How much does a website cost in Nepal? An honest guide for 2026

If you have asked around for website quotes in Nepal, you have probably heard everything from NPR 10,000 to several lakhs, often for what sounds like the same thing. That gap is confusing, and it makes people either overpay or buy something so cheap it ends up useless.

We build websites for a living, so we have an interest here. Even so, this guide tries to be straight with you: what actually decides the price, what you will keep paying every year, and where it makes sense to spend less.

The short answer

For most small and medium businesses in Nepal in 2026, a properly built website costs somewhere between NPR 25,000 and NPR 90,000 as a one-time project. Online stores and custom systems cost more. Anything far below that range usually cuts corners you will pay for later.

Type of website	Typical range (NPR)	Good for
Simple business site 4 to 6 pages, contact form	25,000 – 50,000	Shops, clinics, consultants, restaurants that mainly need to be found and trusted
Larger business site 10+ pages, booking or inquiry systems, blog	50,000 – 90,000	Hotels, schools, agencies, companies with several services
Online store products, cart, eSewa or Khalti payments	80,000 – 150,000+	Retailers selling online with delivery
Custom web application dashboards, user accounts, your own workflow	150,000 and up	Businesses replacing manual registers and Excel with their own system

These are honest market ranges, not our price list. Some good developers charge less, some agencies charge more. The point is to give you a sense of what is normal, so a quote of NPR 3 lakhs for a five-page brochure site rightly raises your eyebrows.

What actually decides the price

1. How many pages, and what they do

A page that just shows text and photos is cheap. A page that does something, such as taking bookings, calculating prices, or letting customers log in, takes real development time. When you compare quotes, compare what the pages do, not how many there are.

2. Custom design versus a template

A template is a ready-made design with your logo and text placed into it. It is faster and cheaper, and for many businesses it is genuinely enough. A custom design is drawn for your business from scratch and costs more. Be careful of one thing only: paying custom prices for template work. Ask to see what the developer built before, and you will know quickly which one you are getting.

3. Who writes the content

Many projects stall for weeks because nobody wrote the text. If the developer writes your content and prepares your photos, expect that work in the price. If you provide everything ready, the price should reflect that too.

4. Who you hire

A student or part-time freelancer may charge NPR 10,000 to 15,000. An established agency may charge two or three times what a small studio charges, partly for their process and partly for their office. A small professional studio sits in between. Each option can be right; we cover the trade-offs below.

The running costs nobody mentions

A website is not a one-time purchase. Plan for these every year:

• Domain name, your www address: roughly NPR 1,500 to 2,500 per year for a .com, and around NPR 1,000 for a .com.np (which is free for registered Nepali companies but takes paperwork).
• Hosting, the server your site lives on: anywhere from NPR 3,000 to 15,000 per year depending on the site. Many modern small business sites can run on fast global hosting for very little, sometimes free.
• Maintenance, if you want someone on call for updates and fixes: usually NPR 1,000 to 5,000 per month, and entirely optional for a simple site that rarely changes.

The cheap routes, and what you give up

Honest answer: not every business needs a NPR 50,000 website on day one.

• A Facebook page only. Free, and fine for a very small local business. The trade-off: you do not appear on Google search, you cannot be found by people who do not use Facebook, and your page lives on rented land with rules you do not control.
• DIY website builders such as Wix. Around NPR 25,000 to 40,000 per year in subscription fees, forever. Doing it yourself takes real time, and after three years you have often paid more than a built site would have cost, while owning nothing.
• The NPR 10,000 website. Sometimes it works out. More often the site is slow, looks like ten other sites, breaks on phones, and the person who built it is unreachable when something goes wrong. If your budget is genuinely this size, a polished Facebook and Google Maps presence is usually the better spend until you can do it properly.

Questions to ask before you pay anyone

These five questions will save you more money than any discount:

• Is the quote fixed? Get the full scope and price in writing before work starts. "We will see" becomes expensive.
• Who owns the domain and the code? The only acceptable answer is you. Domains registered in a developer's name are the most common trap in Nepal; if you ever part ways, your address goes with them.
• What exactly is included? Pages, content writing, photos, contact form, Google listing, mobile testing. Vague scope produces vague websites.
• What happens after launch? Who fixes a problem in month six, and at what cost?
• Can I see two or three sites you built? Then open them on your phone. Slow or broken on mobile means walk away, since most Nepali traffic is mobile.

When you should wait

If your business is brand new, your offering is still changing every month, and your customers all come from one neighbourhood, it is fine to start with Google Maps and a Facebook page, both free. Build the website when you know what the business is. A good developer will tell you this; a salesperson will not.