Website Design Cost in Ireland
What does a website design cost in Ireland?
Website design in Ireland costs between €2,500 and €15,000 for most small and medium businesses. A showcase site for a new or small service business starts at €2,500. A business site with a proper page for each service starts at €5,000. A custom build with booking systems, calculators or member areas starts at €6,000, and an online shop starts at €6,500. Those are the prices we charge, not an industry estimate.
Every agency sells packages.
You pick one, you sign, and then the extras start arriving.
- A page that was not in the package
- A licence nobody mentioned
- A fee for the thing you assumed was included
We have watched too many Irish businesses get caught by that.
So we built this instead. Every price we charge for website design in Ireland is in the tool below. You put your own project together and see the real number before you speak to anybody.
Then when we do talk, the money is already settled.
The call is about your business and what will actually grow it, not about us working out what you can afford.
Build your own proposal. No call required.
If the number suits you, the call after is about your business rather than about money. If it does not suit you, you'd know that out in two minutes instead of two weeks. Every figure below is what we actually charge, and you can get a better idea about costs before you have to call us.
Website cost in Ireland, the honest breakdown
Most Irish SMEs get quoted anywhere from €500 to 1€5,000 for what sounds like the same thing. That gap is not dishonesty. Rather, it is the difference between a template filled in over a weekend and a site built around how your business actually wins customers. Because the word “website” covers both, the price range looks random until someone explains what moves it.
So here is what moves it.
The three things that drive the price
Size.
A showcase site with a handful of pages starts at €2,500 with us. A full business site with a proper page for each service runs from €5,000. More pages means more design, more writing and more building, so the price climbs with the page count. The calculator above shows you exactly how much, per page.
Selling online.
An online shop costs more than a brochure site because it does more. Payments need to be secure, products need to be uploaded and organised, delivery and VAT need to be set up correctly. Consequently, shops start at €6,500 and rise with the size of your catalogue.
Custom work.
Booking systems, member areas, calculators like the one on this page, and connections to tools you already use are real engineering. As a result, they are priced as features on top of the build, not hidden inside a vague total.
Why the cheap quote usually costs more
A €500 website is a template. It can look fine on day one. However, it usually arrives with no search engine groundwork, no proper mobile testing, slow loading, and nobody to call when something breaks. Then, a year later, the rebuild costs the full amount anyway, plus the customers the site quietly lost in between. We have rebuilt enough of these to say it plainly: the cheapest website is rarely the one with the lowest price tag.
What about AI, SEO and the rest?
Website cost in Ireland is only part of the picture now, because a site that nobody finds is an expensive brochure. That is why the calculator covers the full stack. Monthly SEO starts at €300 for local businesses. An AI chatbot that answers your visitors at 11pm is €1,200 to build. An AI voice agent that picks up the calls you miss is €1,500. An AI virtual assistant that takes the admin off your desk is €1,000. And getting found on AI search, so ChatGPT recommends you instead of your competitor, starts at €800.
None of these are guesses or starting-from teasers. They are the prices we charge, which is the entire point of this page.
How payment works
Projects under €5,000 are split in two: half to start, half on completion. Larger projects are staged across the build, so you never pay for work that has not happened. Monthly services bill monthly and stop with thirty days notice. In other words, we would rather keep you because the work pays for itself, not because a contract says so.
Why we publish our prices when nobody else does
Because the alternative wastes everybody’s time. The usual process is that you ring three agencies, describe the same project three times, wait a week each, then get three proposals you cannot compare because no two of them list the same things.
A range does not help you. Neither does a package, until you know which one you are and what it comes to with your own project in it.
So the tool does that part instead. Every line is a price we charge, and every line tells you what is in it and what is not.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does a website cost in Ireland?
A showcase site for a service business starts at 2,500 euro. A full business website runs from 5,000 euro, and an online shop from 6,500 euro depending on catalogue size. Custom features such as booking systems are priced on top. The calculator on this page gives you an exact figure for your project.
Why do website quotes in Ireland vary so much?
Because "website" covers everything from a template filled in over a weekend to a custom build with booking, payments and integrations. Size, e-commerce and custom features are what move the price. A quote without a breakdown of those three is a guess.
Is a cheap website worth it?
Sometimes, for a brand new business testing an idea. But a 500 euro template usually skips the search groundwork, mobile testing and support, and it tends to be rebuilt within a year or two. Over three years, the cheap site is frequently the more expensive one.
What does a website cost per month in Ireland?
The build is a one-off. Ongoing costs are optional and depend on what you add: a care plan from 300 euro per month, SEO from 300 euro per month, and AI tools from 75 euro per month. A simple site with none of those costs little beyond hosting.
Do your prices include VAT?
No, prices shown exclude VAT, which is standard for business services in Ireland. The calculator says this beside the total so there are no surprises.
Can I really get a quote without a call?
Yes. The calculator on this page uses our real prices, and you can copy the full proposal it builds. We confirm the final figure on a short call because every business has its own challenges and sometimes challenges are bigger than we expect.
How long does a website take to build?
A showcase site takes one to two weeks. A business site takes two to four weeks. An online shop or a custom build runs four to eight weeks depending on scope.
Do you only build websites?
No. We build the full stack for Irish SMEs: websites, SEO, AI chatbots, AI voice agents, AI virtual assistants, AI search visibility, social content, email and ads. Everything is priced in the calculator above.
What does it cost to keep a website running each year?
Two things, and they are easy to mix up. Hosting and your domain are ongoing costs you pay whoever hosts the site, and they are small. Keeping the site updated, backed up and secure is the part people forget about until something breaks.
Our care plan is €300 a month, so €3,600 a year, and covers software updates, security patches, daily backups and small content edits. The priority plan is €550 a month, or €6,600 a year, for sites the business depends on daily. If you would rather mind the site yourself, that is fine. Nothing here pushes you into a monthly fee.
How much should a WordPress website cost in Ireland?
The same as any other website, because the platform is not what you are paying for. Our WordPress builds start at €2,500 for a showcase site and €5,000 for a business site with a proper page for each service. What moves the price is how many pages you need, whether we write the words, and whether the site has to actually do something like take bookings or payments. Wix and Squarespace look cheaper until you need it to do any of that. Anyone quoting a WordPress price without asking those questions first is guessing.
How much does a custom website or an online shop cost?
A custom build starts at €6,000. That covers the things a standard site does not do: booking systems, calculators, member areas, customer portals, and connections to tools you already use like your calendar or CRM. An online shop starts at €6,500 for around twenty products and rises with the size of the catalogue. Both get priced properly after a short scoping conversation, because the honest answer depends on what the thing has to do.
What does it cost to hire a web designer in Ireland?
For a professionally built small business site in Ireland, expect somewhere between €2,500 and €6,000 depending on how big it is and what it has to do. Ours start at €2,500. At the very bottom of the market you are buying a template filled in over a weekend, which is fine if that is genuinely all you need.
After that the number matters less than what sits behind it. Before you agree to anything, ask three questions: what exactly is included, what is specifically not included, and who owns the site when it is finished. Those three are where nearly every bad web project goes wrong, and every price on this page is published so you can answer all three before you ever speak to us.