How much does a Next.js website cost in India?

A Next.js website in India costs ₹10,000 to ₹2.5 lakh for a brochure site, ₹1.5 lakh to ₹10 lakh or more for a custom SaaS-style marketing site, and ₹2.5 lakh to ₹12 lakh for a headless CMS build, based on published Indian market ranges. Hosting on Vercel or Cloudflare runs from free to about ₹2,000 a month (Vercel's free plan is for non-commercial use only), and maintenance adds ₹12,000 to ₹60,000 a year. The ranges are wide because "Next.js website" can mean a five-page template site or a custom design system with its own content backend.

I build marketing sites and web apps on Next.js, React, TypeScript and Tailwind CSS. Below I go through what changes the price for each type of site, so when a quote lands in your inbox you can tell what you're paying for. Developer hourly and monthly rates are a different question. I cover those in my post on hiring a Next.js developer in India.

How much does a Next.js website cost in India by site type?

Next.js builds in India fall into five rough price bands, from ₹10,000 for a packaged brochure site up to ₹12 lakh for a large headless CMS platform. These are the market ranges I could verify, each with a source. Read them as bands, not quotes. What's in the scope matters far more than what the site is called.

A guide from the Indian agency Redpulse Software says Next.js and Astro with a headless CMS have mostly replaced WordPress for new business sites costing ₹1 lakh or more in India. Below about ₹60,000, WordPress still makes more sense.

What does a Next.js brochure site cost?

A small Next.js brochure site in India costs anywhere from ₹10,000 to ₹2.5 lakh. At the bottom end, IndiaMART sellers list Next.js packages at ₹10,000 per pack in Indore, ₹30,000 per project in Delhi and ₹80,000 in Ahmedabad. A fully custom Next.js or React site is quoted at ₹60,000 to ₹2,50,000. No design yet? A custom Figma design adds ₹15,000 to ₹80,000 or more.

The cheap packages tend to skip a few things you'll want later:

• A way to edit content. If every text change goes through a developer, the cheap build stops being cheap pretty quickly.
• Technical SEO. Next.js doesn't give you per-page metadata, a sitemap, canonical tags, structured data or Open Graph images by itself. Someone has to set them up.
• Ownership. The code repository, the domain and the hosting account should be in your name, not the agency's.

If your site is five pages that hardly ever change and your budget is under ₹60,000, I'd usually steer you to WordPress. I compare the two in Next.js vs WordPress cost.

What does a SaaS marketing site on Next.js cost?

A custom SaaS marketing site on Next.js costs ₹1.5 lakh to ₹10 lakh or more in India. That range comes from Akoode's figures for custom website development in general, not Next.js specifically, but it's the band SaaS-style Next.js builds fall into. The extra money goes on:

• A component library built from the Figma design, so marketing can put up new landing pages without fresh code every time.
• Lots of page templates: product, pricing, use cases, integrations, comparison pages, blog, careers and events.
• Integrations like HubSpot forms, GA4 and Google Tag Manager, CRM sync and A/B testing.
• Tight speed and SEO targets, since these sites live on search and paid traffic.

The component library is where most of the budget goes. Get it right once, and the tenth landing page costs a fraction of the first.

What does a headless CMS build cost?

A headless CMS build costs ₹2.5 lakh to ₹6 lakh for smaller projects in India and ₹6 lakh to ₹12 lakh for larger content platforms, according to Abbacus Technologies. Those ranges cover headless CMS builds in general, not Next.js frontends specifically. Headless means the Next.js frontend sits on top of a separate content backend, such as headless WordPress, Sanity, Contentful or Payload. The same guide makes the point that the CMS subscription is only a slice of the total.

Here's what you pay for beyond the frontend:

• Content modelling. Deciding which fields, relationships and reusable blocks your editors get.
• Live preview. Editors want to see a draft before it goes live, and wiring up preview properly takes time.
• Migration. Moving existing posts, images and URLs, with redirects so you hold on to your rankings.
• Two systems to run. The CMS and the frontend both need updates and monitoring.

If your team already knows WordPress, headless WordPress keeps the editing screen they're used to and puts a Next.js frontend in front of it. I break down that option in how much a headless WordPress site costs.

How much does hosting on Vercel or Cloudflare cost?

For most Indian business sites, hosting Next.js on Vercel or Cloudflare costs from free to about ₹2,000 a month. It's the smallest line in the budget. FactoryJet puts Cloudflare Pages or Vercel hosting at free to ₹2,000 a month. Both platforms issue SSL certificates automatically, so if someone charges you a separate SSL fee for a site on either one, ask why.

