How much does a website cost in 2026? Real prices, from landing page to online shop

“How much does a website cost?” is the question we hear most often, from small business owners in Botoșani to companies in Italy looking to enter the Romanian market. The honest answer is “it depends”, but an honest answer without numbers helps no one. So below we lay out the real prices we work with in 2026, what each includes, and where the costs nobody mentions at the first meeting tend to appear.

The four types of website and their prices

In practice, almost every request falls into one of the categories below. Prices exclude VAT and correspond to our public packages:

• Landing page (from 300 EUR) – a single page built for one precise purpose: an ad campaign, a product, an event. Includes custom design, contact form, WhatsApp integration and Google Analytics. Ready in 5-7 working days.
• Presentation website (from 390 EUR) – 5-8 pages (home, services, about, portfolio, contact), basic SEO, mobile version, a simple admin panel. The right choice for most service businesses. Timeline: 2-3 weeks.
• Business or corporate website (590-990 EUR) – up to 20 pages, blog, multiple languages, CRM or booking-system integration, advanced SEO structure. For companies that want to grow organically and publish content regularly.
• Online shop (from 690 EUR) – product catalogue, basket, card payments, courier and e-invoicing integration. A shop with hundreds of products, advanced filters and ERP integration sits in the 1,290-2,500 EUR range.

What drives the price difference

Two websites that look alike can differ in price by a factor of three. Here is why:

1. Content. If you arrive with copy and photos ready, you save money. If we need to produce them (copywriting, photo shoot), add 100-400 EUR, but the result is incomparable to stock images.
2. Number of languages. Each extra language costs 15-25% of the base price, because it means not only translation but a separate SEO structure, metadata and native proofreading.
3. Integrations. Online booking, payments, invoicing, CRM, newsletter – each integration adds between 50 and 300 EUR depending on complexity.
4. Custom design versus template. An adapted template is cheaper but looks like a thousand other sites. Design from scratch costs more and is what we deliver by default with the Business and Corporate packages.

The costs you discover after signing

This is where many entrepreneurs lose money. A website is not a one-off expense but an asset with running costs:

• Domain: 10-15 EUR per year for .ro or .eu.
• Hosting: 5-30 EUR per month depending on traffic. The “free lifetime hosting” some providers include usually means slow servers and no backups.
• Maintenance: security updates, backups, monitoring. Our IT Care package covers all of this from 99 EUR per month, including 2 hours of changes.
• Licences: certain premium themes or plugins are billed annually (30-100 EUR).

Always ask who owns the domain and the source code. With us, after the final payment everything belongs to you – domain, code, database, accounts. We have taken over too many websites held “hostage” by a previous supplier not to insist on this point.

Cheap website or good website?

There are 100-150 EUR offers on the market. We are not saying they are all bad, but at that price you can only get a template installed in a few hours, with no optimisation, no mobile testing and nobody answering the phone six months later. The difference between 150 and 390 EUR is the difference between “I have a website” and “my website brings me customers”.

As a reference point: for Taxi Milu we built a presentation website with quick booking, and combined with a local Google Ads campaign it brings calls every day. The total investment was recovered within the first two months.

How to choose the right option

Ask yourself three questions:

1. What do I want the visitor to do? Call, fill in a form, buy? The answer dictates the type of website.
2. How much content will I publish? If the answer is “hardly any”, you do not need a blog and a complex CMS.
3. Will I run ads? If so, a dedicated, fast, simple landing page converts better than the homepage of a large site.

If you want an exact estimate for your situation, our online calculator gives you the price in two minutes, using the same figures we put in contracts. And if you would rather talk to someone, write to us and you will receive a written quote within 48 hours.

In short

• Landing page: from 300 EUR, ready within a week.
• Presentation website: from 390 EUR, 2-3 weeks.
• Online shop: from 690 EUR, 4-6 weeks.
• Running costs: 15-45 EUR per month for domain, hosting and basic maintenance.
• Always ask for ownership of the code and the domain.

A good website is the cheapest form of commercial presence you can have: it works 24 hours a day, in any city and in any language. It deserves to be treated as an investment, not an expense.