How much does a company website cost in the EU in 2026: pages, content, languages and what you pay after launch
Website design cost depends less on the design than on four decisions: how many pages you need, who writes the copy, how many languages you publish in, and what you keep paying after launch. Published website design prices show how wide the spread is. One Dublin studio lists a six-page WordPress site at €495 plus VAT when paid in advance; another of its pages lists up to fifteen pages at €799 plus VAT, or €699 plus VAT when paid in advance. Neither number is wrong. They buy different things. Our company website starts at from €580 excluding VAT, with design, copy and launch in the price.
What a quote counts
The cost to build a website is a sum of lines, and a quote often shows only half of them. Read a web design package like a menu: the useful part is what is missing from it.
| What moves the price | What to ask |
|---|---|
| Number of pages | Is the count fixed, and what does one more page cost? |
| Copy and photos | Who writes the text, and when does the clock start? |
| Languages | Is a language a translation or an adapted version? |
| Extras | Blog, booking, payment, a shop: named in the quote, or just "available"? |
| Revisions | How many rounds, and until when? |
Pages look like the easiest line to compare and tell you the least. "Up to six" and "up to fifteen" are both honest, but you pay for the pages you fill. A company site is usually home, services, about, contact and two or three pages that exist because customers keep asking the same thing. Count yours before you ask anyone for website development costs. Six pages is tight for most service businesses.
Copy decides the timeline
Copy is where projects stall. The layout is ready, the text arrives as a Word file with the "about us" section in three versions, and the launch slips by a month. The fifteen-page Nua page is plain about it: you supply the written content, copywriting is charged separately, and delivery is "within ten working days of receiving all required content". That is a fair way to quote, as long as you read the clock correctly. The ten days start when all the required content has arrived, not when you sign.
With us the copy is in the price. We write it and send it for your review, and you check and approve. Checking a draft is a different job from writing one from nothing.
Languages and extras
A second language is where quotes differ most. Some studios count it as a translation of the same pages, others as a second set of pages with its own layout checks. We adapt the copy to the market instead of translating word for word, and we check the layout against the length of the text, because a menu that fits in English can wrap in another language.
On our company website a second language is an add-on, as are a blog and 3D effects. The price goes into the written quote before we start, and nothing is added without your consent. If 3D is on your wish list, we wrote separately about when the effect pays off and when it doesn't.
What you pay after launch
Small business website hosting is a yearly bill, and the quote rarely puts it next to the build price. On the fifteen-page package, the first year of hosting and business email is included, and the first-year domain registration too, subject to availability. After that, annual hosting renewal is €79 plus VAT, the domain renews every year at the amount in your quotation, and ongoing maintenance is charged separately.
Website maintenance cost is the line to ask about directly. Maintenance means monitoring, backups, updates and small edits. On our side it is an add-on, up to 30 minutes of small edits a month, priced in the written quote. Without it you change texts, photos and pages yourself, and we show you how. We fix bugs for 6 months after launch at no charge.
One question matters more than any price here: whose name is on the accounts. A familiar story is a freelancer who built the site and vanished, and now nobody can change a price on it. On our sites the code, domain, hosting and access are registered in your name, and if you ever want to leave, we hand everything over with instructions. Replacing an old site has its own traps, and we cover them in redesigning a website without losing your Google rankings.
Comparing two quotes
A web design quote is easy to compare when both sides list the same lines, and hard when one says "website" and the other lists thirty items. Put both into one grid before you look at the totals.
| Line | A complete quote says |
|---|---|
| Pages | A number, and the price of an extra page |
| Copy | Who writes it, and whether it is included |
| Design | Own design or a template; how many revision rounds |
| Hosting and domain | Included for how long, renewal price, whose name |
| After launch | Maintenance, bug fixes and edits: what is free and for how long |
| Timeline | What starts the clock: signing, payment or your materials |
| VAT | With or without |
Both Nua pages show prices without VAT, and the fifteen-page one states "All prices subject to V.A.T. @23%". Rates and rules differ between EU countries, so ask for the figure you will actually pay, in writing. Prices on our site exclude VAT. We put the price and timeline in writing before we start, and payment is 50/50, with the second half after acceptance.
What a custom part looks like in a quote
Stropa, a renovation company in Warsaw, has a one-page site in Polish built around a calculator. The visitor drags an area slider, picks a cosmetic, major or designer renovation, ticks extras such as new wiring or plumbing, and sees a price range in złoty with the number of weeks. Two fields, name and contact, send the request to a team chat and into the CRM. On a phone a sticky button keeps the calculator one tap away.
A calculator like this is custom work, so it should appear in a quote under its own name. On our landing page list it sits under "Quiz or price calculator", an add-on priced in writing before we start. You can open the Stropa site and move the slider yourself.
What to do today
- List the pages you would really open on a phone: home, services, about, contact, plus anything customers ask about twice. That count is your first number.
- Decide who writes the text and by what date the first draft is due. Collect the logo and the photos you already have.
- Ask each studio for the yearly bill in writing: hosting, domain renewal, edits. Ask whose name goes on the accounts.
- Ask for the total with VAT, and for what starts the delivery clock: signing, payment, or the day your materials arrive.
- Put every quote into the grid above before you compare totals.
If you'd like us to do it for you
A company website from €580, excluding VAT, takes 2–3 weeks. In the price: custom design around your brand (we take your colours and fonts, or pick them for you), a call before we start, as many pages as your business needs, copy we write and send for your review, light animations, separate design for phone and laptop, a site you edit yourself, SEO basics with Google Search Console connected, a visit counter and ad pixels, requests delivered to WhatsApp, email, a spreadsheet or your CRM, publishing on your domain, free revisions until acceptance and bug fixes free of charge for 6 months.
Why the price is lower: experienced specialists work faster with AI tools. If your business has one offer and needs one page, a landing page is from €380, and we compared what studios charge for it in landing page cost in 2026. The details are on the company websites and landing pages page.
Sources
- Nua, affordable web design: prices, pages included, hosting renewal and VAT statement, checked October 2026
- Nua, low-cost starter web design: six-page package and price, checked October 2026