What does a professional website cost?
A professionally designed one-pager starts in the mid four-figure range with serious providers. A multi-page company website with individual design, copy and search engine optimisation typically ranges between €5,000 and €15,000. Online shops and portals start above that. What matters more than the price is the fixed quote: serious agencies name a fixed amount with a clearly defined scope before the project starts.
Why “from €99” ends up more expensive
Page-builder offers buy their low price with hidden costs: monthly fees that never end. A look that exists a thousand times. Load times that Google penalises. And when the business grows, the site does not grow with it — then everything is rebuilt, and the “cheap” entry was the most expensive option. A website is not a cost item but a salesperson working around the clock. The right question is not “What does it cost?” but “What does it bring in?”.
What really drives the price
Four factors determine the effort: scope (how many pages and languages), content (are copy, photos and films created or supplied?), functionality (forms, booking, shop, portal) and the ambition for visibility (technical SEO, local optimisation, AI findability). Saving on content is saving at the wrong end — design cannot rescue weak copy and phone snapshots.
What are the running costs of a website?
Expect domain and hosting from roughly €10–30 per month. Add maintenance: updates, backups, security and small changes — as a monthly care plan starting in the low three-figure range depending on scope. Statically built websites without plugin systems are considerably cheaper here than WordPress installations, simply because less can break.
The five questions to ask every provider
1. Do I get a fixed quote with a defined scope? 2. Are copy, images and SEO included — or added later? 3. Who owns the website in the end, and can I switch providers? 4. How fast does your own website load — and how accessible is it? 5. What happens after launch? Whoever answers these five confidently is usually the right choice — regardless of price.
Our position: we name prices before the project starts, build without page builders and deliver visibility as standard. What that means for your plans, we clarify in a free initial consultation — with an honest assessment, even if it is “not yet”.