₹15,000 buys a properly built five-page business website in Delhi, Noida or Gurugram — provided you supply your own text and photographs. Below ₹10,000 you’re buying a template with your details inserted; above ₹35,000 you’re paying for content to be written for you. Here is the full table, plus the yearly costs nobody puts in the quote.
Searches for low cost web design in this market have grown roughly ninefold in a year, which means a lot of people are asking this question right now and very few pages answer it with actual numbers.
The price table
| Budget | What you realistically get | Who it suits |
|---|---|---|
| From ~₹7,000/yr | Packaged template, your name and text inserted. You supply everything. No revisions, no support. Domain and hosting usually in the vendor’s account | You need a link to send and nothing more |
| ₹15,000–25,000 | 5 pages built properly, mobile-ready, working contact form and WhatsApp button, domain in your name, 2 revision rounds. You supply text and photographs | Most small businesses in NCR |
| ₹25,000–40,000 | 5–8 pages, adapted design rather than a stock template, light content help, analytics set up, some post-launch support | Businesses approaching corporate buyers or tenders |
| ₹35,000–70,000 | Content written for you, images sourced, project management, original design | You won’t write the text yourself — be honest about this |
| ₹60,000+ | Store with payments, stock and delivery integration | Selling online |
Plus every year, regardless of tier: domain ₹700–1,200 · hosting a few thousand for a small site · SSL usually free with hosting · maintenance ₹15,000–30,000 if you take a plan.
Plus 18% GST. Most quotes are stated exclusive of it, so a ₹15,000 quote is a ₹17,700 invoice. If your business is GST-registered, input credit generally makes that a cash-flow item rather than a cost — worth checking with your CA.
What “low cost” honestly excludes at ₹15,000
Not hidden. Structural — and the same at any vendor operating at this price:
- Content writing. You write the text; they place it. This is the biggest single reason ₹15,000 projects stall, so plan an afternoon for it.
- Photography. Your own phone photographs in daylight, which genuinely outperform stock images anyway.
- Unlimited revisions. Expect two rounds, stated as a number.
- Ongoing support. There’s no margin in the price for a year of small changes. Agree a per-change rate instead.
- Traffic. Building the site and getting people to it are two separate purchases.
That last point matters more than the rest combined. A site with no reach behind it behaves exactly like no site — so if your total is ₹20,000, spending ₹15,000 on the build and keeping ₹5,000 for reach beats spending all of it on a bigger site.
“Low cost” versus “cheap”: the difference that costs money
The distinction isn’t quality of design. It’s three specific terms:
| Low cost, done properly | Cheap, done badly | |
|---|---|---|
| Domain | Registered in your account | Vendor’s account |
| Scope | Named page list in writing | Verbal, “about 5 pages” |
| Payment | 20–30% advance, rest against stages you can open | Half or more upfront |
| After launch | Stated per-change rate | Nothing, and no reply |
| Backup | Handed to you | Doesn’t exist |
Every item in the left column is free. None of them requires a bigger budget. Which means you can buy at ₹15,000 and still be structurally protected — that’s the whole point of this article.
Why the ₹3,999 and ₹4,999 offers cost more later
Run the arithmetic. A domain is ₹700–1,200 a year and hosting is a few thousand. So ₹3,999 cannot include them — it’s either labour only with you paying infrastructure separately, or a page on a free builder’s subdomain, which isn’t a business address and won’t fill the website field on a vendor form or payment gateway application.
What typically follows:
- Nothing is registered in your name, so you can’t move or edit anything
- No support, so the first change request goes unanswered
- You buy again in year two, and the total exceeds one properly done build
The full breakdown of what’s inside a ₹4,999 offer goes into this in detail. The short version: buy at that tier knowingly, and register the domain yourself first.
The five things to insist on at any budget
- Register the domain yourself, before hiring anyone. ₹700–1,200 a year, ten minutes, in your own account with your own email. This is the single most valuable decision in the whole purchase — here’s why.
- Advance of 20–30%, not half.
- Payments tied to stages you can open on your phone — design approved, all pages viewable on a staging link, live.
- Written scope: named pages, revision rounds as a number, delivery date, and the year-two cost.
- GST invoice, or a written bill on letterhead if the vendor is below the registration threshold.
Getting comparable quotes
Send this identical message to three vendors. Vague enquiries produce vague answers you can’t compare:
I run [business type] in [Noida/Delhi/Gurugram]. I need these pages: Home, About, Services, Gallery, Contact. I’ll supply logo, text and photographs. I need a contact form, a WhatsApp button, and my address with a map. My budget is around ₹15,000. Please quote for exactly that, and include: total payable with GST, the year-two cost for domain and hosting, number of revision rounds, delivery date, and whether the domain will be registered in my name.
Naming the budget is what produces a fast, honest reply. A vendor who can’t work at that level will often refer you to someone who can, which is more useful than three exchanges ending in a decline. More on that.
What to do this week
- Register your domain in your own account — about ₹1,000.
- Write one page of text: what you do, services with prices, address, one reason to choose you.
- Take fifteen photographs of your real work on your phone, in daylight.
- Send the identical scope message to three NCR vendors with your budget named.
- Compare on domain ownership, year-two cost and revision rounds before price.
If you want it done the certain way
We publish the price and the year-two cost before you commit, register the domain in your name, take a 30% advance with the balance tied to stages you can open on your phone, and hand over every login at launch. If your requirement genuinely fits a cheaper packaged option, we’ll tell you that instead. WhatsApp us; we reply in about five minutes between 9am and 7pm.
Related reading
- The complete guide to your first business website in Delhi NCR
- Why is everyone suddenly searching “low cost web design”?
- What’s actually inside a ₹4,999 website offer?
- Is a ₹4,999 website the same as a ₹40,000 one?
- Overpaying or buying cheap — which should you fear?
- Afraid of overpaying? How to know a fair price
FAQ
What does low cost web design actually cost in Delhi NCR?
A properly built five-page business site where you supply your own text and photographs runs ₹15,000–25,000. Packaged template offers start around ₹7,000 a year. Add ₹700–1,200 for the domain, a few thousand for hosting, and 18% GST.
Is low cost web design bad quality?
Not necessarily. What ₹15,000 excludes is content writing, photography, unlimited revisions and ongoing support — not competence. The terms that protect you (domain in your name, small advance, stage-linked payments, written scope) are all free at any budget.
Why do ₹3,999 website offers cost more in the end?
Because a domain and hosting alone cost more than that, so the price can only cover labour or a free-builder subdomain. Nothing is registered in your name, there’s no support, and most buyers pay again in year two.
What is the cheapest safe way to buy a website?
Register the domain yourself first, reduce the scope rather than the vendor’s viability — three pages done properly beat ten done at the floor of the market — keep the advance to 20–30%, and get the page list and year-two cost in writing.
Does ₹15,000 include hosting and domain?
Sometimes for year one, often not. Ask explicitly, and ask for the year-two figure in writing — its absence from a quote is the most reliable predictor of renewal surprise.
