How Much Does a Website Cost in Sharjah and Ajman? Compare Scope Before Price
A website in Sharjah or Ajman is priced by scope, not postcode: pages, languages, integrations and care decide the quote, from AED 999 up.
- Website price follows scope (pages; languages; integrations; content and care) rather than your city
- Entry offers start at AED 999 for a business website; AED 399 for a landing page and from AED 1499 for e-commerce
- Separate one-time build fees from recurring domain; hosting; licence; care and SEO costs
- Compare quotes like-for-like on ownership; deliverables; exclusions; support and renewals
- A Sharjah base can serve Ajman buyers through content with no separate office or city fee
A website in Sharjah or Ajman is priced by its scope, not by the emirate it is built in. The number of pages, the languages, the content writing, the photography, any booking or payment integrations, and whether you want ongoing care all move the figure far more than your postcode does. As a practical starting point, a straightforward business website starts at AED 999, a single landing page at AED 399, and an online store from AED 1,499. Scope then sets the final fixed quote, so the right next step is to define what you actually need before comparing prices.
This guide shows you how to read a quote properly: what the entry packages do and do not cover, how to tell a one-time build fee from the running costs, and how to send any developer a clear brief so the numbers you get back are genuinely comparable.
The short answer, then the conditions
Here are the published starting points to anchor your thinking. Ask us to confirm current terms and VAT before you budget, because scope sets the final fixed quote.
| Website type | Starting price | What it suits | What usually pushes it up |
|---|---|---|---|
| Landing page | AED 399 | One offer, one clear action | Extra sections, bespoke design, integrations |
| Business website | AED 999 | A few pages that explain your services | More pages, Arabic, photography, bookings |
| E-commerce store | from AED 1,499 | Selling products online | Catalogue size, payments, delivery, variants |
An extra page beyond the entry scope is AED 399 each, so a five-page site is not the same quote as a ten-page site. None of these are a promise that every project lands at AED 999. They are honest floors: the point where a well-defined, modest build begins.
Four scopes that get called "a website"
The word "website" hides very different pieces of work. Naming the right one first saves you from comparing a brochure quote against a store quote.
- A brochure site presents who you are and what you do across a handful of pages. It is the most common starting point for a service business.
- A service site goes further, with a page per service, local coverage content, and stronger enquiry routing. It is a brochure site with more depth and more pages.
- A landing page is a single focused page built around one offer and one action, often paired with an ad campaign. If clicks arrive but enquiries do not, the issue is usually the page journey rather than the price. Our guide on a landing page that gets clicks but few enquiries walks through where that breaks.
- A store adds a product catalogue, a cart, payment and delivery logic. That is why e-commerce starts higher, and why our e-commerce build service is scoped separately from a standard site.
If you are also weighing whether to build on WordPress or a custom-coded platform, our guide on WordPress versus a custom website for UAE businesses covers the decision in detail.
A buyer asking for "a cheap website" and meaning a ten-product store will always be surprised by the quote. Pick the scope, then price it.
What actually sits inside the quote
Once you know the scope, these are the line items that move the number. Treat each as a yes or no with a quantity, not a vague inclusion.
- Pages. How many, and which ones. An entry site covers a small set; each extra page beyond that scope is AED 399.
- Content writing. Will you supply the words, or should the agency write them? Writing professional copy for several pages is real work and belongs on the quote.
- Arabic and right-to-left layout. A second language is not just translated text. It is a parallel set of pages, a right-to-left layout that genuinely reads well, and content that is reviewed by a native speaker. Treat it as added scope, and see our note on bilingual website SEO beyond translation.
- Photography and video. Real images of your premises, team or products are usually a separate shoot, not part of the build fee.
- Forms and WhatsApp. A working enquiry form and a WhatsApp handoff are standard, but confirm they are included and tested.
- Booking or payment integrations. A booking calendar, a payment gateway or a delivery flow each add development and testing time.
- Migration. Moving an existing site, its content, or its search rankings onto a new build is its own task.
A clear website development scope lists these explicitly so nothing hides in a single round number.
