How much does website design cost in Singapore? (2026)

Short answer: a professional business website in Singapore costs S$988 to S$2,988 from a fixed-price agency like ours, S$300–1,500 from a freelancer, S$3,000–6,000 before subsidy from a PSG-package vendor, and S$8,000–15,000+ from a corporate agency. Our three packages are Starter S$988 (5–8 pages, live in 10 working days), Business S$1,988 (10–15 pages, 5 pages copywritten, Google Business Profile set up) and E-commerce S$2,988 (WooCommerce, unlimited products, PayNow and card payments). All one-time, 50% deposit, 50% before go-live, and you own everything including the domain and hosting logins. Prices shown are as quoted; GST applies only if the vendor is GST-registered. The rest of this page explains why the same five-page site gets quoted anywhere from S$500 to S$8,000 — and how to read a quote so the spread stops being confusing.

WhatsApp us for a fixed quote (+65 8915 2098) — tell us your business and page count; you get a number, not a sales call.

Singapore website design price tiers (2026)

Four vendor types, four price bands, and the catch inside each one.

Before you collect quotes, get four things in writing: scope (page count, copywriting, revision rounds), ownership (domain in your name, admin access on launch), recurring costs itemised, and a timeline. Ours is 10 working days, printed on the quote.

What we charge, on the table

Three fixed prices, published so every other quote you are holding has context.

Every package: 50% deposit, 50% before go-live. 100% ownership — domain, hosting and admin credentials handed over at launch. After the free maintenance window, a Care Plan is optional at S$488, S$888 or S$1,288 per year, cancel anytime, keep everything. Full line-item detail is on the pricing page; the Starter package is described in depth on our affordable web design Singapore page and the store build on the e-commerce website Singapore page.

Launch offers (valid until 30 September 2026): sign 12 months of Local SEO and the Starter website is free. First 20 web clients get first-year Care Basic at half price (S$244), priority scheduling, free migration from your old site or platform and a free logo touch-up. Book web design and SEO together and the build is 10% off.

Budget by business type

What a sensible Singapore website budget looks like for six common SME shapes.

Whatever the type, add roughly S$150–250 a year for domain and hosting in your own name, or fold both into a Care Plan. Custom software — booking engines, membership portals, quote calculators — sits outside these bands and is scoped on our web development Singapore page.

Where the money goes

Five ingredients inside every Singapore web quote — and the sixth one you should not be paying for.

Strip any quote to its skeleton and five ingredients remain. Reading quotes ingredient by ingredient is how you compare a S$900 offer with a S$6,000 one without being fooled by either.

• Design (about a quarter of an honest build): layout, hierarchy, mobile experience. The cheap version is a purchased template with your logo dropped in — fine until you meet your template-twin two shops down.
• Development (about a third): clean structure, speed, security. Invisible in screenshots, which is why cheap builds cut it first — you cannot see a six-second load time in a portfolio image.
• Copywriting (about a fifth): the most commonly deleted ingredient in budget quotes ("client to provide content") and the most common reason projects stall for months. If words are not explicitly included, you are comparing the price of an empty container.
• SEO foundation (about 15%): meta structure, schema, Search Console. Skipped silently in cheap builds; discovered missing when you never rank for your own trade. "SEO-friendly" as an adjective costs nothing to type — ask for the noun list.
• Project management (the rest): deadline discipline, revision coordination, QA. Absent in many freelancer quotes, which is where four-month projects come from.

Cheap cuts the first three ingredients. Affordable cuts overhead. Our packages carry all five at published weights, with the sixth corporate ingredient — overhead theatre — deliberately deleted.

The three-year math

Total cost of ownership in Singapore — the table vendors don't show.

The corporate build costs four to ten times ours for an SME-shaped deliverable, while the "cheap" subscription overtakes our self-maintained route by year three — with nothing owned at the end. Sticker price and real price are different sports.

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Hidden costs after the build

The line items that surface in year one and beyond — budget for them before you sign, not after.

• Hosting renewal: roughly S$100–200 a year for a standard SME site at cost, more for a busy store. If a vendor quotes S$40–60 a month for a brochure site, that is a five-to-ten-times markup on reality. Included in every Care Plan.
• Domain renewal: S$20–40 a year, in your name, direct with the registrar. Trivial until it lapses and the site disappears.
• Stock imagery: free libraries cover most sites; premium industry-specific images run S$20–100 each or S$30–100 a month on subscription. Your own phone photos of the actual shophouse usually convert better.
• Premium plugins: advanced forms, booking systems and security tools can add S$50–200 a year each. Ask any vendor which licences renew under whose account.
• Analytics and research tools: GA4 and Search Console are free. Heatmaps and keyword tools cost S$40–200 a month if you choose to use them.
• Content after launch: blog posts, new service pages, product descriptions — your time or a writer's. A Care Plan includes a fixed number of content edits per month; larger content programmes belong in an SEO retainer.
• Emergencies and refreshes: a hacked-site clean-up on an unmaintained WordPress install runs S$1,500–5,000; a major redesign every three to five years costs about what the original build did. Regular updates and backups are what a Care Plan is for.

Not sure whether your current site is already leaking money on any of these? Run the free 15-check website audit before you ask for a rebuild quote.

