Do you work with clients outside India?

Yes. Most of our work is for teams in the UK, United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and across Europe and East Asia. We run projects entirely remotely, with contracts, invoicing, and calls in your timezone.

How much does a website or app cost?

A marketing site typically runs from USD 2,000–8,000, a custom web application or mobile app from USD 8,000 upward, depending on scope. We scope every project up front and give you a fixed quote before any work starts — no hourly surprises.

How long will my project take?

A focused website is usually 3–6 weeks from kickoff to launch. Web apps, e-commerce builds, and multi-language sites run 8–16 weeks. We share a week-by-week plan after discovery so you always know what is happening.

Can you build a multi-language or international site?

Yes — it is one of our core specialisms. We handle locale routing, hreflang, translated content workflows, right-to-left layouts, and per-market SEO so your site ranks in each country rather than competing against itself.

Do you offer ongoing support after launch?

Yes. Every project includes a warranty period, and we offer monthly retainers for updates, performance monitoring, content changes, and new features. You are never locked in — the code and accounts are yours.

Which technologies do you build with?

Mostly React, Next.js, TypeScript, and Node on the web; native and cross-platform frameworks for mobile. We choose the stack around your team's ability to maintain it, not around what is trendy.

What a business website really costs in 2026

Ask what a website "should" cost and you'll get answers from free to $50,000. That's not people disagreeing about price — it's people pricing completely different things. A one-page site you build yourself and a custom platform a team builds for you are both "a website," and they have almost nothing else in common.

Here's how the money actually breaks down, and how to work out which bracket you're in before you talk to anyone.

The three brackets

DIY builder — roughly $200–$600 a year, all in

Wix, Squarespace, Shopify. You pay a monthly subscription that bundles hosting, templates, and basic tools. Paid plans start around $17/month and climb with features.

This is the right call when: you need a few pages, the site is a brochure rather than a sales engine, and your time is worth less than the money you'd save. A local service business that just needs to exist online and take phone calls does fine here.

The catch: builders are hard to leave. Your content and design don't transfer to another platform, so if you outgrow it you're rebuilding from scratch. And "SEO tools included" is not the same as ranking.

Freelancer — roughly $1,000–$5,000 one-time (₹15,000–₹80,000 in India, €1,000–€3,000 in Europe)

A single person builds you a custom site, usually on WordPress. Cheaper than an agency, direct communication, flexible.

The catch is consistency. A freelancer quote for "the same site" often quietly excludes design, content writing, or any support after launch. And a solo builder who goes quiet — travels, gets a full-time job, stops replying — leaves you with a site nobody can maintain. This is the single most common complaint we hear from businesses on their second website.

For a first site under about $2,000 with a clear, simple scope, a vetted freelancer with a real portfolio and references is a reasonable bet.

Studio or agency — roughly $3,000–$15,000+ ($8,000+ if the site is a revenue channel)

A team: design, engineering, and someone accountable for the timeline. Structured process, revision rounds, and support after launch. In India that's roughly ₹80,000–₹3,00,000 for a small-business site; in Germany, €3,000–€12,000 for something with custom design and SEO.

You're paying for the process and the accountability, not just the pixels. The value shows up when something goes wrong at 6pm on a Friday, or two years later when you need a change and the code is clean enough that anyone can make it.

This is the right bracket when the website needs to do something — generate enquiries, sell, integrate with other tools, represent an established business where a cheap site would cost you credibility.

The costs nobody quotes

Whatever bracket you're in, budget for these separately:

Content. Writing the actual words, and photography. A studio quote usually covers design and build, not copy. Professional copywriting runs $500–$2,000; a photo session, $300–$500 and up.
Hosting and domain, if you're not on a builder — realistically $400–$1,500 a year once you count a decent host, the domain, email, and an SSL certificate.
Maintenance. Software needs updating. Plan for either a retainer or a few hours a quarter.
The stuff you'll want in month three — an extra landing page, a form integration, analytics set up properly. Good projects leave room for this; cheap ones charge a premium for every change.
Extra languages, if you sell in more than one country — budget 2–4 weeks and a translation-review workflow on top of the base build. See building a website for more than one country.

How to work out your bracket

Answer honestly:

Is the website a cost or a channel? If a good site would directly bring in customers or revenue, it's a channel, and underspending on it is the expensive choice.
How many pages, really? Five static pages is a different job from fifty, or from anything with a login, a booking flow, or a product catalogue.
Who maintains it after launch? If the answer is "nobody technical," you need someone whose handoff includes documentation and who'll still pick up the phone.
What does a bad version cost you? For a corner shop, not much. For a B2B firm pitching enterprise clients, a dated or slow site quietly loses deals.

If you land in the studio bracket, the thing to interview for isn't the lowest number — it's a fixed quote with a written scope, a week-by-week plan, and clear ownership of the code and accounts at the end.

For real numbers instead of ranges, see what 5 real websites cost to build — the actual budget and timeline for five projects we shipped, from $1–2k to $8–12k.

That's how we price at Motioncraft: every project is scoped up front with a fixed quote before any work starts, and you leave with the code, the hosting accounts, and documentation. If you want a number for your specific project, tell us what you're building — see how we approach web development first if it helps.