Website Development Cost in India: Real Prices and a Quote Checklist

• A package fixes the pages in advance and a quote prices what you ask for, so compare scope before price.
• The first-year price is not the cost. Goods and services tax (GST) and renewals take one ₹8,750 package to between ₹18,819 and ₹34,161 over three years.
• Run six tests on any quote (tax, pages, year two, exclusions, ownership, support) before you pay.

Each figure below comes from the seller's own price page.

These sellers are a sample, not the whole market. The agency prices are as listed, in rupees.

The lowest prices are for one page. A one-page site is a landing page, a page built to get a single action. If you are a coach, our guide to a coach's website and what it costs covers what to build.

Do-it-yourself builders charge monthly, and you do the building. Shopify's Plus plan starts at ₹1,75,000 a month.

A package fixes the page count and design in advance, while a quote prices the scope you ask for.

The row labels differ ("basic", "business websites", "1–10 pages"), so read the band as a rough meeting point, not a market price.

The gap with packages is large. ₹40,000 is 4.6 times Aero's discounted ₹8,750 (40,000 ÷ 8,750) and 10 times Expert Web World's ₹3,999 (40,000 ÷ 3,999). Yet Aero's 25-page Custom package at ₹44,850 (discounted from ₹64,000 as of October 2026) and its 15-page Premium package at ₹47,500 both sit inside the band before GST. Our reading is that a quote near ₹40,000 usually buys a mid-tier package's worth of pages and design, not an inflated five-page site.

Stores follow the same pattern. In the same six guides, five start a store between ₹50,000 and ₹1,00,000, and five top it out between ₹5,00,000 and ₹8,00,000 or more. Seller pages list stores at ₹6,999 (up to 20 products, Tech Smash) and ₹40,000 (Expert Web World).

Choose by who does the work. A builder costs ₹139 a month on a 48-month prepaid term, up to ₹22,680 a month on annual billing, and you build the site. An agency package fixes the pages and the price, and an hourly freelancer or agency charges for time.

Secuodsoft (12 March 2026), Zethic (12 June 2026) and GoDaddy India (updated 2 April 2026) publish hourly rates, and they agree on the low end. Freelancers and junior-to-mid developers sit between ₹500 and ₹3,000 an hour, and Zethic puts senior developers at ₹3,000 to ₹6,000 or more. Agency rates disagree: Secuodsoft gives ₹1,000 to ₹4,000, while GoDaddy India gives ₹5,000 to ₹20,000.

Turn any quote into hours. ₹40,000 buys about 13 hours at ₹3,000, 40 hours at ₹1,000 and 80 hours at ₹500. We recommend asking every seller for an hours estimate. A quote that cannot be expressed as hours or as named pages is hard to compare.

GST, renewals and anything the seller lists as extra come after the headline figure.

• GST (goods and services tax). Aero adds 18% to every order, so its ₹8,750 package costs ₹10,325 (8,750 × 1.18). Expert Web World lists "GST extra". A ₹40,000 quote before tax at Aero's 18% would be ₹47,200.
• Hosting and domain. Aero's hosting renews at ₹2,399 to ₹8,900 a year depending on the package. As of October 2026, Hostinger's domain page shows renewals of ₹1,499 for a .com and ₹899 for a .in. Baluwa's Basic package includes hosting for 6 months and says renewal is charged separately, and Expert Web World says renewal applies after one year.
• Builder renewals. Hostinger's plans renew at 2.7 to 3.3 times the intro price (449 ÷ 139 = 3.2, 649 ÷ 199 = 3.3, 1,599 ÷ 599 = 2.7).
• Content and brand. Packages price pages, not the words on them. Our guide to writing an About page shows what to write yourself, and a logo is part of your brand identity.

One ₹8,750 five-page package from Aero costs ₹18,819 to ₹34,161 over three years, about 2.2 to 3.9 times its listed price. This is our model, not a seller's figure. As of October 2026, Aero lists a discounted price of ₹8,750 against a list price of ₹17,500.

The formula: setup price plus GST, plus hosting and domain renewals for years 2 and 3, plus GST on those renewals.

The assumptions are Aero's listed hosting renewal range, its domain renewal of about ₹1,200 a year, and 18% GST on every order, renewals included. Aero's own maintenance rate of ₹1,200 to ₹2,000 an hour is not in the totals. Ask which hosting renewal applies to your package. The same pattern shows on a builder: Hostinger's Premium plan costs ₹6,672 for its first 48 months (139 × 48) and ₹5,388 for the next 12 (449 × 12).

Run these six tests on every quote, and compare sellers only after each passes.

Does the quote show GST as a line?

Pass: the quote gives a total including tax, or a tax line with the rate. Fail: "plus taxes" with no number.

Does it name every page?

Pass: each page is listed, and the count matches the price. Fail: "unlimited" or "up to" with no list. Aero's Basic Startup is 1 page at ₹6,750, and five pages cost ₹8,750 in Basic or ₹25,350 in Premium.

Does it give year-two costs in rupees?

Pass: hosting, domain and any maintenance are written as figures. Fail: "contact us for renewal".

What is excluded?

Pass: a written list of exclusions, such as content, photos, payment-gateway fees and plugins. Fail: the quote is silent on any of them.

Who owns the domain and the logins?

We recommend this standard. Pass: the quote says the domain is registered in your name and the admin logins (the usernames and passwords that let you edit the site) are handed over at delivery. Fail: the seller keeps the registration or the logins.

What support is included, and for how long?

Pass: a period in months and what it covers, as Baluwa gives (6 months, or 1 year on its top package). Fail: "support included" with no period.

We offer web development: personalised, customer-centric website creation. Ask us for a quote. Email rohinimundra@rohinimundra.com, call +91 7760095707, or use our contact section, and bring the six tests above to the conversation. You can read more about the service on our home page.