Corporate website pricing in 2026: a real buyer's guide
What drives corporate website cost, what you're actually buying at each tier, and where agencies hide the variability. Read this before your next RFQ.
Every month we get a version of the same email. "How much does a corporate website cost?" The honest answer is "it depends" — which is useless. So here's the real decomposition: what you're buying at each tier, what drives the price, and where agencies hide the variability. We'll stay out of specific numbers (they shift quickly and vary by market) and focus on what's actually in each package.
Tier 1: Budget corporate
What you actually get:
- 5-page WordPress site on a premium theme (Astra, GeneratePress, Kadence).
- Your brand colors, logo, and photos dropped into the theme — no custom design.
- Basic SEO plugin setup (Rank Math or Yoast).
- Contact form, simple about/services/work structure.
Right for: small service businesses, solo consultants, freelancers. Not right if you need brand differentiation — you'll look like 200 other sites on the same theme.
Tier 2: Standard corporate
What you actually get:
- Custom theme — designed around your brand, not a marketplace template.
- 5-8 pages with bespoke sections per page.
- CMS structured so your team can edit — not a rigid theme.
- Technical SEO baked in: Core Web Vitals 90+, schema, sitemap, hreflang if multilingual.
- GA4, Search Console, reCAPTCHA on forms.
- Post-launch support: 30-day warranty, 1 month of monitoring.
Right for: mid-market brands, B2B services, any company where the site is a sales asset. This is where Lumiasoft's LumiLaunch package lives — scope-based, scaling from tight 5-page builds to fuller custom work.
Tier 3: Premium corporate
What you actually get:
- Next.js custom build (not WordPress) — better performance ceiling, easier future integrations.
- Bilingual or trilingual with localized URL structures.
- Custom illustrations, animations, motion design.
- Integration with CRM (HubSpot, Pipedrive), marketing automation, analytics pipeline.
- Complex page types: investor relations, career portal, resource library.
- Full brand refresh or design system build alongside the site.
Right for: VC-backed companies, enterprise B2B, brands where the site is a primary investor/candidate touchpoint.
What drives the price up
- Page count beyond 8. Each new page type is a design + content pass.
- Custom illustration or motion. A motion designer's 2 days shows up in the line item.
- Multi-language. TR+EN doubles content work; three languages quadruples it.
- Integrations. CRM wiring is 1-3 days of work; complex CRM with segmentation is a week.
- Discovery and strategy. If you need positioning help, add a week of paid discovery.
Where you can save
- Bring your own content. Agency copywriting is typically a fifth of project cost.
- Start at 5 pages, not 10. Ship fast, add pages after launch based on data.
- Skip "custom" CMS; modern headless CMS (Sanity, Contentful) + pre-built Sanity Studio is usually all you need.
- Use existing photography or paid stock for launch; upgrade to custom photo shoot in phase 2.
What to ignore in agency proposals
Any inflated "discovery and alignment workshop" line item. Any theme-based build sold at premium-tier cost. Any proposal that doesn't commit to a Core Web Vitals target. Any contract that charges you for post-launch hotfixes within 30 days.
Rule of thumb: if your site is where you send every prospect, investing in the standard tier is a small asset. Going minimum is a statement about your brand. Pick your statement — and ask your agency for a line-item breakdown, not a total.