How Much Does a Business Website Cost in 2026?

A professional business website usually costs from about USD 1,500 for a small site with a few pages, to several times that for a larger corporate site or one with custom features such as bookings, quotes or a customer login. After launch, expect yearly costs for the domain, hosting and maintenance.

The price depends less on the number of pages than on three things: how much is custom designed, what the site has to do beyond showing information, and how much content needs writing.

What drives the cost of a website?

• Design: a well-chosen template adapted to your brand, or a fully custom design
• Features: contact forms only, or bookings, estimates, payments, customer accounts or integrations
• Content: you provide the text and photos, or the agency writes and sources them
• Platform: WordPress is easy for your team to edit; Next.js is faster and more flexible for custom features
• Speed and SEO groundwork: page speed, structured data and clean structure built in from the start
• Languages: each extra language adds translation and testing

What are typical prices and timelines?

As a guide, from our own projects:

• Landing page: 1 to 2 weeks
• Business website (5 to 15 pages): 3 to 6 weeks, starting from USD 1,500
• Large corporate site: 6 to 12 weeks, priced after a short call
• Site with bookings, estimates or customer accounts: priced on the features, after a short call

Agencies in the US, Canada, Australia and the UK usually charge more for the same scope, because their hourly rates are higher. Compare fixed quotes for the same scope rather than headline prices.

Why does website speed matter for the cost?

A slow site loses visitors before they read anything, and Google uses page speed as a ranking signal. Fixing speed later often means rebuilding, so it is cheaper to build it in from the start.

For The Cleaning Company in Ahmedabad and Vadodara, we redesigned a slow site as a booking-first site with a new front end, keeping WordPress as the admin. The mobile Performance score went from 12 on the old site to 96 on the new one, the time to show the main content dropped from 12.7 seconds to 2.7 seconds, and the page weight fell from 4.9 MB to 0.45 MB.

What does a website cost after launch?

• Domain name: renewed every year
• Hosting: from a small monthly fee for simple sites, more for high traffic
• Maintenance: WordPress core and plugin updates, security and backups
• Content and SEO: new pages, articles and improvements that keep bringing in visitors

How do you get the most from your budget?

Decide what the website must achieve, usually calls, inquiries or bookings, and spend on what helps visitors do that: clear service pages, real proof, fast mobile pages and an easy way to get in touch. Ask every agency for a fixed quote listing the pages, features, content and who owns the domain and hosting. Both should be in your name.