Website development cost in India in 2026: prices by website type

Website development cost in India in 2026 starts at about ₹10,000 for a basic business website and passes ₹5,00,000 for a custom web application, going by WeblinkIndia's price guide. Most small business websites of 5 to 15 pages cost ₹10,000 to ₹80,000, and an agency-built online store costs ₹1,50,000 to ₹4,00,000 or more, according to Hostinger's 2026 India guide. The type of website sets the range. Who builds it, and how much is made from scratch, decides where you land inside it.

I'm Mohit, a freelance web developer in Gurugram. I've shipped 100+ websites for businesses in India, the UK and the US. This guide puts the published Indian prices in one place, by website type and by package tier, and then covers the parts most price lists skip: GST, payment gateway fees, yearly running costs and what a "package" quietly leaves out.

How much does website development cost in India in 2026?

A basic business website in India costs ₹10,000 to ₹25,000, a website you can edit yourself costs ₹25,000 to ₹60,000, an online store costs ₹50,000 to ₹1,50,000, and a custom web application costs ₹1,50,000 to ₹5,00,000 or more. Those four bands come from WeblinkIndia, an Indian web design company that publishes its ranges.

No two price guides agree exactly, so I've put three of them side by side. Read across a row and you'll see the real spread for each type.

A few plain-English definitions before we go further:

• Static website: pages that stay the same until a developer changes them. Cheap to build, awkward to update.
• Dynamic or CMS website: a site with an admin screen where you log in and change text, photos and blog posts yourself. CMS stands for content management system. WordPress is the best known one.
• Web application: a website that does a job, such as a booking system, a customer portal or a dashboard, instead of only showing information.

• Basic business site10000₹
• Dynamic or CMS site25000₹
• Online store50000₹
• Custom web application150000₹

The gap between guides is not a mistake. Each guide prices a different kind of build: Hostinger's store figure is for agencies, for example, while its freelancer figure for a WooCommerce store is ₹25,000 to ₹1,00,000. When someone asks me for "the" website development cost, my honest answer is a band, and then three questions: how many pages, who writes the content, and what must the site do besides show information.

Why do website development charges in India vary so much?

Website development charges in India vary mostly because of who does the work. The same basic site of 5 to 10 pages can be priced at ₹15,000 to ₹50,000 by a freelancer and ₹40,000 to ₹1,00,000 by an agency, according to Prateeksha Web Design's rate guide. Prateeksha's figures are 2024 averages, so treat them as a floor.

Hourly rates show the same spread. Prateeksha lists ₹500 to ₹1,500 an hour for a junior freelancer, ₹1,500 to ₹3,000 for a mid-level one and ₹3,000 to ₹5,000 for a senior. Hostinger puts a freelance developer at ₹800 to ₹3,000 an hour. FODUU puts enterprise-grade agencies at ₹5,000 to ₹10,000 an hour.

Here is how the four ways of getting a website compare.

My opinion, having worked on both sides: for a site under 20 pages, an experienced freelancer usually gives you more of the budget as actual work. The agency price pays for account managers and office rent as well as the build. For a large store or a web application with several people working at once, the agency structure starts to earn its keep. I've written more on how to vet one in hiring a freelance web developer in India.

City matters less than people think. A developer in Indore and a developer in Bengaluru can both work for a client in Mumbai, so prices follow experience more than pin code.

Related guide: Freelance web designer vs web developer: who do you need?

What do website packages in India include at each tier?

Website packages in India usually come in four tiers: a starter site of 3 to 6 pages, a growth site of 6 to 12 pages, a starter online store and a professional custom-designed site. GitNexa's package guide is one of the few published sources that lists the price and the contents of each tier together, so I've used it as the reference below.

Use this as a yardstick, not a menu. If a vendor's "Premium" website development packages in India cost ₹60,000 but include only 8 template pages and one round of changes, you now know that sits closer to a Growth tier at a Professional price.

What is usually not in the package price?

The package price is rarely the full bill. These items are commonly charged on top, and each has a published range:

• Premium theme: ₹3,000 to ₹7,000, one time.
• Stock photos and icons: ₹1,000 to ₹3,000.
• Domain name: ₹600 to ₹1,200 a year.
• Shared hosting: ₹2,500 to ₹6,000 a year.
• Content writing: 50 paise to ₹5 a word, according to PageTraffic.
• Logo: ₹2,000 to ₹8,000 in PageTraffic's component table.
• GST at 18%, which I cover below.