Read Vercel's plan terms and Cloudflare's Workers pricing before you commit. Both bill partly on usage. Heavy image optimisation, a lot of server rendering or a sudden traffic spike can take you past the base price. I compare the two platforms in Vercel vs Cloudflare for Next.js, and if your bill has already crept up, see how to cut Next.js hosting costs on Vercel.

What are the ongoing costs of a Next.js website after launch?

After launch, expect roughly ₹12,000 to ₹60,000 a year in maintenance, ₹800 to ₹1,500 for the domain, and then hosting and any headless CMS subscription on top. These come round every year:

Next.js maintenance isn't the same job as WordPress maintenance. There are no plugins to patch. What you get instead is framework upgrades, npm dependency updates, security advisories and, now and then, breaking changes when you move to a new major version. Leave a Next.js site untouched for two years and catching up can turn into a small project of its own. I go into this in more detail in Next.js website maintenance cost.

What India-specific costs should you budget for?

Three costs catch Indian clients out because they rarely sit in the headline quote:

• GST on the invoice. Web development is taxed at 18% GST. On a ₹2 lakh quote from a GST-registered agency, that's ₹36,000 more, though a registered business can usually claim it back as input tax credit. Ask whether a quote includes GST or not.
• Razorpay or another payment gateway. If the site takes payments, Razorpay's standard plan charges 2% per transaction on most domestic payment methods. The developer's time to integrate checkout, webhooks and failed-payment handling is a separate line item.
• Dollar billing for hosting. Vercel and Cloudflare price their paid plans in US dollars: Vercel Pro is $20 per user a month and Cloudflare's Workers paid plan starts at $5 a month. You pay by international card, so the rupee cost moves with the exchange rate and your bank's foreign transaction markup.

What pushes a Next.js quote up or down?

Six things move a Next.js quote the most. They're why two quotes for the same five-page site can be several times apart:

• Design. A template, an adapted theme or a custom Figma design.
• Unique templates. Twenty pages built from four templates cost less than ten pages that are all different.
• Content editing. Hard-coded content, Markdown files, or a full CMS with preview.
• Integrations. Every form, CRM, payment gateway or analytics setup has to be built and tested.
• Migration. Moving from WordPress, Webflow or Wix to Next.js, with redirects, adds a lot of hours.
• Motion and interactivity. Animations, calculators and logged-in areas push a site towards web app pricing.

Builds are getting a bit faster. Redpulse reports that AI-assisted development has cut typical timelines by 20–30%. From what I've seen, the saving is mostly in repetitive setup code. Design decisions, content and SEO take about as long as they always have.

Is Next.js worth the extra cost over WordPress?

Yes, when speed, SEO and future product work matter: SaaS and startup marketing sites, sites with app-like features, and teams that already work in React. For a small local business that needs a few pages its staff can edit, often it isn't.

I don't put everything on Next.js. My own AI portfolio site runs on TanStack Start and React, with a chat that answers as me through the Claude API and Firestore. I choose the framework once I understand the job, not before. If you're not sure, the free Tech Stack Advisor on my site gives you a layer-by-layer recommendation with the trade-offs in a couple of minutes.

What should you ask a developer before accepting a quote?

Ask five things before you say yes: who owns the accounts, how you'll edit content, what SEO is included, what performance target applies and what happens after launch. Get the answers in writing.

1. 1

   Who owns the accounts?

   The GitHub repo, domain and Vercel or Cloudflare account should be in your name, with the developer added as a member.

2. 2

   How will we edit content?

   Ask to see the editing screen, or a demo of one, before signing. Hard-coded text means paying for every change.

3. 3

   What SEO is included?

   Metadata, sitemap, robots.txt, structured data, redirects and Search Console setup should each be listed as a line item.

4. 4

   What performance target?

   Make passing Core Web Vitals on mobile a written condition of sign-off, not a verbal promise.

5. 5

   What happens after launch?

   Get the support period, a monthly hosting estimate at your traffic level and the maintenance terms in writing.

How do you get an accurate Next.js website quote?

Send the developer a written list of your pages, who'll edit them and the integrations you need. Vague briefs get vague quotes. The free Project Scope Generator turns a two-line idea into that list. Then send it to me through contact or book a 20-minute call, and I'll tell you which type of Next.js site you actually need and what's involved. You can also see how I work on my Next.js and React websites service page.