Website Cost Calculator
How to Use Our Website Cost Calculator
Simpalm's Website Development Cost Calculator is a helpful tool for estimating the cost of building a website based on your specific needs and preferences. This tool allows you to tailor inputs to get a customized estimate quickly. Here’s how to make the most of it:
Step 1: Select Your Website Type
Start by choosing the type of website you need from options like a blog or personal website for sharing content or personal information, a Small Business Website for a standard informational site, and a midsize business or corporate website. Each selection helps narrow down the specific elements required for your website.
Step 2: Choose the Right Development Platform
Next, you can select a development platform for your website according to your requirements, available options are WordPress, Drupal, Shopify, Joomla, and Webflow. You can also opt for Custom website development.
Step 3: Define the Pages for your Websites
Next, choose the type of pages you need for your site. Common selections include the home page, contact us, services pages, product pages, and many more. The number of pages can impact design and content costs, so this detail is important.
Step 4: Choose E-commerce Functionality
Use our website cost calculator to obtain an estimate for your eCommerce website's cost. During this step you can select which eCommerce features your website needs to sell products. After entering project specifications our tool generates a quick cost estimate. Our calculator provides the perfect tool for budget planning whether you create a simple online store or a complex marketplace. Use our website cost estimation tool for instant results.
Step 5: Websites Addons
Decide which Ad-On feature you need on your websites such as: Image / Video Galleries, Member Login / Profiles, Accept Donation / one-time payment, and Onsite Search
Step 6: Third Party Integration
Select which third-party integration you want in your website, available options are Booking and Scheduling (e.g., Calendly, Bookly), Video platforms (e.g., YouTube, Vimeo), Marketing Automation Tools (e.g., HubSpot, Marketo), Customer Support and Live Chat (e.g., Intercom, Zendesk), and many more.
Step 7: Backend Requirements
Choose whether you need a custom backend to manage data. A custom backend can provide flexibility for unique features and data handling.
Step 8: Review and Get an Estimate
After selecting your preferences, click to get an estimated cost range. Simpalm’s calculator provides an overview of potential expenses so you can make informed decisions about your budget and priorities.
Additional Notes
The estimated cost provided by the calculator is intended as a rough guide. For a more precise quote based on specific requirements, you can reach out to Simpalm's team for a detailed consultation.
Factors that Affect the Cost of Website Development
The cost of website development can be different from one website to another, as every website has different features, customizations, number of pages, design, and integrations. Also, the tech stack used to build a website can also vary from website to website. So when multiple factors are there, estimating the exact cost for website development can be challenging. However, understanding each of these factors can help you in making informed decisions about your project.
1. Number of Pages
The number of pages you want to have on your website can influence your overall website development cost. The reason for this is that the development team needs to code, optimize, and test each page for responsiveness, functionality, and compatibility across different devices and browsers, which requires more development time, effort, and resources. More pages mean the development team needs to spend additional time, which adds to development costs.
2. Custom or Template Design
The design of your website plays a major role in the total cost of development. Especially if your website demands unique visual elements, custom graphics, and a unique design for each page. A website with a custom design always costs more than a website developed with standard templates with minimal customization.
Complex and interactive design elements such as micro-interaction, animation, transition, hover animations, custom sliders and image carousels, complex navigation systems, content reveal, and scroll effects require additional resources and a higher level of expertise.
When you take a custom design approach, designers need to create designs for desktop, mobile, and tablet resolutions, which also adds to the overall cost of the website.
3. Complexity of Website
The type of website you want to build can significantly impact the cost of website development. Developing a simple static website that has fewer pages could cost much less than developing complex, interactive websites or custom-built e-commerce platforms. Complex websites often include features such as:
- User Authentication
- Custom Design
- Complex Database
- Real-Time Update
- Integration with third-party applications or APIs
- E-commerce functions (shopping carts, payment gateways)
4. Functionality and Features
Features and functionality make websites more interactive and are core to delivering a great user experience. Websites with advanced features such as online stores, booking systems, forums, custom dashboards, interactive forms, social media integration, custom integrations with external systems, and real-time data typically cost more. Each of these elements requires additional development time to work on back-end development, database management, and integration with third-party services or APIs.
| Website Type | Features |
|---|---|
| Basic Website | Home, About, Service page, Contact Us, Blog, Analytics, Social Media |
| Mid-Sized Website | Customized Templates, More Internal Pages, User Registration/Login, Search/Filters, Gallery, Maps, User Behavior Tracking |
| Complex Website | Fully Custom Design, Large Number of Pages, Dynamic Content, User Dashboard, Real-Time Update, Advanced Security Features, Live Chat, Content Translation, Payment Gateway, Fraud Detection |
5. Type of CMS
Content management systems can streamline the development process, but they can also significantly influence the cost of website design. If you choose a CMS such as WordPress, Drupal, or Joomla, it can reduce website development costs significantly because it has a wide range of pre-built themes, plugins, and community support.
On the other hand, if you choose Enterprise CMS such as Magento, Adobe Experience Manager, or Sitecore, these CMS platforms generally have high licensing fees, setup costs, and specialized requirements for deployment.
| Easier CMS | Complex CMS |
|---|---|
| WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Webflow, Typo3, Grav, October CMS |
Sitecore, Adobe Experience Manager, Kentico, Acquia (Drupal Cloud), Episerver (Optimizely), Sitefinity, Oracle Content and Experience Cloud |
6. Type of Development Team
Your total cost of website development can be heavily influenced by whom you have hired. Because each of them comes with their own skill, experience, expertise, and operational cost. When it comes to hiring a team for website development, you have three options which are mentioned below
Freelancer: If you hire freelance developers, they usually charge less than the agency and dedicated in-house team. Because they have fewer overhead costs. Hiring Freelancers can give greater flexibility as freelance developers as they specialize in specific areas such as design, front-end, and back-end. So you can hire them for specific tasks or short-term projects, or hire them to develop a few modules of your website.
Website Development Agencies: When you hire website development agencie,s they tend to charge much higher prices than freelance developers because they have their infrastructure and dedicated resources, such as developers, designers, project managers, and quality assurance engineers, to work on each aspect of the website to ensure the highest quality result. Another reason for the higher prices is that these Website development companies offer a complete range of services at premium rates, which include everything from market research, UX/UI design, development, project management, SEO, branding, and ongoing maintenance.
In-House Development Teams: The cost of having your own In-house development team could be much higher as you have to hire developers, designers, QA, and project managers. The cost includes the salary of the team, the cost of setup infrastructure, such as office space, equipment, and other employee benefits. Hiring an in-house development team can be cost-effective if you have ongoing projects that require continuous development and management. Having an in-house team could offer great benefits, such as you have complete control over the development process, priorities, and timelines
7. Development Team Location
The geographical location of your web development team also influences the total cost of website design & development. If you hire a development team from India, the Philippines, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe, the cost of the website development will be lower compared to the USA and Western Europe. Because the hourly and project rates are different in each geographical area, Countries such as the United States, Canada, the UK, and Western European nations typically have higher hourly and project rates.
8. Maintenance & Support
Once the website is developed, it requires maintenance, updates, and regular security checks to ensure it remains functional and secure. A large portion of maintenance costs goes into keeping the website up to date with the latest technologies, requiring development hours for updating and testing.
Regularly checking for security vulnerabilities and fixing bugs ensures sites remain functional and safe. Both add labor costs to patch the issue and test them to ensure no issue arises.
Another maintenance cost is performance, where developers need to optimize the site code and the server for optimum performance, which adds additional development time. Each maintenance and support activity requires time, resources, and expertise that leads to recurring costs.
