Website Development Cost in Dubai 2026: AED 2,900 to 49,000

Our AED price list for websites

Web development cost in Dubai for a business website is AED 2,900 to 17,000 on our UAE price list, excluding VAT, built in one to three weeks. A WordPress site is AED 2,200 to 11,000, an online store AED 5,900 to 49,000 and a custom portal or web app AED 24,500 to 245,000. It's the range I give anyone who asks before I've seen their brief, and the price is fixed once the scope is agreed.

What you are buying	AED, excluding VAT	Build time	What the price covers
Business website (custom design, Next.js or WordPress)	2,900-17,000	1-3 weeks	Responsive design, on-page SEO, contact form, an admin panel you can edit
WordPress website	2,200-11,000	1-2 weeks	Premium or custom theme, SEO plugin, speed work, cookie consent, a training session
E-commerce store (Shopify, WooCommerce or custom)	5,900-49,000	2-6 weeks	Catalogue, payment gateway, shipping rules, order management, a live test order
AI chatbot (website or WhatsApp)	4,900-59,000	2-6 weeks	LLM integration, WhatsApp Cloud API, training on your content, analytics
Real estate website + CRM	13,500-98,000	4-10 weeks	Listings, agent pages, lead capture into your own CRM
Custom web app, portal or SaaS	24,500-245,000	6-16 weeks	Custom workflows, user roles, reporting dashboards, API integrations
Website redesign	Quoted after a short discovery call	Set in the quote	Audit of the current site, new design, content and SEO migration
UI/UX design only	Quoted after a short discovery call	Set in the quote	Scope agreed in the quote

Prices checked 12 October 2026.

None of these prices include VAT. Codingclave is an India-based supplier and is not registered for UAE VAT, so our invoice carries no VAT. If your company is VAT-registered, you will usually account for VAT on an imported service yourself under the reverse charge. Your tax adviser should confirm that for your return, and our UAE page explains what our invoice means for your VAT return.

Not sure where your site falls? Send one line to Ashish on WhatsApp (+91 92771 84741), something like "clinic, eight pages, English and Arabic, booking form". I'll tell you which row it falls in and roughly where in the band.

What moves your price within a band

A band as wide as AED 2,900 to 17,000 is only useful if you know what moves you along it. Four decisions do most of the work.

Size. More pages move you up the band, but slowly. One page and five pages cost the same, because the set-up, hosting, forms and analytics don't change with a few extra pages. And twenty service pages on one template are much closer to one page than to twenty designs.

Theme or custom design. A good premium theme with your colours, fonts and photographs is enough for most service businesses. Custom design earns its cost when your brand has to look different from three competitors running the same theme.

Arabic. English and Arabic together move a site up by up to about AED 2,800 on a business site, AED 1,800 on WordPress and AED 8,600 on a store. That buys a proper right-to-left layout, Arabic web fonts, separate SEO metadata per language, and the bilingual QA pass we run on every Arabic and English site. Translation is priced separately. Machine-translated Arabic costs nothing and reads like it, and any Arabic-speaking customer will notice.

Integrations. A contact form and a WhatsApp link are included. One simple connection is inside the base price. Each further system it talks to moves you up the band. The ones we build most for UAE clients:

• payment gateways and instalments: Stripe, Telr, PayTabs, N-Genius, Tabby and Tamara;
• property listing feeds from Property Finder and Bayut;
• AI and WhatsApp bots.

Copywriting and photography are quoted separately. With finished copy and decent photos you sit at the bottom of a band.

Three sectors have their own pages, with the same prices and what each one usually needs:

• hospital and clinic website design in the UAE;
• real estate websites in Dubai, where a brokerage that wants its own CRM moves to the AED 13,500 to 98,000 band;
• restaurant and cafe websites.

Whatever the sector, budget for a privacy page and cookie consent under the UAE's data protection law (PDPL, Federal Decree-Law No. 45 of 2021). DHA- and DOH-licensed clinics and DFSA-regulated firms should also allow extra time for content review; the sector pages above set out what that involves.

For the arithmetic on your own brief, the website design cost calculator for Dubai asks five questions and shows the sums. It includes five sample briefs to start from, and it doesn't ask for your email.

Website design price in Dubai (and design-only work)

In Dubai, website design usually means design and build: AED 2,900 to 17,000 excluding VAT for a business site on our list, or AED 2,200 to 11,000 on WordPress. Design-only work (Figma, no build) has no fixed band, because the scope swings too far: a five-page refresh and a 20-template bilingual design system are different projects. We quote it after a short call.

