How Much Does a Website Cost in Nepal? The Honest 2026 Price Guide
Ask ten web companies in Kathmandu one simple question: "How much does a website cost?"
You will get ten different answers.
One says NPR 15,000. Another says NPR 5 lakh. A third asks, "What is your budget?" and then quietly matches the price to your answer.
It feels like nobody wants to give you a straight number.
The truth is simpler than it looks. A website is like a building. A small tea shop and a five-star hotel are both buildings. Nobody expects them to cost the same. A website works the same way. The price depends on what you are actually building.
So this guide gives you real numbers. We break down every type of website built in Nepal. We give you 2026 price ranges in rupees. And we show you the hidden costs that appear after the work is "done."
No vague answers. Let us begin.
Looking to get a website built? Noble Stack can help. You do not have to read the whole guide first. We are a Kathmandu-based studio, and we design and develop every type of website covered here, from a simple landing page to a full custom platform. Contact Noble Stack for a free, honest quote.
How to Use This Guide
This is a long guide. Here is what each part covers, so you can jump to what you need.
- The Quick Answer. Every website type and its price on one screen.
- Simple Websites. Landing pages, portfolios, and small business sites.
- Industry Websites. Restaurants, schools, hospitals, and more.
- Websites Nepal Is Famous For. Trekking, hotels, manpower, study abroad, and others.
- E-commerce Websites. Online stores that take payment.
- Web Apps and Platforms. News portals, job sites, and custom software.
- The Hidden Yearly Costs. Domain, hosting, maintenance, and more.
- Who Builds It. Freelancer vs agency vs builder, and what each costs.
- Why Quotes Differ So Much. And how to protect yourself.
- What Should You Pay. A simple final answer.
A quick note on money. All prices are in Nepali Rupees (NPR). For US dollars, divide by about 133. So NPR 133 is about $1.
Part 1: The Quick Answer (2026 Price Table)
Short on time? Here is the whole market on one screen. Find your website type and see the price range.
Simple and brand websites
| Website Type | Typical Price |
|---|---|
| One-page or landing page | NPR 8,000 to NPR 30,000 |
| Personal or portfolio | NPR 15,000 to NPR 40,000 |
| Private company landing page | NPR 25,000 to NPR 1,00,000 |
| Small business (brochure) | NPR 20,000 to NPR 60,000 |
| Dynamic business site with CMS | NPR 40,000 to NPR 1,20,000 |
Industries Nepal is famous for
| Website Type | Typical Price |
|---|---|
| Trekking or adventure agency | NPR 50,000 to NPR 2,00,000 |
| Hotel or resort | NPR 60,000 to NPR 2,50,000 |
| Homestay or guesthouse | NPR 25,000 to NPR 80,000 |
| Manpower or foreign employment | NPR 50,000 to NPR 2,00,000 |
| Study-abroad consultancy | NPR 40,000 to NPR 1,50,000 |
| Restaurant or cafe | NPR 20,000 to NPR 70,000 |
| Astrology or Jyotish | NPR 40,000 to NPR 2,00,000 |
| Temple or religious site | NPR 35,000 to NPR 1,50,000 |
Institutions and professional services
| Website Type | Typical Price |
|---|---|
| Government or municipality (palika) | NPR 80,000 to NPR 5,00,000 |
| School or college | NPR 50,000 to NPR 2,00,000 |
| Hospital or clinic | NPR 60,000 to NPR 2,50,000 |
| Bank, cooperative, or microfinance | NPR 80,000 to NPR 3,00,000 |
| Insurance company | NPR 80,000 to NPR 3,00,000 |
| NGO or INGO | NPR 35,000 to NPR 1,50,000 |
| Law firm or consultancy | NPR 30,000 to NPR 1,00,000 |
| Real estate or listings | NPR 80,000 to NPR 3,00,000 |
E-commerce (selling online)
| Website Type | Typical Price |
|---|---|
| Small online store | NPR 60,000 to NPR 1,50,000 |
| Large or custom store | NPR 1,50,000 to NPR 5,00,000+ |
| Handicraft or pashmina export store | NPR 1,00,000 to NPR 4,00,000 |
Web apps and platforms (software products)
| Website Type | Typical Price |
|---|---|
| News or media portal | NPR 1,00,000 to NPR 5,00,000 |
| Job or manpower portal | NPR 3,00,000 to NPR 12,00,000 |
| Matrimonial platform | NPR 2,00,000 to NPR 8,00,000 |
| Booking system (hotel, clinic) | NPR 1,00,000 to NPR 4,00,000 |
| E-learning or course platform | NPR 2,00,000 to NPR 10,00,000 |
| Food delivery or quick-commerce | NPR 4,00,000 to NPR 20,00,000+ |
| Management system (school, hospital) | NPR 3,00,000 to NPR 15,00,000 |
| Custom web app or SaaS | NPR 3,00,000 to NPR 20,00,000+ |
The key insight. The word "website" covers a 250 times price gap. A landing page and a SaaS platform are both "websites," the way a bicycle and an aeroplane are both "vehicles." So the first question is never "how much?" It is "what kind?"
