# What a business website costs in India in 2026 Published: 2026-10-19 · Brand E5 URL: https://brande5.com/blog/business-website-cost-india/ > A small business website in India costs anywhere from ₹10,000 to over ₹1,50,000, depending on how it is built. Our landing pages start from ₹15,000 and a full business website from ₹40,000. Before you compare prices, check speed scores and who owns the domain. A business website in India in 2026 costs anywhere from ₹10,000 to well over ₹1,50,000, depending on how it is built. At Brand E5, a landing page starts from ₹15,000 and a full Business website from ₹40,000. The price matters less than two things most quotes leave out: how fast the site is, and who owns the domain. A cheap site that loads slowly and ranks nowhere is not a saving. It is a monthly cost in clients you never hear from. ## How much does a business website cost in India? The guides from Hostinger India and upGrowth give similar ranges: | Type of site | Typical range quoted in India | | --- | --- | | Simple static site | ₹10,000 to ₹25,000 | | Site with a content management system (CMS) | ₹30,000 to ₹75,000 | | Custom build | ₹1,50,000 and up | Our own prices sit inside those ranges. The [Landing page package](/pricing/) starts from ₹15,000 for one page built to bring enquiries. The Business website package starts from ₹40,000 and covers up to 8 pages, custom design, a blog ready to publish, and hosting setup with handover. What neither range tells you is what you get for the money. That is where two quotes for the "same" website can be very different things. ## What does a small business website include? For most Hyderabad small businesses, the job is a landing page and two or three inner pages, such as services, about and contact. It includes a contact form so enquiries reach you, and it includes an SEO and performance review before the site goes live. That last part is the one people skip. A site can look finished on the designer's laptop and still load slowly on a phone in Uppal on a 4G connection. We test for that before handover, not after a client complains. See what goes into the build on our [web development service page](/services/web-development/). ## Is an ₹8,000 website good enough? Many businesses pick the ₹8,000 to ₹15,000 offer from a freelancer or a "website in 3 days" ad. Our view is that this is never fine. The reason is simple. A well built website brings clients to you organically, through search. A website with poor scores can push your results down, and you lose clients you never knew were looking. The ₹8,000 site is cheap to buy and expensive to own. Google publishes the bar a site should clear. Its web.dev guidance calls a page good when, for at least 75 percent of visits: - the main content loads in 2.5 seconds or less (Largest Contentful Paint), - the page responds to a tap or click in 200 milliseconds or less (Interaction to Next Paint), - the layout moves by 0.1 or less while loading (Cumulative Layout Shift). Ask any developer to show you these three numbers for a site they have built. If they cannot, that tells you how the site will perform. ## The upgrade we see pay off most The best turnaround we have delivered was moving a business from WordPress to a React site with a content management system, optimised for faster page loads. The owner kept a CMS to edit pages and publish posts, on a site built to clear the speed bar above. ## Who should own your domain and website logins? The most common trap we see is a developer who keeps the domain access. The business pays for the site, but the domain is registered in the developer's account. It works until the owner wants to move to another developer or manage the site themselves. Then they find they are locked in. Every change, even a phone number on the contact page, has to go through the original developer. Avoid this from day one: 1. Register the domain in your business name, with an email address you control. 2. Keep the registrar and hosting logins yourself. 3. Give the developer access, not ownership, and remove it when the work ends. ## How do you compare two website quotes? Say you have two quotes, ₹20,000 and ₹60,000. Before you pick the cheaper one, check three things. **The overall cost, not the first invoice.** Ask what you will pay every year after launch: domain renewal, hosting and maintenance. A low build price with high yearly charges can cost more over three years. **The speed scores, in every place you serve.** Ask for the Core Web Vitals of a site they have already built. If your customers are across Hyderabad and Telangana, the site should be fast for them, not only for the developer's office connection. **Who owns what.** The domain, the hosting account and the admin logins should be yours, in writing. If the ₹20,000 quote passes all three, take it. If the ₹60,000 quote cannot answer them, it is not better just because it costs more. ## What yearly costs should you budget for after launch? Plan for three running costs every year: the domain renewal, the hosting, and maintenance for updates and fixes. Ask every developer to put each one in the quote as a figure, so you compare like with like. If your site will also run ads or SEO, the website is where those enquiries land. Our [digital marketing service](/services/digital-marketing/) is built around that. ## What to do next If you already have a site, run it through Google's PageSpeed Insights and note the three scores. If you are comparing quotes, send them to us and we will tell you what each one includes and leaves out. [Book a free audit](/contact/), or see the [Business website package](/pricing/). ## Questions ### How much does a small business website cost in India? Market guides put a simple static site at ₹10,000 to ₹25,000, a site with a content management system at ₹30,000 to ₹75,000, and a custom build at ₹1,50,000 and up. Our Business website package starts from ₹40,000. ### Is an ₹8,000 website good enough for a small business? In our view, no. A site with poor speed and performance scores can push your search results down, and a site nobody finds does not bring clients, whatever it cost. ### Who should own my website domain? You should. Register the domain in your own name with your own email, and give your developer access, not ownership. Otherwise any future change or move depends on them. ### What should I check when comparing two website quotes? Compare the total cost including yearly charges, the Core Web Vitals scores in every location you want to serve, and who will own the domain, hosting and logins. ### What are good Core Web Vitals scores? Google's web.dev guidance sets good as a Largest Contentful Paint of 2.5 seconds or less, Interaction to Next Paint of 200 milliseconds or less, and Cumulative Layout Shift of 0.1 or less. ## Sources - [web.dev: Web Vitals](https://web.dev/articles/vitals) - [Hostinger India: How much does a website cost?](https://www.hostinger.com/in/tutorials/website-cost) - [upGrowth: Website design cost guide in India](https://upgrowth.in/website-design-cost-guide-in-india/)