One-time build versus the running costs
The single most useful habit when comparing quotes is to split the money into two columns: what you pay once, and what you pay every month or year.
| Cost | One-time or recurring | Notes to confirm |
|---|---|---|
| Build fee | One-time | The design and development of the agreed scope |
| Domain registration | Recurring (yearly) | Who owns the registrar account matters |
| Hosting | Recurring | Confirm the renewal figure, not just year one |
| Paid licences or plugins | Recurring | Some themes or tools carry yearly fees |
| Website care | Recurring (monthly) | Updates, backups, checks and small changes |
| SEO | Recurring (monthly) | A separate service with its own deliverables |
Website care is AED 299 per month and covers updates, backups, checks and up to one hour of changes. It is not a 24/7 human-support promise, and it is separate from a redesign or an incident. You can read what a sensible routine looks like in our website maintenance checklist, or scope it directly through website care. SEO is a different recurring service again, so keep it out of the build column entirely.
Two fictional briefs, two different quotes
To show how scope moves the number without inventing any industry averages, here are two example businesses. Both are fictional.
A fictional Ajman home-maintenance company wants a simple site: a homepage, an about page, three service pages and a contact page. English only to start. It will supply its own photos and a rough draft of the text. There are no bookings or payments. This sits close to the business website starting point, with a small addition if extra pages or copywriting are needed.
A fictional Sharjah homeware shop wants a bilingual catalogue with around forty products, Arabic and English throughout, an online payment option, a delivery-fee rule and a product photoshoot. This is clearly an e-commerce scope that begins from AED 1,499 and rises with the catalogue size, the second language, the payment and delivery logic, and the shoot. The postcode did not change the price. The scope did.
How Sharjah and Ajman coverage shows up
You do not need a separate website for Sharjah and a separate one for Ajman, and you do not pay a different fee for a different emirate. A business based in Sharjah can serve Ajman customers perfectly well. What reflects that coverage is honest content: a service-area section that names where you genuinely work, a page that speaks to the Ajman customer's situation, and accurate contact details. We never advise inventing an office or a map pin where you do not operate. Coverage lives in truthful content, not in a fake address.
A brief you can send any developer
Copy this and fill it in. A developer who receives it can give you a like-for-like quote, and you can compare replies side by side.
- The scope: landing page, brochure site, service site or store.
- The page list, with a rough idea of each page's purpose.
- Languages: English only, or English and Arabic with right-to-left layout.
- Who writes the content, and who supplies photos.
- Any integrations: forms, WhatsApp, bookings, payments, delivery.
- Whether an existing site or its rankings need migrating.
- Your renewal expectations: domain, hosting, licences and care.
- Ownership and handover: you should own the domain, the site and all accounts on final payment.
Use the comparison worksheet
To keep the replies honest, we built a simple worksheet. It lays out one supplier per row so you can see, at a glance, where a low build fee hides a high licence or care cost, and where exclusions have been left off the page.
The columns are: Supplier, Website type, Page count, Languages, Content supplied or written, Build fee AED, Domain and hosting renewal AED, Paid licences AED, Care fee AED, Integrations, Ownership and handover, and Exclusions. A sample filled row might read: a fictional Supplier A, a service brochure site, six pages, English and Arabic, agency writes six pages, build fee AED 999, renewal to confirm, no paid licences, care AED 299 per month, WhatsApp and enquiry form, full ownership on final payment, with photography and paid ads excluded.
Download the Website quote comparison worksheet (upstream-01-website-quote-comparison.csv)
Questions, answered
Does the website price include hosting and future changes?
Not usually, and that is why the two-column habit matters. The build fee pays for designing and developing the agreed scope once. Hosting and your domain renew every year and should be quoted separately, and future changes are covered by a care plan such as AED 299 per month rather than by the original build. Always ask what the renewal figure is, not just the first-year cost.
Does Arabic content require more than translation?
Yes. A proper Arabic version is a parallel experience: the pages exist in full, the layout reads correctly right-to-left, the content is reviewed by a native speaker, and the enquiry routing works the same way. Machine-translated words dropped into an English layout are not an equivalent experience, so treat a second language as added scope that is planned and checked, not a free toggle.
Do I need a different website for Sharjah and Ajman?
No. One website can serve both. What reflects your coverage is accurate content that names the areas you genuinely work in and gives correct contact details. A Sharjah base can serve Ajman customers without a second site, a separate office or an extra city fee. We would never suggest creating an address where you do not actually operate.
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Your next step
Decide your scope, draft the page list, and fill the worksheet with any quotes you already hold. If a reply is hard to compare, that is usually a sign the exclusions are hiding. When you are ready for a like-for-like number, send us a brief and we will confirm the current terms and VAT for your exact scope.