How much does a website cost in Ireland?

Most small business websites in Ireland cost between a few hundred euro and a few thousand. A simple one-page site runs from roughly €300 to €1,500. A small business site of a few pages is usually €1,500 to €5,000. An online shop runs from about €2,500 to €20,000, and a custom build from €5,000 to €50,000 or more. What moves the price is how many pages you need, whether you write the words and supply the photos yourself, and whether you want extras like online booking or card payments. For comparison, our own prices are €700 for a single page, €1,500 for up to five pages, and a quote for anything custom, all before VAT.

That is the short answer. The rest of this guide breaks down where the number comes from, what you should get for it, how to spend less without buying junk, and how to spot a price that will cost you more later.

A quick price overview

The ranges above come from the published prices of eight Irish web design firms, checked in July 2026, alongside our own quoting.

Where we sit: €700 for a single page, €1,500 for up to five pages, custom quoted. All prices are before VAT.

These are working ranges for a professionally built site, not a free DIY builder. Prices climb with pages, features and how much of the work you hand over. Here is what each of those does to the number.

What actually decides the price

Five things move the cost of a website more than anything else.

Pages. A one-page site is quick to design and build. A ten-page site is not. More pages means more layout, more copy and more testing.

The words. If you write your own copy, you save money. If you want it written for you, that is a real service with a real cost, usually charged per page.

The photos. Good photography lifts a site. You can supply your own, use paid stock, or pay for a shoot. A shoot is the priciest option and often the right one.

Features. A brochure site that shows your business is one thing. Taking bookings, selling products, or letting customers log in is another. Each feature adds design and build time.

Custom versus template. A template is cheaper and looks like a template. A site designed around your business costs more and works harder. Most of the price gap between a cheap template build and a €6,000 custom site is here.

One-off versus ongoing is the last piece, and the one people forget. A website has a build cost and then smaller running costs every year. We cover those further down.

Website types and typical prices in Ireland

The one-page site (about €300 to €1,500)

One clear page that says who you are, what you do and how to reach you. Right for a sole trader, a single event, a promotion, or a first web presence. It will not rank for much on its own, but it gives you a real, findable home online and something to put on a card or a van.

Our single page is €700 before VAT. You supply the words and we polish them, we handle the design, the contact form, visitor stats and security, and it is ready in about 5 working days once we have your content.

The small business site (about €1,500 to €5,000)

A few pages, usually up to five or so: a home page, your services, an about page, contact, maybe a gallery or reviews. This is the right size for most local businesses. Room to lay out what you do, tell your story, and give a customer enough to trust you before they call.

Our up-to-five-pages site is €1,500 before VAT. At this size we can write the copy for you, do the SEO on every page plus your local area, and set up your Google Business listing so you show on the map. Ready in about 10 working days once we have what we need.

What €3,500 looked like in practice. Euroconcrete are a Cork construction firm we rebuilt in 2024. Their old site was years out of date and full of bugs, spam was coming through it, nothing on it had ever been optimised, and it showed a fraction of what the business had grown into. We built a new one around the full range of work they do now. We wrote the content and made the graphics. We connected it to Google properly and optimised every page for the searches they want to turn up in. Sean runs a busy company and had little time to give it: he approved the copy, we launched, and that was the extent of it on his side. We still look after the foundations underneath. That build was €3,500 in 2024.

The online shop (about €2,500 to €20,000 and up)

Selling online adds a lot: product pages, a basket, payments, stock, delivery and tax. The range is wide because a shop with ten products is a different job from one with a thousand. This sits in our custom tier, quoted to what you actually need, so you are not paying for a scale you do not have.

The custom build (about €5,000 into five figures)

Bookings, customer logins, members’ areas, or anything built around how your business runs rather than a fixed shape. This is quoted from scratch. If a fixed package would force your business into the wrong shape, this is the honest route.

What you get at each of our prices

Ranges are useful, but you buy a specific thing. Here is exactly what lands at each of our tiers, side by side.

