How much does a small business website cost in India in 2026?
Quick answer
In India in 2026, a small-business website typically costs ₹5,000–₹50,000 for a one-time build (freelancer to agency), plus ₹1,000–₹10,000/year for hosting and ₹800–₹1,500/year for a domain. A fully managed service that builds, hosts, and maintains the site runs about ₹2,000–₹3,000/month with no separate hosting bill.
The short answer
A small-business website in India in 2026 has three cost buckets: the build (one-time), hosting (recurring), and ongoing changes (recurring or per-edit). What you pay depends mostly on who does the work and how much of it is ongoing.
What each option costs
| Option | Build | Hosting/year | Ongoing edits |
|---|---|---|---|
| DIY builder (Wix, GoDaddy) | ₹0 | ₹6,000–₹15,000 | You do it |
| Freelancer (WordPress) | ₹8,000–₹25,000 | ₹3,000–₹8,000 | ₹500–₹2,000/change |
| Agency | ₹40,000–₹2,00,000+ | ₹10,000+ | Retainer |
| Managed service | Included | Included | Included in monthly |
The hidden costs nobody mentions
- Maintenance. A WordPress site needs plugin updates, security patches, and backups. Skip them and you get hacked; pay someone and it's ₹1,000–₹3,000/month.
- "Small" changes. Freelancers charge per edit. Updating a phone number can cost ₹500 and take three days.
- Downtime. Cheap shared hosting goes down. Lost leads cost more than the hosting saved.
How to think about total cost
Don't compare build prices — compare three-year total cost of ownership. A ₹10,000 freelancer site with ₹1,500/month of edits and ₹6,000/year hosting is roughly ₹80,000 over three years, and you still manage the headaches. A managed service at ₹2,000/month is ₹72,000 over three years with hosting, security, backups, and edits included.
Where Manage Your Web fits
We're the managed option: we rebuild your site on a fast, secure modern stack, host it, and maintain it — and you manage day-to-day content (leads, jobs, products) yourself from a simple dashboard. Flat ₹2,000/month for the first 50 businesses, no separate hosting bill, no per-edit charges.
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