A.L.E.X.
Breakdown · websites and development

What actually drives the cost of a website

An honest breakdown: what pushes the price up, what pulls it down, and what to ask any contractor so two quotes become comparable.

What you get
  • →Five multipliersin plain words
  • →Questions to askto compare quotes
  • →A quote for youafter scoping
The exact scope and timing are fixed after the diagnostic — before that nobody has an honest picture.
Outcome

What stays with you afterwards

You see what is being paid for

Five things move the price: the type of site, the design, the volume, the integrations and the care afterwards. Each is explained in words, not as a line in an estimate.

A list of questions for a contractor

What to ask so that two different quotes become comparable: what is included, who writes the copy, what happens after handover and who owns the access.

A quote for your task

After scoping we name a figure and show what it is made of: not a package, but your own volume.

Who it fits

When people come to us with this

Not everyone needs this breakdown — here are the cases where it saves the most time.

You are collecting quotes

You have several estimates and one is three times another. The difference is almost never greed — it is scope, and this is where to look for it.

You cannot see why it is so expensive

Sites that look alike cost differently because "a website" is both a single page and a shop with payments. Different jobs under one word.

You want a rough idea first

The order of work and the volume can be sketched before we talk — that is what the task calculator on the diagnostic page is for.

You are wary of hidden extras

Ask about what surfaces later: copy, photography, migration, training and ongoing care. We name those up front.

How the work goes

A clear order, no surprises

1 · The type of site

A single page, a site about the business, or a shop with a catalogue and payments — three different jobs, and the gap between them is a multiple, not a few per cent.

2 · Design and volume

A ready base or an individual design; five pages or fifty; your own copy and photographs or ours. That is the second multiplier, and it multiplies too.

3 · What is connected from outside

CRM, payments, stock, telephony, language versions — every connection is a job of its own. Plus the care after launch: it is paid monthly, and that is normal.

The figure is named in a quote for your task, once the scope is clear. There is no price list here on purpose: an "average price" in this trade means either an averaged job or an incomplete one.

Straight talk

What we do ourselves and what we do with partners

We do this ourselves

We show the quote taken apart: you can see how many pages are in it, how many connections, and what can be dropped if the budget is tight.

We build our own site the same way we build client sites — so we know the cost of each part from the work, not from a price list.

We build this out for you

If the task is unfamiliar — a new platform, a rare integration — we look first and name the figure after. A blind estimate here would be a lie.

Where a partner does the work, we stay your single point of contact: we pick the contractor, set the task, watch the timing and answer to you for the result. The contract names the contractor honestly — no "we do everything in-house".

Questions

What people usually ask

Why is there no price list on the site?
Because there is no honest average: the same word covers a single page and a shop with payments. A price list would either average the job or show half of it.
What makes a website most expensive?
An individual design and everything connected from outside: payments, stock, accounting. Many pages is volume; integrations are another conversation.
Can we get a rough idea in advance?
Yes — the diagnostic page has a task calculator. It gives the order of work and the volume, and the exact figure comes after scoping.
Enquiry

Let us look at your task

Tell us what you need and we will put together a quote for your volume and show what it is made of.

We call back during working hours. Company details are optional — if you give them, we read the open registries first and come to the conversation prepared.