developer based in Gurugram. I work remotely with clients in India, the UK and the US, so I am not a Bangalore local and I won't pretend to be. What I can give you is the view from the other side of the quote: how freelancers price, where the published Bangalore numbers come from, and what I'd check if I were the one paying.

One note on the numbers. Every price in this post links to the page I found it on. Most of those pages are written by agencies and rate calculators, not by neutral researchers, so read them as a rough map of the market and not as a rate card.

How much does a freelance web developer in Bangalore charge?

Most freelance web developers in Bangalore charge Indian clients between a few hundred and a few thousand rupees an hour, depending on experience. One rate calculator puts the Bangalore range at ₹575 to ₹2,875 an hour for domestic clients, and says Bangalore carries a premium of 15% to 20% over its baseline rate.

Different sources slice it differently, so here they are side by side.

You'll notice the gaps. Internshala's figures are India-wide and sit lower. The Bangalore calculator sits higher, which fits what you'd expect from a city full of tech employers: a good developer in Bangalore usually has a salaried offer waiting, so freelancing has to pay enough to beat it.

There's also a split between Indian and overseas work. The same calculator lists ₹1,725 to ₹4,600 an hour when a Bangalore developer bills an international client. Second Talent, which publishes in dollars, puts a mid-level freelance full-stack developer in Bangalore at $20 to $52 an hour. (Full-stack means someone who builds both the part of the site you see and the part that runs behind it.) Why does this matter to a business owner in Bangalore? Because the senior freelancers you'd most like to hire can often fill their week with overseas work. If a quote from an experienced developer looks high against the local numbers, that's usually the reason.

In practice, very few freelancers will bill you by the hour for a new website. They'll estimate the hours in their head, add a margin for changes, and give you one fixed price. Hourly billing mostly shows up for small fixes, ongoing support and work where nobody can say in advance how big the job is.

Internshala also gives a per-project view by experience: ₹10,000 to ₹25,000 for an entry-level freelancer, ₹30,000 to ₹70,000 for an intermediate one, and ₹1,00,000 and up for a senior. That lines up well with the website prices below.

What is the website development cost in Bangalore by website type?

Website development cost in Bangalore runs from about ₹8,000 for a basic static site to ₹15,00,000 and more for an enterprise build. The type of website decides which part of that range you land in, far more than the developer's postcode does.

Three Bangalore-focused pages publish prices by type. They don't agree, and the disagreement is useful, so I've kept them separate.

A few things to read out of that table.

The Phoenix Branding column is consistently the highest. Its figures come from what it calls a competitive analysis of 40 agencies in areas like Whitefield, Indiranagar, Koramangala and HSR Layout. So that column is agency pricing, with office rent, account managers and a design team built in. The WeblinkIndia column is the lowest and is closer to what a newer freelancer or a small studio would quote. A freelancer with a few years of real client work usually lands between the two.

The Codingclave page is written by a Lucknow company that builds for Bangalore buyers remotely, and it says its prices include GST. It adds some Bangalore detail the others skip. It lists a small manufacturer catalogue site at ₹30,000 to ₹50,000, a WordPress site with WhatsApp ordering for traders at ₹17,500 to ₹35,000, and says a Kannada page for your services and contact details adds roughly 15 to 20 percent on top. If your customers are in Peenya or Chickpet and not in a tech park, that last line is worth budgeting for. A Kannada version is real work: every page is translated, checked and laid out again, because Kannada text takes a different amount of space from English.

Timelines follow the same pattern. Codingclave lists 3 to 5 days for a landing page, 1 to 3 weeks for a business website and 2 to 6 weeks for an online store. Phoenix Branding lists 2 to 3 weeks for a basic site, 4 to 6 weeks for a business site and 6 to 10 weeks for a WooCommerce store. (WooCommerce is the shop plugin for WordPress.) The agency timelines are longer because more people are involved at each step.

Why do Bangalore website quotes vary so much?

Bangalore quotes vary because each developer is quietly pricing a different website. You send the same two-line brief to five people and each one fills the gaps with their own guesses. The cheapest quote is often the one that guessed the least work.

These are the things that move a price, in rough order of how much they move it.

Template or custom design. A template is a ready-made design that gets your logo, colours and text. A custom design is drawn for your business first (usually in a design tool called Figma) and then built. Custom takes far more hours, and it's the single biggest reason the table above runs from ₹25,000 to ₹1,50,000 for what sounds like the same business website.

