Website Design Cost in India: What You Actually Pay For
Quotes for the same website can range from ₹5,000 to ₹5 lakh. Here is what drives the price, and how to compare quotations fairly.
Ask five agencies to quote for a business website and you may receive five very different numbers. One says ₹8,000, another ₹60,000, a third ₹2 lakh. Are the expensive ones overcharging, or are the cheap ones cutting corners? Usually, they are quoting for different things. This guide explains what you are paying for.
The typical price ranges
| Type of website | Typical range |
|---|---|
| Template-based site, 4 to 6 pages, limited customisation | ₹5,000 to ₹15,000 |
| Custom business website with admin panel, 8 to 15 pages | ₹15,000 to ₹75,000 |
| School, hospital or real-estate site with forms, galleries, blog | ₹30,000 to ₹1.2 lakh |
| E-commerce store with payments and inventory | ₹50,000 to ₹3 lakh |
| Portals with logins, dashboards and custom features | ₹1 lakh and above |
These are broad market ranges, not fixed prices. Your exact cost depends on the factors below.
What drives the cost
Custom design vs template
A template is cheaper and faster but looks like many other websites. Custom design is built around your brand, your customers and your goals. For businesses that compete on trust and quality, custom design usually pays for itself.
Number of pages and content
Each service page, location page or product category needs design and content. Writing good content is real work, and it is the part that helps you rank on Google.
Features
Contact forms are standard. Appointment booking, online payments, member logins, multilingual content, search, calculators and integrations with CRM or WhatsApp add development time.
Admin panel
A website you can update yourself costs a little more to build but saves money over its life.
SEO and speed work
Proper heading structure, schema markup, image optimisation, sitemaps and Core Web Vitals tuning are often missing from cheap quotes. Without them, the site may look fine but never appear on Google.
Ongoing costs
- Domain: typically ₹800 to ₹1,500 per year for a .com or .in.
- Hosting: from about ₹3,000 per year for small sites; more for high-traffic or e-commerce sites.
- Business email: around ₹1,500 to ₹2,000 per user per year for Google Workspace or Microsoft 365, depending on plan.
- Maintenance: updates, backups and small changes, often 10 to 20% of build cost per year.
How to compare quotations fairly
- Ask for a written scope. Pages, features, number of revisions and who writes content.
- Check what is included in SEO. "SEO-friendly" can mean anything. Ask specifically about speed, schema, sitemap and meta tags.
- Ask who owns the website. You should own your domain, hosting account and final files.
- Check support terms. What happens if something breaks after launch?
- Look at live work. Open their recent websites on your phone. Are they fast and easy to use?
Cheap can become expensive
A ₹6,000 website that brings no enquiries costs more than a ₹50,000 website that brings five new customers a month. Judge a website by the business it brings, not just its price.
SSPL gives fixed, written quotes with a clear scope, SEO included, and full ownership for you. Call for a free consultation and get your quote within 48 hours.
