Website cost in Egypt and Saudi Arabia (2026): price your scope before you ask for a quote
Where the number in a website quote comes from, what hosting, domains and licences cost every year at 4 November 2026 prices, with a scope estimator and a free quote request template.
On this page14
- The common mistake
- The big picture: where the number in a quote comes from
- A comparison from finishing an apartment
- Try it: the website scope and cost estimator
- What drives website cost in Egypt and Saudi Arabia
- What you pay in year one, and every year after
- WordPress, Salla and Zid, Shopify or custom code
- Why two quotes for the same website differ several times over
- A worked example: three projects and their outside costs
- Checklist before you ask for a quote
- Your task
- Frequently asked questions
- The free resource
- The next step
Website cost in Egypt or Saudi Arabia does not end on handover day. On 4 November 2026, Hostinger’s Premium plan cost USD 47.88 for the first year and renewed at USD 131.88. Add a .com domain renewing at USD 19.99, and year two costs more than three times year one.
This guide is for owners of a clinic, a company or a store in Egypt or Saudi Arabia. You hold quotes for the same website, and they sit far apart. You will leave with your scope in writing, what you pay every year at checked prices, and a one-page quote request.
The common mistake
Asking “how much is a website?” before writing down what the website does. Two quotes for the same idea can differ several times over and both be honest, because each one prices a different scope.
The second mistake is comparing the build price alone. A website sends a bill every year: domain, hosting, licences, and maintenance if you want someone looking after it.
The big picture: where the number in a quote comes from
- Scope: pages and languages, plus features such as booking, payment and customer accounts.
- Platform: WordPress, Salla or Zid, Shopify, or custom code.
- Content: who writes the text, who takes the photos, who uploads the products.
- Yearly costs: domain, hosting, licences and maintenance.
We start with scope, because it decides the other three.
A comparison from finishing an apartment
A quote to “finish a 120 square metre apartment” can mean paint only, or plumbing, wiring, flooring and air conditioning. Nobody compares the two on the bottom line before reading the items. A website quote works the same way: items first, then price.
The rule: write the scope first, then ask for the price.
Try it: the website scope and cost estimator
Pick the site type, country, languages, pages and features, and a scope sheet appears, ready to copy, with the closest package in my store. The second tab shows what you pay for hosting, domain and licences in year one and year two. The third checks a quote you already have against eight points.
What drives website cost in Egypt and Saudi Arabia
Eight questions set the size of the job. Answer them in writing, and that is your scope.
| Question | Why it changes the price |
|---|---|
| How many pages, and what kind? | The home page is designed on its own; service pages repeat one template. |
| One language or two? | Every text is written and checked twice, and WordPress needs a translation plugin. |
| Is there booking? | A WhatsApp button with a ready message is simpler than booking on open slots with an admin panel. |
| Is there payment or a store? | A payment gateway, shipping, product upload, and testing an order from start to finish. |
| Do customers get accounts? | Sign-up, login and protection for their data. |
| Who writes the content and takes the photos? | Writing is separate work from design. |
| Does it connect to another system? | A CRM, the WhatsApp API or accounting software: each link is tested on both sides. |
| What about SEO? | A title and description per page, structured data, and Search Console. |
Scope can be simpler than you expect: we built no booking form on the website of Dr Amr Gaafar. Each clinic gets a card and a WhatsApp button with a ready message, so the patient lands in a chat the clinic answers.
Content is its own line item too. On the TNZ Logistics website my team carried over and edited every real text, then wrote the Arabic version and a missing service page.
What you pay in year one, and every year after
These are list prices as I read them on the official pages on 4 November 2026. Hostinger prices are for a 12-month term, with an offer on the first year only.
| Item | Year one | Every year after |
|---|---|---|
| WordPress, and the WooCommerce plugin for stores | Free | Free |
| .com domain at Hostinger | Free with a hosting plan | USD 19.99 |
| Premium hosting (3 websites, weekly backups) | USD 47.88 | USD 131.88 |
| Unlimited hosting (daily backups) | USD 59.88 | USD 203.88 |
| WPML CMS for a two-language site | EUR 99 | Yearly renewal for updates and support |
| Elementor Pro (optional) | From USD 60 | Yearly renewal |
The Central Bank of Egypt selling rate on 3 November 2026 was EGP 55.39 to the dollar. At that rate a simple site on Premium pays about EGP 2,652 in year one and EGP 8,412 in year two. The second number is the one that matters, because it repeats every year.
Daily backups for any site that changes daily
Premium backs the site up once a week; Unlimited does it every day. On a booking site or a store the data changes daily, so a weekly copy can take you a whole week back. That is why the estimator picks Unlimited by itself when you add booking, payment or a store.
Do not buy a licence you do not need
The free Elementor is enough for many websites, and this site is built on it plus our own plugin. The WPML Blog plan at EUR 39 does not support Elementor or WooCommerce, so a site built with them needs the CMS plan.
WordPress, Salla and Zid, Shopify or custom code
The platform sets your monthly bill, and what happens to your store if you decide to move.
| Platform | Fits | Plan price on 4 November 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| WordPress | A company, clinic or store website whose files you want to own and move when you like | Hosting and domain, as in the table above |
| Salla | A store in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf | Basic free, Plus SAR 990 a year, Pro SAR 2,990 a year |
| Zid | A store in Saudi Arabia | Starter free, Launch SAR 99 a month, Growth SAR 299 a month |
| Shopify | A store selling to more than one country | Basic at USD 24 a month in Egypt and USD 19 in Saudi Arabia, billed yearly |
| Custom code | A system no ready platform offers | Priced on scope, and needs a developer to maintain it |
Salla’s free plan has no online payment and no own domain. Zid’s free plan has no own domain and no advanced payment methods, so a store that really sells starts on a paid plan. Salla lists the countries it serves as Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and Oman; Egypt is not on that list.