Who writes the words and supplies the photos. If you hand over finished text and good photos, the build is quick. If the developer has to chase, write or source them, the hours climb. Many quotes leave this out and it turns into an argument in week three.

Payments and orders. Taking money online means setting up a payment gateway such as Razorpay (the service that collects card and UPI payments for you), testing failed payments and refunds, sending order emails and handling GST on invoices. This is why stores start well above brochure sites in every column of the table.

Connections to other tools. WhatsApp enquiries, a CRM (the tool your sales team uses to track leads), Google Sheets, a booking system, Tally, a delivery partner. Each connection is small on paper and a day or more in practice.

Languages. English only, or English plus Kannada, or more.

Speed and search basics. A site that loads fast on a mid-range phone on mobile data, with clean page titles and the right tracking set up, takes more care than one that just looks right on the developer's laptop. Some developers include this. Some treat it as a paid extra. Ask.

Experience. A developer with six years of client work charges more per hour and usually needs fewer of them. They've also already made the mistakes you'd otherwise pay for.

If you don't know how to write that page, my free Project Scope Generator turns a two-line idea into a list of pages and features you can send out as it is.

Freelance website developer in Bangalore or an agency: which should you pick?

Pick a freelance website developer in Bangalore for a clearly defined site where you want to talk to the person doing the work. Pick an agency when the project needs several specialists working at once, or when your company's rules require a registered vendor with a team behind it.

The price gap is real. Internshala estimates a freelancer at ₹20,000 to ₹1,00,000 a month against ₹80,000 to ₹3,00,000 or more for an agency. Second Talent's dollar figures show the same shape: $20 to $52 an hour for a mid-level freelancer and $55 to $90 for the same level at an agency. upGrowth says agencies in India tend to quote fixed prices of ₹50,000 to ₹5,00,000 or more.

The main risk with a freelancer is the one WeblinkIndia's own comparison names: one person juggling several projects, with no backup, can run late. That's a fair point, even from a company that sells the alternative. You deal with it by checking how the freelancer works, which is most of what the checklist further down is for.

The main risk with an agency is paying senior prices for junior work. The person who impressed you in the pitch may never touch your project. If you go the agency route, ask who will build the site and ask to speak to them.

There's a middle option too: a senior freelancer who brings in a designer or a second developer when the job needs it. You get one point of contact and agency-style cover without the agency's overheads. That's how I handle design, Shopify and app work.

Does your web developer need to be in Bangalore?

No. A website is built on a laptop and delivered over the internet, so a developer in Gurugram, Kochi or Mysuru can do the same work as one in Koramangala. What you need is someone who replies during your working day, shows work on a screen-share and raises a proper invoice.

Here is one example from my own work. In 2025 I built the Ravens Ait venue website for a venue on an island in the Thames, working for a London digital agency while I was based in Gurugram. It runs on WordPress with Bricks Builder and has 20+ event pages, Stripe bookings and HubSpot forms. The venue is in the UK, I am in India, and the site is live today.

Being local helps in a few cases. If the project includes a photo shoot at your shop, staff training on site, or a founder who only trusts people they've had coffee with, a Bangalore address is worth something. For everything else, the meeting you'd have in Indiranagar is the same meeting on Google Meet, minus the Silk Board traffic.

Second Talent's city comparison makes a similar point about price: it puts Bangalore and Hyderabad at the same mid-level rate and finds the widest cost-of-living gap between the cities it compares is 8%. Skill and experience move the price much more than the city does.

I'd widen the search for one more reason. When you type "web developer bangalore" into Google, you're choosing from the people who are good at ranking for that phrase. That isn't the same group as the people who are good at building websites. Looking across India gives you a bigger pool at each price point. My guide to hiring a freelance web developer in India covers the remote-working side in more detail.

Does this advice suit me, as a Gurugram developer writing about Bangalore? Of course it does. So test it: ask any remote developer for two past clients they never met in person, and call them.

Where do you find a good web developer in Bangalore?

The best source is still a referral from a business owner whose website you like. After that, directories and freelance platforms work, as long as you treat a profile as a starting point and not as proof.

