The question "how much does a website cost" has an honest answer: it depends on what the website should do. Here's an overview of the ranges you'll meet in quotes from Slovak studios and freelancers, and what you actually get for them.
A template for a few hundred
A template website on WordPress or Webflow costs 200 to 800 €. You get a ready-made look into which someone pastes your copy. It works when you need something online within a week and don't mind the website looking like hundreds of others. The risk is in speed and maintenance: templates pull in dozens of plugins and start falling apart after a year.
A custom landing page
One page designed for a specific offer costs 800 to 1,500 €. You get design, copy refined with a copywriter, a form connected to your tools and analytics. It pays off for campaigns, new services and products where every visitor's conversion matters.
A company website
A website with five to fifteen pages, a CMS and a blog ranges from 1,500 to 8,000 €. The difference between the lower and upper end comes from the amount of content, the number of languages, integrations and whether the studio also handles copy and photography. In this category it's worth asking about speed: a website that loads in under a second gets measurably more enquiries than one that loads in four.
An e-shop
An e-shop starts at 8,000 € and ends where your requirements for stock, payments and logistics end. The biggest mistake is saving on the warehouse integration – retyping orders by hand will cost you more than the price difference.
When a more expensive website pays off
When the website brings enquiries. If one customer is worth 500 € to you and the website brings two more enquiries a month, a 1,000 € difference in price pays back within a month. That's why, before quoting, we ask what the website should achieve, not how many pages it should have.
What to watch for in a quote
Ask what's included (copy, photos, SEO, analytics), who will manage the website after launch and how much maintenance costs. A quote without a written scope and deadline isn't a quote, it's a guess.