Cost Guide · India · 2025
How Much Does Website Development Cost in India?
A website in India can cost ₹30,000 for a basic template site or ₹5 lakh and up for a properly custom web application. The gap is more than looks. It comes down to who built it, how it was built, how quickly it loads on a cheap Android phone, and whether it still works three years from now. Here's what each price point actually gets you.
Bottom line
A professional, custom-built business website in India should cost somewhere between ₹60,000 and ₹2 lakh. Below that you're buying a template. Above ₹2L, you're really talking about a portal or web application.
What you get at each price point
₹15,000 – ₹40,000
Template / DIY-assisted Site
A WordPress, Wix or Webflow template
3–5 pages with your content added
A basic contact form
Fonts and colours adjusted to roughly match your brand
Example
A local business going online for the first time. A freelancer's portfolio. A simple list of services.
Most common
₹60,000 – ₹1.5L
Custom Marketing Website
Designed from scratch, not a template
5–10 pages built to turn visitors into enquiries
Fast load times (under 2 seconds on mobile)
Contact form wired to email
SEO basics: metadata, sitemap, structured data
Blog / content section (optional)
30-day post-launch support
Example
A professional services firm that wants more enquiries from its site. A B2B company that's tired of apologising for its current one.
₹1.5L – ₹5L+
Custom Web Application / Portal
Functionality well beyond a marketing site
User login, dashboards or tools for customers
Backend API and database
Third-party integrations (payments, CRM, booking)
Multiple user roles
Performance work for heavy traffic
Example
A real estate portal with interactive plot maps. A membership site with client logins. An online store with its own inventory logic.
What drives the cost up or down
Custom design vs template
A template is someone else's design with your text dropped in. A custom site is designed for your brand and the people who visit it. You can see the difference, and the speed and SEO difference is real too.
Number of pages
Five pages and thirty pages are different jobs. Every page needs content, design and build time.
Custom functionality
A contact form is easy. Once you add booking, payments or a client login, you're building a web application, and the price reflects that.
Animations and interactions
Light entrance animations are cheap and make a site feel finished. Scroll-driven sequences and interactive pieces take a lot longer.
CMS integration
Want to edit content without calling a developer? Then you need a headless CMS like Sanity or Contentful wired in. It costs more now and saves you money later.
Speed and performance requirements
Scoring 95+ on PageSpeed comes from decisions made on day one. Fixing a slow site afterwards costs more than building it fast in the first place.
What's typically included — and what isn't
Included
Design (desktop and mobile)
Frontend development
Backend (for sites with forms, CMS, or custom functionality)
Basic SEO setup: metadata, sitemap, robots.txt, structured data
Contact form with email delivery
Deployment and domain setup
30 days post-launch support
Source code ownership
Not included (watch for these in quotes)
Domain registration and hosting (₹500–₹3,000/year)
Content writing and copywriting
Professional photography or video
Paid SEO / ongoing content strategy
Google Ads or social media campaigns
Red flags in a quote
Under ₹10,000 for a 'custom website'. It's a template with your content pasted in
Nobody mentions mobile or page speed
The developer never asks who your visitors are or what you want them to do
WordPress with no maintenance plan. Plugins pile up and things break
No support period after launch
Website Development cost — common questions
Should I use WordPress or get a custom-built site?
WordPress is fine for blogs and simple sites where editing content is the main need. For a business site where speed, enquiries and long-term stability matter, a custom build on something like Next.js will do noticeably better. WordPress upkeep also tends to get heavier every year, which people don't factor in.
How long does website development take?
A 5–8 page marketing site takes 3–5 weeks. A bigger site with a blog, integrations and a CMS, 6–10 weeks. A custom portal or web application, 10–20 weeks. All of this assumes we have your content. Honestly, late content is the number one reason website projects overrun.
Will my website rank on Google?
A well-built site takes care of technical SEO: metadata, speed, structured data, mobile, sitemap. Ranking for competitive terms is a different matter and needs ongoing content work, which is a separate engagement. We're happy to advise on both.
What about hosting? Do you handle that?
Yes. We set it up during the project and hand the account over to you. For most sites we use Vercel for hosting and Cloudflare for DNS and CDN. A standard marketing site usually costs ₹500–₹3,000 a year to run.
Can you redesign my existing site?
Sure. First we figure out what's actually wrong: speed, conversions, mobile, or the brand just looks dated. Sometimes that needs a full rebuild. Often it doesn't, and targeted fixes do the job for less.
Get an actual number
Tell us what you're building and we'll give you a written estimate.
Not a ballpark. Not a range. A written estimate with a fixed price, timeline, and what's included — before you commit to anything.
Written fixed-price estimate — no surprises
We respond within 1 business day
Free 30-minute scoping call, no commitment
NDA available before any details shared
Full IP transfer on delivery
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