Ask every vendor to mark each of these as "included" or "extra" in writing. It takes them five minutes and it removes most of the arguments that happen in week three.

How much does each type of website cost in India?

Each website type has its own price logic, so here is what drives the number for the five most common types.

One-page website or landing page

A basic one-page website costs ₹5,000 to ₹15,000 according to PageTraffic's per-page price section, while Secuodsoft prices a professionally built landing page at ₹15,000 to ₹60,000 over 1 to 3 weeks. The lower figure is a template with your text dropped in. The higher one includes copy, design and tracking for an ad campaign. If you're paying for Google Ads, the second kind usually pays for itself, because a weak page wastes every click you buy.

Small business website (5 to 15 pages)

A small business website of 5 to 15 pages costs ₹10,000 to ₹80,000, per Hostinger. PageTraffic narrows a 5-page site to ₹12,500 to ₹37,500 and puts the per-page rate at ₹1,000 to ₹5,000. This is the most common project in India: home, about, services, a gallery or case studies, blog and contact. The swing inside the range comes from design. A premium theme with limited changes keeps the design cost under ₹10,000, while a fully custom-designed WordPress site runs ₹25,000 to ₹1,50,000+.

Corporate or professional website

A professional business website of 10 to 20 pages with custom design costs ₹80,000 to ₹1,50,000, per Hostinger. Secuodsoft's band for a corporate site is higher, at ₹1.2 lakh to ₹4.5 lakh over 6 to 10 weeks. At this level you're paying for a designer to create your pages from a blank canvas, for product or service templates that your team can reuse, and for proper SEO structure. Manufacturers, CA firms, hospitals and B2B companies usually sit here. If WordPress is your likely platform, my WordPress website service page explains how I build from a Figma design.

Orilite, a manufacturer of AAC blocks, is one site of this kind that I built in 2023. They came with a finished Figma design and needed a corporate site their team could update without a developer. I built custom PHP templates with Advanced Custom Fields, so adding a product, a project or an event means filling in fields. After launch the client reported 40 percent less time spent on content updates. That is what reusable templates pay for.

Online store

A freelancer-built WooCommerce store costs ₹25,000 to ₹1,00,000 and an agency-built store starts at ₹1,50,000, per Hostinger. WooCommerce is the free shop plugin for WordPress. FODUU prices a Shopify or WooCommerce build at ₹75,000 to ₹2,00,000. Product count is the first driver. Secuodsoft puts a basic store of 50 to 100 products at ₹1 lakh to ₹3 lakh and a store of 500+ products at ₹3 lakh to ₹7 lakh. The second driver is everything around the product: payment gateway, shipping partners, GST invoices, coupons, returns. Adding a payment gateway alone is priced at ₹10,000 to ₹40,000 by FODUU.

Custom web application

A custom web application costs ₹1,50,000 to ₹5,00,000 or more per WeblinkIndia, and FODUU's range for SaaS products and marketplaces runs from ₹5,00,000 to ₹25,00,000. Think of a booking portal, a dealer login area or a quoting tool. Nothing here is a template, so the price follows the number of screens and rules. A custom admin dashboard starts at ₹75,000 on its own. For anything in this band, pay for a written scope before you pay for code.

What does a website cost to run each year in India?

A small WordPress business website in India costs roughly ₹3,000 to ₹15,000 a year to keep running, and a small WordPress store costs ₹10,000 to ₹30,000 a year before transaction fees, per Hostinger. The build is a one-time cost. These come back every year.

Maintenance is where published prices disagree most. Hostinger's figures above are the low end. Codingclave, an Indian agency that publishes its care plans, charges ₹5,000 a month for brochure sites, ₹10,000 for business sites and ₹20,000 for stores and apps, GST included, with a yearly contract at ₹51,000, ₹1,02,000 and ₹2,04,000. FODUU's rule of thumb is that yearly maintenance comes to 15% to 20% of the original build cost. The difference is the amount of human time in the plan. A cheap plan runs updates. A dearer one includes hours for changes and someone who picks up when the site goes down.

How much GST do you pay on website development?

You pay 18% GST on website development in India. Websites and portals built for one client fall under service code 998314, which is taxed at 18%, as Busy's SAC code reference sets out.

If your business is GST registered, you can normally claim this back as input credit, so ask your CA. If you're not registered, the 18% is a real cost and it belongs in your budget.

What do payment gateway fees add to an online store?

