Website & Web App Cost Estimator

What goes into a website or web app price

Website and web app pricing varies so widely online that most "how much does a website cost" answers aren't useful — a $300 landing page and a $15,000 custom dashboard are both "a website." What actually drives the price is a handful of concrete factors: the type of project, how many pages or screens it needs, which features it needs (logins, payments, bookings, an admin area, and so on), how custom the design needs to be, and how fast you need it delivered.

How to use this estimator

Work through the five steps — project type, page or screen count, features, design level, and timeline — and you'll get an instant price range and a rough timeline based on your answers. The range exists because two projects with the same page count can still cost very differently depending on content complexity and how many revisions are involved; a single number would be more precise-looking but less honest.

Reading the estimate

The low end of the range assumes a relatively straightforward build of whatever you selected; the high end assumes more complexity within that same scope. "Rush" timelines cost more because compressing a project's timeline usually means dedicating more resources to it at once. None of this includes ongoing costs like hosting, a domain, or maintenance after launch — those get discussed separately once you request an exact quote.

Common mistakes when budgeting a web project

The most common mistake is budgeting for the build but not for what happens after launch — hosting, security updates, content changes, and the inevitable "can we also add..." requests that come up once real users start using the thing. The second is underestimating how much a single feature like payments, bookings, or user accounts adds to both price and timeline; these aren't cosmetic additions, they're systems with their own edge cases (failed payments, double-bookings, password resets) that have to be built and tested properly.

If you're between two project types — say, a "business website" that might eventually need a login area — it's usually cheaper to build toward that from the start than to bolt it on afterward. Worth mentioning when you request your exact quote.