How Much Does a Website Cost in Egypt?

A website in Egypt can cost anything from a few thousand pounds to several hundred thousand. A simple starter site with us starts from [PRICE IN EGP] ([PRICE IN SAR] in Saudi Arabia). A bilingual company website usually falls between [PRICE RANGE IN EGP]. Online stores and custom platforms cost more, because they do more. The table below shows our tiers. The rest of this article explains why the price matters less than what the website brings back.

These are starting ranges. Your final price depends on the number of pages, languages, features and integrations. Hosting, domain and third-party licences are [INCLUDED / QUOTED SEPARATELY — CONFIRM]. Prices [INCLUDE / EXCLUDE VAT — CONFIRM].

Two quotes for “a company website” can differ by ten times, and both companies may be telling the truth. They are quoting for different things. One is quoting for a ready-made template with your logo on it. The other is quoting for a site designed around your customers, written to rank on Google, built in two real languages and set up to track every enquiry. From the outside, on launch day, the two can look similar. Six months later, they don’t.

The price of a website is made up of a few things: how much of it is designed for you, how many pages and languages it has, what it has to do (forms, bookings, payments, logins), how it’s built underneath, and what happens after launch. Cheap quotes save money by cutting one or more of these. The question is which ones, and what that cut will cost you later.

A website is an investment. It has one job: to turn people who find you online into people who contact you or buy from you. So the real cost of a website is its price plus the business it fails to bring in.

Take a simple example, with numbers chosen only to show the maths. Say 1,000 people visit your site in a month. A slow, unclear site might turn 1 in 200 of them into an enquiry. That’s 5 enquiries. A fast, clear site with an obvious WhatsApp button and a short form might turn 1 in 50 into an enquiry. That’s 20. If even one of those extra 15 enquiries becomes a client, the difference in price between the two websites is often paid back within months. Every month after that, the cheap site keeps costing you the enquiries it doesn’t get.

Here is where the money usually leaks out of a cheap website:

• Slow loading — most of your visitors are on a phone, often on mobile data. If a page takes too long, they leave before they read a word.
• No real Arabic version — a machine-translated page with the layout still running left to right tells Arabic-speaking customers you weren’t built for them.
• Invisible on Google — no page for each service, no proper titles, no structure. People search for what you sell and find your competitors.
• No way to know what works — without lead tracking, you can’t tell which pages, ads or searches bring enquiries, so you can’t improve.
• Pirated themes and plugins — cheap builds often use cracked software. It’s how many small business websites get hacked or filled with spam links.
• Locked out — the developer registers your domain or hosting in their own name. When they disappear, so does your control.
• Paying twice — a site that can’t grow with you gets rebuilt within a year or two, and you pay for a website again.

Picture two shops in Cairo selling the same products at the same prices. The first is on a quiet side street. The rent is low, but hardly anyone walks past, the sign is hard to read and customers who do find it aren’t sure it’s still open. The second is on the main road. The rent is higher, but thousands of people pass every day, the window is clean and lit, and the door is easy to find. Nobody would call the second shop a waste of money. The rent is what brings the customers in.

A website works the same way. A cheap site is the shop on the side street. It exists, and you can send people the link, but Google doesn’t send anyone to it, visitors can’t tell what you do in the first few seconds, and the WhatsApp button may not even work. A well-built site is the storefront on the main road, whether that’s a Cairo high street or Tahlia Street in Jeddah. It shows up when people search, it looks trustworthy the moment it opens, and it makes it easy to take the next step. You pay more for the location because the location is what sells.

Whatever you pay, and whoever you hire, check that the quote includes these basics. If it doesn’t, ask why.

We’re rarely the lowest quote, and we don’t try to be. Our price pays for the things that decide whether a website earns its cost back:

• A named team in our Cairo office — a project manager, designer, developers, a QA tester and an SEO specialist. Not a chain of freelancers.
• Hand-coded WordPress themes, with no page builders. Faster pages, fewer plugins, fewer security holes.
• Licensed themes and plugins only. Nothing pirated, ever.
• Arabic and English by default, with a right-to-left layout designed for Arabic readers.
• SEO-ready structure, and on a redesign every old URL redirected so you keep your Google rankings.
• Enquiry tracking set up at launch, so you know what the site brings in.
• Everything in your name. The domain, the site, the content and the code are yours, and we hand over every login.
• More than 20 years of doing this. We launched in 2004, and we’ve delivered over 3,000 projects in 12+ countries.

When you compare quotes, don’t compare the totals first. Compare what each one includes. Ask every company the same questions:

1. 01

   Is the design made for my business, or is it a template?

   
2. 02

   Will there be a real Arabic version with a right-to-left layout, or a translation of the English pages?

   
3. 03

   Is the site built with a page builder, or coded by hand? Are all themes and plugins licensed?

   
4. 04

   Whose name will the domain, hosting and code be in? Will I get every login?

   
5. 05

   How will I know how many enquiries the site brings in?

   
6. 06

   If I’m replacing an old site, will you redirect the old URLs so I don’t lose my Google rankings?

   
7. 07

   Who writes the content, and is it written for Google as well as for people?

8. 08

   What happens after launch? How long is the free support period, and what does maintenance cost?

A company that answers all of these clearly is worth more than its price difference. A company that can’t answer them is telling you where it saved money.

Every business is different, so the fastest way to a real number is to tell us what you need. Our Project Cost Estimator gives you an indicative range in a couple of minutes. If you’d rather talk it through, see what’s included in every website we build, or send us a message on WhatsApp.