Website Development Cost in Nepal

"How much for a website?" is the hardest question in this business to answer honestly, because it's like asking how much a building costs. A shed and a hospital are both buildings. So this post does the thing most agency pricing pages avoid: it puts real numbers next to real scopes.

All figures are Nepalese Rupees, current as of 2026, and reflect what competent Nepali teams actually charge — not international rates, and not the race-to-the-bottom freelance floor.

Quick price table

The seven things that actually move the price

1. Custom design versus a template

A purchased theme with your logo and colours costs a fraction of a designed-from-scratch interface. The gap is typically Rs. 30,000 to Rs. 1,50,000. Templates are a perfectly reasonable choice for a first site with a tight budget; the honest version of that conversation is a company telling you it's a template.

2. Number of unique page layouts

Twenty pages using four layouts is cheap. Six pages each needing its own layout is not. Price tracks unique designs, not page count — which is why 'how many pages?' is the wrong question to lead with.

3. Custom functionality

This is the biggest multiplier by a wide margin. A brochure site is content in, content out. The moment you need user accounts, role-based permissions, bookings, inventory sync, invoicing or a dashboard, you're building software, and software is priced by complexity.

4. Payment gateway integration

eSewa, Khalti, IMEPay, ConnectIPS and Fonepay each have their own integration and settlement process. Budget Rs. 20,000 to Rs. 60,000 per gateway including testing. International cards via Stripe or PayPal add compliance and currency handling on top.

5. Content and photography

The single most common cause of a delayed launch in Nepal is the client not having content ready. If you need copywriting and photography done for you, add Rs. 20,000 to Rs. 1,00,000 and three to four weeks. If you write it yourself, budget your own time honestly.

6. SEO and analytics setup

Technical SEO done properly at build time — server-rendered or prerendered HTML, structured data, sitemap, Search Console, Analytics, page speed work — adds roughly Rs. 25,000 to Rs. 80,000. Retrofitting it later costs several times that, which is the whole argument for doing it upfront.

7. Ongoing maintenance

Domain renewal, hosting, SSL, security patches, backups and small content changes. Rs. 12,000 to Rs. 60,000 a year for a typical business site. Skipping this is how sites end up hacked or expired — treat it as part of the cost of owning a website, not an optional add-on.

Why the Rs. 8,000 website exists

It's real, and for some situations it's genuinely the right call. Understand what you're buying:

• A free or pirated theme, installed rather than designed.
• Shared hosting on the builder's reseller account, often with no backups.
• The domain frequently registered under the developer's name.
• No SEO configuration, no analytics, no Search Console.
• No support after handover, and typically no handover document.

If you need a placeholder online this week and you'll rebuild within a year, that's a defensible trade. If this site is meant to bring in customers for the next five years, you'll pay the difference eventually — usually twice, because rebuilding costs more than building.

How to compare two quotes fairly

Quotes are rarely comparable as written, because they describe different things. Normalise them by insisting each one answers the same checklist:

1. 1Is the design custom or template-based? Name the theme if it's a theme.
2. 2How many unique page layouts are included?
3. 3Who registers the domain, and in whose name?
4. 4Where is hosting, at what annual cost, with what backup schedule?
5. 5Is source code handed over in a Git repository I own?
6. 6Are Search Console, Analytics and a sitemap included?
7. 7What is the mobile page-speed target?
8. 8How many rounds of revision are included before it becomes chargeable?
9. 9What does support cover, for how long, and what's the renewal price?
10. 10What is the payment schedule tied to — dates, or delivered milestones?

A quote that's 60% cheaper is almost never the same work done more efficiently. It's less work. Find out which parts are missing before you decide that's a problem — sometimes it isn't.

What we charge

SigmoIT sits in the middle-to-upper part of the ranges above. Every project includes custom design, mobile-first responsive build, prerendered or server-rendered HTML so Google can actually read the site, structured data, Search Console and Analytics setup, the domain in your name, and full source-code handover.

We scope for free. Describe what you're trying to build and we'll come back with a fixed number and a timeline, plus an honest note on anything we think you shouldn't pay for yet.