Planning to build a website for your business but unsure about costs? This article covers real prices, timelines and what you get for your investment.
Website development in Lithuania ranges from 200 to 50 000 €. It depends on scope, quality and who builds it. Large agencies add 30-50% markup for bureaucracy. A small studio like Sprendika offers the same quality without those extra costs.
Professional company website with 3-10 pages. Includes: custom design, responsive, SEO, CMS, SSL, 180-day guarantee. Timeline: 1-4 weeks. For: service companies, consultants, small businesses, startups.
Three platforms depending on your needs: WooCommerce (from 1 500 €, best for the Lithuanian market, native Paysera and LT accounting), Shopify (from 1 500 €, fastest launch, good for export) or a custom Next.js store (from 6 000 €, B2B logic and deep integrations). All include payments, shipping (LP Express, DPD, Omniva), SEO and training.
CRM, project management, invoicing — built for your processes. Includes: user management, API integrations, dashboard, automations. Timeline: 6-16 weeks.
Google Ads campaigns, SEO strategy, GA4 analytics, monthly reports with results.
Free first consultation (30 min). Fixed price from day one. Weekly working results. 180-day guarantee. Your code — your property. Data on EU servers.
Under 300 € almost always means a ready-made template with the logo and text swapped. It works, and sometimes it is entirely enough — for a single page with contact details, say. What you will not get: an original design, adaptation to your process, and usually any guarantee after launch.
Between 500 and 1 500 € is the common range for small and mid-sized business. Here you are buying a structure designed for you, copy adapted to your services, technical search optimisation and a content management system you operate yourself. Most small studios and stronger freelancers work at this level.
From 3 000 € upward you get projects with a real research phase, custom design from a blank canvas, and more complex functionality or integrations. Above 10 000 € almost always means either a large agency with project managers and a design team, or a custom system that is no longer really “a website”.
The key thing to understand: the difference between a 500 € and a 5 000 € proposal is usually not quality but scope and process. So two proposals can only be compared once they describe the same work.
The most common reason is a differently understood scope. One developer is pricing five pages using your copy; another is pricing twelve pages including copywriting and image selection. The numbers differ threefold and both are correct. So before comparing prices, compare what is written into the scope.
The second reason is overhead. In an agency your project is touched by a project manager, a designer, a developer and a tester; that coordination is real and costs money, so an agency price is legitimately higher. A small studio or freelancer has no such layer — but also no cover if that person falls ill.
The third reason is what is included after launch. A proposal with no guarantee and no training will always look cheaper than one with a 180-day guarantee and handed-over access. You feel the difference not when buying, but a month after launch.
The domain and hosting are almost never part of the website price, because they are recurring annual costs: roughly 10–15 € a year for the domain, from 5 € a month for hosting. Small sums, but they must be registered in your name — otherwise you end up dependent on the developer.
Content is the biggest invisible line. Copywriting and a professional photo session often cost as much as the website itself, and without them even the best design looks half empty. If the budget is tight, a smaller site with real copy and real photographs beats a large one full of placeholders.
Paid licences are the third line. Some WordPress plugins (forms, bookings, multilingual) cost 50–200 € a year. That is normal, but it must be named in the proposal rather than appearing in year two as a renewal invoice.
Finally, changes after launch. Ask up front what an hour of small work costs and what counts as a warranty fix versus new work. A straightforward developer will answer immediately and in writing.
A website is not a one-off purchase, so the figure to calculate is total cost of ownership. A simple example: a 500 € website plus hosting and domain (about 80 € a year) costs roughly 740 € over three years. The same site on a platform with a 29 € monthly fee costs about 1 550 € over three years, even though the starting number looked smaller.
The second number that matters is how much time the site will cost you. If every text change means emailing the developer and waiting two days, a year of that accumulates both invoices and frustration. Content management and training are therefore not an add-on to the price — they are the part that reduces it.
Third: when the site pays for itself. If your average customer order is 400 €, an 800 € website pays for itself after two customers. It is a simple calculation worth doing before haggling over a 100 € discount — the cheaper option often costs more in lost orders than it saves.
A good proposal answers five questions: what exactly is the scope (a list of pages), what is the price and is it fixed, what is the timeline, what is included after launch (guarantee, training, access), and who ends up owning the code and data. If any answer is missing, get it in writing before signing.
Warning signs worth reacting to: a “from” price with no scope; refusal to commit to a timeline; guaranteed first-page Google rankings (nobody can guarantee that); the domain registered in the developer’s name; the full amount paid up front. None of these is a crime, but each is a question worth asking out loud.
And the last, often decisive check — ask to see two or three working websites the same person built a year or more ago. How they look and perform today tells you more than any proposal text.
From 500 € for a professionally built site of 3–5 pages with a custom structure, mobile adaptation, technical SEO and content management. Under 300 € almost always means a ready template with the logo swapped — that works, but you get no original design and usually no guarantee.
No, because they are recurring annual costs: roughly 10–15 € a year for the domain and from 5 € a month for hosting. We register both in your name so they remain your property and you are not dependent on a developer.
Usually because the scope is understood differently — five pages with your copy versus twelve pages including copywriting. Beyond that: agency overhead, and what is included after launch. Compare scopes first, prices second.
Only if the scope genuinely matches. A cheaper site that cannot be edited without a developer, has no guarantee and loads slowly usually costs more in lost orders than it saved. Calculate the three-year cost, not the first invoice.
The first 180 days are covered by a guarantee at no extra charge. After that it depends on the platform: a WordPress site needs roughly an hour a month of updates and backups, a Next.js site needs practically none. Ask in advance what counts as a warranty fix and what counts as new work.
Yes. The usual arrangement is part at the start and the remainder on launch; for larger projects we split it into stages. The schedule is written into the contract along with the fixed price, so there are no surprises.
Tell us about your project and within 1-2 business days you will receive a concrete proposal with a fixed price.