A payment gateway takes about 2% of most online payments, plus GST on that fee. Razorpay's standard plan charges a 2% platform fee plus 18% GST on that fee, which works out to 2.36% of each successful payment, with no setup fee and no annual charge. A payment gateway is the service that collects card, UPI and netbanking payments on your site and sends the money to your bank.

Shopify stores in India carry a second layer. Because Shopify Payments isn't available in India, Shopify adds its own third-party transaction fee of 2% on the Basic plan, on top of the gateway's fee. That's one reason I lean towards WooCommerce for Indian stores: the only cut is the gateway's. My WooCommerce stores service covers what I set up on that side.

Related guide: Website hosting and maintenance packages: what to compare

What would three typical Indian businesses pay?

Worked examples make the ranges easier to use, so here are three made-up businesses priced with the published figures above. The totals are my own sums from those sources. They are estimates to help you budget, not quotes.

A dental clinic in Pune (6 pages). The clinic needs a home page, treatments, doctors, a gallery, reviews and contact with a WhatsApp button. That's a Starter package at ₹12,000 to ₹25,000. Add a domain at ₹600 to ₹1,200 a year and shared hosting at ₹2,500 to ₹6,000 a year. The first-year total comes to about ₹15,100 to ₹32,200 before GST. The clinic should spend the saved money on good photos of the real clinic, because stock photos of smiling models convince nobody.

A D2C snack brand in Surat (20 products). The brand wants to sell across India with UPI and cash on delivery. That's an Online store starter package at ₹35,000 to ₹80,000, plus running costs of ₹10,000 to ₹30,000 a year for hosting and plugins. On ₹1,00,000 of online-paid sales in a month, Razorpay's 2.36% comes to ₹2,360. Product photography and packaging shots are not in any of those numbers, and for a food brand they matter more than the theme.

A machine parts manufacturer in Ludhiana (25 pages, English and Hindi). The company needs a product catalogue, enquiry forms on every product, a dealer page and a second language. That's a Professional package at ₹60,000 to ₹1,50,000, which overlaps with Hostinger's ₹80,000 to ₹1,50,000 for a custom-designed business site. A care plan at Codingclave's published ₹5,000 a month adds ₹60,000 a year, or ₹51,000 if paid yearly. For a business where one export enquiry can be worth lakhs, that budget is easy to justify. A ₹15,000 template would not be.

Related guide: Freelance web developer in Pune: rates and what to check

Is affordable website design in India under ₹10,000 worth it?

Affordable website design in India under ₹10,000 is fine for a simple online visiting card and a poor choice for anything you expect leads or sales from. At that price you get a ready-made theme with limited changes, which Hostinger says keeps design cost under ₹10,000, or a small static site, which PageTraffic prices at ₹5,000 to ₹15,000.

What you usually give up at that price:

• Design made for you. Your site will share its layout with many others.
• Content help. You write every word and supply every photo.
• Speed and SEO work. The site exists, but nobody has checked how fast it loads or how it appears on Google.
• Changes. One round if you're lucky.
• Ownership clarity. Very cheap packages often keep the domain and hosting in the vendor's account.

The last point is the one that hurts people. When a developer stops answering and the domain is registered in that developer's name, getting your own website back can take weeks. A cheap website is a reasonable choice. A website you don't own is not, at any price.

If the budget really is under ₹10,000, a website builder at ₹2,000 to ₹6,000 a year is often the safer route than the cheapest vendor, because the account is in your name from day one. GitNexa puts the minimum for a credible professionally built launch at ₹15,000 to ₹25,000.

How long does website development take in India?

A simple site of 1 to 5 pages takes 1 to 2 weeks, a small business site of 5 to 15 pages takes 4 to 8 weeks and a small online store takes 8 to 12 weeks when built by a professional, per Elementor's timeline guide. Indian package vendors quote faster: GitNexa says a starter site with content ready goes live in 10 to 14 days and a starter store in 3 to 4 weeks.

Both can be true. The short timelines assume a template and that your text and photos are ready on day one. The build is rarely what causes the delay. Waiting for content, logo files, product photos and payment gateway approval is, and GitNexa says the same: delays commonly come from content not being ready. If you want a fast launch, collect those before the developer starts.

What pushes a website quote up or down?

Six things move a website quote more than anything else: page count, design, content, features, platform and deadline. Knowing them lets you trim a quote without cutting quality.

