How much does a website cost in India in 2026?

A website in India costs roughly ₹8,000–₹25,000 if a freelancer sets up a template, and ₹25,000–₹80,000 for a custom small-business site from a small agency. Online stores usually run from ₹40,000 to ₹2,00,000 or more. Then, every year, you pay for the domain (about ₹800–₹1,500) and hosting (about ₹2,000–₹10,000).

These are typical 2026 ranges for Hyderabad and most Indian cities, not fixed prices. Where you land depends on the pages, the content, and whether the site has to take bookings or payments.

Below, we break the cost down by type of site and line by line, flag the hidden costs, and show how to compare quotes that look nothing alike.

Most local businesses need the second one on this list. Some get talked into the fourth.

• Template site from a freelancer, ₹8,000–₹25,000. A ready-made theme with your logo, photos and text dropped in. Fine for a shop that mainly needs its number, timings and map online.
• Custom small-business site from a small agency, ₹25,000–₹80,000. Five to ten pages built around your business: services, prices, gallery, location, an enquiry form and a WhatsApp button. Most salons, clinics, studios and banquet halls land here.
• Online store, ₹40,000–₹2,00,000+. The range is wide because 20 products and 2,000 products are different jobs. Payments, delivery charges, stock and GST invoices all add work.
• Bigger custom builds. Slot booking, member logins, several branches, or every page in Telugu and English. Priced on scope, usually from where the small-business range ends.
• DIY builders like Wix or Shopify. A monthly or yearly plan, plus your own evenings. Cheap to start, but the fee never stops, and moving away later is rarely simple.

A quote that just says “Website: ₹45,000” is hiding at least six different costs. Some you pay once. Some come back every year.

• Design (one-time). The layout, colours, fonts and how each page behaves on a phone. A template saves most of this. On a custom site it's a big share of the fee, and the part your customers notice first.
• Build (one-time). Turning the design into a working site: forms that reach your phone, the WhatsApp button, Google Maps, fast loading and basic SEO setup. Booking, payments and catalogues add to this line.
• Domain (yearly). About ₹800–₹1,500 for a .com or .in.
• Hosting (yearly). About ₹2,000–₹10,000. Basic shared hosting is fine for a small brochure site; a store or a busy site needs more.
• Content (one-time). Words and photos. Writing it yourself is free but slow. A copywriter might charge roughly ₹3,000–₹15,000 for a small site, and a few hours with a photographer often costs ₹5,000–₹20,000.
• Yearly upkeep (ongoing). Updates, backups, security fixes and small changes, often sold as an AMC (annual maintenance contract) or a monthly care plan. Typically ₹5,000–₹30,000 a year, depending on how often things change.

Say you run a bridal makeup studio in Kukatpally and ask three people for a quote. You get ₹10,000, ₹40,000 and ₹1,50,000. Nobody has to be cheating you for that. They're quoting for different work.

What usually moves the number:

• Pages and features. Five pages and an enquiry form is a smaller job than online booking, a price calculator and a blog.
• Who writes the content. If the agency writes your service pages, those hours belong in the quote.
• What's bundled. Some quotes include the domain, hosting and a year of support. Others include none of it.
• Who does the work. A student freelancer, an experienced freelancer and a small agency with a designer, developer and marketer will all price differently.
• Your deadline. Need it live before wedding season, or for a Sankranti launch next week? Expect a rush charge or a smaller first version.

The build is paid once. These keep coming back, and they're where a cheap website quietly gets expensive.

• Renewals. Domain and hosting renew every year, often well above the first-year offer price.
• GST. A GST-registered agency adds 18% to its fee. A small freelancer below the registration limit may not charge it. Ask whether the quote includes it.
• Business email. An address on your own domain, instead of a Gmail ID, usually costs a small monthly fee per mailbox.
• Paid themes, plugins and fonts. Some licences renew yearly, and if they're in the developer's name, your updates stop when you part ways.
• Payment gateway fees, if you sell online. The gateway takes a cut of most transactions.
• Changes after launch. New prices for Diwali, a new branch, a new service. Without a care plan, each change is billed separately.

Compare them over three years, not on the first invoice. A quick hypothetical shows why.

Say a salon in KPHB gets two quotes. A is ₹12,000, with domain and hosting “free” for a year, then ₹15,000 a year for hosting and maintenance, and the domain registered by the agency. B is ₹30,000, with the domain and hosting in the salon's own name at about ₹4,000 a year.

Over three years, both cost about ₹42,000. Only one of them leaves the salon owning its web address. (B's changes after launch would be extra, so ask about those next.)

When you line quotes up, check the same things in each:

• The list of pages and features, in writing
• Who writes the content and who supplies the photos
• How many rounds of changes are included
• Whose name the domain and hosting are registered in
• What starts costing money after launch, and how much
• When you pay, and what you get at each step

Yes, sometimes.

If you only take walk-ins and most customers find you on Google Maps, a full website can wait. Do your free Google Business Profile first; our Google Business Profile guide walks you through it.

A ₹10,000 template site is also fine for testing an idea or getting something live before a Diwali offer. Just keep the domain in your own name, so you can rebuild on the same address later.

Cheap goes wrong when it's cheap because things are missing: no testing on phones, a contact form that sends enquiries nowhere, a domain you don't own, and a developer who stops replying on WhatsApp after the final payment.

Write down what the site has to do: the pages you need, whether people should book online or just call, and if you'll sell anything. That one list makes every quote clearer.

Then get two or three quotes against the same list. Our guide to choosing a web design company in Hyderabad has the questions worth asking, and if you have a launch date in mind, check how long a website takes first.

We don't publish a fixed price list, because two “five-page websites” can be very different jobs, so we quote after a short call. If you'd like to see your site before you commit, ask us for a free website preview. It's a working version you can click through, with no obligation to go ahead.