Element8 publishes figures in "How Much Does Website Design Cost in Dubai? 2026 Guide" (25 March 2026):

• basic site: AED 1,500 to 6,000;
• CMS site: AED 4,000 to 10,000;
• corporate or custom design: AED 6,000 to 25,000 or more.

Treat them as rough markers, not quotes.

Two things decide a design quote. The first is the number of unique layouts, not the number of pages: twenty service pages on one template are one design. The second is Arabic. A right-to-left screen is not a mirrored English screen. Navigation order, icons that point a direction, number formats and form fields each need their own decision.

Buy design only if a developer or an in-house team will build it. If not, get design and build quoted together, because two vendors means two margins and a handover where details get lost. Our UI/UX design page for Dubai lists what your developer receives in a design-only handoff and what sets the price.

What a WordPress website costs in Dubai

A WordPress website in Dubai costs AED 2,200 to 11,000 on our list, excluding VAT, and takes one to two weeks.

The bottom of the band, AED 2,200 to 4,000, is a one- to five-page English site on a premium theme, set up properly:

• your content placed and images compressed;
• forms wired to your email and WhatsApp;
• Analytics and Search Console connected;
• page titles written for search, not left as theme defaults.

Toward the top you get a custom theme for your brand, Arabic pages with right-to-left support, booking or payment integrations, and WooCommerce for a small catalogue.

Cubix puts WordPress and CMS sites at AED 5,000 to 20,000 (April 2026), and TheWebMakers lists a WordPress package at AED 2,500 for up to six pages. Our low end is close to TheWebMakers; our top end is below Cubix's and still includes Arabic and integrations.

WordPress fits brochure sites, clinics, law firms, trading companies and small stores. It struggles with members' portals, booking rules that fight the plugins, ERP connections, and pages that must load fast for paid traffic. For those we build in Next.js, inside the same business-website band. I set out the trade-off in WordPress vs a custom website for Dubai businesses.

Not sure whether WordPress or Next.js suits your site? Send the URL of a site you like and a list of the pages you need to Ashish on WhatsApp (+91 92771 84741). I'll tell you which one and why, with an AED figure for each.

Online store cost in Dubai

An online store costs AED 5,900 to 49,000 on our list, excluding VAT, and takes two to six weeks. A Shopify or WooCommerce store with a modest catalogue and one gateway sits near the bottom. A custom-designed store with a large catalogue, filters, inventory and courier integration sits near the top. A multi-vendor marketplace or a store tied into an ERP is custom software, priced from that band instead.

The store build includes the pages payment providers want to see before they switch you on: refund, delivery, terms and contact. Before handover we place a live test order with you, so your first customer is not your first test. Each gateway and instalment option (Stripe, Telr, PayTabs, N-Genius, Tabby, Tamara) is a line in the quote, and their per-sale costs are set out under gateway and instalment fees. If your store must issue UAE VAT invoices to your customers, we scope that separately and confirm it in writing; the rules behind it are on our e-commerce cost page under Arabic invoices, VAT and data.

Platform fees come every month on top: Shopify's UAE plans in dirhams start at Shopify Basic, USD 24 a month billed yearly (about AED 88).

For card and instalment fees, courier and cash-on-delivery costs and a first-year budget, see our guide to ecommerce website cost in Dubai. Gateway fees are compared in PayTabs vs Telr vs MyFatoorah, and the integration work itself is on the payment gateway integration page.

Web design price in Dubai: what other UAE price guides publish

Published Dubai website prices in 2026 run from AED 999 for a five-page static site (TheWebMakers) to AED 55,000 for a corporate site (Element8), with e-commerce up to AED 110,000+.

These are the Dubai price guides that come up when you search google.ae, read in October 2026. All figures are AED, copied as each page states them.

