Ask five companies what a five-page website costs in India and you will get five answers between ₹999 and ₹80,000. That is not a market with unclear pricing. It is several different products being sold under the same three words.
This guide breaks down what each price band actually delivers, which costs get left out of the quote, and how to work out which product you are being offered before you pay for it.
The short answer
| Price band | What it usually is | Sensible for |
|---|---|---|
| ₹999 – ₹5,000 | A template with your text and logo dropped in | Testing an idea, or a business that just needs an address online |
| ₹5,000 – ₹10,000 | Lightly customised template, you supply the content | A second site, a side project, a very tight budget |
| ₹10,000 – ₹25,000 | Designed for your business, content written for you, basic SEO | Most local businesses |
| ₹25,000 – ₹60,000 | Larger build, e-commerce, or a marketing team attached | Businesses selling online or running paid ads |
| ₹60,000+ | Agency team, custom software, multiple stakeholders | Companies with a marketing department |
Most small businesses in India end up somewhere in the ₹15,000 to ₹60,000 range for their first proper website. Our own five-page package sits at ₹9,999 excluding GST, which is deliberately near the bottom of the band where the site is genuinely built for you rather than assembled from a template.
What actually changes between the bands
The page count barely matters. Five pages is five pages. What moves the price is four things, and it is worth knowing which of them you are buying.
1. Whether the design is yours
At the bottom of the market you are buying a theme that has been sold to hundreds of other businesses. It will look fine. It will also look like a lot of other sites, and you will be fitting your business into its layout rather than the other way round.
A designed site starts from what you sell and who buys it. If ninety per cent of your enquiries come through WhatsApp, the WhatsApp button is the loudest thing on the page. A template cannot make that decision because it does not know your business.
2. Whether someone writes the content
This is the single most common hidden cost, and it catches almost everyone.
Most quotes assume you will supply the words. You will be sent a document with headings and asked to fill it in. Six weeks later the site is still not live because writing about your own business turns out to be hard, and the developer is waiting on you.
Ask explicitly: is the copy written for me, or am I writing it? The answer moves the real cost more than any other single line.
3. Whether it is built to be found
A website that exists and a website that gets found are different jobs. The second needs a proper page structure, unique titles and descriptions for each page, schema markup, image compression, and a site that loads fast on a mid-range Android over a patchy connection.
None of that is visible in a screenshot, which is exactly why it is the first thing dropped from a cheap quote.
4. Whether anyone is there afterwards
A site is not finished at launch. Something breaks, a price changes, a festival offer needs adding. At the cheap end there is often nobody to call, or a per-change fee that arrives as a surprise.
The costs that are not in the quote
Four recurring items are usually left out. None of them is a scam — they are simply not part of the build — but they are the reason a ₹4,000 website is rarely ₹4,000.
- GST. 18% on top of most quotes, including ours. A ₹10,000 site is ₹11,800 paid.
- Domain name. Yours annually, forever. A `.in` or `.com` typically runs a few hundred to about fifteen hundred rupees a year at ordinary registrar rates.
- Hosting. Also annual. Cheap shared hosting is genuinely cheap; the thing to check is what it renews at, because introductory rates on hosting are common.
- Content. Photography, text, product details. Either you do it or you pay someone.
Watch the renewal, not the headline. A ₹3,000 first year that renews at ₹8,000 costs more over three years than a ₹10,000 site with hosting bought at cost. Ask what year two looks like before you compare anything.
We publish our full price list for this reason, and we bill domain and hosting at cost with no markup — those two lines are where padding is easiest to hide.
When the cheapest option is the right call
It genuinely sometimes is, and an agency that tells you otherwise is selling rather than advising.
A ₹3,000 template site is a reasonable buy if you need an address online this week, if you are testing whether an idea has customers at all, or if the site's only job is to exist so people can confirm you are real. Spending ₹25,000 to find out whether anyone wants your product is worse value than spending ₹3,000 to find out.
It is the wrong call when the website is the thing that has to win the customer. If someone is choosing between you and two competitors, comparing three sites on their phone, the template will read as the least serious of the three — because it was built to be cheap, and that shows.
How to check a quote before you pay
Six questions. Any honest supplier answers all of them in a sentence each, and the answers are more revealing than the price.
- 1.Is the design a template or built for my business? Ask to see two other sites they built. If they look identical, you have your answer.
- 2.Who writes the words? If it is you, add several weeks and your own time to the real cost.
- 3.What happens in year two? Get domain, hosting and renewal figures in writing.
- 4.Do I own it? The site, the domain and the hosting account should be in your name. You should be able to leave.
- 5.How fast does it load on a phone? Ask for a PageSpeed Insights score on a site they have already built.
- 6.What happens when something breaks? A named person and a response time, or a support plan with a price on it.
What we charge, and why
Our five-page Starter package is ₹9,999, excluding GST. That includes the design, the copy written for you, mobile-responsive build, a WhatsApp enquiry button, on-page SEO basics, and thirty days of support after launch.
It is roughly double the cheapest quotes you will find, and we would rather explain the gap than pretend it is not there. The difference is that the design is yours, somebody writes the content, and the site is built to be found rather than only to exist.
Above that, Growth at ₹18,999 adds up to ten pages, a blog, full schema markup, and analytics setup; Premium at ₹24,999 adds an online store with payments. Ongoing care is optional and starts at ₹1,499 a month — the site is yours outright whether you take it or not.
Every figure above is the same number on our price list. We do not quote one price in an article and a different one on a call.
If you are in Telangana
We build from Mahabubnagar. If you are nearby, there are two more specific versions of this guide: website design cost in Mahabubnagar and website design cost in Hyderabad, both with the local market rather than the national average.
You can also just look at what we have built — every project links to the live site, so you can open them on your phone and judge the work before speaking to anyone.
Frequently asked
How much does a 5-page website cost in India in 2026?
Realistically ₹8,000 to ₹35,000 for a custom-designed five-page site from a small agency. Below about ₹5,000 you are buying a template with your details typed into it. Above ₹50,000 you are usually paying for a larger team rather than more website. Growth Masala's five-page Starter package is ₹9,999, excluding GST.
Why do some companies advertise a 5-page website for ₹3,000?
Because the design is a template reused across hundreds of customers, the content is filler text you are expected to replace yourself, and the headline price often covers the first year only. Those are real businesses selling a real product — it is just a different product from a site designed around what you actually sell.
What is not included in a website quote?
Usually four things: GST, the domain name, hosting, and the writing. Domain and hosting are annual costs that continue forever, and content is the item most often assumed to be the customer's job. Always ask which of the four are in the number you have been given.
Do I have to pay monthly for a website?
Not for the build. A website package should be a one-time payment and the site should be yours outright. Ongoing care — backups, security patches, content edits — is a separate optional cost; ours starts at ₹1,499 a month and you can decline it.
Is a 5-page website enough for a small business?
For most local businesses, yes. Home, About, Services, a proof page such as gallery or testimonials, and Contact will cover what nearly every visitor came to check. Add pages later when you know which questions people keep asking — extra pages cost ₹1,000 each with us.