What does a website actually cost in India? Honest INR ranges.
A planning sheet with real 2026 INR cost ranges for every common type of Indian business website — plus year-1 hosting/maintenance, common hidden costs, and a sample budget for a 5-page lead-gen site.
Indian website pricing is the wild west — same brief, quotes from ₹4,000 to ₹4,00,000. This sheet groups the market into 6 honest tiers (one-page, brochure, lead-gen, ecommerce, custom, custom-with-app) with year-1 + year-2 numbers, plus a checklist of hidden costs (domain, SSL, mailbox, design assets, content writing, photo licensing) most quotes don't include.
What you get
- 6 website tiers with realistic 2026 INR ranges
- Year-1 vs year-2 maintenance breakdown (most quotes hide this)
- 12 hidden-cost line items most agencies forget to mention
- Sample fully-loaded budget for a 5-page lead-gen site (₹85K)
- What you should NEVER pay separately for
What’s inside
- Tier 1 — One-page (₹4-12K): static HTML, basic SEO, contact form. Year-1 total ~₹8-18K.
- Tier 2 — Brochure 5-7 pages (₹18-45K): WordPress or static, basic schema, mobile-first. Year-1 ~₹25-60K.
- Tier 3 — Lead-gen / sector-specific (₹45-1.2L): conversion CTAs, lead magnets, schema, basic CMS. Year-1 ~₹70K-1.5L.
- Tier 4 — Ecommerce starter (₹50K-2.5L): Shopify/WooCommerce, 50-300 SKUs, payment gateway, basic ops. Year-1 ~₹1-3L.
- Tier 5 — Custom (₹1.5-6L): Laravel/Django/Next.js, custom features, design system. Year-1 ~₹2.5-8L.
- Tier 6 — Custom + native app (₹4-15L): web + iOS + Android, backend, admin. Year-1 ~₹6-20L.
- Hidden costs checklist: domain, SSL, business email, hosting, CDN, design source files, photo licensing, content writing, copywriting, translations, GST, ongoing maintenance, security patches
- Sample fully-loaded ₹85K lead-gen budget (line by line)
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Who this helps
- Founders shortlisting agencies and trying to compare apples-to-apples
- Marketing leads making a budget request internally
- Anyone who's received a ₹4,000 quote and a ₹4,00,000 quote for the "same" site
- First-time buyers who don't know what's reasonable
Frequently asked questions
Are these prices Big Helpers' prices or industry-wide?
Industry-wide ranges based on market scan + our own pricing + competitor scrape (anonymous samples from Indian agency proposals). Big Helpers' own pricing sits in the middle of each range — we're neither cheapest nor priciest.
Why are prices so wide within a tier?
Three things move pricing inside a tier: (1) design originality (template vs custom), (2) integration count (1 form vs 5 integrations), (3) content production (you write it vs the agency writes it). The sheet explains each one.
Should I avoid the cheapest tier?
Not necessarily — for a one-page event site that goes live in 3 weeks, ₹8K is fine. The risk is using a ₹4K vendor for a ₹50K project — you usually pay twice.
Are these GST-included?
No, all numbers exclude GST (18% for Indian Pvt Ltd vendors). Most agency quotes you see are pre-GST. The sheet explains where GST applies.
How often do you update this sheet?
We refresh it every 6-9 months. Current version: 2026 H1.
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