• Referrals. Scroll to the bottom of websites you admire. Many carry a small "site by" credit. Or ask the owner directly. People are usually happy to say who built their site and whether they'd hire them again.
• Clutch and similar directories. Clutch's Bengaluru freelance page shows 21 companies, with most profiles in its "under $25 an hour" band. Useful for a shortlist, but listings on directories are self-reported.
• Freelance platforms. Upwork, Freelancer.in and Twine all have Bangalore profiles. Bids there can be very low. A low bid on a platform is an opening offer, and the scope behind it is often thin.
• LinkedIn and Google. Search "freelance website developer bangalore" and look past the ads. A freelancer with their own site, real case studies and a name attached to the work is easier to check than an anonymous profile.
• Founder and business groups. Bangalore has plenty of startup WhatsApp groups, co-working community boards and trade associations. A question there gets you names with opinions attached.

Aim for three to five quotes against the same written scope. Fewer and you can't see the market. More and you'll spend a fortnight on calls.

What should you check before hiring a freelance web developer in Bangalore?

Check ownership first, then proof of past work, then the quote itself. A developer who is relaxed and clear on all three is nearly always safe to hire. Vague answers on any of them are a reason to keep looking.

1. 1

   Open their live work on your phone

   Ask for three sites that are live today, then load them on mobile data. Check they open quickly, the menu works and the forms send.

2. 2

   Speak to a past client

   One five-minute call tells you more than any portfolio. Ask if the project finished on time and what happened when something broke.

3. 3

   Confirm who owns what

   The domain, hosting and all logins should be in your name and on your card. The developer gets access that you can remove.

4. 4

   Get the scope in writing

   Pages, features, rounds of changes, who supplies content, what counts as extra. One page is enough.

5. 5

   Agree milestones

   Split the payment across stages you can see: design approved, site built on a test link, site live.

6. 6

   Ask about life after launch

   Who fixes bugs in the first month, who runs updates and backups, and what it costs each month.

Some of those need a little more explanation.

Ownership. This is the one I'd never skip. Your domain is your address on the internet (yourbusiness.in). Hosting is the rented computer your website lives on. If a freelancer registers either one in their own account, you are a tenant on your own website. When a developer stops answering and the owner can't log in to anything, the site is stuck. It's fixable, as I explain in what to do when a developer disappears, but it's slow and stressful, and fully avoidable. Buy the domain and hosting yourself. It takes ten minutes.

Live work on your phone. Screenshots prove nothing. Ask which parts of each site the freelancer built personally. "I was on the team" is a fair answer, but you should know.

How they'll build it. You don't need to understand the technology. You do need to hear a plain answer to "can my staff change text and photos without calling you?" For most small businesses the honest answer is a well-set-up WordPress site. For a startup that needs a very fast marketing site, it may be Next.js (a newer way of building sites that load quickly). A good developer explains the choice in terms of your business. A weak one recommends whatever they happen to know.

The test link. Ask to see the site on a private test address before it goes live, and ask for it early. Seeing a half-built homepage in week one catches misunderstandings while they're still cheap.

Tax and invoices. Ask whether the quote includes GST and whether you'll get a GST invoice. Smaller freelancers may not be registered for GST, which is legal below the turnover limit but means you can't claim input credit on the bill. If your accountant deducts TDS on professional fees, tell the freelancer up front so the numbers match. Your CA will know what applies to you this year.

Questions worth asking on the first call:

• Who will do the work, you or someone you pass it to?
• How many projects are you running right now?
• What do you need from me, and by when?
• How many rounds of changes are included?
• What happens if I'm late sending content?
• Do I get all logins and files at the end, with no handover fee?
• What do you charge for changes after launch?

What are the red flags when hiring a web developer in Bangalore?

The clearest red flags are a quote far below everyone else's, a request for full payment up front, and any reluctance to put the domain and hosting in your name. Each of these has cost business owners their site or their money.

• A price that undercuts the market by half. Look at the table again. As a made-up example, say four quotes for a store sit between ₹60,000 and ₹1,50,000 and one says ₹15,000. That developer has either misread the job or plans to install a template and vanish.
• 100% in advance. A deposit is normal. The whole amount before any work is not.
• "We'll take care of the domain for you." Friendly words, bad arrangement.
• No written scope. If the whole agreement is a WhatsApp message saying "website, 10 pages, ₹40k", every later disagreement has no referee.
• A portfolio of screenshots with no live links. Or live links that lead to sites that look nothing like the screenshots.
• Guaranteed number one on Google. Nobody controls Google's rankings. A developer can build a site that search engines read well. That's all anyone can promise.
• Pirated themes and plugins. Some low quotes are low because the paid tools are cracked copies. These often carry hidden malware. Ask whether licences are included and whose name they're in.
• Slow replies before you've paid. Communication never gets better after the advance.
• No mention of what happens after launch. A site with no one looking after it slowly breaks.