Source (date on the page)	Basic or business site	WordPress or CMS	E-commerce	Custom app or portal
Element8, development guide (10 Apr 2026)	3,500-8,000 basic; 12,000-55,000 corporate or SME	Not listed	15,000-110,000+	50,000-275,000+
Cubix (15 Apr 2026)	3,000-15,000 basic; 15,000-40,000 moderate	5,000-20,000	30,000-120,000+ (in its FAQ)	40,000-120,000 complex; 120,000-200,000+ enterprise (website tiers)
TheWebMakers (homepage, read 12 Oct 2026)	999 static starter, 5 pages, no CMS	2,500, up to 6 pages	From 3,999	Not listed
Bootesnull (undated)	1,000-3,500 basic; 4,500-8,000 small business	Not listed	4,500-15,000	4,500-40,000
GoDaddy MENA guide (10 Dec 2025)	AED 1,000 to over 50,000 for a Dubai site, one range for everything	-	-	-
Codingclave UAE list (12 Oct 2026)	2,900-17,000	2,200-11,000	5,900-49,000	24,500-245,000

None of the guides we read says whether its prices include VAT. On a AED 20,000 project, 5 percent is AED 1,000, so ask before you compare.

None of them puts a price on Arabic. Element8 calls Arabic common in Dubai but gives no number; the calculator shows ours.

"From" prices and ranges are different things. TheWebMakers quotes entry prices for fixed packages, while Element8 and Cubix quote ranges across many briefs.

The agency figures are not inflated. A Dubai office, salaries at Dubai rates and account managers who visit you all cost money, and the quote has to recover them. If you need workshops in a room, their numbers are the right benchmark. For a site built to a written scope, ours are.

Freelancer vs Dubai agency vs remote team

	Freelancer	Dubai agency	Remote team (Codingclave)
Published price for a project	AED 3,000-30,000 (Cubix, Apr 2026)	AED 15,000-120,000 (Cubix, Apr 2026)	Business website AED 2,900-17,000, ex VAT
How the price is set	Varies; often hourly. Cubix lists developers at AED 90-130 an hour	Usually a proposal per project	Fixed price for a written scope
Invoice and VAT	Ask	UAE VAT invoice if registered	Invoiced in AED; no UAE VAT, as we are not registered
Code and IP	Ask who holds the domain, hosting and files	Usually handed over	Yours on final payment
Arabic	Depends on the person	Usually available	Arabic/RTL builds with a bilingual QA pass; translation priced separately
Meetings	Sometimes in person	In person	WhatsApp, email and video only
UAE trade licence for procurement	Rarely	Yes	No
After launch	Ask	Retainer	Six months of free bug fixes, then an optional care plan at AED 600-1,800 a month

Dubai does have genuinely cheap options: a five-page static site for AED 999 at TheWebMakers, a basic site for AED 1,000 to 3,500 at Bootesnull, or a DIY builder from AED 29.99 a month (GoDaddy MENA guide, 10 Dec 2025).

A cheap site can be a fair deal if you check four things first:

• whose name the domain is registered in;
• whether you get the files;
• what year-two hosting costs;
• what an edit costs.

If the answers are "the vendor's", "no", "not stated" and "per request", the cheap site gets expensive by year two.

One rule applies whoever you hire: register the .ae or .com under your company's account and give the developer access, not ownership.

Same price in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah and every other emirate

Our price is the same in every emirate: AED 2,900 to 17,000 for a business website, excluding VAT. We work remotely, so our costs don't change with your address. Element8's April 2026 development guide also says pricing is similar across the UAE. Our UAE page explains one price in every emirate and what changes when a buyer needs a licensed UAE supplier.

What does change is procurement. Some government and semi-government buyers need a supplier with a UAE trade licence. We don't have one, so for that kind of tender a licensed local agency is the right call.

For your emirate:

• Abu Dhabi and Al Ain: the prices on this page apply unchanged;
• Sharjah: web development in Sharjah;
• Fujairah and the east coast: website development in Fujairah.

Yearly running costs in Dubai: domain, hosting, email, maintenance

The build is a one-off. These costs come back every year, and almost no headline quote includes them.

Item	Typical cost (AED)	Notes
.ae domain	125 first year, 145 renewal	AEserver's listed price, ex VAT
.com domain	Varies by registrar	Check the renewal price, not the first-year offer
Shared hosting	Varies by host and billing term	Long billing terms lower the monthly figure; compare what renewal costs
SSL certificate	0	Free certificates from Let's Encrypt renew automatically on any decent host
Business email	Per user, per month	Priced by the provider (Google Workspace, Microsoft 365); check the current UAE price for your user count
Hosting, backups, monitoring and support (ours)	200-600 a month	Hosting, backups, monitoring and support; the care plan adds updates and small changes
Website care plan (ours)	600-1,800 a month	Updates, security, backups and small changes

Care plans are hard to compare on price alone. TheWebMakers charges AED 299 a month; Innomedia lists basic maintenance at AED 600 a year and standard maintenance at AED 2,400 a year (2 October 2026). Before you compare, ask how many hours the fee covers, what response time applies and in which hours, and who holds the logins when you leave.

