Understand what a website really costs: honest price ranges for builders, freelancers and agencies, the most important cost factors and the hidden costs hardly anyone tells you about upfront. So you know what is fair before you hire anyone.
The wide range has a reason: the price depends on who builds and what gets built. A builder costs a few euros a month, but you do everything yourself. A freelancer builds an individual business website usually for 1,500 to 5,000 euros. An agency often charges 5,000 to 20,000 euros or more for the same project, because project managers, meetings and overhead are paid along. In the end, what matters is not the price, but whether the website brings inquiries. A cheap website nobody finds is more expensive than a fair investment that generates customers.
All price ranges honestly broken down. So you can judge which offer is fair and which is overpriced or too cheap to be good.
Wix, Jimdo or AI tools like Durable. Cheap and fast, but you invest your own time, are technically limited and rarely get found on Google. Fine for hobby projects; for a business that needs inquiries usually the most expensive solution, because it brings none.
An experienced freelancer builds you an individual business website with 4 to 6 pages. Direct contact, fair prices, personal support. Quality varies a lot though, so it pays to look at real references and whether SEO is genuinely part of the thinking.
A business website that gets found on Google and brings inquiries starts at YG MEDIA from 1,500 euros at a transparent fixed price. Strategy, individual design, SEO and technology from one source. More complex projects with multiple languages or shop integration cost accordingly more, and you learn that upfront, not afterwards.
Agencies deliver good work, but you pay for the whole system: project managers, meetings, coordination loops and office overhead. Sensible for corporations with big projects. For small and mid-sized businesses the value for money is rarely optimal.
Two websites can look the same on the outside and still be ten times apart in price. The difference is in the work you do not see: strategy, search engine optimization, clean technology and content that sells.
Once you understand which factors drive the price, you immediately recognize whether an offer is fairly calculated or whether someone is selling a template at a premium price. To see how such a website is built in practice, visit the web design page.
A website with 5 pages costs less than one with 20. Booking tools, multiple languages, shop integration or custom calculators increase the effort and thus the price.
An adapted template is done in hours. A design that truly communicates your brand needs a concept, drafts and refinement. This is exactly where the visible quality difference is made.
Copy that sells and a structure that ranks on Google are real work. Websites without SEO are cheaper, but invisible. That is the most common reason why cheap websites bring no inquiries.
Hosting at 5 to 30 euros per month, the domain at 10 to 20 euros per year, plus possibly maintenance, plugin licenses and copywriting. Serious offers name these items upfront, not on the first invoice.
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