What Does a Corporate Website Cost? Six Variables
Short answer: Why do website quotes vary tenfold between agencies? The six variables that set the price, and how to compare quotes properly. It depends on scope and how fast content is ready. A few weeks for a small corporate site; a few months for a large multilingual build. The part that most often slips is not design but content approval. Measure first: which pages get traffic, where people leave, why the form is not completed. In most cases we see, the problem is not the design but missing sections and weak content architecture — and those can be added to the existing site. No, because those six variables differ every time. Send the page list and we will itemise scope and price. See [web design agency](/en/agency/web-design-agency/) and [corporate website](/en/services/web-digital/corporate-website/). This article was written by the Marka Studio editorial team under web & digital; our İzmit, Kocaeli based agency works with brands across Turkey, Dubai and Europe, and this piece reflects that hands-on experience.
Short answer: Six variables set the price of a website — page count and content volume, custom design versus theme, number of languages, integrations, who produces the content, and post-launch maintenance. Until those six are settled, quotes cannot be compared: the same phrase “corporate website” can mean 5 pages at one agency and 40 at another.
The six variables
1. Page count and content volume
A five-page brochure site and a 60-page corporate site with product and application pages are not the same job. When requesting quotes, supply the page list. Without it, each agency prices its own assumption and the quotes become incomparable.
2. Theme or custom design
For small scopes that need to launch fast, adapting a good theme to the brand is sensible and cuts cost noticeably. But if your differentiation depends on the site, custom is required — a theme leaves you looking like your competitors.
3. Number of languages
A second language is not simply double the pages: hreflang architecture, language-specific metadata, date and currency formats and content workflow all have to be built. A badly built multilingual structure makes languages look like duplicates of each other and drags both down.
4. Integrations
Forms, CRM, email platform, live chat, booking, ERP or payments. Each integration is separate development and testing time. Deciding which are needed in phase one materially reduces cost.
5. Who produces the content
Copy, photography and video are the most frequently forgotten line. If you supply content the price drops but the timeline stretches; if the agency produces it the price rises but the process shortens. This should be explicit in every quote.
6. After launch
Maintenance, updates, backups, security and hosting are recurring monthly costs. And is training provided for whoever runs the admin? Delivery models that keep you dependent on the agency are the most expensive over time.
How to compare quotes
Compare “price for the same scope”, not price. Give all three agencies the same five inputs:
- Page list
- Number of languages
- Required integrations
- Who produces content
- Target launch date
Quotes against the same brief are comparable; quotes against different assumptions are not.
The hidden cost of a cheap quote
The three things most often missing from low quotes: technical SEO (URL structure, schema and sitemap bolted on later never work as well as built in), speed (code written without a Core Web Vitals target leaves debt that is expensive to repay), and accessibility. All three cost more retrofitted than included.
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What do people ask most about this?
How long until launch?
It depends on scope and how fast content is ready. A few weeks for a small corporate site; a few months for a large multilingual build. The part that most often slips is not design but content approval.
Rebuild or refresh?
Measure first: which pages get traffic, where people leave, why the form is not completed. In most cases we see, the problem is not the design but missing sections and weak content architecture — and those can be added to the existing site.
Do you have a price list?
No, because those six variables differ every time. Send the page list and we will itemise scope and price. See [web design agency](/en/agency/web-design-agency/) and [corporate website](/en/services/web-digital/corporate-website/).
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