Now let us break down each type. This way you know exactly where your project fits.
Part 2: Simple Websites
These are "show, do not sell" websites. Their job is to look professional. They explain who you are and let people contact you. Most run on WordPress with a ready-made theme. That keeps both the cost and the timeline low.
2.1 Landing Page or One-Page Site
This is a single scrolling page. One headline, a few sections, one contact button. It is perfect for a product launch, an event, a single service, or a "coming soon" page.
This is the cheapest real website you can buy. A freelancer can finish it in a day or two. But be careful below NPR 8,000. At that price you are usually getting a free template with your logo on top.
2.2 Personal or Portfolio Website
This is for people who need an online identity. Think freelancers, photographers, artists, doctors, and consultants. It has a few pages, a gallery or work samples, an about section, and contact details.
This is the website that makes a CV look serious. The price goes up when you want custom design instead of a stock template.
2.3 Private Company Landing Page
This is for a company that wins most of its business offline but still needs to look credible online. Think of an import-export house, a manufacturer, or a B2B supplier.
The job here is trust. You get clean design, a clear "what we do," team and contact details, and maybe a company profile to download. The price rises with custom design, animation, and content in both English and Nepali.
2.4 Small Business or Brochure Website
This is the most common website in Nepal. It has five to eight pages: Home, About, Services, Gallery, Contact, and maybe a blog. It is built for a tuition center, a salon, a construction firm, or a local shop.
It works like a digital brochure. It does not sell online. But it builds trust and shows up when people search your business name.
Watch out. Many shops sell this exact site for NPR 10,000. They do it by reusing the same theme for every client. It works. But you will look identical to fifty other businesses. Custom design is what the extra money buys.
Part 3: Industry Websites
Here the website starts doing real work. "Dynamic" means the content can change. You get an admin panel, a blog you update yourself, search, filters, and forms that save data. These sites are built for specific industries. Each industry adds its own features.
3.1 Dynamic Business Site with CMS
This is a business site you fully control. You log in, add blog posts, update services, and change images. You do not need a developer for small edits.
It is the right choice for growing companies. It suits businesses that publish content for SEO and want to stop paying for every tiny change.
3.2 Restaurant or Cafe Website
This has menu pages, photo galleries, a location map, opening hours, and a table-reservation form. The higher end adds online ordering and a payment gateway. That extra feature pushes the price toward e-commerce levels.
3.3 School or College Website
Education sites are bigger than they look. They need notice boards, downloadable PDFs like admission forms and results, event calendars, teacher pages, and photo galleries. Many also need a student or parent login portal.
The more portal features you add, the higher the price climbs. At some point it becomes a custom web app.
3.4 Hospital or Clinic Website
This has doctor profiles, service listings, and often online appointment booking. Once you add live doctor schedules and patient logins, it changes. You are no longer buying a website. You are buying a booking platform. See Part 6 for that.
