Website Development Cost in Dubai 2026: Calculator from AED 499

A website in Dubai can start from AED 499 for a starter package. Professional business websites typically cost AED 1,499–15,000, while custom websites, ecommerce stores and web applications cost more depending on features and technical scope. Use the calculator on this page for an instant estimate based on your exact requirements.

Yes. Control Shift offers a starter website package from AED 499 for businesses with clearly defined requirements — up to five pages, mobile-responsive layout, WhatsApp integration, a contact form, basic SEO and speed optimisation. Custom design, advanced integrations, ecommerce and bespoke development are quoted separately.

Small tasks such as text or image updates, WhatsApp button installation, contact form setup and minor technical fixes start from AED 100. The exact price depends on the work required. This is for small services on an existing website — a complete professional website starts from AED 499.

A starter ecommerce store begins around AED 2,999. Stores with large catalogues, custom checkout, payment and ERP integration or bespoke design range AED 15,000–50,000 or more. See our dedicated ecommerce website cost guide for a monthly-plan breakdown.

A starter promotional page is available within the AED 499 package. Custom lead-generation landing pages typically range AED 1,500–3,500, and advanced campaign pages AED 3,500–7,500 depending on design, content and integrations.

Design-only work runs from AED 500–1,500 for a template-assisted landing page, AED 2,500–7,500 for multi-page website UI/UX, AED 7,500–20,000 when a custom brand identity is included, and AED 5,000–25,000 for mobile app UI/UX. Most businesses are better off paying for design and development together, because a design file alone is not a working website.

UAE VAT is 5%. If your supplier is VAT-registered, it is charged on top of the quoted build price, so a AED 1,499 website becomes AED 1,573.85. Some providers quote VAT-inclusive, so always confirm in writing which way the quotation is stated. The same applies to hosting, domains and retainers billed from the UAE.

Ongoing cost depends on what you own. A managed hosting plan plus domain is usually AED 1,240–6,350 per year, business email adds roughly AED 300–900 per user per year, and a maintenance retainer runs AED 500–3,000 per month. Add an optional SEO retainer of AED 1,500–8,000 per month if you want ongoing organic growth.

It depends on the tier. Our express launch goes live in 12 hours, or 24 hours if your content arrives later. A small task is delivered in 1–2 working days and a standard starter website in 5–7 working days. A professional landing page takes 1–2 weeks, a small business website 2–4 weeks, a premium corporate site 4–8 weeks, an ecommerce store 3–10 weeks and a custom web application 8–20 weeks or more. Content readiness and integration access are the two biggest causes of delay.

Starter packages include basic technical and on-page SEO. Ongoing SEO campaigns, location pages, content creation and link building are separate growth services you can add on when you are ready to rank and scale.

Yes. On custom builds you receive full source-code ownership with no vendor lock-in. Ownership terms are shown clearly against each package before you commit.

After receiving your project configuration from the calculator or form, we review your requirements and send a scoped, fixed quotation within 24 hours. Prefer to talk? Send your selections on WhatsApp and we reply within 12 hours.

Yes. Our express launch is a fixed-scope AED 499 sprint that goes live in 12 hours when your content and domain access are ready at kickoff, and we commit to 24 hours if content arrives later in the day. It covers up to five mobile-responsive pages, a free SSL certificate, hosting on your domain, one business email mailbox, a contact form, a WhatsApp button and basic on-page SEO. ecommerce and fully bespoke builds cannot compress to 24 hours and run on the standard 3–10 week timeline.

Same-day is our standard express tier, not an exception. The whole build — design, responsive development, SSL, hosting, business email and indexing — runs as one continuous sprint instead of separate review cycles. Send your logo, text, images and domain login and most sites publish the same working day.

Four things: your logo or brand assets, the text for each page, any images you want used, and access to your domain registrar so we can point DNS at your new host. If any of these are missing we can still launch, but the timeline becomes 24 hours rather than 12 because content is the single biggest cause of delay.

A single-page landing page is our AED 499 starter tier, while a multi-page business website typically starts at AED 1,499 and runs to AED 7,500. The saving is real but smaller than most agencies imply, because the fixed work — strategy, responsive build, forms, SEO basics and launch — happens either way. A landing page wins when you only need one offer live; it loses the moment you need service, location and portfolio pages.

AED 499 is a one-time build price. It does not include a monthly fee. Ongoing costs that are genuinely separate are domain renewal (AED 40–350 per year), managed hosting (AED 1,200–6,000 per year), business email (AED 300–900 per user per year) and an optional maintenance retainer (AED 500–3,000 per month). We state each of these separately so the launch price is never padded with recurring fees.

For the AED 499 and AED 1,499 tiers the project is usually paid in full at kickoff because the total is small. Larger builds — typically from AED 15,000 — are commonly structured as a deposit with the balance split across milestones. The exact split is written into the quotation before any work starts, so there is no ambiguity about when each payment falls due.

Domain registration is separate and priced by the registry, so .ae and .com names cost different amounts and are not included in any build price. Hosting can be set up for you on the express and starter tiers, but the annual hosting fee is billed by the provider. On custom builds you can host anywhere you like — we document the requirements and hand over the credentials.

Yes, and it is often better value than a rebuild. We start with a free technical audit to establish whether the real problem is design, speed, mobile behaviour or conversion. If the underlying structure is sound, a redesign costs far less and ships faster than starting again. If it genuinely is a rebuild, the audit will tell you that and the quotation will reflect a full build.

Yes. A properly engineered bilingual site needs translation, right-to-left layouts and language-specific SEO setup — that is why it sits above the single-language starter price. Send us your Arabic copy or tell us which pages need it and we will quote the translation and layout work as a clearly separated line item.

Every build includes a handover session and a short post-launch support window for fixes and questions. Ongoing maintenance is optional and priced as a retainer of AED 500–3,000 per month covering updates, backups, uptime monitoring and small change requests. We are a UAE-based team, so you are not handing the project to an offshore team that disappears after launch.

Use the calculator on this page for an instant range, then send your scope. For a written fixed quotation we need your pages or sections, any integrations or payment gateways, your domain situation, your target launch date and examples of sites you like. Send that on WhatsApp or through the quotation form and a senior engineer reviews it within 24 hours.

Usually because they are not quoting the same thing. A low quote often means fewer pages, fewer revision rounds, a template rather than bespoke UI/UX, and no integrations — the total only matches once every line is compared. Compare quotations line by line: number of pages, design approach, revision rounds, who owns the code, what is excluded and what happens to ongoing maintenance.