A brochure site that changes twice a year rarely needs a full care plan. A store or a WordPress site with a dozen plugins usually does. Our website maintenance page sets out what an AMC should say in writing. It also lists the dates that take UAE sites offline, from .ae renewals to certificate lifetimes.

How long a website takes in Dubai

Project	Build time, from agreed scope and usable content
WordPress website	1-2 weeks
Business website	1-3 weeks
E-commerce store	2-6 weeks
AI chatbot	2-6 weeks
Real estate website + CRM	4-10 weeks
Custom portal or web app	6-16 weeks
Redesign or design only	Set in the quote

Few of the other guides give timelines. Cubix says two to four weeks for a basic site and one to two months for a moderate one, and Bootesnull also says two to four weeks for a basic site. Element8 gives six to twelve weeks for a corporate site and three to nine months for enterprise work.

When a project overruns, the code is rarely the cause; content is what usually delays a launch. The usual suspects are Arabic copy still with the translator, a third round of homepage options, and a domain login held by someone who has left the company. Hand over content and decisions quickly and the short end of each range is realistic.

Apps, software and hiring a developer: where this guide stops

This page covers websites. If your project is something else, these pages have the figures, all excluding VAT:

• Mobile app: AED 17,000 to 108,000 over four to twelve weeks. See the mobile app development cost guide for Dubai.
• Custom software, CRM, ERP or web app: custom software is AED 24,500 to 245,000, and a custom CRM is AED 12,500 to 88,000. See custom software, CRM and ERP cost in Dubai.
• AI chatbot on your site or WhatsApp: AED 4,900 to 59,000. See the AI chatbot development page.
• A developer by the month instead of a project: full-time at AED 8,900 to 17,900 a month (about 160 hours) or half-time at AED 4,900 to 9,500 (about 80 hours). Hiring a dedicated developer compares that with employing someone in the UAE.

If your current site is the problem, a redesign is quoted once we have seen it. The website redesign guide for UAE businesses covers when a redesign beats a rebuild and how to keep your rankings through the move.

How we work with UAE clients

I founded Codingclave Development LLP in 2017, and we're based in Lucknow, India. Since then we have delivered more than 200 projects, hold a 4.9 rating on Google across 92 reviews, and are Top Rated on Upwork. Delivery is founder-led. We have no UAE office and no UAE trade licence. Every service we offer in the Emirates, with AED prices, is on our UAE page.

Work runs on WhatsApp, email and video. Our hours are Monday to Saturday, 08:30 to 17:30 GST (10:00 to 19:00 IST); the UAE is one and a half hours behind India.

The terms, in writing:

• Price: fixed once the scope is agreed.
• Invoices and payment: invoiced in AED and paid by bank transfer into our AED account, 40 percent at the start, 40 percent at a mid-project milestone and 20 percent at launch.
• Ownership: all code and IP become yours on final payment.
• After launch: bug fixes are free for six months.

Our UAE page also covers who signs your contract.

Our Gulf work includes Dubai Digital Xchange (Next.js with Sanity CMS) and Sharqiyah (Next.js). Other projects are on our work page. I have also written about what outsourcing from Dubai to India looks like in practice, including the parts that go wrong.

We are the wrong choice in a few cases. If the project depends on in-person workshops, hire a Dubai agency. If procurement requires a supplier with a UAE trade licence, we cannot be that supplier. If photography is the heart of the site and someone has to shoot your showroom, the studio doing the shoot may be the better builder too.

Next step: a fixed AED quote

Send one of two things. Either the URL of your current site and what you want changed, or a one-line brief such as "trading company, eight pages, Arabic and English, product catalogue with an enquiry form".

Get your price in writing. Message the brief to WhatsApp +91 92771 84741, email hello@codingclave.com, or use the UAE quote form. I or someone on the team will reply during UAE working hours with an AED price, a delivery estimate and a short list of the decisions to make before we start.

If you want a number before talking to anyone, the website cost calculator runs on the same price list as this page. And if a freelancer or a Dubai agency suits your brief better, we will tell you.