3.5 Real Estate or Property Listing Website
Now we are in database territory. You need searchable listings, filters for price and location and bedrooms, a map, photo galleries per property, and an admin panel for agents. This is custom work, not a template. That is why it starts near a lakh.
3.6 NGO or INGO Website
This has mission pages, project galleries, annual reports to download, a news section, and a donation button linked to a payment gateway. Support for two languages, English and Nepali, is common. It adds to the cost.
Part 4: The Websites Nepal Is Famous For
Every country has its signature industries. Nepal's are very specific. These categories make up a huge share of the websites ordered in Kathmandu every year. That is far more than the global "tech startup" type. If your business is one of these, this is your section.
4.1 Trekking, Expedition, and Adventure Agency
This is the Nepal website. Tourism is the country's most famous export. A trekking site has to sell a dream to a customer sitting in Germany or the USA.
So it needs a lot:
- Package pages with day-by-day itineraries
- Route maps and altitude charts
- Stunning photo galleries
- Real customer reviews
- Trust badges like TAAN, NMA, and government licenses
- A strong inquiry or booking form
The same design works for rafting, paragliding, jungle safari in Chitwan, peak climbing, and tour operators. Premium versions add live trip availability, a booking calendar, and online deposits. Those features push the price to the top of the range.
Here, two things matter most: design quality and image loading speed. Your competition is every other agency in the world. They are all one Google search away.
4.2 Hotel and Resort Website
Hospitality is huge in Nepal. This covers a Thamel boutique hotel, a Pokhara lakeside resort, and a Chitwan jungle lodge.
These sites need room-type pages, rich galleries, an amenities list, a location map, and a booking engine. The simpler version uses a "check availability" inquiry form instead. The premium tier connects to a real reservation system with live room availability and online deposits. That moves it into booking-platform territory. See Part 6.
4.3 Homestay or Guesthouse Website
This is the smaller cousin of the hotel site. It is popular with community homestays, trekking-route lodges, and family-run guesthouses.
It has a few pages, a photo gallery, prices, and an inquiry form over WhatsApp or email. It is affordable and fast to build. Often it is all a small property needs to win direct bookings and skip agent commissions.
4.4 Manpower or Foreign Employment Agency
This is one of Nepal's largest industries. These agencies send workers to the Gulf, Malaysia, and beyond. Their websites need:
- Country and job-category pages
- "Demand" or vacancy listings
- An online application or CV form
- License and government-approval details
- A strong, trust-building design
Bigger players also want a candidate database and an admin panel to manage applications. Those features lift the price toward the top end.
4.5 Study-Abroad or Education Consultancy
The "abroad study" boom built a whole industry. These consultancies serve Australia, the UK, Canada, Japan, and Korea.
Their sites need destination-country pages, university lists, test-prep info for IELTS and PTE, success stories, an inquiry form, and a blog for SEO. A clean, credible site directly affects how many students walk through the door.
4.6 Coaching, Tuition, and Test-Prep
This covers IELTS, PTE, Loksewa, bridge courses, and SEE and +2 tuition. A basic site lists courses and captures inquiries.
Add a student login, online quizzes, mock tests, or paid video lessons, and it grows. At that point it becomes a small e-learning platform. See Part 6.
4.7 Bank, Cooperative, or Microfinance
This is the public website for a bank, a sahakari (cooperative), or a microfinance. It shows services, interest rates, a branch locator, notices, downloadable forms, and a careers page. It needs bank-grade security and uptime.
One important note. This is the marketing website only. The core banking system that runs accounts and transactions is separate software. It costs many times more.
4.8 Insurance Company
This has policy and product pages, premium calculators, agent locators, claim-process info, and downloadable forms. Trust and clarity are everything here. So design and content quality drive most of the cost.
4.9 Astrology or Jyotish Website
This is a uniquely strong category in Nepal. At the simple end, it is a profile, a service list, and a booking form for an astrologer.
At the higher end, it does more. It can generate a kundali (birth chart) automatically, take paid online consultations, and publish horoscope content with payment integration. At that point it becomes a small web app.