How should you pay, and what does a website cost after launch?

Pay in stages tied to things you can see, and budget separately for running costs. The build is a one-time price. Hosting, the domain and maintenance come every year, and many Bangalore quotes leave them out. Phoenix Branding's pricing notes say plainly that hosting, domain, SSL and maintenance are typically priced separately.

For the build, a simple pattern works: a deposit to start, a second payment when the design or the test site is approved, and the final payment when the site is live and you hold every login. Tie each payment to something you can open and look at. Ask for a short bug-fix period after launch to be written into the agreement.

For the running costs, the published maintenance figures look like this:

Maintenance means software updates, backups, security checks, small content changes and someone to call when a form stops sending. A simple brochure site needs little. A store that takes payments every day needs a real plan, because every hour of downtime is lost orders.

Ask every developer for two numbers: the build price and the cost of year two. A cheap build with an expensive lock-in is a common trick, and the second number exposes it.

Related guide: Freelance WordPress developer in India: rates and how to pick the best

What would this cost for three typical Bangalore businesses?

Here are three made-up but realistic cases, priced only with the published ranges above. They're illustrations to help you place your own project, not quotes.

A dental clinic in Jayanagar wants a six-page site. Home, treatments, doctors, fees, reviews, contact, plus a WhatsApp button and an appointment form. This is a business website. The published Bangalore range is ₹20,000 to ₹50,000 at the low end of the market and ₹25,000 to ₹1,00,000 on Codingclave's page. A template-based build with the clinic's own photos sits near the bottom. A custom design with a proper booking flow sits near the top. Expect one to three weeks, most of which is waiting for photos and text.

A saree boutique in Malleshwaram wants to sell online. Around 150 products, Razorpay payments, shipping across India and order messages on WhatsApp. This is an online store. Published ranges run from ₹40,000 to ₹1,00,000 and up, through ₹50,000 to ₹3,00,000, to ₹1,50,000 to ₹4,00,000 at agencies. The spread comes from product count, who uploads the products and how much custom work the checkout needs. A Kannada version would add roughly 15 to 20 percent. Ask each developer whether product upload is included, because uploading 150 products with photos and sizes is several days of work by itself.

A software startup in HSR Layout wants a marketing site. Ten to fifteen pages, a custom design, a blog, demo-request forms feeding the sales team's CRM, and fast load times because the ads budget depends on it. Published ranges are ₹60,000 to ₹2,00,000 and up for a custom or corporate site and ₹60,000 to ₹1,50,000 for a 10 to 15 page business site, over four to six weeks. Here the developer's experience matters more than the price. A slow site quietly wastes ad spend every month.

A quick sanity check you can run on any fixed quote: ask roughly how many hours it covers, then divide. As a made-up example, a ₹60,000 quote for 60 hours of work is ₹1,000 an hour, which sits inside the published Bangalore range. A ₹15,000 quote for the same 60 hours is ₹250 an hour. Either the hours are wrong or the experience is.

How can I help if you're hiring from Bangalore?

I can build your website remotely from Gurugram, on WordPress, WooCommerce or Next.js, and you'd deal with me directly from the first call to launch. I can't meet you at your office in Bangalore, and if that matters to you, a local developer is the better choice.

Here's what I bring. I've shipped 100+ websites in 4+ years, for Indian clients including Nortek LED, Orilite, Taxocity and PropAlert, and for UK hospitality and retail brands through a London agency, all from Gurugram. So the remote routine is well practised: a written scope, a test link you can open any time, and updates you don't have to chase.

For a business site your team can edit, I build WordPress websites on Bricks or Elementor, from your design or with my design partners. For selling online, I build WooCommerce stores. One of them, IPL Biologicals, I built in 2023 and now look after on a monthly retainer, which is the kind of long relationship I'd want with any client. For a startup that needs speed, I build Next.js and React websites.

Everything I recommended above applies to me too. Your domain and hosting stay in your name. You get the scope in writing before you pay anything. You see the site on a test link early. I don't publish prices because every scope is different, but I'll quote against your written scope once we've talked it through.

What should you do next?

Write your one-page scope, collect three to five quotes against it, and run the ownership check on each developer before you look at the price.

If you'd like my quote to be one of them, send me your scope or book a 20-minute call. Tell me what the business does, what the site needs to do and when you need it live. I'll reply with what I'd build, how long it would take and what it would cost, and you can hold it up against the Bangalore quotes you already have.