How much does a website cost in Belgium in 2026?
Updated 16 July 2026. Every price for my own services comes from my public rate card, is quoted excl. VAT and can be rebuilt in two minutes in the online estimator. The market ranges are quoted with their sources.
In Belgium, in 2026, building a custom professional brochure site costs from €1,500 excl. VAT, a corporate site from €5,000, an online shop from €6,500 and a web application from €15,000. Add the recurring costs: hosting from €29 to €99 and maintenance from €49 to €199 a month. These ranges hold everywhere in the country, Wallonia included. This guide details them line by line, compares them with agency and site-builder prices, and shows the calculations: you can check everything.
The 2026 ranges, line by line
- Audit of an existing site, from €490 excl. VAT. A focused review of one aspect; the standard audit is €1,500, the full audit €2,000. Before a rebuild, to know what can be repaired and what must be replaced.
- Brochure site, from €1,500 excl. VAT. Five pages included, technical SEO included. For freelancers, the self-employed and shops: present the business, be found, convert a contact.
- Corporate site, from €5,000 excl. VAT, custom CMS included. For SMEs with several business lines, more content and distinct user journeys, and control of your content from day one: with me, a corporate site always ships with its content management, I don't sell it as an option.
- E-commerce, from €6,500 excl. VAT. Online sales with integrated payment, no surcharge for the payment module, and catalogue management.
- Web application, from €15,000 excl. VAT. Business tool, platform, client area: custom software served by the browser.
These amounts are not market averages: they are my public prices, the same lines as my online estimator. Few providers publish a rate card you can actually recompute; mine you can, and the rest of this article does exactly that.
What drives the price
Five dials weigh on the final quote: page count, languages, features, design and deadline.
- Page count: five pages are included in the base, and every page beyond that adds structure, content and testing: +€120 per page.
- Languages: a bilingual site is not a pasted translation, it's a structure per language: +€450 per extra language, with no cap. The online estimator covers four; beyond that, the rate stays the same.
- Features: a CMS to manage your content (+€2,500, included when the base is a corporate site). At that price, this is no WordPress installed in ten minutes: I write a custom management interface, limited to what you actually need to edit, so no plugins to update and no needless attack surface. Add online payment (+€1,800, waived when the base is an e-commerce site): the integration of the payment provider of your choice, account setup on the platform included, not just a button dropped on a page. Then API connections to your tools (+€1,800) and AI features (+€2,200): a chatbot trained on your business, but also AI content generation and checking, integrated into your management interface. Technical SEO is included in every project, never sold as an option.
- Design: reusing an existing system costs nothing, integrating your mockups +€800, creating a custom design +€2,500. Expect one or several mockups: you comment on them, I adjust to your feedback, and the back and forth continues until the direction is right.
- Deadline: a tight schedule has a price, +25% rush, +50% express.
Two examples, calculations included. You can rebuild any total this way before you even contact me.
Brochure site, 8 pages, French and Dutch
- Brochure base, 5 pages included €1,500
- 3 extra pages × €120 €360
- 1 extra language €450
Total €2,310 excl. VAT
Corporate site, custom design
- Corporate base, custom CMS included €5,000
- Custom design, mockups and feedback rounds €2,500
Total €7,500 excl. VAT
The same project in rush: × 1.25, or €9,375 excl. VAT.
Freelancer, agency or site builder: the comparison
The price guides published by Belgian providers in 2025 and 2026 give ranges that stay fairly stable from one source to the next. I quote them as they stand, without tidying them up (they don't always say whether the figures are excl. VAT):
| Project | Freelancer | Agency | Site builder |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brochure site | €800 to €3,500 | €2,500 to €10,000 | €12 to €69 a month |
| E-commerce | €2,000 to €6,000 | €5,000 to €20,000 and up | from €30 a month |
| Web application | €5,000 to €15,000 | €15,000 to €50,000 and up | not suited |
| What you own | the code and the content | depends on the contract, check it | nothing, you rent |
| Who does the work | the person you have on the phone | a team, with middlemen | you |
The guides themselves reckon that a freelancer charges 30 to 50% less than an agency for a comparable result: no project manager, no sales rep, no office rent to pass on. My prices sit in the freelancer column, with e-commerce at the top of the range because integrated payment is included. The builder plays a different game: you do the building yourself, you pay every month, and the site never belongs to you. A rental contract, in short: sign it knowing that.
