What a website costs in India, and what you are paying for

Ask five agencies what a website costs and you will get five numbers somewhere between ₹5,000 and ₹5 lakh. None of them is lying. They are quoting for different things, and a price only makes sense once you know what is inside it.

Here is how we price at Elevare Designs, and what moves the number anywhere you go.

Three things you always pay for

Design. Someone decides how the site looks and how a visitor moves through it. That is either done from a blank page for your business, or adapted from a layout that already exists. A blank page takes longer and costs more. An adapted layout is cheaper and, done carefully, perfectly good for a small business.

Build. The design has to become real pages that load quickly on a cheap phone over a patchy connection. This is where a lot of cheap websites quietly fail.

Content. Words and photos. If you write and shoot them yourself, there is nothing extra to pay. If you want them written for you, that is a separate job.

What our packages cost

• Shop Starter, from ₹10,000. For local shops. Built on one of our tested layouts and styled to your shop, with WhatsApp, Maps and your products. Offered in limited rounds.
• Launch, ₹20,999. One custom page, designed for your business.
• Growth, ₹41,999. Up to six custom pages with SEO foundations and analytics.
• Signature, ₹74,999. A fully custom site with motion, advanced SEO and priority support.

Everything else, like an online store, payments, bookings or a second language, is a fixed-price add-on. You can see all of them, and the total, in the package builder.

What pushes the price up

• An online store. Products, cart, checkout and order management are a system, not a page.
• Anything with logins, such as customer accounts or a staff area.
• Connecting to software you already use, like billing or a CRM.
• Several languages.
• A tight deadline.

What does not need to cost more

A site does not get better because it has more pages. Five pages that answer what customers actually ask will beat twenty that nobody reads. Motion is not free, but a little of it done well costs less than people expect.

The costs people forget

The domain, which renews every year. Hosting. And someone to update the site when your prices or timings change. Ask about all three before you sign anything, and ask who owns the website when the project ends. With us, you do.

If you want a number for your own business, build a package or send us a message. You will hear back within 12 hours.