4.10 Temple, Monastery, or Religious Website
This is for temples, monasteries, and religious trusts. It ranges from a Pashupatinath-scale institution down to a local trust.
It has event and festival calendars, history and gallery pages, live-darshan or video sections, and an online donation button linked to a payment gateway. Support for more than one language is common.
4.11 Law Firm or Professional Services
This is for lawyers, auditors, accountants, and architects. It is a credibility-first site. It shows practice areas, team profiles, case results or a portfolio, and a consultation booking form. It is usually compact, but design polish carries the weight.
4.12 Government or Municipality Website
Government bodies all need a .gov.np site. This covers ward offices, municipalities, and ministries.
These sites carry notices, tenders, downloadable forms, citizen-service info, budgets, and an official news feed. They usually run in both Nepali and English. They are often awarded through a tender process, so budgets run higher and vary a lot. Accessibility, security, and reliable hosting matter more than flashy design.
Part 5: E-commerce Websites
The moment your website takes money, everything changes. You now need a shopping cart, product management, inventory, order tracking, and secure checkout. You also need a payment gateway like eSewa, Khalti, ConnectIPS, or cards. Security and reliability stop being optional.
5.1 Small Online Store
This usually runs on WooCommerce (WordPress) or Shopify. It handles up to a few hundred products. It comes with one or two payment gateways and basic inventory. It is the fastest and most affordable way to start selling online in Nepal.
5.2 Large or Custom Store
This handles thousands of products. It includes advanced filters, discount engines, delivery and shipping logic, customer accounts, wishlists, reviews, and a custom checkout.
It is often built on a custom framework like Laravel or Next.js instead of WordPress. At this scale, templates get slow and hard to manage. This is the "full e-commerce" most businesses picture. It is a complete online shop you fully control, ready to grow into a Daraz-style catalog.
5.3 Handicraft, Pashmina, and Thanka Export Store
This is a special Nepali category. It sells local crafts, pashmina, thanka, singing bowls, tea, and coffee to international customers.
The extra cost comes from selling across borders. You need:
- Multi-currency pricing
- International card payments like Stripe and PayPal, alongside eSewa and Khalti
- Shipping and customs handling
- English-first SEO to reach buyers abroad
Done well, this is one of the highest-value websites a Nepali business can own. The reason is simple. The customer pays in dollars.
5.4 Multi-Vendor Marketplace
Think of a "Daraz for your niche." It has many sellers. Each seller gets a dashboard. The system handles commissions, vendor payouts, ratings, and disputes. This is a platform, not a store. So it is priced like the web apps in Part 6.
The payment gateway surprise. An official eSewa merchant integration costs about NPR 25,000. Khalti costs about NPR 20,000. This is on top of your website price. Some gateways like ConnectIPS, IME Pay, and Prabhu Pay charge nothing to integrate. But all of them take a fee of 1 to 2 percent per transaction. You also must be a legally registered business. Individuals cannot get API access. So always ask if the gateway fee is included in your quote.
Part 6: Web Apps and Custom Platforms
This is the top of the market. These are not "websites" in the brochure sense. They are software products that run in a browser. Users log in. Data flows through complex logic. The platform often runs a real business.
6.1 News or Media Portal
This is built to handle huge traffic and constant publishing. It has multiple author logins, categories, breaking-news layouts, ad slots, and heavy-duty hosting. A news site doing a million views a month cannot run on NPR 5,000 hosting.
6.2 Job Portal or Marketplace
This is a two-sided platform. One side posts, like employers or sellers. The other side applies or buys, like job seekers or customers. It needs user accounts, dashboards, search, messaging, and payments. This is serious engineering, usually in Laravel, React, or Node.js.
6.3 Booking and Reservation System
This is for hotels, clinics, salons, and event venues. It has live availability, calendars, automated confirmations, and online deposits. The logic of "do not let two people book the same slot" is harder than it sounds. That is what you pay for.