All prices before VAT. Logo, branding and photography are optional add-ons on any tier. Full detail and live examples are on our web development page.

What you should get for the money

Whoever you hire, a fair small business build should include all of this as standard, not as extras bolted on later:

• A custom design in your brand, not a template with your logo dropped in.
• A site that works on a phone, since most of your customers are on one.
• The basic on-page SEO done right, so Google can read the site and match it to searches.
• A contact form that actually reaches you.
• Visitor stats (Google Analytics) so you can see what is working.
• Security (an SSL certificate, the padlock in the address bar), which modern hosting includes for free.
• Ownership, the one people miss.

You should own your website, your web address and your hosting, all in your name. This is where digital foundations earns its keep: the accounts your business runs on, set up properly and kept in your name. If a builder keeps them in their account, you do not own your site, you rent it, and you cannot leave without starting again. We set everything up in your name and hand it over. You can manage the foundations yourself, or we look after them for you. Nothing is marked up either way.

Doing it yourself, a freelancer, or an agency

Three ways to get a site built, and the honest trade-offs.

Do it yourself. Cheapest up front. The main platforms start at roughly €12 to €25 a month on an annual plan, more if you pay monthly, and more again on a shop plan once transaction fees are counted. What that price leaves out is your time: the hours learning the tool, then the hours doing a job nobody is paying you for. Time is money, and on a DIY build you pay in both. The three big names:

Wix is the all-rounder. Easy to start, drag and drop, thousands of templates. Fine for a very simple site, but the result tends to look like everyone else’s, and it can be a fight to make it fast and findable.

Squarespace leans on design. The templates look sharp out of the box, which is its selling point. The catch is the same one: it is a template, so it is polished but not really yours, and you are inside their walls.

Shopify is built for shops. If selling online is the whole point, it does that job well. But the monthly fee plus transaction fees add up, and the running cost never stops.

All three have the same quiet cost: a subscription you pay forever, and a site you never fully own or control. Fine for testing the water. Rarely where a growing business stays.

A freelancer. Cheaper than an agency and often very good. In Ireland, expect somewhere around €500 to €1,000 for a single-page site. The risk is capacity and continuity: one person, so if they get busy or move on, you can be left waiting or stranded.

Cheaper again usually means a freelance marketplace like Upwork, and that is where the trouble starts. You are hiring someone whose work you cannot easily check, to build something you may not be able to judge yourself. The bigger problem comes later. Once the job is delivered and the invoice is paid, there is a good chance you never hear from that builder again, and a website is not a thing you need only once. Ask who you ring in six months when something breaks.

An agency. More money, and you get a team, a process, and someone still there in a year. The catch is the big shop that quotes you five figures and a six-month wait for what is, in the end, a five-page brochure site.

We are a small Irish agency, which is the middle ground on purpose: the full service and the continuity of an agency, without the glass-office price. New and hungry, so we try harder and charge less than the big shop.

What about the AI website builders?

You can get a site live in an afternoon with one. Getting a site you would put your name to takes a good deal longer, and the gap between those two things is judgement, not software.

I have built with Blink, ChatGPT and Claude, and the first impression is genuinely striking. What they do now was not possible two years ago. Then you try to actually publish one, or push past the design it hands you first, and the same faults start showing up over and over: pages that look right and sell nothing, structure that reads well to a person and badly to Google, and the same handful of patterns repeated from whatever the tool learned on.

The honest part is that spotting those faults takes practice. I spent years pulling websites apart, laying out ad grids, working out why one subscription page earns and the next one does not. Without that, a first draft looks finished. With it, you can see straight away what needs to go back. That is the bit an owner learning on the job does not have yet, and it is the bit that decides whether the site earns anything.

So we use these tools every day, with our own experience loaded behind them, so they are told what good looks like before they start rather than after. That is a large part of why our prices and our turnaround times read the way they do further up this page. The tools move every month, and the genuinely interesting part is what that opens up: work that used to need a multinational’s budget is landing within reach of a business on a main street in Cork.

