"How much does a website cost?" It is the first question most business owners ask, and the honest answer is: it depends. Not to dodge the question, but because a three-page website and an online shop with three hundred products involve completely different work.

To help you see clearly, here are the factors that really change the price, concrete figures and the costs to plan for once the website is live.

The three main types of website

A showcase website presents your business, your services and your contact details. It is the most common choice for tradespeople, freelancers, professionals and small businesses. Its goal: to be found on Google and make people want to contact you.

An online shop (e-commerce) lets you sell directly: catalogue, basket, secure payment, stock and order management. It takes more work, because every step of the buying journey has to be reliable.

A custom web application (customer area, booking tool, business platform) meets a specific need. Its price depends almost entirely on the features required.

The factors that change the price

The number of pages: each page has to be designed, written and optimised for Google. A 3-page website and a 15-page website do not take the same time.

The design: an adapted template costs less than a mock-up designed from scratch, but it sets you apart less from your competitors.

The content: if you provide the text and photos, the budget goes down. If the agency writes, chooses the visuals and optimises each page for search engines, it goes up, but the result on Google is usually much better.

The features: online booking, quote requests, a customer area, several languages, connections to your software. Each one adds development and testing.

SEO: a "pretty" website that nobody finds is useless. Serious work on structure, speed and keywords belongs in a good quote.

Example budgets

To give you concrete benchmarks, here are our own prices.

A showcase website starts at €890 for 3 pages with a responsive design, a contact form and basic optimisation for Google. Our most popular plan, at €1,890, goes up to 8 pages, with a mock-up approved in advance, full technical SEO and training on how to use the site.

An online shop starts at €1,890 for around thirty products and goes up to €3,490 for a catalogue of a few hundred products with variants, discount codes and an optimised checkout.

A custom web application starts at around €3,500 for a few screens and can exceed €15,000 for a complete tool. In that case, clear specifications are essential to get a fair price.

Yearly costs to plan for

The build price is not the only cost. Also plan for the domain name (usually around ten euros a year) and hosting, from a few euros to a few dozen euros a month depending on the website.

Maintenance is often forgotten: security updates, backups, monitoring. A website that is never updated eventually breaks down or gets hacked. Count from around fifty euros a month for proper monitoring.

Finally, for an online shop, add payment provider fees and any platform subscription, such as Shopify.

How to compare two quotes

A low quote may hide content that is not included, no SEO work at all, or a website that is hard to edit. A high quote is not necessarily better. Check that each quote states the number of pages, who writes the text, what is done for Google, who owns the website and the domain name, and what happens after launch.

Also ask for examples of previous work and a precise timeline. A serious professional explains what the price covers, without jargon.

In short

For a professional showcase website, plan from a few hundred euros to around €2,000 depending on the number of pages and the support included. To sell online, count from around €2,000. Every year, add the domain, hosting and, ideally, maintenance.

The simplest way is to describe your project in a few lines: we reply with a free, detailed quote within 48 hours.