The short answer
The rest of this guide explains where those numbers come from, what pushes a quote up, and how to tell whether a quote is fair.
What a website costs in Ireland, 2026
Your time, templates, limited features
Brochure site, 2 to 6 weeks
Custom design, basic SEO
Strategy, custom features, 2 to 4 months
Portals, quoting, CRM and integrations
Typical prices in Ireland, 2026
| Who builds it | Typical cost | Typical timeline |
|---|---|---|
| You, on Wix or Squarespace | €16 to €40/month | A few weekends |
| Freelance web designer | €800 to €3,000 | 2 to 6 weeks |
| Small studio | €2,000 to €6,000 | 3 to 8 weeks |
| Mid-size agency | €5,000 to €15,000 | 2 to 4 months |
| Large agency, complex build | €15,000 to €50,000+ | 3 to 6 months |
These are typical ranges on the Irish market, not fixed prices. They are ranges, not rules: two freelancers can quote €900 and €2,800 for the same brief, and both can be fair.
What DIY actually costs
Builder subscriptions are the one price you can check yourself. Publicly listed Irish prices in 2026, billed yearly, are roughly:
- Wix: from about €17/month (Light) to €39/month (Business), per ClarityWeb's 2026 comparison and Wix's own plans page
- Squarespace: about €16 to €23/month (Squarespace pricing)
- Shopify: about €29/month for Basic, before transaction fees
So a DIY site costs €190 to €470 a year before a domain, email and any paid apps. The real cost is your time. A first build commonly takes 30 to 60 hours. At €30 an hour, 50 hours is €1,500 of your time.
DIY is the right choice when you need a few pages, you are happy writing your own copy, and the site does not need to connect to anything.
What pushes a quote up
Five things make up almost every quote:
- Pages and content. A five-page site is a different job from a 25-page site with service areas and case studies. Writing the copy is often a third of the work.
- Custom design or template. A tweaked template takes days. A design made from scratch takes weeks.
- Features. Booking, payments, a customer login, or a quote calculator each add real development and testing time.
- Connections to other systems. Sending enquiries into a CRM, syncing stock or invoices, or pulling in data from other software is where budgets grow most, and where cheap builds most often fall short.
- Who is on the job. An agency has account managers, designers and developers to pay. A freelancer has one person's time. That difference often explains half the price gap.
The running costs people forget
| Item | Typical yearly cost |
|---|---|
| .ie domain | €20 to €40 |
| Hosting | €60 to €300 |
| Business email (Google Workspace or Microsoft 365) | about €80 to €150 per user |
| Care plan (updates, backups, small changes) | €180 to €1,800 |
| Paid plugins or apps | €0 to €500 |
Budget at least €300 a year to keep a site running properly, even if the build was free.
From here
Want a figure for your own project?
Tell us in a few lines what the site needs to do. We come back with our approach and a quote where possible.
Is there a grant?
Is a website worth the money?
How to compare quotes
A fair quote tells you:
- What is included, page by page and feature by feature
- Who owns the site, the domain and the content when the project ends
- What it costs each year after launch, in writing
- What happens if you leave, and whether you can move the site to someone else
- When it will be finished, with a date, not "a few weeks"
Be careful with very cheap builds that tie you into a monthly fee, and with high quotes that cannot explain what the extra money pays for.
Where VisionWeb fits
VisionWeb is a small Irish technology partner run by Kris Carey, who spent 15+ years in sales and CRM at Google, Apple and HubSpot. We don't publish fixed prices, because the projects we take on vary too much for a price list to be honest.
We are usually a good fit when the website has to do real work: take bookings, produce quotes, feed a CRM, or replace a spreadsheet. See our modular home configurator or customer portals for examples. If you need a simple five-page brochure site, a builder or a local freelancer may suit you better, and we'll tell you that. Want a figure for your own project? Use the project planner: a few quick questions, and we come back with our approach and a quote where possible.
