Ask three web designers what a website costs and you’ll get three prices. One says €500. One says €3,000. One says “from €10,000”. They could all be quoting for “a five-page website”, and they could all be honest.
The prices below are the ones Irish web designers and agencies publish on their own websites. Twenty-three Irish providers and twenty-eight UK ones, all read in September 2026.
A small business website of about five pages costs roughly €400 to €1,000 from a budget designer using a template, €1,500 to €4,000 for a custom design from a small studio, and €6,000 and up from an established agency. All before VAT. An online shop starts at about €900 and runs past €20,000.
What decides where you land is less the number of pages than who does the thinking.
How much should I pay to have a website built?
These are the ranges Irish providers publish for the three levels you’ll be quoted at, before VAT.
| What you’re building | Template, set up for you | Custom design | Full agency build |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business website, about 5 pages | €400 to €1,000 | €1,500 to €4,000 | €6,000 to €12,000 |
| Online shop | €900 to €2,500 | €3,000 to €7,500 | €8,000 to €20,000 |
| Landing page | €250 to €750 | €750 to €2,000 | €2,000 to €4,500 |
Each extra page adds roughly €40 to €135 at the template end and €150 to €400 for a custom design. VAT at 23% goes on top of all of it.
Most published prices are “from” prices. Treat the low end of each range as a floor, not a promise.
Want a figure for your own site? Our free website cost calculator prices it line by line from the same published prices, then emails you a brief to send for quotes.
What’s the difference between a €500 website and a €5,000 one?
Usually, whether anyone works out what your site is for before building it.
At the template end you get a ready-made design with your logo, colours and words dropped in. It can look perfectly good. What it rarely includes is the part that makes a site bring in business: working out who your customers are, what they search for, what they need to see before they pick up the phone, and building the pages around that.
A custom design starts there. An agency build adds research, a design system of its own, and more people’s time. You pay for hours, and the hours go into the thinking as much as the build.
Neither is wrong. A new business testing an idea doesn’t need a €6,000 site. A company that wins €5,000 jobs from its website shouldn’t be on a €500 template.
How much does a website cost per month?
Less than the build, but it never stops. Hosting, security updates and backups for a small business site run from about €25 to €80 a month in Ireland. Online shops cost more to look after, because there’s more to keep patched and more to lose if it breaks.
Our own plans are €24.99, €59.99 and €99.99 a month. Then there are the extras your site runs on: your domain name, email accounts, and any software behind your features. A booking system, for example, typically costs €15 to €80 a month on its own.
Put the build and a year of running costs together before you choose. It’s the number your budget actually has to cover.
How much should a website cost in the UK?
The same three levels, in sterling, from what UK designers and agencies publish.
| What you’re building | Template, set up for you | Custom design | Full agency build |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business website, about 5 pages | £300 to £900 | £1,500 to £4,000 | £6,000 to £15,000 |
| Online shop | £700 to £2,000 | £2,500 to £7,500 | £8,000 to £20,000 |
| Landing page | £150 to £500 | £500 to £1,500 | £1,500 to £4,000 |
UK VAT at 20% goes on top. Care plans from UK designers run from about £25 to £100 a month, more from agencies.
What pushes the price of a website up?
Three things: pages, words and features.
Words are the one people forget. A copywriter charges about €100 to €300 a page in Ireland and £200 to £600 in the UK. Leave the words until last and they’re what holds the whole site up.
Features are priced one by one. Here’s what Irish and UK providers publish for each, at the custom design level.
| Add-on | Ireland | UK |
|---|---|---|
| Online booking | €300 to €1,000 | £300 to £1,000 |
| Taking payments or deposits | €300 to €800 | £200 to £800 |
| Members area or client login | €500 to €1,500 | £500 to £1,500 |
| CRM or email marketing link | €300 to €1,000 | £300 to £800 |
| A second language | €500 to €1,500 | £500 to £1,500 |
| SEO set-up at launch | €500 to €2,000 | £400 to £2,000 |
| Photography, half a day | €450 to €950 | £400 to £750 |
| A short promotional video | €1,500 to €4,000 | £1,500 to £3,500 |
| Logo and brand identity | €2,000 to €3,500 | £2,000 to £6,000 |
Shops add two more costs. Someone has to add every product, with its photos, description, price and stock. And a big catalogue needs proper categories and filters, which is a job of its own.
How long does it take to build a website?
A template site can be live in a week or two. A custom business site takes about 3 to 6 weeks. An agency build or a large shop takes 6 to 16.
What holds most sites up isn’t the build. It’s waiting for words and photos. Have yours ready, or budget for someone to write them, and the date you were given becomes a date you’ll hit.
Can I get a grant for a website in Ireland?
Not the way you once could. The Trading Online Voucher closed in December 2024.
The Grow Digital Voucher from the Local Enterprise Offices is a 50% grant, from €500 to €5,000, towards new software. Its guidance says it doesn’t cover a website designed and built for you. Check the current rules with your Local Enterprise Office before you plan a budget around either.
Can you build a website for free?
You can build one yourself on a website builder, and most offer a free plan. Free plans usually put the builder’s name in your web address and its branding on your pages, so most businesses move to a paid plan quickly.
Doing it yourself costs time instead of money. That’s a fair trade when you’re starting out. It stops being fair when the site has to win work against competitors who paid someone to build theirs properly.
How much is a fair price for a website?
One that matches the work in it. And the only way to tell is to compare quotes that are for the same job.
That’s harder than it sounds. One quote includes the copywriting and the next doesn’t. One sets up your Google Business Profile and your search basics, another leaves them out. The cheapest quote often looks cheapest only because it skipped the hard parts.
So send every designer the same brief: your pages, the features you need, who’s writing the words, and what the site has to do for the business. The website cost calculator writes that brief for you. Our guide to choosing a web designer has the questions to ask on the call.
The site is the first cost. Being found is the second, and it’s the one most budgets forget. Our guide to SEO costs in Ireland covers what to set aside after launch and what each band buys.
Questions people ask about website costs
How much does a basic website cost in Ireland?
For about five pages on a template, Irish designers publish prices from roughly €400 to €1,000 before VAT. A custom design for the same five pages is about €1,500 to €4,000.
How much does an ecommerce website cost?
In Ireland, from about €900 to €2,500 on a template, €3,000 to €7,500 for a custom shop, and €8,000 to €20,000 for an agency build, before VAT. Adding the products is usually extra.
Is €5,000 too much for a website?
Not for a custom-designed business site with its words written for it, or for a small shop. It’s a lot for a template. Ask what the price includes, line by line, and compare it with the ranges above.
Do I have to pay VAT on a website?
If your web designer is VAT-registered, yes: 23% in Ireland, 20% in the UK. Most published prices leave it out, so check before you compare. A VAT-registered business can usually reclaim it.
Is web design still worth it in 2026?
If customers find you online, yes. Your website is where search, ads, social posts and AI answers all send people. A good one turns those visits into enquiries, and a poor one wastes every euro spent getting them there.
Want a price for your own website?
Ranges only go so far. Your price depends on what the site has to do.
Run it through the website cost calculator for a line-by-line estimate, or tell us about the project and we’ll give you a fixed price, itemised, before any work starts.
