What ₹60,000 Buys in a Website Build (2026): The 8-Page Starter Site, Deliverable by Deliverable
The Starter Site tier broken down line by line: what ships, what does not, what the eight pages are worth each, and the first-year cost once GST, domain and hosting are counted.
Saurabh Nishad
Founder, The Mediaverse and Mediaverse Digital · Mediaverse Digital · prices published, no fluff
A ₹60,000 website build at Mediaverse Digital buys up to 8 custom-designed pages in 3 to 4 weeks, with conversion copywriting, on-page SEO and schema markup, contact and WhatsApp lead capture, analytics with lead alerts, and 30 days of free fixes after launch. Domain, hosting and GST sit outside it.
Key takeaways
- The Starter Site is a fixed ₹60,000 (about $1,500) for up to 8 pages, delivered in 3 to 4 weeks, with custom design rather than a template.
- At their page caps the two lower tiers cost exactly the same per page on our arithmetic: ₹60,000 across 8 pages and ₹1,50,000 across 20 pages are both ₹7,500 a page. The step up buys a blog and CMS, keyword research and GEO work, not cheaper pages.
- Use only five of the eight pages and the effective rate is ₹12,000 a page, so the page allowance is worth planning at the sitemap stage rather than after launch.
- First-year cost is ₹71,600 to ₹92,700 on our arithmetic: ₹70,800 with 18 percent GST, plus a domain at ₹800 to ₹1,500, plus hosting that is free for most business sites or ₹1,700 a month.
- Six things are deliberately outside the price, including domain and hosting, photography and video, ongoing content writing, and logo and brand identity work.
- The quote is fixed in a written scope inside 48 hours of a 30-minute discovery call, and nothing is built until the design is approved.
Fixed prices are easy to publish and hard to live with, because the moment a number is on the page every buyer wants to know exactly where it goes. The Starter Site is ₹60,000 for up to 8 pages in 3 to 4 weeks. This post opens that number up: every deliverable inside it, the six things deliberately outside it, what each page is worth, and what the first year actually costs once GST, a domain and hosting are counted.
What is included in a ₹60,000 website build?
Seven published line items, and the one that surprises people most is the copywriting. Most quotes in this band price design and development and leave the words to you, which is how a site launches with three months of placeholder text on the services page.
| Deliverable | What it means in practice |
|---|---|
| Up to 8 pages | The page allowance, assigned to buyer questions at the sitemap stage and signed off before design starts |
| Custom design, no templates | Designed for your brand in Figma, reviewed with you at wireframe and design stage before any code is written |
| Conversion copywriting | Headlines, service pages and calls to action written as problem, proof, offer, next step, not filler your team rewrites later |
| On-page SEO and schema markup | Semantic HTML, Organization, Service and FAQ schema, clean metadata and an XML sitemap, ready to rank on launch day |
| Contact and WhatsApp lead capture | Forms, click-to-WhatsApp buttons and callback requests, with every enquiry emailed and logged within seconds |
| Analytics and lead alerts | GA4, Search Console and conversion events configured and verified before launch, not after |
| 3 to 4 week delivery | Design, build, copy and SEO run in parallel against a date written into the scope document |
Two build standards are published alongside those line items and are worth holding any agency to. The build runs on Next.js against a 90 plus mobile PageSpeed target and a load under 2 seconds on 4G, and the handover includes a training session, written documentation and the admin logins. Thirty days of post-launch fixes are included at no extra cost.
What is not included in the ₹60,000 price?
Six items, published as exclusions rather than discovered in month two. Two of them are recurring costs you will pay with any agency, and the honest thing is to budget for them at the quote stage.
- Domain registration and hosting, billed to your own card in your own accounts, so you are never dependent on us to keep the site online
- Photography, video and illustration beyond licensed stock we source with your approval
- Ongoing content writing after launch, which is either a content retainer or the optional care plan for small edits
- Third-party software fees such as CMS, booking, chat or CRM subscriptions
- Logo and brand identity work, scoped as a separate branding project
- GST, which is added to the project price for Indian clients
What the recurring costs actually are
A domain typically runs ₹800 to ₹1,500 a year. Our Next.js builds run on Vercel, where most business sites fit the free plan or the ₹1,700 a month tier. Both are registered in your name. That is the whole recurring bill for a Starter Site, and it is worth asking any other agency for the same two numbers in writing.
What does a ₹60,000 website cost in the first year?
Between ₹71,600 and ₹92,700 on our arithmetic, and the spread is entirely hosting. The build price is fixed; what moves is whether the site fits the free hosting tier and what the domain costs.
| Line | Lower case | Upper case |
|---|---|---|
| Build price | ₹60,000 | ₹60,000 |
| GST at 18 percent on the build | ₹10,800 | ₹10,800 |
| Domain, one year | ₹800 | ₹1,500 |
| Hosting, one year | ₹0 on the free plan | ₹20,400 at ₹1,700 a month |
| First-year total | ₹71,600 | ₹92,700 |
| Every year after that | ₹800 | ₹21,900 |
That last row is the number most comparisons miss. Once the build is paid for, a Starter Site costs between ₹800 and ₹21,900 a year to keep online, with no licence fee and no platform subscription, because the code and the accounts are yours. Every price in this table is published on the pricing page.
Is ₹60,000 for 8 pages good value in India in 2026?
