Ask five agencies "how much for a website" and you will get four evasions and a suspiciously low number. Here are the real 2026 ranges we quote and see across the Kerala market — so you can budget before a single sales call.

2026 Price Ranges in Kerala

  • Business website (5–15 pages): ₹15,000–₹50,000. Professional design, mobile-first, contact/enquiry flows, admin panel, hosting and SSL setup, technical SEO basics.
  • E-commerce store: ₹50,000–₹3,00,000. Product management, cart, payment gateway (UPI/cards), GST-ready invoicing, delivery workflows. Subscriptions and corporate ordering push toward the upper band.
  • Custom web application / portal: ₹1,00,000–₹5,00,000+. Booking systems, member platforms, dashboards — priced by modules and roles.
  • ERP / business automation: ₹2,00,000–₹10,00,000+. Inventory, billing, accounting, multi-branch — scoped individually.

What Actually Moves the Price

Custom design vs template (a template dressed as custom is the most common overcharge), number of workflows (every form, role and report is engineering), integrations (payments, WhatsApp, SMS, existing software), and content responsibility — who writes the words and prepares the images.

The Cheap-Quote Traps

  • The ₹5,000 website is a template with your name on someone else's hosting — you often do not own the domain, the files or the ability to leave.
  • Hosting hostage-taking: ask in writing who owns domain, hosting account and source code. The answer should be you.
  • "SEO included" that means nothing: demand specifics — schema markup, page speed targets, sitemap, indexing setup.
  • No maintenance plan: a website is software; unpatched software decays into a security incident.

How to Compare Quotes Fairly

Ask every vendor the same four questions: What exactly is included, itemised? Who owns everything at the end? What does support cost after launch? And — the filter that eliminates most — show me three live sites you built that are still running well. Our answers are on our case studies page, with named clients and live URLs. That transparency is itself the buying signal: vendors proud of their work show it. Get a fixed, itemised quote from us via the FAQ page or a free consultation — no runaround included.