How Much Does a Website Cost in Ireland in 2026?
Based on our market observation (October 2026), a small-business website typically costs €2,500 to €6,500 one-time from an Irish agency (German agencies: €1,500 to €3,000), plus €10 to €180 a month to run. With us, a Simple Website starts at €1,300 and a Business Website at €4,000, published and excl. VAT.
Our published prices (excl. VAT):
| Package | Price | Delivery |
|---|---|---|
| Simple Website | From €1,300 | 2–3 weeks |
| Business Website | From €4,000 | 4–6 weeks |
| Web Application | From €8,500 | 6–16 weeks |
| Managed Hosting | €59–179 per month | ongoing |
What do you get for each price?
From €1,300 you get up to 5 pages with mobile-first design, SEO setup and legal pages set up from your details; from €4,000, up to 15 pages with a fully custom design and copy for your core pages. The full list, including web applications and add-ons (all prices excl. VAT):
| Service | Price | What matters about it |
|---|---|---|
| Simple website (up to 5 pages) | from €1,300 one-time | Mobile-first design, CMS available on request, SEO setup, legal pages set up from your details, contact and lead forms |
| Business website (up to 15 pages) | from €4,000 one-time | Fully custom design instead of a template, professional copy for your core pages included, integrations (booking, newsletter, CRM), bilingual EN/DE build available |
| Web application | from €8,500 one-time | Portals, booking systems, internal tools; larger web apps from €18,000 |
| E-commerce add-on | +€2,000–4,000 | Product catalogue, cart and checkout, payments and EU VAT setup |
| Managed hosting | €59–179 per month | EU servers, updates, daily backups, SSL, monitoring, depending on how much care the site needs |
Every tier with its full list of deliverables is on our pricing page. The starting prices there are published and valid before you have to talk to anyone.
What do agencies, freelancers and website builders charge?
Irish agencies typically charge €2,500 to €6,500 for a small-business build, German agencies €1,500 to €3,000 for a solid SMB site, freelancers €800 to €3,000; website builders cost €10 to €40 a month (list prices, July 2026), plus, by our estimate, 20 to 40 hours of your own work. The agency and freelancer ranges are our market observation (October 2026), not a counted survey. At a glance:
| Provider | Typical cost | What you get for it |
|---|---|---|
| Website builder (Wix, Jimdo etc.) | €10–40 per month (list prices, July 2026) | Technology for building it yourself; by our estimate (not a survey), your own workload comes to 20 to 40 hours. When the subscription ends, so does the website, and as a rule you cannot move it to another host. |
| Freelancer | €800–3,000 one-time | Range per our market observation (October 2026); quality and availability vary widely, and who maintains the site afterwards is often left open |
| Irish agency | €2,500–6,500 one-time | Typical small-business build, per our market observation (October 2026) |
| German agency (SMB) | €1,500–3,000 one-time | Solid SMB website, per our market observation (October 2026); copywriting and ongoing maintenance are frequently not included |
| ANET Studios | from €1,300 / from €4,000 | Published starting prices, fixed in your quote, copywriting included in the Business tier, and the code we write for you is 100% yours once paid |
One caveat on all market figures: these are observed ranges, not quotes. Any serious agency will give you a fixed price for your specific project after a short conversation. If someone permanently hides behind "price on request", ask what the price depends on.
Do you need an agency, or is a builder enough? We run that calculation openly in our guide Website builder or agency?: including the cases where the builder wins.
What is included in the price, and what costs extra?
An agency's one-time price usually covers design, implementation and the technical setup. Copywriting, photography and ongoing maintenance, on the other hand, often cost extra. That is exactly where the gap between the quote and the final invoice comes from. Ask every agency about this list, item by item:
Usually included in the one-time price
- Design and implementation of all agreed pages, optimised for mobile
- Contact forms and core functionality
- Technical SEO setup: sitemap, meta tags, clean page structure
- SSL encryption: in 2026 this should not cost extra anywhere
- Domain and hosting setup (running the site is then a monthly cost)
What frequently costs extra (our estimate)
- Professional copywriting: €500 to €1,500 extra depending on scope if it isn't part of the package; in our Business tier, copy for the core pages is included
- Professional photography: stock images are usually covered, a photographer at your premises is not
- Ongoing maintenance and updates: €20 to €180 a month depending on the provider
- Legally required pages: legal notice, privacy policy and a correct cookie banner are mandatory for business sites in the EU; some offers only ship placeholder text you have to fill in yourself
- Changes after launch: agree hourly rates for post-launch adjustments in writing, before you sign
The honest number to compare is therefore never the price on the first page of the quote, but the sum of the one-time price, the missing items, and two or three years of running the site.
