How Much Does a Website Really Cost in 2025?

We get asked this all the time, how much should a website cost these days? And honestly, we get it. Between £500 quotes on Fiverr and £50k pitches from slick agencies, it’s hard to know what’s fair, or even what you’re paying for.

So, let’s clear the fog.

At Developyn, we believe in being straight with people. No mystery pricing. No upselling fluff you don’t need. Just honest insights about what goes into a website build in 2025 and what you should expect to pay depending on your needs.

Whether you’re a solo founder, a small business owner, or scaling up with a bigger team, this blog’s for you.

First Things First: What Kind of Website Are You After?

Websites aren’t one-size-fits-all anymore (if they ever really were). Let’s look at three common types, and what they typically cost in today’s world.

The Starter Site  

Perfect for: freelancers, one-person brands, or micro-businesses  

Typical cost: *£500 – £2,000*

If you just need a clean, professional online presence, a few pages, a contact form, mobile-friendly layout, this is where you’ll land. You’re probably working with a template or a light custom design. Think: “just enough to look legit.”

Good to know: These sites usually don’t include deep strategy, SEO, or anything too complex, but they do get you online fast without breaking the bank.

The Growth-Focused SME Site  

Perfect for: small to mid-sized businesses with real growth plans  

Typical cost:*£2,000 – £8,000*

Now we’re talking. This tier is where most of our clients live. You’ve got more content, more functionality, and you actually want the site to do something, generate leads, rank on Google, integrate with a CRM, that sort of thing.

Custom design? Check.  

Solid performance? Check.  

Built with future marketing in mind? Definitely.

At this level, the focus shifts from “just having a website” to building something that actually drives your business forward.

The Big Guns (Custom, Scalable, Serious)  

Perfect for: large businesses, SaaS, eCommerce, or enterprise setups  

Typical cost: *£8,000 – £25,000+*

This is where things get more strategic. Full discovery workshops. UX design with actual wireframes and user testing. Custom development, animations, accessibility, CMS flexibility, API integrations, the works!

You’re not paying for pages here.  

You’re paying for a digital system that supports your business goals, your team, and your customers. It’s a proper investment, but it can also be a game-changer.

So…Why Does Pricing Vary So Much?

Great question. You’re not just paying for a designer to make it look nice (although, yes, that’s part of it). 

Here’s what else is baked into the price:

• Strategy & Planning – Understanding your goals, users, and how your site needs to function
• Design & UX – Custom layouts that actually convert, not just look pretty
• Development – Clean, scalable code that works across devices and browsers
• Content & SEO – Words that sell and structure that gets you found on Google
• Ongoing Support – Hosting, maintenance, updates, security, and analytics

It’s a bit like building a house. The cost depends on the materials, the size, the design, and whether you’re adding a hot tub on the roof!!

What About Value-Based Pricing?

Here’s the thing: websites don’t exist in a vacuum. A £5k site that brings you £50k in business isn’t “expensive”, it’s a smart investment. That’s why we price projects based on value, not just time.

At Developyn, we don’t charge you by the hour. We charge based on what the site is worth to your business. That way, your goals and our goals stay perfectly aligned. You want results. We build with that in mind.

So, What’s Your Website Going to Cost?

Honestly, that depends on:

1. What you want the site to do
2. How much you want to customise
3. How fast you need it
4. And how involved you want to be

But here’s the good news, we’re happy to chat, even if you’re just curious and not quite ready to commit.

We offer free strategy calls where we talk through your ideas, budget, and timelines, and let you know what’s realistic (and what’s not).

Let’s Chat – Book a Free Call https://developyn.com/contact

Final Thoughts

In 2025, a website isn’t just a digital brochure. It’s your brand’s front door. Your best salesperson. Your 24/7 marketing engine. Don’t treat it like a checkbox on a to-do list. Whether you’re just getting started or levelling up, you deserve a site that works for you, not just something that looks nice on launch day and collects dust after.

Thanksgiving 2016.

