How Much Does a Website Cost in Romania and Hungary in 2026?

"How much for a website?" is the first question almost every café owner, dentist or expat consultant in Arad, Timișoara or Szeged asks me. And the honest answer is uncomfortable: in our region the same small site can cost the price of a used phone or the price of a used car, and both offers may call themselves "professional".

So instead of "it depends", here are the published 2026 price ranges for Romania and Hungary, what moves the number, and the costs that appear after you sign.

First, a word on where these numbers come from

Very few web designers in Arad, Timișoara, Oradea or Szeged publish full price lists. Most say "ask for a quote". So the figures below come mainly from national Romanian and Hungarian price comparisons and price pages published in 2026, not from a neat local survey. I have converted them at roughly 5 lei and roughly 365 forints to the euro. Treat them as orientation, not as anyone's offer.

Romania: Arad, Timișoara, Oradea

A one-page or template site

Template-based packages often start somewhere around 1,000 to 2,000 lei (about 200 to 400 €), and template sites with up to five pages are often advertised between about 1,800 and 5,000 lei (roughly 360 to 1,000 €). You usually get a ready-made theme with your logo and texts dropped in.

A business site with 5 to 8 pages

Once the design is made for your business rather than adapted from a theme, published prices usually start around 2,500 to 4,000 lei and often land between about 1,000 and 3,000 € for a custom presentation site. A Timișoara restaurant with a menu, booking and two languages will sit in the upper half.

A small online shop

Shops are a different category. Simple template shops are often quoted from around 1,000 €, while custom shops commonly start around 3,000 to 5,000 € and go well beyond that once you add invoicing, courier or ERP integrations.

Yearly running costs in Romania

• .ro domain: registrars often list it at roughly 7 to 9 € a year before VAT; overall you will usually see 50 to 150 lei a year.
• Hosting: usually somewhere between about 150 and 600 lei a year (30 to 120 €) for a small site.
• Maintenance: where it is offered as a yearly package, ranges of roughly 1,200 to 6,000 lei a year (about 240 to 1,200 €) are common.

Hungary: Szeged and the south-east

A simple introduction site

Simple one-page or small introduction sites in Hungary are usually said to start from around 100,000 Ft (roughly 270 €).

A company site with several pages

Multi-page business sites typically appear in the range of about 250,000 to 800,000 Ft, which is roughly 680 to 2,200 €.

A small webshop

Hungarian sources are thinner here, and some are a few years old. Rented webshop platforms often start at a monthly fee of around 5,000 to 10,000 Ft. Shops built on open-source systems have been quoted at roughly 100,000 to 300,000 Ft to set up, while custom shops rarely come in under 500,000 Ft (about 1,350 €). Expect current prices to be higher than older articles suggest.

Yearly running costs in Hungary

• .hu domain: renewal prices vary a lot between registrars, from a few euros to around 15 to 20 € a year.
• Hosting and care: often quoted per month; ask for the yearly total so you can compare offers honestly.

What actually drives the price

When two offers for "a five-page website" differ by a factor of five, it is usually one of these:

• Template or custom design. A theme is faster to fill; a design made around your business usually communicates better.
• Who writes the texts. If the designer has to write or translate everything, that is real work and should be on the invoice.
• Languages. In our border region, a second or third language (Romanian, Hungarian, English, German) is often the difference between one market and two.
• Functions. Online booking, a shop, a menu that you edit yourself, a contact form that really reaches you.
• Speed and testing. A site tested on real phones and tuned for speed takes more care than one that is simply uploaded.

The hidden costs nobody puts in the first offer

• Texts and photos. Many cheap packages assume you deliver both, ready to use.
• Legal texts. Privacy policy, cookie consent and, for shops, terms and conditions. GDPR applies in Romania and Hungary alike.
• Google Business Profile. Not part of the website, but often what customers see first.
• Renewals. Domain, hosting and plugin or theme licences come back every year, sometimes at a higher price than the first one.
• Change requests. "One revision round included" sounds fine until you want to change the menu after launch.

What to ask before you sign

• Is the domain registered in my name, and who holds the login?
• What exactly is included: number of pages, languages, texts, photos, legal pages?
• What do I pay every year after launch, in total?
• How much does a small change cost after handover?
• If I leave, do I get all files, and is there an exit fee?
• Can I see a real site you built, and test it on my phone?

That last question matters. Here are mine: La Lavinia in Arad and raganadesign.shop both scored 100 in all four Google PageSpeed Insights categories on mobile when I tested them on 12 October 2026. You can run the same test on any site a designer shows you.

How I handle it

I am a one-person studio in Battonya, just across the border from Arad, and I build hand-coded, static sites without plugins. My fixed prices are in the price calculator, and the details of what each package includes are on the website cost page. If you are in Arad or Timișoara, the local pages explain how I work with businesses there.

Your next step

Take ten minutes: open your current site (or your competitors' sites) on your phone, run it through PageSpeed Insights, and note what you would change. Then ask me for a free design preview of your homepage: you get it within 48 working hours, with no obligation. If you don't like it, you pay nothing. I reply on the same working day by WhatsApp, phone or the contact form.