Website Development Cost Calculator (2026)

How this estimate is built

The calculator adds nothing you can't see. The range is the base range for the complexity you pick, plus the features you tick, multiplied by the factor for where the team is based. Results are rounded to the nearest $500.

Example: a Standard website with no extra features, built by a team charging the global average, comes out at $4,000 – $15,000. Complex scope with all six features and a North American team comes out at $25,500 – $82,500.

The ranges are Vitasoft’s own editorial model, not quotes from vendors. We publish every number so you can check the model against market data and against the proposals you get.

What the estimate covers, and what it leaves out

It covers designing and building the site with the features you tick. These sit outside it:

• Domain, hosting and paid plugins or themes, billed monthly or yearly. Register the domain in your company’s name (who owns your code, domain and ad accounts).
• Content: writing, photography and translation, unless the quote names them.
• Work after launch: updates, security patches and changes.

If users will log in to their own data, you’re pricing a web app, not a website. Web app or website? explains the line, and the custom software calculator prices that side.

What a maintenance plan should cover

A site keeps costing money after launch, and a care plan is how most vendors sell that work. Before you sign one, check that it names:

• updates to the CMS, theme and plugins, and who tests the site after each one;
• security patches, backups, and a restore you’ve seen tested at least once;
• uptime monitoring and the response time when the site goes down;
• how many hours of small changes are included, and the rate after that;
• who renews the domain, hosting and SSL certificate, in whose name.

A plan that lists none of these is a monthly fee with no defined work.

What changes with a redesign

A redesign of a site that already ranks adds work a new build doesn’t have: moving content, and redirecting every old address that changes. Google recommends permanent redirects such as 301 or 308, and keeping a map of old URLs to new ones; it says a small to medium-sized site can take a few weeks for most pages to move (Google Search Central, updated 2026-08-20). Ask the vendor whether the redirect map is in the quote, and who checks it after launch. What’s normal after a relaunch covers the first weeks.

How the ranges compare with market data

Clutch, which bases its figures on client reviews of the firms it lists, says web development projects there typically cost less than $10,000 (Clutch, updated September 21, 2026). That band overlaps our Basic tier and the lower half of Standard. Clutch’s category mixes simple sites with larger builds, so treat it as a direction, not a price for your project.

Using the estimate with a real quote

Line up the quote against the feature rows above and ask for a price per feature and a written list of what’s excluded. Software development contract: what “done” means covers acceptance and warranty, and vendor pricing models compared covers fixed price versus hourly. Then compare web development companies in our rankings.