Sara Khan · WeProms Digital · Last updated: August 2026
A five-page business website in Pakistan costs between PKR 30,000 from a freelancer and PKR 350,000 or more from an established agency; an ecommerce store runs PKR 80,000 to PKR 500,000. Yearly running costs add PKR 10,000 to PKR 100,000, and most quotes never mention them.
How much does a basic business website cost in Pakistan?
A five-page business website in Pakistan costs PKR 30,000 to PKR 60,000 from a freelancer, PKR 60,000 to PKR 150,000 from a small local agency, and PKR 150,000 to PKR 350,000 or more from an established agency. The same five pages carry three different invoices, and scope explains most of that gap.
Pakistani pricing guides confirm the spread. Developer-marketplace rates published by PixelFussionX place a basic three-to-five-page site at PKR 10,000 to PKR 25,000 from a low-cost freelancer, PKR 25,000 to PKR 60,000 from a professional developer, and PKR 50,000 to PKR 100,000 through an agency. Package listings from Magric Solutions quote PKR 25,000 to PKR 45,000 for up to five pages and PKR 55,000 to PKR 120,000 for a larger business site.
Five pages, three invoices: PKR 45,000 from a freelancer, PKR 105,000 from a small agency, PKR 250,000 from an established studio. The pages are identical; the scope is not.
Comparing these quotes works like comparing wedding-hall packages in Lahore. The base hall price covers the space and nothing else. Catering, décor, lighting, service charges and stage setup arrive as separate line items, and the final bill lands far above the sticker number. Website quotes behave the same way: the headline price covers the build, while copywriting, product photography, search setup, analytics, revisions and post-launch support arrive later or never.
The pattern repeats: the quoted price covers the hall, not the wedding. A Pakistani owner who compares two quotes by their totals is comparing two different events.
Before signing, ask each bidder one question: list every item this price does not include. The written answer protects both sides and reveals the real gap within ten minutes.
Why do quotes differ by PKR 300,000 for the same five pages?
Quotes differ because scope differs, not because one provider is twenty times greedier. A PKR 60,000 quote usually delivers a template — a pre-built design reused across clients — while a PKR 350,000 quote covers custom design, written content, search-engine foundations, analytics integration, multi-device testing and a managed launch.
The upper market is priced internationally, which explains the ceiling. Directory data from DesignRush shows Pakistani web firms listing minimum project sizes from about US$1,000 to US$10,000 and hourly rates of US$25 to US$99. At roughly PKR 280 per US dollar, those minimums translate to PKR 280,000 to PKR 2.8 million per project; those firms primarily serve export clients and large local brands, not corner shops seeking a five-page brochure site.
A low rate rarely signals efficiency; it signals what was left out of the estimate.
The practical comparison method is line-by-line, not total-versus-total. Ask every bidder to price seven items separately: design, content writing, photography, search basics, analytics, training, and thirty days of post-launch fixes. Bids that skip three or more items are not cheaper — they are shorter. A CMS — content management system, the admin panel where your team edits pages without touching code — should be named in the quote, because owning an editable site matters more than owning a pretty one on the first day.
How much does an ecommerce website cost in Pakistan?
Book a free strategy call - we'll audit your current setup and identify the highest-impact fixes.
An ecommerce store build costs PKR 80,000 to PKR 180,000 from a freelancer or small provider on WooCommerce, PKR 180,000 to PKR 500,000 or more from an established agency, and PKR 80,000 to PKR 250,000 or more as a Shopify setup fee — before the monthly subscription, which is billed separately forever. The build is a one-time cost; the platform rent is permanent.
WooCommerce — the ecommerce extension of WordPress that runs on your own hosting — keeps yearly platform fees near zero but demands someone technical on call. Shopify, the hosted store platform, inverts that: setup is faster, but its Basic plan lists at US$39 per month, about PKR 10,900, on Shopify’s pricing page. Two years of that subscription is roughly PKR 260,000 — more than many freelancer builds, paid quietly in monthly pieces.
| Build route | Typical one-time cost | Typical yearly running cost | Sensible fit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Freelancer, 5-page WordPress site | PKR 30,000-60,000 | PKR 10,000-40,000 | Clinics, consultants, single-service firms |
| Small local agency site | PKR 60,000-150,000 | PKR 30,000-100,000 | Growing brands that want support |
| Established agency site | PKR 150,000-350,000+ | PKR 60,000-360,000 | Exporters and multi-branch businesses |
| WooCommerce store (freelancer) | PKR 80,000-180,000 | PKR 30,000-100,000 | Sellers with a technical contact |
| Shopify store setup + subscription | PKR 80,000-250,000+ | PKR 140,000+ | Teams that want zero server work |
Budget builders sit underneath all of this. Wix’s Light plan lists at US$17 per month on annual billing, near PKR 4,800, on Wix’s plans page, and a determined owner can assemble a passable site for the price of patience. The tradeoffs — template limits, weak search performance, no local developer who knows your stack — are covered honestly in our piece on AI website builders and Pakistani ecommerce stores.
