Website Cost in Romania in 2026: Real Price Ranges

Website cost in Romania in 2026 runs from about €200 for a template site to €10,000 for an online shop. In the Romanian market research we did for 2026, presentation sites cost €500–2,500 with a median near €1,000, custom-coded sites €2,500–6,000 and e-commerce €4,000–10,000. Pages, languages, features and who builds the site decide where you land.

These are ranges seen in the market. They are neither quotes nor guarantees. Use them to sanity-check an offer, then ask for a written scope.

How much does a website cost in Romania in 2026?

The table groups the ranges by what you actually buy. All prices are in euro.

The same research shows freelance developers charging €15–50 an hour and agencies €35–90 an hour. IT consultants, who advise instead of building, ask 100–250 RON an hour, and a formal IT audit runs 9,000–25,000 RON.

Hourly rates give you a quick sanity check. At agency rates, a €1,000 site buys roughly 11 to 29 hours of work. If the scope in the offer cannot fit in that many hours, ask what is missing or who is doing the work.

What makes one website cost more than another?

Price follows hours of work, and eight things move the hours.

• Number of pages. Ten pages that share three layouts cost less than five pages that each need their own design.
• Content admin (CMS). A site you can edit yourself needs an admin panel. A static site without one is cheaper to build and cannot change without a developer.
• Languages. A Romanian and English site doubles the text to write, review and keep in sync. It also needs correct hreflang tags so Google shows each version to the right audience.
• Custom design. A purchased theme costs less than a layout drawn for your brand.
• Integrations. Booking, payments, stock, invoicing, a CRM or a newsletter each add build time and something to maintain.
• E-commerce. Catalogue, variants, cart, checkout, a payment provider, order emails, VAT, invoicing and returns. This is why shops sit in a higher band.
• SEO. Technical SEO (fast pages, clean URLs, a sitemap, structured data) belongs in the build. Ongoing SEO, such as new content and links, is a monthly service priced separately.
• Content. Copywriting, photography and translation are often excluded from the quote. If you bring no texts or images, expect to pay for them.

What are the hidden and recurring costs of a website?

The build price is the first payment. These costs come back every year, so put them in the budget before you sign.

• Domain. You renew it yearly through a registrar. Prices differ by registrar and extension (.ro, .com), so check the registrar's current page. Register the domain in your own name.
• Hosting. A static site can run on a free plan, for example Netlify's free plan, within its monthly usage limits. WordPress needs PHP and a MySQL or MariaDB database, which usually means a paid hosting plan.
• Maintenance. Updates, backups, security patches and uptime checks. A site with a database and plugins has more to update than one without a database. Ask what maintenance costs and what it covers.
• Business email. Addresses at your own domain usually come from a paid mailbox service billed per user per month.
• Legal pages and GDPR. A site that collects personal data, even through a contact form, needs a privacy notice. Analytics and ads add a cookie notice, and shops add terms and consumer information. Ask a lawyer what applies to your business.
• Accessibility. The EU accessibility rules cover online shops from 28 June 2025, with an exemption for microenterprises that provide services (fewer than 10 employees and under €2 million turnover). The Your Europe guide explains who is covered.
• Payment fees. Shops pay a fee on every card payment. Compare each provider's current fee page.

Template, freelancer or studio: which should you hire?

A template site

Template sites cost €199–399. They fit a basic online presence when your texts already exist and you need no custom features. The trade-offs are sameness, little control over speed and SEO, and a hard move later if the platform locks your content in.

A freelancer

Freelancers build presentation sites for €300–800 and charge €15–50 an hour. They give good value on a simple, well-defined scope. The risk is a single point of failure, so settle who owns the code, the domain and the hosting account before work starts.

A studio or agency

Agencies charge €35–90 an hour and their presentation sites land in the €500–2,500 band. You pay for design, project management and SEO knowledge. Ask who will actually do the work on your project, because that person sets the quality.

How do you compare website quotes?

Two quotes with the same total can cover different scopes. Ask every supplier to answer the same questions in writing:

1. How many pages, and which ones?
2. Which languages, and who writes or translates the texts?
3. Can I edit the site myself, and how?
4. Which parts of SEO are included: technical setup, content, both?
5. Who owns the domain, the code and the design files at handover?
6. Where is the site hosted, and what does hosting cost after the first year?
7. What does maintenance cost, and what does it cover?
8. How many revision rounds, what timeline and what payment schedule?
9. Does the price include VAT?
10. Will the site meet the Core Web Vitals thresholds: LCP within 2.5 seconds, INP of 200 milliseconds or less, CLS of 0.1 or less, measured at the 75th percentile of page loads?

Put the answers side by side. The cheapest quote often stops being the cheapest once you add what it left out.

What are the red flags in a website offer?

• A guaranteed first place on Google. Google states it directly: "No one can guarantee a #1 ranking on Google." The same page warns against companies that are secretive or will not explain what they intend to do.
• A total with no written scope. If pages, languages and features are not listed, you cannot hold anyone to them.
• The domain or hosting account in the builder's name. You should be the registered owner of both.
• A proprietary platform you cannot leave. Ask how you export your content and what happens if you stop paying.
• A price far below the market floor with promises of custom design. The cheapest template sites in the research start at €199, so a bespoke design for less deserves questions.
• Everything paid upfront. A fair schedule ties payments to milestones.
• No live examples. Open the supplier's sites on your phone and judge the speed yourself.
• Silence on GDPR and cookies. A supplier who never mentions them will leave the legal pages to you.

What do Danube Labs websites cost?

Danube Labs publishes indicative bands on the web development page. They are negotiable and agreed in writing before work starts.

The €150 floor sits below every market floor we found, which is why it is limited to a template-based site with no CMS. The up-to-8-page tier sits inside the market range for presentation sites. We write the front end by hand, host it in your own repository and hosting account, and include hreflang, structured data and sitemaps. Because the content lives in files instead of a database, hosting can often stay on a free tier, as we explain in how a website without a database works. You can open our finished sites on the portfolio page.

Get a price for your own site

If you want a number for your project, book a free intro call. Send the list of pages, the languages and the integrations you need, and we reply with a written scope and price before any work starts. The full list of what we build is on the web development page, and we are a founder-led studio, so the person you talk to is the person who writes the code.