What drives the price of a website?
Page count, a custom design instead of a template, professional copy and extra features move the price most; the most common special cases are an online shop, appointment booking, multiple languages and mandatory legal pages. Mention each of them before you ask for a quote.
- Online appointment booking: Customers book themselves instead of calling. Perfectly doable as an integration of a booking tool. We include it in the Business tier; elsewhere it is often billed as an add-on module.
- Online shop: Product catalogue, cart, payments and EU VAT handling are genuine extra work. With us, the e-commerce add-on costs €2,000 to €4,000 on top. With dramatically cheaper shop offers, check which of those points is missing.
- Multiple languages: A second language means every text twice, plus a clean technical setup (hreflang) so Google shows the right version. A bilingual EN/DE build is available in our Business tier. This very page is an example of one.
- Emergency call-out businesses: Someone searching at 2am with a burst pipe calls the first number that loads instantly on their phone and can be tapped. That doesn't necessarily cost more. It just has to be built that way from the start: load time, click-to-call, emergency number at the very top.
- GDPR and legal notices: A legal notice, privacy policy and a correct cookie banner are mandatory for business websites, not an extra. Plan them in from day one. We set them up from your details in every tier.
How much does a website cost per month?
Realistically €10 to €180 a month, depending on how much of the work you take on yourself. The items one by one:
- Domain: around €10 to €20 a year (our estimate), the smallest item.
- Hosting: basic web hosting starts at a few euros a month, but then updates, backups and security are your job. Managed hosting takes that off your plate: with us €59 to €179 a month depending on the level of care, including daily backups, SSL and monitoring.
- Maintenance and changes: Software ages, and so does content. Without care, a website gets slower, less secure and factually wrong over the years. This item costs either your time or your money: only "nothing" is not an honest option.
- Builder subscription: €10 to €40 a month (list prices, July 2026) for as long as the site should exist. When the subscription ends, so does the website, and as a rule you cannot move it to another host.
Running costs are what keep the site up. Skip them and it gets slow, then hacked, then ignored.
How long does it take to get a website online?
We deliver a Simple Website in two to three weeks, a Business Website in four to six weeks and a web application in six to 16 weeks. These are the same delivery times as on our pricing page. How fast a project actually goes depends mostly on when content, photos and approvals arrive.
Common questions about website costs
Why are agency websites so expensive?
Because you are buying working time: concept, design, copy, implementation, testing and a legally clean setup. Depending on the tier, two to six weeks of project time go into one of our websites. The better question than "what does it cost?" is "what does it bring in?" anyway: here is an example with assumed figures. A Simple Website from €1,300 plus €59 a month for hosting costs from €2,008 in year one (excl. VAT). At an assumed 15 percent margin, it pays for itself once it brings in about €13,400 of extra revenue that year, for example seven jobs of €2,000. For the Business tier, the worked example is in our trade website study.
Can I switch providers later?
With a builder, practically no: you cannot take the site with you. With agencies it depends on the contract: before signing, ask who owns the code and the content, and what a move would cost. With us, the code we write for you is 100% yours once paid in full, and the handover is free if you ever want to leave, no lock-in. If you want us to do the move to another host, we quote a fixed fee in advance.
How much does a website cost per month?
As a rule of thumb: domain plus basic hosting from around €10 a month, managed hosting with maintenance €59 to €179 (our published prices), builder subscriptions €10 to €40. If the website should actively win new customers through Google and AI search, add search engine optimisation: with us from €800 a month plus a €500 one-time setup, excl. VAT.
What about websites for trades businesses?
Trades businesses (plumbers, electricians, roofers, builders) have their own version of this question, and their own price drivers: a clearly stated service area, a phone number that works in one tap, and, if you run emergency callouts, a page that loads fast enough to matter at 2am.
The numbers above still apply directly: a simple site from €1,300, a full business site from €4,000, both including the mobile-first build and the legal pages every business site needs anyway. A few things are worth budgeting for specifically on a trades site:
- A service area and callout radius stated plainly, not buried in the footer
- A gallery of finished jobs: photos of real work usually say more than stock images
- Your Google Business Profile linked and kept current, since local search is where many trades customers start looking
Our own numbers on trade websites, from 1,097 directory listings in one German region, are in our trade website study.
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