1. Page count and page types. Ten pages that share one layout cost far less than ten unique designs. Ask how many templates (reusable page layouts) the quote covers.
2. Design from scratch or from a theme. Template customisation costs ₹5,000 to ₹15,000, while a fully custom interface adds ₹50,000 or more.
3. Who writes the content. Supplying your own text saves money. Supplying it late costs more than you saved.
4. Features and integrations. Each one is a line item. FODUU prices a chatbot at ₹15,000 to ₹1,00,000 and a CRM connection at ₹20,000 to ₹1,50,000.
5. Platform. WordPress keeps costs low because so much is ready-made. A custom-coded site costs more upfront and can be faster and cheaper to run. I use both, and I pick based on who will update the site after launch.
6. Deadline. A rush job means evenings and weekends, and you pay for them.

The cheapest way to cut a quote is to launch with fewer pages and add the rest in a second phase. The worst way is to squeeze the same scope into a lower price, because the saving comes out of testing and speed work, which you only notice after launch.

What should you ask before you accept a website quote in India?

Ask for the scope, the extras, the ownership terms and the after-launch plan in writing before you pay anything. A quote that answers the questions below is almost always from someone who has done this before.

1. 1

   Write down what you need

   List your pages, the features you need and two or three websites you like. A one-page brief gets you quotes you can compare.

2. 2

   Get three itemised quotes

   Ask each vendor to list pages, design rounds, content, domain, hosting and GST separately. A single lump sum hides what is missing.

3. 3

   Check live work

   Open two of their recent sites on your phone. See how fast they load and whether the enquiry form works.

4. 4

   Confirm ownership

   The domain, hosting and admin logins must be in your name or handed over at launch. Get that sentence in the agreement.

5. 5

   Agree milestones

   Pay in stages tied to things you can see: design approved, site on a test link, site live.

Questions worth asking on the first call:

• How many pages and how many rounds of changes are included?
• Is this a theme or a custom design? Which theme?
• Who writes the text and who supplies photos?
• Is GST included in this figure?
• In whose name will the domain and hosting be registered?
• Will I get full admin access and a walkthrough on updating the site?
• What happens if something breaks a month after launch? GitNexa describes 15 to 30 days of free bug fixes as the usual warranty.
• What will I pay each year after the first?

Red flags I'd walk away from:

• "Unlimited pages, unlimited changes" at a rock-bottom price. Somebody's time is being left out.
• A promise of first position on Google. Nobody controls that.
• 100% payment upfront.
• No live websites to show, only screenshots.
• Free domain and hosting "for life" with no mention of whose account they sit in.
• A quote with no page list.

If you don't have a brief yet, my free Project Scope Generator turns a two-line idea into a list of pages and features you can send to any developer, including ones who aren't me.

How can I help with your website in India?

I build business websites, online stores and landing pages for Indian companies, working directly with the owner or the marketing lead from Gurugram. You deal with me, not an account manager, and I'm the person who writes the code.

What that looks like in practice:

• Business and corporate sites on WordPress, built with Bricks, Elementor or Oxygen from a Figma design, so your team can edit pages without calling a developer. For Taxocity, a tax and compliance firm, I built a custom WordPress site on Bricks where every lead is saved to a Google Sheet the team already uses.
• WooCommerce stores, such as the Nortek LED store, built from a Figma design with product filters, custom product pages and an optimised checkout, and the IPL Biologicals store. I've maintained the IPL Biologicals store on a monthly retainer since 2025.
• Next.js websites for companies that want the fastest possible marketing site and have a developer or me to maintain it.
• Design and apps through partners. If you need branding and Figma design first, or a mobile app, I bring in people I trust and stay your single point of contact.

Where I'm not the right choice: if all you need is a simple online visiting card on the smallest possible budget, a website builder will serve you better than I can, and I'll tell you so. And if you need a 20-person team on site for a year, you need an agency.

I don't publish a rate card, because a price without a scope is a guess. What I give you instead is an itemised quote once I understand what you need, with GST, extras and yearly running costs written out, so you can put it next to any other quote and compare line by line.

What should you do next?

Write down three things: the pages you need, the one action you want a visitor to take, and the most you're willing to spend in the first year including GST and hosting. Then place your project in the tables above so you know the fair band before anyone quotes you.

If you'd like a second opinion on a quote you already have, or a fresh itemised one, send me the details on the contact page or book a 20-minute call there. I'll tell you what tier your project really sits in and what I'd cut to make it fit your budget.