Key answer: In 2026 a company website costs from roughly €800 (a simple template-based site) through €2,500–6,000 (a typical custom-designed company site), €6,000–18,000 (a larger site with CMS and language versions), up to €18,000–40,000+ for corporate platforms. Price is driven mainly by the scope of custom design, the number of unique page templates, features and content.
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The short answer
A company website in 2026 costs anywhere from about €800 to over €40,000 – and that range is not absurd. "A website" is as capacious a word as "a car": there's the city hatchback and there's the articulated truck. Below we break the price into its components so you know what you're actually buying.
Price ranges – what to expect
€800–2,500 – a template-based site. A ready-made theme (usually WordPress), your content and colours dropped in, a handful of pages. Sensible when the site just needs to exist and clients come by referral anyway. The limits: you look like thousands of other companies, and performance plus SEO basics are usually weak.
€2,500–6,000 – a typical company website. Custom visual design, 5–10 unique page templates, a CMS for self-service editing, sound technical optimisation and SEO foundations. For most small and mid-sized companies, this is the right shelf.
€6,000–18,000 – a larger site. Client-specific information architecture, a dozen-plus templates, language versions, a blog, integrations (CRM, newsletter, maps), structured data, tuned performance. This is where a website starts actively winning clients from search.
€18,000–40,000+ – a corporate or product platform. Research, content strategy, dedicated features, a design system, advanced integrations, multilingualism, high security and accessibility requirements.
What actually makes up the price
- Design: the biggest variable. A template costs pennies; from-scratch design with typography and micro-animations is days or weeks of a designer's work.
- Number of unique templates: every distinct page "matrix" (home, service, article, contact…) is a separate design and build.
- Features: forms are standard; search, filtering, client zones, booking or configurators raise budgets in steps.
- Content: copywriting and photography are often missing from quotes yet can be 20–30% of a sensible budget. A site without good content neither sells nor ranks.
- SEO and performance: clean structure, structured data, loading speed. In good studios this is standard; in cheap offers, a costly add-on or an omission.
- Technology: classic WordPress can be cheaper to build but dearer to maintain (updates, security). Modern static approaches (e.g. Astro with a headless CMS) reverse that ratio.
How to read agency quotes
Compare scopes, not totals. Ask every bidder to itemise: how many templates are designed, is the design custom, what about content, what exactly does "SEO optimisation" include, what are the maintenance costs. Two quotes "for a company website" differing threefold usually describe two different products.
Red flags: a price given without a conversation about your business, "free SEO", no named technology, no staging environment, silence about copyright transfer.
When a website pays for itself
A €7,000 site that generates two enquiries a week is cheap. A €1,200 site nobody finds is expensive. Start the budget conversation not with "what does a website cost" but with "what is an acquired client worth to us" – and design the site as an investment with measurable return: analytics, conversion goals and a content plan.
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