How much does a website cost in Pakistan?
Real numbers for 2026 — what Rs 15,000, Rs 30,000 and Rs 200,000 actually buy you, what drives the price up, and when the cheap option is genuinely the right one.
A business website in Pakistan costs between Rs 15,000 and Rs 250,000, and the spread is not arbitrary. It maps to three things: how the site is built, how many pages it has, and whether anyone is accountable after launch.
Here is what each band actually gets you.
Rs 10,000 – 20,000 — a template, filled in
At this price nobody is designing anything. A ready-made WordPress or Wix theme gets installed, your logo and text get dropped in, and it goes live. Often the developer is one person doing four of these a week.
What you get: a site that exists. For a business with no web presence at all, that is a real step up from nothing.
What you don't get: speed, ownership clarity, or anyone to call in six months. Template sites ship a lot of code the page never uses, which is invisible on office wifi and very obvious on a phone in a market. Plugin licences renew annually and often nobody tells you until something breaks.
When it's the right call: you need a presence this week, budget is genuinely tight, and the site's job is to exist rather than to sell. That is a legitimate position and no one should make you feel bad about it.
Rs 30,000 – 50,000 — a small site built properly
The design is made for your business rather than adapted from a theme. Five pages or so, written around what you actually sell.
What changes at this level: the site is built in code, so it loads fast on mobile. On-page SEO is wired in from the start — page titles, descriptions, structured data, a sitemap, Google Search Console connected. Your Google Business Profile gets set up, which for most local businesses brings more calls than the website does.
This is where most small businesses in Pakistan should land. It is enough to look credible when someone searches your name, and cheap enough that it is not a gamble.
Rs 80,000 – 150,000 — a site that does work
You need this band when the website has a job beyond existing: publishing content, ranking for search terms, capturing leads systematically.
What's added: a CMS so you can edit prices and add pages without calling anyone. A blog with proper article markup. Complete technical SEO. Analytics that tell you which pages bring enquiries. Speed tuned deliberately rather than by accident.
The jump in price is mostly the CMS and the content architecture — deciding what pages exist, how they link, and what each one is trying to rank for. That thinking is most of the value and none of it is visible in a screenshot.
Rs 150,000+ — stores, apps and custom systems
An online store with real inventory, payments and an admin panel starts around Rs 120,000. A mobile app for both platforms starts around Rs 160,000. Custom systems — booking, ERP integration, multi-vendor marketplaces — are quoted per project because the scope genuinely varies.
At this level you are not buying pages. You are buying software that runs a part of your business, and it should be quoted after a scoping conversation, not from a price list.
What actually drives the price
In our experience the cost is set by five things, roughly in order of impact:
- How it's built. Coded from scratch versus a theme. This is the biggest single factor and the one clients rarely ask about.
- Page count and content architecture. Five pages is a different project from twenty-five, and not linearly.
- Whether you can edit it. A CMS adds real work — content modelling, an admin interface, permissions.
- Integrations. Payments, inventory, WhatsApp, a CRM. Each one is a system that can fail and therefore has to be tested.
- What happens after launch. A price with no support attached is not the same product as one with 60 days of fixes included, even if the sites look identical.
Questions worth asking before you pay
These separate a serious quote from a cheap one, and they cost nothing to ask.
- Who owns the domain and hosting? The answer should be you, in your own name, with credentials handed over in writing. This is the single most common way businesses get stuck.
- Is the price fixed, or does it move? Ask what specifically is out of scope. A quote that cannot answer that is not a quote.
- What happens if something breaks in month two? Get a number of days, not a vibe.
- Can I see it before it's finished? Anyone can build on a staging link. A developer who only shows you the site at the end is managing your expectations, not your project.
- Will you show me something before I pay? We build a free working page of your project first, with your branding and content, and send you the link. Not everyone does that, but it is worth asking — it converts an argument about quality into a thing you can look at.
What we charge
For transparency, since this article would be hollow without it:
| Package | Price | Timeline |
|---|---|---|
| Starter — 3–5 pages | Rs 30,000 | 5–7 days |
| Business — CMS, blog, full technical SEO | Rs 80,000 | 2–3 weeks |
| Online store — inventory, COD, JazzCash/Easypaisa | Rs 120,000 | 3–5 weeks |
| Mobile app — Android + iOS | Rs 160,000 | 5–8 weeks |
Payment is 50% when you approve the design and 50% when the project is live. Those are complete project prices, not starting-from figures.
The honest summary
Most small businesses in Pakistan are well served somewhere between Rs 30,000 and Rs 80,000. Below that you are buying a template, which is fine if you know that is what you are buying. Above it you should be buying something that does a specific job you can name.
If you cannot name the job, the answer is usually to spend less than you were planning to.