What a website costs in Bangladesh, and what moves the number
You can get a website in Bangladesh for the price of a decent phone, or for the price of a car, and both quotes can be honest. They are quotes for different things. The useful question is not what a website costs but which of the four kinds you are buying, because the cheap end and the expensive end are not competing with each other at all.
Updated 19 September 2026
The short version
- Price tracks what the site does, not how many pages it has. Be suspicious of per-page pricing.
- A complete quote includes content, mobile, hosting, email, analytics, training and the source code. Cheap quotes leave these out and charge for them later.
- Budget for the annual running cost from the start: domain, hosting, and someone who answers when it breaks.
- The biggest risk is not paying too much. It is paying twice, because the first build could not be extended.
The four kinds of website
Work out which one you need before you collect quotes, and ask every bidder to price that one.
A presence
A handful of pages that tell people who you are and how to reach you. If a customer's next step is to phone you, this is all you need, and spending more is spending on nothing.
A presence that generates enquiries
The same, plus forms that reliably deliver, pages built around what people actually search for, and analytics so you can tell what worked. Modestly more expensive, considerably more useful.
A transactional site
The customer completes something: a booking, an order, a payment. This is the step change in price, because correctness now costs money if it is wrong, and because it needs an admin side for your staff.
A platform
Several kinds of user, roles and permissions, its own data, possibly its own mobile app. Measured in months, not weeks, and quoted after a scoping exercise rather than from a brief.
What a complete quote includes
If these are not named in writing, assume they are not included and that you will be asked for them separately.
Who writes the words and finds the pictures
The most common reason a site is six months late is that the client was quietly expected to supply the content and nobody said so.
Mobile, tested on real phones
Most of your visitors are on a mid-range Android on a patchy connection. A design approved on a desktop is not evidence.
Hosting, domain, certificate and email for the first year
Including whose name they are registered in. It should be yours.
Analytics and Search Console set up
Without them you cannot tell whether the site is working, which makes every later decision guesswork.
Training and handover
Someone on your staff should be able to update what needs updating, and should have been shown how.
The source code
In writing, in the contract. This is the single most important line and the one most often absent.
What it costs every year after that
Small, predictable, and routinely forgotten: the domain renews annually, hosting is monthly or yearly, the certificate is usually free but must not be allowed to expire, and business email is per mailbox.
Then there is the part with no fixed price: someone to call. Whether that is a support arrangement or an hourly rate, decide which before you need it, because the worst time to negotiate is while the site is down.
Warning signs in a quote
Priced per page
It tells you the seller is thinking about the template, not about what the site has to do.
No written scope
If what is being built is not written down, every disagreement later is your word against theirs, and every change is an extra.
No staging site
If changes go straight to the live site, your customers are the test.
Silence about the source code
Ask directly. An honest answer either way is fine; a vague one is not.
A portfolio of sites that no longer exist
Open three of them. If they are down, slow, or show a browser warning, that is what you are buying.
Where to start
Run our free website check on your current site, and on two competitors. It reports what each is built on, whether browsers trust it, how fast it answers and whether a customer can actually buy — which is usually enough to tell you whether you need a new site or just a fixed one.
Our own figures are published on the pricing page, quoted for your market. If what you need sits in the third or fourth band above, a scoping call will get you a real number rather than a range.
Questions we get asked
Why is one quote a tenth of another?+
Usually because the cheap one is a template with your logo on it and the expensive one is being built for your business. Both are legitimate products. The mistake is buying the first while expecting the second.
Should I pay monthly or once?+
A one-off build with a separate, optional support arrangement keeps you in control. Be careful with monthly deals that include the build, because you often stop owning the site the month you stop paying. Ask what happens to the site if you cancel.
How long should it take?+
A presence site is weeks. A transactional site is longer, and the timeline usually depends on how quickly you can supply content and decisions rather than on the development.
Can I start small and add to it later?+
Yes, if it is built expecting that. This is worth saying out loud at quote stage: tell the bidder what you might add in two years, and see whether the answer is a plan or a shrug.
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