The recurring costs nobody announces
A website lives on after launch. With me, managed hosting costs €29 a month (standard, data in the EU), €59 (business) or €99 (dedicated performance), certificates included. Maintenance runs from €49 a month (updates, backups, monitoring) to €99 (fixes and a monthly report) and on to €199 (security watch, priority). For one-off work outside a plan: interventions at €95 an hour, or support plans at €190 and €490 a month. Everything excl. VAT.
Add the domain name, around €10 to €20 a year with most registrars. Beware of a quote with no recurring line: it will arrive anyway, just after signature.
VAT: 21%, unless you are exempt
Belgian providers display their prices excl. VAT. Add 21% VAT, recoverable if you are VAT-registered. Small businesses under the VAT franchise do not charge it but cannot recover it either: for them, the incl.-VAT figure is the real price. My estimator computes both regimes.
Prices in Wallonia
I work from Huy, halfway between Liège and Namur. The cost of building a website in Wallonia is nothing special: my rates are the same for a client in Huy, Brussels or Antwerp, and most of the work, development, content, deployments, happens remotely. The difference is proximity: kickoff workshops, training on your CMS or photo shoots on location, I travel around Huy, Liège, Namur and nearby.
Travel is neither “free” (meaning hidden in the price) nor a flat fee: it is billed at actual cost, €0.4761 per kilometre round trip from Huy, the official Belgian mileage rate. An appointment 30 km away, so 60 km round trip, costs you €28.57 excl. VAT. On a four-figure project, that line is trivial, but it is written in black and white.
Where does the money go? Full transparency
Out of €100 billed by a Belgian freelancer, here is what actually remains, indicative figures taken from my plans page:
- Income tax €25
- Social contributions €18
- Pension savings €8
- Sick-leave buffer €6
- Software licences €5
- Travel €4
- Accountant and insurance €6
- Net, in my pocket €28
That's also why a €500 site doesn't exist from a registered professional: below a certain price, someone else pays, often you, later.
The questions to ask before signing
- Does the quote detail every line, or is it an opaque package?
- Who actually writes the code, and who answers when it breaks?
- Are the recurring costs written down in black and white?
- Will you own the code, the content and the domain?
- Is technical SEO included or sold as an option?
Frequently asked questions
What can you get for under €1,000?
Three honest answers. A light audit of your existing site at €490 excl. VAT: you know exactly where you stand before spending more. A one-page site, if your content is entirely ready and approved: that sits below my standard rates, so it's handled case by case, ask. Or a site builder with your eyes open: monthly subscription, you do the building, nothing you own at the end. A custom site written, tested and search-optimised by a registered professional does not exist at that price. When someone promises it anyway, two explanations remain: cut-rate work, or a provider selling below cost, a practice that drags market prices down and that someone always ends up paying for, often the client, later. I don't play in that league: no low-cost work here, I have nothing left to prove.
Is a “cheap” subscription website a good deal?
Belgian providers sell websites from €69 a month, with a twelve-month commitment. Over three years that comes to €2,484, roughly the price of a brochure site you own plus its standard hosting (€1,500 + 36 × €29 = €2,544). The difference lies elsewhere: after those three years, in one case the site belongs to you, in the other it disappears if you stop paying.
Why is one quote three times the other?
Because they are not pricing the same thing. A €1,500 quote and a €4,500 quote for “the same” brochure site usually differ on languages, design (reused or drawn from scratch), the number of pages actually written, technical SEO and the recurring line. Compare line by line against the list above; if an item appears nowhere, ask where it went.
Your budget in two minutes: the online estimator computes excl. VAT, VAT and deposit, with the same figures as this article. To decide between renovating what you have and starting from scratch, read redesign or rebuild. And if you are looking for a provider, here is how I work in Belgium.