Rich Harris, a graphics editor at the Guardian, has just finished a few days furiously coding an MVP to the first version of Svelte. Which essentially at the time was a compiler for his previous framework, Ractive.js.

“Three and a half kilobytes” for a to-do app written with this new compiler. “Which compared to literally every other framework at the time was minescule”.

The idea came to him after speaking to a fellow JavaScript enthuiast and organiser of the BrooklynJS monthly meetup, Jed Schmidt, who shared an idea to turn the code you write into something else. Essentially – describing compilers.

Now of course, compilers aren’t new. But over in browserland, all of the big frameworks then (and even today) run in what is known as the “Virtual DOM”, an abstraction on top of your normal HTML, CSS and JavaScript that a framework such as Angular, Vue or React uses to keep track of elements that need to be changed and updated.

The idea is great and it works well.

But they are heavy and require objectively more memory to operate because your browser is tracking not only the page itself, but all of this extra data the framework needs to run. The browser will need to then constantly check to see if an update needs to be made to the UI.

Compiled code however, would allow for a developer to write code with all the benefits of using a framework, but without the downside of using a Virtual DOM. This is because it would “compile” (really, it’s a transpiler – but we’ll stick with compiler for now) the code into native HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Providing an almost immediate benefit to developers with its improved performance.

After writing a short blog post about this “Framework-less framework”, a small community arose who all shared an interest in this fresh idea to changing how we could build for the web and the Svelte team grew into a small team of maintainers.

Svelte 2.0

Less than 18 months after Rich had written the first version of Svelte, a second version had been released to focus on small cosmectic changes. Version 2 set out to correct what maintainers viewed as mistakes that had been made in the earlier version of Svelte and to improve it cosmectically. These were changes such as using single curly braces { variable } instead of double {{ variable }} curly braces for its template syntax.

“Svelte 3 was when everything changed”

Almost an exact year after the release of version 2, Svelte 3 was released (21st April 2019) which “tore up the rulebook” and went with the philosophy of “we have a compiler, we can essentially create our own language” and had the goal of creating the “most elegant and usable way of describing user interfaces”.

Now – I really can’t express how much of a big deal this was.

After using Vue.js as my primary framework for building web applications for over 4 years at that point, I learned the most important parts of Svelte in less than a day and almost haven’t looked back. At the time I was working within IKEA. We were building large applications to replace outdated BI systems with Vue and had learned a lot about some of the drawbacks it had when working with very large applications. I loved working with Vue, but my main conern was that its syntax was slightly clunky and that it could be expressed in a much simpler way (something the Vue team have addressed in the more recent version 3).

Luckily, I was presented with the opportunity to lead a new team within IKEA to build a search-focused data repository for the entire company and picked up Svelte, along with Sapper to build it. Even though Svelte was still quite new and it hadn’t the same eco-system and support of the 3 major frameworks (Angular/React/Vue), the flexibility of Svelte made it easy and quick to build what we needed. The biggest pain we faced was that Sapper wasn’t perfect and new changes to Svelte could introduce breaking changes.

Though we still believed it was quicker to fix breaking changes and work with Svelte than to use a different framework. Svelte 3 let us strip away all of the boilerplate of other frameworks we had used, write code quicker and even better – it was faster!

SvelteKit

Announced by the Svelte team in late 2020, the SvelteKit beta was built from the ashes of Sapper to be a dedicated all-in-one meta-framework for Svelte, featuring all of the bells and whistles you need to create SSR (Server Site Rendered), SPA (Single Page Application) and SSG (Static Site Generator) websites.

Though it remained in an initial beta mode until the release of SvelteKit 1.0 in December 2022. The team had continuously iterated on it to now be a product that can be finally used in production without too much concern of breaking changes.

Vercel – A big fan of making the web easier to use

Since 2022, Rich Harris and a small team of other maintainers have joined Vercel to bring working on Svelte as a fun side-project to something that can be focused on fulltime. Svelte continues to improve and is regularly voted as one of the most admired and desired frameworks to work with in Stack Overflow’s yearly developer survey.