Stores that plan to sell seriously should also budget payment integrations. Enabling JazzCash, Easypaisa or card checkout through a Pakistani gateway adds configuration work that cheap quotes routinely omit, and no store sells without it.
What does a website cost per year after it launches?
Expect PKR 10,000 to PKR 100,000 per year in running costs: a .com domain at PKR 3,000 to PKR 8,000, shared hosting at PKR 5,000 to PKR 25,000, and a basic maintenance retainer at PKR 18,000 to PKR 60,000. Professional support plans run PKR 60,000 to PKR 360,000 per year when response-time guarantees are included.
GoDaddy’s Pakistan cost guide brackets the same items slightly wider — domains around PKR 1,800 to PKR 12,000 per year, hosting PKR 5,000 to PKR 100,000 per year, and maintenance PKR 1,500 to PKR 10,000 per month — which signals how much the local market varies by provider and by how much a site is touched after launch.
One line item should stay at zero. An SSL certificate — the padlock that encrypts traffic between a visitor and your site — is included free with Let’s Encrypt on nearly all Pakistani shared hosting. Any quote charging PKR 10,000 per year for basic SSL deserves a follow-up question.
Content and search work sit outside every number so far. Pakistani pricing guides for 2026 place ongoing content and SEO support between PKR 120,000 and PKR 1.2 million or more per year, depending on how many pages a business wants written and ranked. Treat it as optional-but-decisive: a website without fresh content still functions, and it quietly stops competing the month the publishing stops.
Ask for the yearly number in writing before you pay the build invoice. An agency that cannot state your year-two cost within fifteen minutes of being asked is telling you something; a professional one answers with a table.
First-year totals make the comparison honest. Counting the build plus twelve months of domain, hosting and basic support, Pakistani pricing guides put a lean freelancer site at PKR 40,000 to PKR 80,000 for year one, a small-agency site at PKR 75,000 to PKR 190,000, and an established-agency site at PKR 180,000 to PKR 450,000 or more. Those stacked figures, and the monthly averages they imply, are what a business partner or bank manager will actually ask about.
Is a PKR 25,000 website a good deal?
A PKR 25,000 website is a real product, not a scam; it fits a very narrow buyer and quietly fails everyone else. It works for a business that wants a brochure online, never edits it, and collects customers by phone. It fails any business that expects the site itself to produce leads, because cheap builds skip the writing, the speed work and the tracking that produce them.
Three costs hide inside the cheap quote. First, ownership: budget builds are often registered under the developer’s hosting account, so the business does not legally control its own domain. Second, content: nobody writes your pages, so your services read like everyone else’s. Third, conversion: nothing on a PKR 25,000 site is arranged to move a visitor toward an inquiry, a gap explained in our CRO audit checklist for Pakistani businesses.
Two red flags close the discussion faster than price does. A builder who wants full payment upfront, before any preview link exists, has removed every incentive to finish; staged payments tied to a demo link keep both sides honest. And a handover that never delivers admin credentials — the hosting login, the domain registrar account, the CMS username — means the site was never legally yours. Walk away from either, whatever the price.
A PKR 25,000 website is not cheaper; it is a down payment on a PKR 150,000 rebuild.
The honest test is your phone. If customers already find you through WhatsApp status and word of mouth, and the site only has to look credible, the cheap band works. If the site has to bring strangers in the door, it does not.
Which price band fits which Pakistani business?
How we helped a Pakistani business achieve measurable results.
Match the band to what the website must return, not to what the budget happens to be. A Lahore clinic booking appointments by phone needs the freelancer-to-small-agency band. A Faisalabad manufacturer chasing Gulf buyers needs the established-agency band, because export credibility collapses on a template. A Karachi retailer with fifty-plus products needs a real store build, because catalog size drives the work.
Owners comparing providers should read our guide to choosing a web design agency in Lahore before the first meeting; the questions it lists filter out most weak bids in one call. For stores that must convert rather than merely exist, WeProms Digital, Pakistan’s leading web design agency, builds WordPress, WooCommerce and Shopify sites with pricing agreed before work starts and yearly costs stated in the same document.
The deciding criterion is simple. Spend the freelancer band when the website supports sales that happen elsewhere; spend the agency band when the website is where sales happen. Businesses that buy the wrong band pay twice — once for the cheap site, once for the rebuild that replaces it.
Read next: How to choose a web design agency in Lahore · AI website builders for Pakistani ecommerce stores
At WeProms Digital, we quote websites in written PKR bands that separate the build from the yearly running costs, so nothing arrives as a surprise invoice. If you want a price for a business site or a full store, contact us here, email hello@weproms.com, or message WhatsApp +92 300 0133399.
Sources & References
- GoDaddy — What Does a Website Cost in Pakistan — accessed August 2026
- DesignRush — Top Web Development Companies in Pakistan — accessed August 2026
- Shopify — Pricing plans — accessed August 2026
- Wix — Pricing plans — accessed August 2026
- PixelFussionX — Cost to Hire a Web Developer in Pakistan — 2026
- Magric Solutions — Website Development Cost in Pakistan 2026 — 2026
- LoopOrigin — Website Development Cost in Pakistan 2026 — 2026