The costs that carry on after launch

The build is a one-off. A few smaller costs run every year, and a straight builder tells you about them up front.

Your web address (domain), from about €15 a year, more for a premium name. Hosting, usually €50 to €200 a year for a small business site. Security (SSL) is normally included free with modern hosting, whatever some quotes tell you. And changes: text edits, a new photo, a price update.

How changes are handled is where builders differ. Some charge a monthly retainer whether you use it or not. Some lock you into their platform so only they can touch the site. We do managed edits: you send us the change, we make it, and there is no monthly lock-in. You own the site, so you are never trapped.

Getting found locally in Cork and beyond

A cheap site has one failure that costs the most: nobody finds it. When someone searches “electrician near me” or “physio in Cork”, Google shows the businesses it trusts locally, on the map and in the results. A template nobody optimised does not show up, so the phone stays quiet and you never see why.

Being found locally is its own job. It runs on your Google Business listing, consistent details across the web, a page that actually mentions where you work, and reviews. We set the Google Business listing up on the five-page tier, and local SEO is a service in its own right for businesses that live or die on local searches. If most of your customers are within an hour of you, this matters more than a fancy homepage.

Why the cheapest quote can cost you more

A cheap site is easy to sell and expensive to own. Here is where the low quote gets its money back.

The cheap site is a template everyone else has, built once and forgotten. Whoever set it up in 2016 has moved on, and so have your customers. It is invisible on Google, because nobody did the SEO, so the phone stays quiet. It is built on the builder’s account, not yours, so the day you want to leave you find you own nothing and start again. And the real ones sting: a monthly fee for a site that never changes, or a fee to make the smallest edit.

The cheapest site is often the one you pay for twice. Paying a fair price once, for a site you own and can be found on, is cheaper over three years than a bargain you rebuild in one.

How to get a good site for less

Spending less does not have to mean buying junk. A few honest ways to keep the price down without regretting it:

Write your own words, or at least draft them. Copy is one of the biggest line items. If you know your business, a rough draft we polish saves you real money.

Supply your own photos. A good phone camera and a bit of daylight go a long way. Pay for a shoot only where it counts.

Start smaller and grow. You do not need ten pages on day one. A tight one-pager or a five-page site now, with room to add later, beats an oversized site you half-fill.

Skip the features you do not need yet. No online shop if you do not sell online yet. No booking system if the phone works fine. Add them when the need is real.

Buy the tier that fits, not the biggest one. The right size done well beats a bigger site done thin. Tell your builder your budget and let them steer you, a good one will.

Questions to ask before you hand over money

Before you pay anyone, get straight answers to these. A good builder answers all of them without flinching.

• Do I own the website, the domain and the hosting, in my name?
• Is it a custom design or a locked template?
• Is basic SEO included, so I can actually be found?
• Do I get a contact form, visitor stats and security as standard?
• How many rounds of changes are included while you build?
• What happens after launch: how do edits work, and is there a monthly lock-in?
• Can I see a real, live example of your work?

If the answers are vague, the price probably is too.

What we charge, and what you own

We show our prices instead of hiding them behind a call. Three options, web development only:

Single page, €700 before VAT. One clear page, your content polished by us, form, stats and security, ready in about 5 working days.

Up to five pages, €1,500 before VAT. Room for your services and your story, copy we can write for you, SEO on every page plus your local area, and your Google Business listing set up. Ready in about 10 working days.

Custom, quoted. Online shops, bookings, logins, anything built around your business. We scope it with you.

Every project is the same on the things that matter. Half to book your slot, half when the site goes live. You own the site, the domain and the hosting, all in your name, nothing marked up. And you can see a live example before you decide, rather than picturing it from a list.

We are a small Irish agency, and we have built sites for a West Cork newspaper, a concrete supplier, an artist and a sports brand.

See the full details and live examples on our web development page, or book a quick call and we will give you a straight price.