PSG, GST and other Singapore-only questions

The grant, the tax, the registry check and the payment method — answered without spin.

Is Expertise Web Solution a PSG pre-approved vendor?

No. The Productivity Solutions Grant subsidises part of the cost of pre-approved digital solutions from vendors on the official list. We are not on that list, so you cannot claim PSG on our builds. What that means for you: compare our cash price against a PSG vendor's grant-net price, not their list price. A S$4,000 pre-approved package at 50% support costs you S$2,000 plus application paperwork, a locked scope and a vendor pool you did not choose — against S$1,988 for our Business build with no application, no approval wait and any scope you want. If you are eligible and a package genuinely fits, use the grant; our PSG grant for websites guide explains eligibility and process. If you are not eligible — sole proprietors in some structures, very new companies, businesses that have used their cap — read how to get a professional website without PSG.

Do the prices include GST?

Prices shown are as quoted; GST applies only if the vendor is GST-registered. Whoever you buy from, the number you approve should be the number you pay, with any tax on its own line rather than discovered at invoice time. Registration is a matter of turnover, not quality — IRAS explains who must register. For your own store, we configure GST at checkout according to your registration status.

How do I verify a Singapore web vendor?

Search the company name or UEN on ACRA's BizFile and check the registration date and status; a "3-year-old agency" registered last quarter is telling you something. For transparency: Expertise Web Solution is registered in Johor Bahru (established 2022) and serves Singapore clients remotely, so you will not find us on ACRA. Ask for our registration document with your quote, and hold us to the same written-scope, written-ownership test you would apply to anyone else.

Can I pay by PayNow?

Yes. The 50% deposit and the 50% balance before go-live can be settled by bank transfer. For your own customers, PayNow and card checkout are both configured on the E-commerce package.

Red flags in Singapore website quotes

Seven lines that deserve a second look before you sign.

1. Grant-shaped pricing. When a package lands suspiciously close to a claimable maximum, the price was engineered around the subsidy, not the work. Ask what the cash price would be without any grant framing — the pause is informative.
2. "Free .com.sg domain included." Registered under whose account? A domain you do not control is a leash with a bow on it. Our model: purchased for you, documented as yours, transfer-out free.
3. Mandatory 12-month "maintenance" bundled into the build. Maintenance is legitimate; compulsory maintenance is a subscription wearing a hard hat. It should be optional and cancellable, or it is part of the real price.
4. Hosting priced like rent. See hidden costs above. Itemised pass-through cost is the honest version.
5. No timeline in writing. "4–8 weeks depending on feedback" is a deadline that belongs to nobody. Ours says 10 working days on the quote — enforceable because it is written.
6. "Unlimited revisions". Either padded pricing or a vendor who plans to define "revision" creatively at round three. Two consolidated rounds with clear scope beats infinity with fine print.
7. "Only S$99/month", no upfront. The instalment trap. 36 × S$99 is S$3,564 — nearly double a Business build — and the quiet clause is that the website is theirs, not yours. Stop paying in year three and the domain, content and site vanish. The question that unmasks it: "What do I own if I stop paying in month 13?" Rental answer: nothing. Honest answer: everything except future service. Financing should end in ownership, the way hire-purchase ends in a car.

Also worth a hard look: 100% upfront payment (50/50 is fair), portfolios with no live links, and any promise of "first page of Google in 30 days".

Questions that make any Singapore quote call productive

Bring these five. Confident vendors answer all of them inside ten minutes and enjoy doing it.

• "Walk me through the page list and each page's job."
• "Who writes the content, and what exactly do you need from me?"
• "What's the mobile PageSpeed score of your last three launches?"
• "Itemise every cost in years two and three."
• "If we part ways, describe the handover — domain, hosting, admin logins."

The ones who redirect to their portfolio are answering a question you did not ask to avoid five you did.

Three real quote shapes

What actual Singapore businesses should pay, line by line.

The private tutor going independent (Starter, S$988). Five pages: home, credentials, subjects and levels, results, contact with a booking path. The job is to pass the parental verification check and convert referral traffic from Telegram parent groups. She does not yet need level pages for search; when enquiry volume justifies competing in "sec 3 physics tuition", the Business retrofit is priced and waiting. Year one including domain and hosting at cost: about S$1,040.

The HDB renovation contractor in a knife-fight niche (Business, S$1,988). Ten pages including individual service pages — BTO, resale flat, kitchen, bathroom, commercial — because each is a Google landing page for a search homeowners actually type, plus a portfolio by property type and review architecture. One converted enquiry covers the build several times over; the site's job is surviving comparison against three other tabs at 11pm. Adding the Local SEO retainer from month one makes sense here because search volume and order values both clear the bar. Year one with Care Basic: about S$2,476.

The shophouse brand leaving marketplace economics (E-commerce, S$2,988). A Joo Chiat retailer paying a marketplace percentage on every order. The store ships with PayNow and card checkout, products loaded, delivery rules set against real courier rates, schema live. The comparison that matters is a one-time S$2,988 versus the platform's perpetual cut — worked in SGD on the e-commerce page.

For context on the wider market, our September 2026 benchmark of 39 public price lists puts the Singapore median entry package at about S$1,099.

Once the site is built, the Singapore SEO retainer ladder, itemised shows what S$988, S$2,888 and S$3,888 a month deliver.