6.4 Food Delivery or Quick-Commerce Platform
This is the Foodmandu, Pathao, and Bhojdeals model. It has three connected products in one:
- A customer app to place orders
- A restaurant or vendor panel to manage them
- A rider app for delivery
It also needs live order tracking, maps, and payments, all working in real time. This is one of the most expensive things you can build. You are running a logistics company that happens to live on phones.
6.5 E-learning or Online Course Platform
This is a boom category. Loksewa prep, SEE and +2 courses, IELTS classes, and skill training all moved online.
These platforms need student and instructor logins, video lessons, quizzes and mock tests, progress tracking, certificates, and paid subscriptions with payment integration. A full Learning Management System (LMS) is real software. It is priced by its features.
6.6 Matrimonial Platform
This is a culturally strong category in Nepal. It has detailed profiles, search and matching filters, private messaging, verification, and paid membership tiers. It is really a niche social network. It comes with all the database and privacy work that implies.
6.7 Management System: School, Hospital, or Cooperative
These are the quiet giants of Nepali software. A few examples:
- A School Management System handles admissions, attendance, exams, fees, and parent SMS alerts.
- A Hospital Management System handles patients, billing, pharmacy, and lab reports.
- A cooperative (sahakari) system handles members, loans, and savings.
These run the daily operations of an entire institution. So they are priced as serious, long-term software, not websites.
6.8 Custom Web App or SaaS
This is fully custom software. It could be an ERP, a fintech dashboard, a logistics platform, or your own SaaS product. It is priced by the months of engineering required. There is no real upper limit. The only limit is your feature list and timeline.
The insight. Above NPR 3 lakh, you are not buying "a website" anymore. You are hiring an engineering team to build a product. The price reflects salaries and time, not pages. Five engineers for three months is the cost. The browser is just where it appears.
Part 7: The Hidden Yearly Costs
This is where budgets break. The build price is only the start. A website is a living thing. It needs a home, fuel, and upkeep. These are the recurring costs. You pay most of them every year.
| Item | Cost | What It Is |
|---|---|---|
| Domain (.com) | NPR 1,400 to NPR 2,000 per year | Your web address |
| Domain (.com.np) | Free with documents | Nepal's national domain |
| Shared hosting | NPR 3,000 to NPR 8,000 per year | Where your site lives |
| VPS or cloud hosting | NPR 15,000+ per year | For heavy-traffic sites |
| SSL certificate | NPR 0 to NPR 5,000 per year | The padlock and "https" |
| Email hosting | NPR 3,000 to NPR 12,000 per year | you@yourcompany.com |
| Premium plugins or themes | NPR 5,000 to NPR 30,000 per year | Page builders, security tools |
| Maintenance | NPR 2,000 to NPR 10,000 per month | Updates, backups, fixes |
| SEO setup (one time) | NPR 10,000 to NPR 30,000 | Getting found on Google |
| Ongoing SEO | NPR 20,000+ per month | Ranking higher over time |
A few honest notes:
- The .com.np domain is free. If you are a registered Nepali business or citizen, you can get a
.com.npaddress at no cost. You just submit your documents. Anyone charging you thousands for it is charging for paperwork, not the domain. - Maintenance is not optional. An un-updated website gets hacked, breaks, or slows down. Budget for it from day one.
- A 13 percent VAT applies. Web and digital services in Nepal carry 13 percent VAT. Always ask if a quote is before or after VAT. It changes the real number.
- Content is your job, or an extra cost. Most quotes assume you provide the text and images. Professional writing and photography are separate line items.
Rule of thumb. Set aside NPR 10,000 to NPR 60,000 per year just to keep a normal business website alive and healthy. That is on top of what you paid to build it.
Part 8: Who Builds It Changes Everything
The exact same website can cost very different amounts. It depends on who you hire. In Nepal, you have four real options.
8.1 DIY Website Builders
You use tools like Wix, Shopify, or a local builder like ShriGo. You drag, drop, and publish it yourself.
- Good for: a quick personal page.
- Not good for: a serious business. The design is limited, SEO is weaker, and you never truly own the code.