Why two quotes for the same website differ several times over
- A ready theme or a design from scratch: a theme is adjusted to your colours; a custom design is drawn and built page by page.
- Content: one quote writes your text and uploads your products, another waits for you to supply them.
- After handover: a support period, training, monthly maintenance, or none of these.
- Revision rounds: a set number, or the word “unlimited” with no definition.
- Accounts: domain, hosting and licences in your name, or in the builder’s.
My clinic, portfolio and travel packages spell these out: one combined revision round, 30 days of launch support, and domain, hosting and licences excluded. For Color Systems, a signage company in Riyadh, the contract set ten main pages in two languages and three months of support after launch.
Warning signs in a quote
- The domain or hosting is registered to the developer or their company.
- You do not receive an Administrator account for the site.
- A paid theme or plugin with no official licence.
- “Free hosting” with no renewal price.
- A promise of first place on Google, which Google itself says no one can guarantee.
A worked example: three projects and their outside costs
The example is invented, with made-up figures. Outside prices are as I read them on 4 November 2026, pounds at the 3 November 2026 rate, and riyals at 3.75 to the dollar. The design work itself is not included.
| Project | Platform | Year one | Year two |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dental clinic in Alexandria, Arabic, 8 pages, booking | WordPress on Unlimited | EGP 3,317 | EGP 12,401 |
| Supply company in Cairo, two languages, 12 pages | WordPress on Premium with WPML | EGP 8,797 | EGP 14,558 |
| Abaya store in Riyadh selling SAR 40,000 a month | Salla Plus | SAR 990 | SAR 990 |
| The same store | Zid Launch | SAR 1,188 | SAR 1,188 |
| The same store | Shopify Basic with an outside gateway | SAR 10,455 | SAR 10,455 |
For the clinic, year two is 3.7 times year one, because the hosting offer covers the first year only. The store teaches something else: Shopify’s cut of sales (SAR 9,600) is more than 11 times its plan fee (SAR 855).
The table leaves out the domain and the payment gateway fees for the store options. On the day I wrote this I found no public price page for Paymob or Moyasar. Ask the gateway for its rate in writing.
The closest package in my store for each example
- The clinic: Clinic website and online booking at EGP 7,000, an offer price until 30 November 2026. It covers Arabic and English, up to 3 doctors, 2 branches and 5 services, booking on open slots, and an admin panel.
- The two-language company: no fixed package, so I quote on its scope. Like the ECS website in Arabic and English, with a page for each service and a careers page.
- The store: on WordPress, the e-commerce website service at EGP 39,999, one payment. On Salla or Zid I quote on the scope.
The stores and websites section of my store has two more packages. A personal portfolio website in 48 hours is EGP 3,800, and a travel company website with bookings is EGP 12,000. Both are offer prices until 30 November 2026.
Worth knowing
Shopify Payments is not available in Egypt or Saudi Arabia, while it is available in the UAE. A Shopify store there pays Shopify a cut of every sale through an outside gateway: 2% on Basic, 1% on Grow, 0.6% on Advanced. The gateway then takes its own fee as well.
Source: Shopify Payments supported countries, Shopify Help Center
Checklist before you ask for a quote
- I wrote down the page types, how many, and the languages.
- I listed the features: booking, payment, a store or customer accounts.
- I decided who writes the content, who takes photos and who uploads products.
- I asked for the year-two price of every outside item.
- I made sure the domain, hosting and licences will be in my name.
- I asked for the number of revision rounds and the support period in writing.
Your task
Open the estimator, set your project’s scope, and copy the scope sheet into the free request template below. Send the same template to three builders and compare their answers item by item before you look at the bottom line. If you want a second opinion, share your scope in the Growth Engineers Community.
Frequently asked questions
What is the website cost in Egypt?
No single number fits every website, because the price follows the scope. In my store the personal portfolio site is EGP 3,800 and the clinic site with booking is EGP 7,000, offer prices until 30 November 2026. Add about EGP 8,412 a year for hosting and domain from year two on Premium.
What does website design cost in Saudi Arabia?
Same logic: scope first. On 4 November 2026, Salla Plus was SAR 990 a year and Zid Launch SAR 99 a month. Design and setup work is priced on the written scope.
How much does a WordPress website cost?
WordPress itself is open source and free to download, and so is WooCommerce. You pay for hosting and a domain, any licences you need such as WPML for two languages, and the build. The estimator above works out the outside part for you.
How much should an ecommerce website cost?
Three items: the platform plan or hosting, a gateway fee on every sale, and the build with product upload. In my store, the WordPress store service is EGP 39,999 in one payment, with hosting and gateway fees outside it.
Can I get a website for free?
You can start for free on Salla Basic or Zid Starter, but without your own domain. A site under your name and domain needs at least a domain and hosting, or a paid platform plan.
What should a website quote include?
Pages, languages and features, and who writes the content. Then the revision rounds, the support period, the yearly renewal price of each item, and accounts in your name. The free template below puts all of it on one page.
The free resource
A Word template for a one-page quote request, with a table to compare three quotes item by item. Plus an Excel sheet that works out your outside costs in year one and year two.
The next step
If you wrote your scope and found no package for it in my store, send it to me through the contact form. I reply within one business day with a written quote on your scope.