It sits at the lower end of the custom band. A template site from a freelancer typically costs ₹10,000 to ₹30,000, a small agency build with custom design commonly runs ₹40,000 to ₹1,50,000, and larger agency projects with content, SEO and custom features sit between ₹2 lakh and ₹10 lakh. The difference is rarely the page count. It is whether anyone wrote the copy, set up tracking, handled SEO and tested speed on a phone.
Divide each published tier by its page cap and something useful falls out, and this next table is our arithmetic rather than a published rate.
| Tier | Price | Page cap | Price per page at the cap | What the step up actually buys |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starter Site | ₹60,000 | 8 pages | ₹7,500 | The baseline: custom design, copy, SEO, tracking |
| Growth Site | ₹1,50,000 | 20 pages | ₹7,500 | A blog and CMS, keyword research and an SEO content plan, AI-search optimisation, A/B-testable landing pages |
| Ecommerce or custom | From ₹3,00,000 | Scoped | Not comparable | Store or application features, payment gateway, catalogue architecture, a dedicated project manager |
The two lower tiers price at exactly the same ₹7,500 a page at their caps. That is the clearest argument we can give against thinking of the upgrade as buying more pages: it buys capability, specifically the ability to publish content on an ongoing basis and to test the pages that carry ad traffic. If your plan does not include publishing, the extra ₹90,000 is buying something you will not use.
Use the full page allowance
The ₹7,500 figure only holds if you use all eight pages. Build five and the effective rate is ₹12,000 a page for the same ₹60,000, because the price is for the tier and not for the page. Decide the eighth page at the sitemap stage, when it costs nothing, rather than three months after launch.
What should the eight pages be?
There is no published page list, because the sitemap is built from your buyer journey rather than from a template. What is published is the test each page has to pass: a business site must answer the five questions a visitor arrives with, which are what you do, for whom, at what price range, why you can be trusted and what to do next. Most sites we audit answer one or two of the five, which is why they collect traffic and no enquiries.
A worked allocation for a service business, offered as our illustration rather than as a published list, would be a home page, three service pages, an about page carrying the proof, a pricing or packages page, a contact page and one location page. That spends all eight, answers all five questions and leaves the blog for the tier above.
How long does a ₹60,000 website take?
Three to four weeks for the Starter Site, against four to six for the Growth Site. It starts with a 30-minute discovery call, after which you get a written scope and a fixed quote within 48 hours. Sitemap, wireframes and design come next, and nothing is built until you approve the design. Development, copywriting, SEO setup and analytics then run in parallel, which is what keeps the timeline in weeks rather than months.
Launch is the point where most timelines quietly slip, so it is scoped too: we verify tracking, submit the site to Google, train your team, and for a redesign we ship a full URL map with 301 redirects so existing rankings survive the move. If the site exists to receive ad traffic, read this alongside landing page against full website for running ads, which prices the same decision from the campaign side.
Frequently asked questions
What do you actually get for ₹60,000 in a website in India?
Up to 8 custom-designed pages delivered in 3 to 4 weeks, with conversion copywriting, on-page SEO and schema markup, contact and WhatsApp lead capture, and GA4 analytics with lead alerts verified before launch. The build runs on Next.js against a 90 plus mobile PageSpeed target, and handover includes training, written documentation and the admin logins. Thirty days of fixes after launch are included. Domain, hosting and GST are billed separately.
Is 8 pages enough for a business website?
For most service businesses, yes, provided the eight answer the five questions a visitor arrives with: what you do, for whom, at what price range, why you can be trusted and what to do next. A typical allocation is a home page, three service pages, an about page, a pricing page, a contact page and one location page. You outgrow eight pages when you start publishing regularly, which is the point of the 20-page tier with its CMS.
What is the real first-year cost of a ₹60,000 website?
Between ₹71,600 and ₹92,700 on our arithmetic. The build is ₹60,000 plus ₹10,800 of GST at 18 percent, a domain runs ₹800 to ₹1,500 a year, and hosting is either free for most business sites or ₹1,700 a month on the paid Vercel tier. After year one the recurring bill is only the domain and hosting, so ₹800 to ₹21,900 a year, because the code and the accounts are in your name.
When is the ₹1,50,000 Growth Site worth the extra ₹90,000?
When you intend to publish. At their page caps both tiers work out to the same ₹7,500 a page on our arithmetic, so the extra ₹90,000 is not buying cheaper pages: it buys a blog and CMS, keyword research with an SEO content plan, AI-search optimisation and A/B-testable landing pages. If nobody has been assigned to write the articles, that money is buying capacity you will not use this year.
How long does a ₹60,000 website take to build?
Three to four weeks from approved inputs. A 30-minute discovery call produces a written scope and a fixed quote within 48 hours. Sitemap, wireframes and custom design come next, with your sign-off required before any code is written. Development, conversion copywriting, SEO setup and analytics then run in parallel. Launch includes tracking verification, submission to Google, team training and, for a redesign, a full 301 redirect map.
Sources
- Mediaverse Digital website design page (the ₹60,000, ₹1,50,000 and ₹3,00,000 tiers, the deliverables, the exclusions and the domain and hosting figures quoted here)
- Mediaverse Digital pricing page (every published service price in one place)
- Mediaverse Digital landing pages and CRO page (where a single page is the right buy instead of a site)
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