The honest, unsatisfying answer

'It depends' — but uselessly so. Here are the useful numbers from our own quotes and the projects we've audited across the Egyptian market in 2026.

The 2026 Egyptian market in numbers

• Freelancer + template (WordPress/Shopify): EGP 8,000 – 25,000. Fine for a first-year business card site. You'll feel the limits within 12 months.

• Small studio, semi-custom: EGP 25,000 – 60,000. Custom look on proven components. The sweet spot for most SMEs.

• Software house, fully custom corporate site: EGP 45,000 – 120,000. Custom design, CMS, SEO engineering, Arabic/English, analytics, support.

• E-commerce store (proper one): EGP 80,000 – 250,000+. Payment integration, inventory, order flows, admin training.

• Custom web application / portal / dashboard: EGP 180,000 – 800,000+. It's software, not a website — different craft entirely.

What actually drives the price

Design origin. A customized template costs a fraction of a designed-from-scratch interface — the question is whether your brand needs to look like everyone else's category.

Content complexity matters more than page count. A services page with a calculator or booking flow is an application wearing a page's clothes.

Integrations are budget-eaters: payment gateways (Paymob, Fawry), e-invoicing with the Egyptian Tax Authority, ERP sync, WhatsApp Business APIs. Each is routine alone; ten at once is a project.

Language strategy: proper Arabic RTL is not a checkbox, it's a second design pass. Bilingual means two of several things.

Finally, who's building it. A team with QA, a project manager and a warranty costs 30–50% more than two developers in a coworking space — and deletes an entire category of post-launch surprises.

What a good quote looks like

A serious quote breaks the price into milestones tied to working software you can see — not documents. It names the team. It states what's explicitly excluded. It answers hosting, domain, maintenance and content costs separately from the build. If your quote is one number and a delivery date, you don't have a quote, you have a hope.

How to spend less (without regretting it)

Start smaller than your ambition. A sharp 6-page site that converts beats a 20-page site that drifts. Reuse proven components — good teams have libraries. Write your own content; waiting on the agency to write it is the #1 cause of launch delays we see. And keep iterations for after launch, when real users — not opinions — tell you what to improve.

Curious what your specific project would run? Send us a scope and you'll have a fixed, itemized quote within 48 hours — free, and yours to keep either way.