8.2 Freelancers
This is the best value for small and medium projects with a clear scope. A mid-level freelancer with 2 to 5 years of experience charges about NPR 1,200 to NPR 3,000 per hour. Per project, basic work runs NPR 10,000 to NPR 40,000. A solid Laravel e-commerce build can reach NPR 60,000 to NPR 2,00,000 or more.
The catch is simple. One person is the designer, developer, and support team. If they get busy or disappear, so does your support.
8.3 Agencies
An agency gives you a full team. That means a designer, a developer, a project manager, and often an SEO specialist. They usually cost 2 to 3 times more than a freelancer. But you get a clear process, accountability, and long-term support. It is worth the premium for larger or business-critical projects.
8.4 Offshore Development Centers
These are specialist firms. They build serious software products and often work for international clients. This is where Nepal's top engineering talent sits. The pricing reflects product-grade quality.
The international angle. A senior Nepali developer at $25 to $50 per hour delivers work as good as a $75 to $100 developer in the US or Europe. This is exactly why so many Western companies now build their products in Kathmandu. For Nepali businesses, it means world-class engineering is available locally, in rupees.
Part 9: Why Two Quotes for the "Same" Website Differ by 10x
You send the same request to two companies. One says NPR 30,000. The other says NPR 3,00,000. Neither is lying. The gap comes from five things:
- Template vs custom design. A reused theme is cheap. A design made only for you takes real hours.
- Number of pages and features. Every form, filter, login, and integration is more work.
- Who is building it. A student freelancer and a senior team do not cost the same. They do not deliver the same either.
- Quality you cannot see. Speed, security, clean code, and SEO are invisible on day one. But they decide if your site survives to year three.
- What is included. Are hosting, domain, content, training, and support in the price? Or are they surprise bills later?
How to protect yourself. Always ask for a fully itemized quote. A real professional will happily list every line. Anyone who gives you one big number, and gets uncomfortable when you ask what is inside it, is the warning sign.
Part 10: So, What Should You Pay?
Let us make it simple. Find your goal below.
- You just need to exist online. A small business or portfolio site for NPR 20,000 to NPR 60,000 is plenty.
- You want a site that grows your business. A dynamic, SEO-ready site with a CMS, at NPR 60,000 to NPR 1,50,000, will serve you for years.
- You want to sell online. Budget NPR 1,00,000 to NPR 3,00,000 for a proper store. Add the payment gateway and yearly upkeep on top.
- You want to build a real platform or product. Think NPR 3,00,000 and up. Choose a team by its past work, not its price.
Cheaper is not always smarter. A NPR 12,000 website that loads slowly, never ranks on Google, and breaks in six months is expensive. A NPR 60,000 site that quietly brings you customers for five years is cheap. Price is what you pay. Value is what it earns you back.
A Final Word from Noble Stack
Whatever you read about above, we build it.
Look back at this whole guide. Every single type is work we do, right here in Kathmandu.
- A simple NPR 20,000 brochure site? Yes.
- A trekking website that sells a dream to a traveler in Germany? Yes.
- A full online store with eSewa and Khalti? Yes.
- A school system, a job portal, a hospital platform, or custom AI software? Yes, yes, and yes.
You do not need to figure this out alone. That is the whole point of us.
Here is the truth. Most people feel lost at the start. They do not know what to pay. They do not know what they actually need. They do not know who to trust. That confusion is exactly the problem we remove.
We are a Kathmandu-based software studio. We build fast, modern websites and AI-powered products. We use Next.js, React, and Python, the same stack the best companies in the world use. From a one-page site to a full platform, we have built it before. So we can build yours.
Here is our promise. No vague "what is your budget?" games. You tell us your idea. We tell you honestly what it should cost. And if a smaller, cheaper option would serve you better, we will say so.
So take the first step. It is free, and it costs you nothing to ask.
Ready to start? Talk to us at noblestack.io. Tell us what you want to build. We will give you a clear, itemized quote and an honest plan, whatever your budget is.
Your website is the first handshake between your business and the world. Let us help you get it right.