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WordPress Website Cost in India
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A WordPress website costs a one-time build plus a yearly platform bill; the software is free. WebJi® publishes indicative build bands from ₹8,000–₹25,000 for a starter site, and hosting runs ₹2,868 to ₹6,588 a year on its Linux plans, before 18% GST. Email, backups and updates are optional extra lines.
For Indian business owners budgeting a WordPress site who want the build fee and the recurring bill on separate, checkable lines.
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Last editorial update: 14 November 2026. Prices follow the dated sources on this page; checkout confirms current charges.
What makes up the cost of a WordPress website?
A WordPress website costs a one-time build fee plus a recurring platform bill; the software itself is free. WordPress and WooCommerce are released under the GPL, so you never pay a licence for the core. What you pay for is everything around it.
- Domain name: rented yearly, renewed every year.
- Hosting: the server, PHP, database and SSL that run the site.
- Design and build: theme set-up, page layouts, forms and content entry — usually the largest single line.
- Premium theme or plugins: optional, and most renew annually per site.
- Upkeep: updates, backups and someone to fix the site when a plugin update breaks it.
When two quotes look very different, check whether both include the recurring part. A quote that shows only the build price hides the bill you will pay every year the site stays online.
How much does WordPress design and development cost?
WebJi® publishes indicative bands of ₹8,000–₹25,000 for a 5–7 page starter site, ₹25,000–₹75,000 for a 10–20 page business site and ₹1,50,000–₹5,00,000 for an e-commerce build. A fixed-scope quote follows a free consultation, because page count, custom design and integrations move the figure within each band.
| Engagement | Typical scope | Indicative investment |
|---|---|---|
| Starter site | 5–7 pages, contact forms, basic SEO | ₹8,000–₹25,000 |
| Business site | 10–20 pages, CMS, custom design | ₹25,000–₹75,000 |
| E-commerce build | Store set-up, payments, catalogue | ₹1,50,000–₹5,00,000 |
What pushes a WordPress build up a band: a custom-coded theme instead of a configured one, multilingual pages, a payment gateway, product imports, booking or membership features, and copywriting. What keeps it low: a ready theme, content supplied by you, and a short page list. WordPress web design at WebJi® is scoped and quoted before any work starts.
What does WordPress hosting and upkeep cost per year?
On WebJi® Linux hosting used for WordPress, the yearly price is ₹2,868 on Webji Launch, ₹3,828 on Webji Turbo and ₹6,588 on Webji Scale, before 18% GST. Free Let's Encrypt SSL is included, so a paid certificate is optional.
| Line | Price | Billing | Needed when |
|---|---|---|---|
| Webji Launch (20 GB, 1 site) | ₹2,868 | per year (₹6,804 for 3 years) | Blog or small brochure site |
| Webji Turbo (unlimited NVMe, 1 site) | ₹3,828 | per year (₹9,324 for 3 years) | Business site with growing traffic |
| Webji Scale (unlimited domains) | ₹6,588 | per year (₹16,164 for 3 years) | Several sites or a small store |
| Cloud Entry (2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 100 GB) | ₹5,900 | per month | Store with a large catalogue or sale-day spikes |
| Business email, 5 mailboxes × 5 GB | ₹2,520 | per year | Staff mailboxes on your domain |
| WP updates and security, done for you | ₹5,900 | per year | Nobody in-house will patch the site |
| Backup.Help with 200 GB | ₹1,300 | per month | Orders or bookings you cannot lose |
| Sectigo Positive SSL | ₹1,800 | per year, optional | A client asks for a paid certificate |
| Migration, one domain | ₹700 | one time | Moving an existing site in |
WebJi® published prices, checked 14 November 2026. Domain prices vary by extension and are listed on the domain price list.
Traffic and plugins decide the hosting line, not page count. Plan details are on WordPress hosting; the upkeep side is broken down in WordPress maintenance cost in India.
What does a WordPress website cost over three years?
Using only WebJi® published prices, the recurring cost ranges from about ₹2,868 a year for a blog to ₹88,920 a year for a store on a cloud server, before 18% GST and before the build fee. The arithmetic is shown so you can swap lines for your own case.
| Site | Lines included | Per year | Three years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal blog | Webji Launch | ₹2,868 | ₹6,804 on the 3-year term |
| Business site | Webji Turbo ₹3,828 + email ₹2,520 + updates ₹5,900 | ₹12,248 | ₹36,744 |
| Online store | Cloud Entry ₹70,800 (₹5,900 × 12) + email ₹2,520 + Backup.Help ₹15,600 (₹1,300 × 12) | ₹88,920 | ₹2,66,760 |
Add the one-time build from the bands above. A business site built inside the ₹25,000–₹75,000 band therefore costs ₹37,248–₹87,248 in its first year and ₹12,248 in each later year, plus the domain and GST. If you patch the site yourself, drop the ₹5,900 update line and the yearly figure falls to ₹6,348.
Where should you spend and where can you save on WordPress?
Spend on what is hard to change later — hosting headroom, backups and a theme you will keep — and save on what you can swap in an afternoon.
Spend: content
Good service pages outlast two or three redesigns and do most of the selling.
Save: SSL
Let's Encrypt is included with hosting; a paid certificate is only for clients who ask for one.
Save: plugins
Free versions of forms, SEO and cache plugins run most small sites. Remove anything unused.
Comparing WordPress with a hosted builder for a small site? The website design cost guide covers non-WordPress builds, and e-commerce website cost goes deeper on store budgets.
FAQ
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Can I build a WordPress website for free?
The software, many themes and many plugins are free, but a public site still needs a domain and hosting. The lowest WebJi® hosting line for WordPress is Webji Launch at ₹2,868 a year before 18% GST, and you can do the build yourself.
Is WordPress cheaper than a custom-coded website?
Usually, because themes and plugins replace much of the coding, and you can edit pages yourself afterwards. A custom-coded site makes sense when the features are unusual enough that plugins would need heavy modification anyway.
Does the WordPress design quote include hosting?
At WebJi® the build is quoted separately from hosting, email and upkeep, so you can see the one-time and recurring parts on their own lines. Ask any other provider to split the quote the same way before comparing.
Is GST added to WordPress website prices?
Yes. Every WebJi® figure on this page is before 18% GST, which is added on the invoice. A GST-registered business can enter its GSTIN at checkout and claim input credit on both build and hosting invoices.
Prices checked 14 November 2026 on WebJi® billing · Reviewed by the WebJi® team, Jaipur.
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