Quotes for a website in India run from a few thousand rupees to several lakh. Both ends are real prices for real work, and they buy different things. This guide sets out the bands you will meet when you ask for quotes, what usually sits inside each one, and the costs that arrive after launch.
The short answer.
Agencies that publish prices or price guides list a business website at anywhere from ₹10,000 to ₹1,50,000, and an online store at ₹50,000 to ₹5,00,000 or more. The spread is wide because the word "website" covers several different products: a filled-in template, a designed site on WordPress, an online store, or pages written in code for one business.
A note on the figures. The market ranges below come from prices and price guides that agencies in Bengaluru publish on their own websites, checked in October 2026. They are asking prices written by sellers, so read them as a guide to what you will be quoted, and expect some variation by city.
The market in five bands.
| Band | Publicly listed | What you typically get |
|---|---|---|
| Template package | ₹7,800 to ₹19,990 | A ready-made theme with your logo, text and photos. Hosting is often bundled, and some packages are billed again every year. |
| Basic business website | ₹10,000 to ₹80,000 | About five pages, often on a theme or page builder, with a contact form and basic on-page SEO. |
| Professional business website | ₹40,000 to ₹1,50,000 | Design made for the business, more pages, a content management system and analytics. |
| Online store | ₹50,000 to ₹5,00,000+ | Catalogue, cart, payment gateway and order management, on a store platform or custom-built. |
| Specialist studio site | ₹1,50,000 to ₹8,00,000 | A brochure or marketing site from a specialist design studio, normally quoted by proposal instead of a rate card. |
A custom web application, such as a booking system or a customer portal, is a different product from a website. Published guides put it at ₹1,50,000 to ₹10,00,000 and above, and it should always be scoped individually.
What moves the price.
Four things account for most of the difference between two quotes.
- How it is made. A template takes hours to fill in. A design drawn for your business and then written in code takes days or weeks.
- How much it does. Five fixed pages cost less than a catalogue with a cart, a payment gateway and order emails.
- Who owns the result. Some low-priced packages are annual subscriptions, and the site goes offline when you stop paying. Others hand over the files or a repository once, for good.
- What happens after launch. Some quotes include a period of support. Others end on the day of delivery.
This is why two quotes with the same number on them can describe two different purchases. Compare the model before you compare the amount.
What NexStaq charges.
We publish our prices, so here they are in the same format. Each is a fixed price for a fixed scope. Every site is designed for the business and custom-coded in Next.js, with no theme and no page builder.
| Plan | What it is | Timeline | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | A single page built to convert paid traffic. | 3–5 days | ₹4,999 |
| Professional | A complete site for an established business. | 7–14 days | ₹14,999 |
| Premium | E-commerce and larger multi-page systems. | 21–30 days | ₹39,999 |
Starter is one page, Professional is up to five pages, and Premium covers ten or more pages with a cart and payment gateway. Source code ownership is part of every plan: on final payment the repository transfers to your GitHub account. Payment is 50% to begin and 50% on delivery, and an extra revision round beyond the plan costs ₹999.
These prices sit at the lower end of the bands above. The reason is size and scope: a small studio, a fixed number of pages, and no account manager between you and the person doing the work. A project that needs a custom application or a large volume of new content is quoted separately.
The costs people forget.
The build price is paid once. A website also has running costs, and they are easy to leave out when you compare quotes.
- Domain renewal. A domain is rented by the year. Register it in your own name and account, and check the renewal price as well as the first-year price, because the two often differ.
- Hosting, where it applies. Ask whether hosting is included in the quote, whose account it sits in, and what it costs from the second year.
- Maintenance. Software updates, backups and small content changes. Published guides list ₹5,000 to ₹1,00,000 a year depending on the site. Our own retainer starts at ₹4,999 a month, and without a retainer we charge ₹999 per hour for changes after delivery.
- Payment gateway fees. If you take payments online, the gateway keeps a percentage of each transaction. The gateway charges this, whoever built the site.
- Themes, plugins and apps. On WordPress and Shopify, paid themes and add-ons are commonly licensed by the year or the month.
- Content. Writing, photography and translation are usually outside a build quote unless it says otherwise.
- Business email. Mailboxes at your own domain are a separate subscription from the website.
Questions to ask before you pay.
- Is this a one-time price or a subscription, and what will I pay in the second year.
- Is the site built from a theme or page builder, or designed and written for my business.
- Who owns the code, the domain and the hosting account, and can another developer take the site over.
- How many pages and revision rounds are included, and what does an extra one cost.
- What is the payment schedule, and what is refunded if I cancel.
- What support is included after launch, and for how long.
- Is any performance figure committed to in writing.
The last question has a concrete answer. Google measures page experience with three Core Web Vitals: Largest Contentful Paint, Interaction to Next Paint and Cumulative Layout Shift. It uses them as a ranking signal, and all three can be measured on any live page, so a seller is able to commit to a number.
How to pick a band.
Start from what the site has to do, then look at price.
- If you need to be findable this month and little else, a template package is a reasonable purchase, provided you know whether it is a subscription.
- If the site is where a customer decides whether to call you, pay for design made for your business and for pages that load quickly on a phone.
- If you sell online, choose the platform first and the price second. Our note on WordPress and custom code covers that choice.
A higher price does not by itself mean a better site, and a low price is not by itself a warning. What matters is what is being made, who owns it afterwards, and what it costs to keep.