What it costs to have a professional website built in 2026 depends on its size and ambition. A simple business site with a few pages takes the least work, a custom site with its own design, animations and integrations the most, and a webshop has its own pricing logic. The price is set by design (template or custom), number of pages, functionality, content and technology. After a short intake the price is fixed, so you know up front where you stand. Hosting and maintenance come on top each month, for example as a fully managed solution including monitoring.
What a professional website costs in 2026 varies widely. The spread is large because "a website" can mean anything, from a business card with five pages to a custom platform with integrations and interaction. Below you see exactly where the money goes.
Five things set most of the cost:
Concrete examples say more than a rough estimate. These are the three categories we deliver most often, from least to most work.
A clean, fast site with five to ten pages, an adapted template, a contact form and good basic SEO. Suitable for most SMBs that want to be findable online and come across as trustworthy. Usually live within four to six weeks.
Here custom design comes into play, with a look that fits your brand, light animations and more pages. Often with a CMS so you manage content yourself. Suitable if you want to stand out from competitors on a standard template.
Fully custom in Next.js, with bespoke design, configurators, integrations to external systems, multiple languages and high speed demands. This is the level at which we build our own products. Suitable for companies for which the website is a core part of the business.
A website is not a cost item but an investment. The question is not "what is cheapest", but "what does it return and what does the management cost over three years".
A webshop has its own pricing logic because of products, stock, payments and shipping. A standard webshop takes less work than a custom headless solution with its own front end. Which of the two suits you and what it costs is something we discuss in a short intake. Look at our webshop approach for the details.
If you want a software product rather than a website, you are in a different segment. A SaaS platform depends on its complexity. There too, the price is fixed before we start.
The build price is one-time, but a website lives on. Count on recurring costs for:
A cheap build price with expensive or neglected aftercare often works out more costly than a solid investment up front with predictable management.
Saving can be smart on design (a good template often suffices) and on content (supply it yourself). Do not save on speed, security and a crawlable structure, because that directly hits your findability and trustworthiness. A slow site costs you conversion every single day.
In doubt which segment your plan falls into? Request a quote through our web development page. We would rather give an honest range up front than a surprise afterward.
A reliable price needs a few answers up front. The sharper you phrase your wishes, the more accurate the quote. This is what a good builder wants to know:
A quote without this information is a guess. Beware of parties that name a fixed price without questions, because that almost always ends in extra work.
The cheapest quote is rarely the best value over three years. A site put together too fast and too cheaply gets stuck on slow load times, poor findability or a maintenance contract that climbs anyway. Always calculate the total cost of ownership: build, hosting, maintenance and the lost revenue of a site that does not perform. A solid investment up front pays for itself in less hassle and better results.
The best-value route is a solid site with an adapted template, five to ten pages and content you supply yourself. That is the route with the least work and therefore the lowest price, and the site is live within four to six weeks. Do not save on speed and security, because that directly hits your findability and trustworthiness.
The price depends on five factors: design (template or custom), number of pages, functionality, content and technology. A business card with five pages and a custom platform with integrations and interaction are both a website, but differ many times over in the amount of work. That is why the price is only fixed after a short conversation about what you need.
Simple hosting is a modest monthly amount. For a fully managed solution with hosting on Hetzner, Cloudflare, monitoring and maintenance, the monthly fee depends on the size of your site. A cheap build price with neglected maintenance often works out more costly than a solid investment up front with predictable management.