If you ask ten web designers in Spain how much a business website costs, nine of them will say “it depends.” Here is a straight answer: at a fixed price, a small-business website on the Costa Blanca costs between €490 and €1,200 plus 21% IVA, depending on one thing above all else, whether your site collects personal data. A static, information-only site starts at €490. With a form and full legal texts, €690. With more scope, around €1,200. Larger projects with booking, a shop, or several languages start from €2,200. On top of that, budget from around €99 a year for hosting. These are my own fixed prices, not an “it depends.”
For context, from my experience working in the Marina Alta: a DIY builder like Wix or Jimdo costs you mainly in recurring fees, roughly €0 to €300 a year, but you build and maintain everything yourself. A freelancer or local designer on a fixed price runs, depending on scope, between about €490 and €2,500. An agency project usually starts at €3,000 and climbs from there. The “website from €99” of the cold email and the €8,000-plus agency quote are the two extremes, and the honest range for a small business sits between them.
The Three Tiers: What You Actually Get at Each Price Point
Not every business needs the same website. The honest way to think about cost is to match the tier to what your site actually has to do.
| Package | Fixed price (excl. IVA) | What it includes | When it fits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Static | €490 | 3-5 pages, no form, Aviso Legal + privacy policy | Business card, information-only site |
| Compliant | €690 | Contact form, GDPR cookie banner, full legal texts, responsive design | Service providers, trades, restaurants |
| Business | €1,200 | More scope, multilingual, SEO structure, FAQ schema | Businesses with several services or languages |
| Pro | from €2,200 | Booking, shop entry, or backend integration, tailored | Holiday rentals, hospitality, e-commerce |
| Complete | from €3,400 | Full scope with WordPress CMS, you edit it yourself | Businesses that want everything from one hand |
The jump from Static to Compliant is not about adding a page. It is about adding the legal infrastructure that Spain’s data protection law (LOPD-GDD) and the EU’s GDPR require the moment your site processes a visitor’s name or email address. That means a correctly drafted privacy policy, a legal notice (Aviso Legal), and a functioning cookie consent tool, not a banner that says “we use cookies” and does nothing.
The jump from Compliant to Business is about backend connections: a booking calendar that syncs with your availability, a payment gateway that works with Spanish banks, or a form that pushes data into your CRM. Each integration adds complexity, testing time, and ongoing maintenance.
Why Page Count Is the Wrong Way to Price a Website
Most designers in Spain still quote by the number of pages. That approach systematically underprices the work that costs the most time and overprices the parts that are almost free once a template is set up.
Designing a fifth page is fast. Writing legally sound cookie consent copy, configuring a GDPR-compliant form processor, and connecting a booking widget to an external calendar is not. A quote that says “€200 per page” tells you almost nothing about what the project actually involves.
Fixed-price packages work better for both sides. You know what you are paying before the work starts. The designer knows exactly what is in scope. There are no surprise invoices three weeks after launch because “the booking integration turned out to be more complex than expected.”
This is not a new idea, it is how most service businesses with clear, repeatable work structure their pricing. A fixed quote also forces the designer to think carefully before promising something, which is a useful quality filter.
The Legal Layer: What It Costs and Why You Cannot Skip It
The Digital Report Costa Blanca 2026 found that about half of the business websites tested were missing basic legal elements. As of October 2026, 49% of 3,707 websites across the Comunidad Valenciana showed no findable legal notice (Aviso Legal) on the first page fetch, 52% on the Costa Blanca itself, and 49% showed no cookie notice at all.
Spain’s data protection authority, the AEPD (Agencia Española de Protección de Datos), actively investigates complaints and has issued fines to small businesses. The legal minimum for any site that collects data:
- Aviso Legal: Company name, tax ID (NIF/NIE/CIF), registered address, and contact details, required under Spain’s Law 34/2002 on Information Society Services (LSSI).
- Privacy Policy: How you collect, store, and process personal data, under GDPR and LOPD-GDD.
- Cookie Notice: A consent mechanism that blocks non-essential cookies until the user accepts, under Spain’s AEPD cookie guidance updated in 2023.
A lawyer-drafted set of these documents costs between €200 and €500 as a one-off. Some designers include them in their package; others treat them as an add-on. Always ask before you sign anything.
Hidden Ongoing Costs: The Part Nobody Mentions in the Quote
The build price is what everyone focuses on. The running costs are what surprise people a year later.
Domain and hosting: Budget around €100 to €250 per year for a reliable European host with an SSL certificate included, plus about €15 for the domain. Cheap shared hosting at €3 a month sounds appealing until your site goes down during peak summer bookings and support takes 48 hours to respond.
Software subscriptions: If your site uses a booking plugin (Calendly, SimplyBook, or a WordPress plugin like Bookly), a form tool, or an email marketing platform, those are typically billed monthly or annually. Add €10 to €30 per month per tool, which is €120 to €360 per year before you have paid anyone to maintain the site itself.
Maintenance: WordPress sites need plugin updates, security scans, and occasional fixes. A basic maintenance plan runs €50 to €150 per month. Without it, outdated plugins are the single most common reason small business websites get hacked.
Legal text updates: Laws change. The AEPD updated its cookie guidance in 2023; if your privacy policy still references old frameworks, it is out of date. Expect to pay €50 to €150 per update, or work with a designer who includes this in a maintenance plan.
The realistic total cost of ownership for a Compliant-tier site over three years: €690 to build, plus roughly €350 to €800 for hosting and the domain across those three years. If you want the site actively maintained for you, that is a separate €50 to €150 a month on top. That is not alarming, it is just honest.
DIY Builders: Wix, Squarespace, and the Add-On Trap
DIY website builders are genuinely good at one thing: getting something live quickly with no technical knowledge. They are less good at everything that comes after.
Wix and Squarespace templates are not legally compliant by default for Spanish or EU law. You need to add third-party cookie tools, draft your own legal texts, and configure them correctly. If you get that wrong, the compliance gap is exactly the same as if you had done nothing, but you have already spent time and the monthly subscription fee.
More importantly, both platforms charge transaction fees or require premium plans the moment you add booking or payment features. A Squarespace Business plan at roughly €25 per month plus a Calendly subscription plus a Mailchimp free tier sounds manageable until you add them up over three years: that is €900 in subscriptions before a single minute of design time.
For a genuine business site, one that takes bookings, handles enquiries, or needs to rank in Google for local searches, a custom build on a self-hosted platform almost always works out cheaper over a three-year horizon.
What to Ask Any Designer Before You Sign
A few questions that separate clear answers from evasive ones:
- Is the price fixed, or is it an estimate that can change?
- Does the price include the Aviso Legal, privacy policy, and cookie consent tool?
- Who hosts the site after launch, and what does that cost per year?
- What happens if something breaks six months after launch?
- Do you have published prices I can see before we talk?
If a designer cannot answer questions one, two, and three clearly and quickly, that is useful information.
My published packages for business websites on the Costa Blanca start at a fixed price, include all legally required texts, and come with transparent annual running costs. If you want to see the numbers before getting on a call, visit the pricing page or get in touch directly. I reply within 24 hours, and I am based in Dénia, not a call centre.