How much does a website cost in Saudi Arabia?

Ask ten Saudi agencies what a website costs and you will get ten different answers. In September 2026 we read the price guides that ten of them publish. The lowest figure was 500 riyals, for a single landing page; custom platforms at the top ran past 100,000. Both can be honest quotes. They are not quotes for the same thing.

Why the numbers are so far apart

“A website” covers very different jobs: a one-page landing page, a five-page company profile, a bilingual corporate site, an online store with payments and stock, or a booking platform built from scratch. A quote only means something once you know which of these it is for — and how much of it is designed and built for you rather than taken from a template.

What Saudi agencies publish

Across those ten guides, the ranges clustered like this:

• Landing page: roughly 500 to 4,000 riyals.
• Simple company site: most guides put it between 2,500 and 7,000 riyals.
• Professional company site with custom design: mostly 8,000 to 25,000 riyals, though some guides put it at 15,000 to 60,000.
• Online store: mostly 12,000 to 50,000 riyals, with outliers from 1,500 for a ready-made theme up to 115,000.
• Custom platform or web application: from around 25,000 to 40,000 riyals, and past 100,000 for complex builds.

What actually moves the price

• Custom design or a template. A ready-made theme with your logo is the cheapest route; a design made for your business costs more, once. Several of the guides draw exactly this line between their budget and professional tiers.
• Number of pages, and who writes them. Content is what most quotes leave out. If you supply the text and photos, the price drops; if the agency writes and shoots them, it rises.
• Arabic and English. A second language is not a translation button — the layout has to work right-to-left as well as left-to-right. One guide prices multilingual company sites separately, at 10,000 to 20,000 riyals.
• Features. Online payments, stock, customer accounts, bookings and connections to your other systems are each real work. Selling online is where prices step up most: one guide puts it at typically 10,000 riyals or more on top of a company site.
• Who builds it. The guides that mention hourly rates put freelancers from about 150 riyals an hour, and specialist companies at 400 or more.

A store on a platform, or a store built for you

If you sell online, the first decision is not which agency to hire — it is whether you need a custom store at all. Platforms such as Salla and Zid let you open a store without writing code, and Salla lets you create one for free, with paid plans above that. A ready-made store on a platform is the cheapest way to start selling: you pay a subscription and work within what the platform allows.

A custom store makes sense when the platform becomes the limit: a checkout or product experience it cannot offer, connections to your own systems, or a brand that cannot afford to look like every other store on the same theme. That is roughly the territory the professional store ranges above describe.

Costs that don't appear in the quote

• Domain and hosting: renewed every year, not paid once.
• Maintenance: updates, backups and security. One guide prices WordPress maintenance at 1,000 to 5,000 riyals a year.
• Content and photography, if they are not already included.
• Payment providers: payment gateways and buy-now-pay-later services charge their own setup or per-transaction fees.
• VAT, which is 15% in Saudi Arabia. Check whether the figure you were quoted includes it.

How to read a quote

Before you compare two numbers, ask:

• Is the design made for my business, or a template adjusted to fit it?
• How many pages, and who writes the content?
• Is the Arabic version designed as its own layout, or translated into the English one?
• What happens after launch — who maintains the site, and what does that cost each year?
• Who owns the site, the domain and the code when the project ends?
• Does the price include VAT?

A lower quote is not necessarily a worse one, and a higher one is not automatically better. The useful question is whether both describe the same website. If you want a number for yours, tell us what you're building — we'll tell you what it costs and what's driving it.