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If you've ever asked a web developer in Kathmandu "how much for a website?" and gotten the classic "it depends," this post is for you.
Website pricing in Nepal is famously opaque. Some agencies quote NPR 15,000 for a "professional business website." Others quote NPR 5,00,000 for what sounds like the same thing. Both are telling the truth — they're just selling completely different products.
This guide breaks down real 2026 pricing ranges for website development in Nepal, what actually drives the cost, and the questions you should ask before signing any contract. No upselling, no vague consultant-speak. Just numbers.
Three factors push the price up or down by 10x or more:
1. What's actually being built. A static 5-page brochure site takes 20 hours of work. A custom e-commerce platform with inventory, payments, and a customer dashboard takes 400+ hours. Same word ("website"), wildly different projects.
2. Who's building it. A freelancer working from home has zero overhead and can charge NPR 500/hour. An established agency with full-time designers, developers, project managers, and a Durbarmarg office needs to charge NPR 2,500+/hour to stay in business. Neither is "ripping you off" — they're different service tiers.
3. What happens after launch. A NPR 25,000 website often comes with no maintenance, no security updates, and no phone support when it breaks. A NPR 2,50,000 website includes all of that for a year. You're not just buying code — you're buying a relationship.
With that context, here are the actual ranges for 2026.
What you get: A 5-to-10 page website built on WordPress with a pre-made template. Standard pages: Home, About, Services, Contact, maybe a basic blog. Mobile-responsive. Contact form. Basic on-page SEO setup.
Who builds it: Freelancers, small studios, or junior developers looking to build a portfolio. Turnaround is usually 2–4 weeks.
Who it's right for: Local businesses who need a digital business card. Restaurants, small clinics, consultants, single-practitioner law firms. Anyone whose customers will call them, not buy from them online.
What you should watch out for:
Honest verdict: If budget is tight and you just need a working website, this tier is fine. Just go in with eyes open about the limitations.
What you get: A custom-designed website, not a template. Usually 10–20 pages. Professional UI/UX design process (wireframes, mockups, revisions). Custom integrations like newsletter signup, advanced contact forms, Google Analytics, Meta Pixel, basic SEO optimization, and Core Web Vitals work. Built on WordPress, Webflow, or increasingly Next.js.
Who builds it: Established agencies, mid-tier studios, or experienced freelancers. Turnaround is 6–10 weeks with proper discovery, design, and revision phases.
Who it's right for: SMEs that take their digital presence seriously. B2B service companies, medium clinics, mid-size retailers with a physical presence, professional services firms, agencies showcasing their work.
What drives the cost within this range:
Honest verdict: This is the sweet spot for 80% of serious Nepali businesses. Enough custom work to look professional and perform well, without enterprise overhead.
What you get: A fully custom platform. This is where we stop calling it a "website" and start calling it a "product." Examples: an e-commerce store with 500+ SKUs, a booking platform, a SaaS dashboard, a multi-vendor marketplace, a fintech customer portal, an LMS for an educational institution.
Standard inclusions:
Who builds it: Established agencies with full-stack teams, specialized SaaS studios, or dedicated development shops. Turnaround is 3–9 months with proper project management.
Who it's right for: Funded startups, scaling e-commerce businesses, established enterprises digitizing operations, any business whose website IS the product (not just a marketing channel).
What drives the cost within this range:
Honest verdict: If you're in this tier, don't shop on price alone. The gap between a NPR 3 lakh job and a NPR 8 lakh job is often the difference between a platform that crashes at 50 concurrent users and one that scales to tens of thousands.
What you get: Multi-year engagements with dedicated teams. Custom ERP systems, large-scale marketplaces, banking platforms, government digitization projects, multi-country SaaS products. These are less "website projects" and more "technology partnerships."
Who builds it: Top-tier Nepali agencies with 20+ engineers, or international firms with local operations.
Honest verdict: If you're in this bracket, you already have internal IT leadership evaluating vendors. This post isn't your guide — RFPs are.
Whatever tier you're in, these recurring costs usually aren't in the initial quote:
Domain registration: NPR 1,500–2,500/year for a .com.np; NPR 1,200–1,800/year for a .com. Renewal is forever — never let this lapse or you may lose the domain.
Hosting: NPR 3,000–15,000/year for shared hosting, NPR 30,000–1,50,000/year for cloud hosting with real performance. Vercel and Netlify have free tiers that work well for smaller sites.
SSL certificate: Usually free via Let's Encrypt (reputable agencies include this). Some still try to charge NPR 5,000+/year — politely decline.
Content creation: If you need professional copywriting, product photography, or translation into Nepali, budget an additional NPR 25,000–2,00,000 depending on scope. This is often the biggest unexpected line item.
Maintenance: Serious websites need monthly maintenance — security updates, backups, performance monitoring, content updates. Budget NPR 5,000–50,000/month depending on complexity. Skipping this is how websites get hacked or break silently.
Third-party services: Email sending (SendGrid, Mailgun), monitoring (Sentry, LogRocket), CDN (Cloudflare), SMS gateways. Usually NPR 2,000–20,000/month combined for a serious business site.
When you receive a proposal, here's what separates real quotes from red flags:
Ask for itemization. "NPR 1,50,000 — full website" is meaningless. "NPR 45,000 design, NPR 75,000 development, NPR 15,000 SEO setup, NPR 15,000 content migration" is a real quote.
Ask about ownership. After delivery, do you own the code? Do you own the hosting account? Can you take the project to another developer if the relationship doesn't work? If the answer to any of these is unclear, walk away.
Ask about what's NOT included. Better agencies volunteer this proactively. Red flag vendors only mention exclusions after invoicing for them.
Ask for 3 live client references. Then actually call them. Ask: "Was the final cost within 10% of the original quote? Did delivery match the timeline? Would you hire them again?"
Compare apples to apples. If three agencies quote NPR 80,000, NPR 2,50,000, and NPR 4,00,000 for the "same" site, they're proposing three completely different projects. The mid-priced quote isn't automatically correct — you need to understand what each includes.
To practice what we preach: at Nexorith, a professional custom website (Tier 2) typically ranges from NPR 85,000 to NPR 1,75,000 depending on scope. Custom web applications (Tier 3) start at NPR 3,50,000. We quote every project individually after a free discovery call — no template rates, no surprises.
We also publish every project timeline and milestone upfront, include maintenance for the first 3 months in every build, and transfer full ownership (code, domain, hosting) to the client at launch. This is the standard we think the Nepali market deserves.
Website pricing in Nepal ranges from NPR 15,000 to NPR 10,00,000+ because "website" can mean a hundred different things. The right price for you depends on what problem the website actually needs to solve for your business.
If you're clear on the problem — increase qualified leads, sell products online, digitize operations, validate a new product idea — you can evaluate quotes rationally. If you're vague about the problem, you'll end up either overpaying for features you don't need or underpaying for a site that can't do what your business actually requires.
Before you sign anything, write down in one sentence what success looks like 12 months after the site launches. Then make sure every quote you receive is designed to achieve that specific outcome.
Need help figuring out what tier your project actually belongs in? Schedule a free 30-minute consultation with our team. We'll give you honest, tier-appropriate advice — even if Nexorith isn't the right fit for your project.