How much does a website cost in Malta? (2026 prices)
Real numbers for 2026: what a site actually costs in Malta, what pushes the price up, the running costs nobody mentions, and how to spot a bad quote.
- A proper business website in Malta usually lands between €2,500 and €8,000. Good studios start around €2,500, bigger agencies at €4,000+.
- An online shop: €5,000 to €15,000+. A custom web app or booking platform: €10,000 and up.
- Under €1,000? That’s almost always a template with your logo on it.
- Budget roughly €400 to €1,000+ a year to keep it online, fast and safe. Bigger company sites sit at the top end, or above.
- Cheap sites aren’t cheap. The sweet spot is a lean studio: agency quality, without agency overheads.
“How much for a website?” is the first thing everyone asks. And the answer you usually get is “it depends”. True, but useless. So here are real ranges for Malta in 2026, and exactly what moves the number.
The short answer
These are typical ranges from studios working in Malta. Freelancers can go lower, big agencies higher, but this is the ballpark.
| What you need | Typical price | Good for |
|---|---|---|
| Landing page | €1,500 – €3,000 | A launch, an event, a single service |
| Business website | €2,500 – €8,000 | 5–10 pages, custom design, you edit it yourself |
| Online shop | €5,000 – €15,000+ | Products, payments, delivery, stock |
| Web app or platform | €10,000+ | Bookings, logins, dashboards, custom logic |
Who you hire moves the number most. Solid independent studios usually start around €2,500. The bigger agencies, with account managers and bigger teams, tend to start at €4,000+. Either way, a price is really just time multiplied by skill.
What actually moves the price
Two sites can both have “five pages” and be €5,000 apart. Here’s why.
- Custom design vs a template. A template is faster and cheaper. A custom design looks like you, not like 40,000 other sites.
- Features. Bookings, payments, logins, multiple languages, an AI chat assistant. Each one is real work.
- Content. Who writes the copy and who shoots the photos? If the studio does it, that’s part of the price.
- Connections. Linking your site to a CRM, a booking system, accounting or stock is where projects grow.
- Speed and SEO. A site built to load in under two seconds and rank on Google takes more care than one that just “works”.
The running costs nobody mentions
The build is a one-off. Keeping it alive isn’t. Plan for these every year:
- Domain: roughly €15 – €60 a year, depending on .com, .mt or .com.mt.
- Hosting: €25 – €80+ a month for fast, secure, managed hosting with backups. Cheap shared hosting is how sites get slow and hacked.
- Care: updates, backups, security and small edits. Usually a monthly plan, or paid as you go.
- Extras: small on their own, but they add up:
- Premium plugins and licences (forms, SEO, backups, page builders)
- Business email for your team
- Payment fees on every online sale
- Google Maps and other paid APIs
- AI features, usually billed per message or request
- Email marketing and SMS tools
- Booking, membership or shop add-ons
- Stock photos, fonts and video licences
- Cookie consent, security and CDN services
A good studio lists every one of these in the quote, so nothing surprises you later.
Ask every studio one thing: is the domain registered in your name? If it isn’t, you don’t really own your website.
Cheap vs good: where the money goes
A €400 website and a €4,000 website can look similar in a screenshot. The difference shows up later:
- Speed. Every extra second of loading costs you visitors, especially on phones.
- Google. Clean code, proper titles and structured data help you get found. Bloated templates don’t.
- Leads. A good site is designed to make people call, book or buy. Not just to exist.
- Freedom. You should be able to change text and photos yourself, without paying every time.
A cheap site you rebuild in a year costs more than a good one that lasts five.
Red flags in a website quote
- One price for “a website”, with no list of pages or features.
- No mention of hosting, care or who owns the domain.
- “Unlimited revisions.” Sounds great, usually means no plan.
- No portfolio of real, live sites you can click through.
- You can’t edit anything yourself once it’s live.
How we price at sherree
Big-agency quality, without the big-agency bill. We’re a lean studio. No account managers, no layers, no office overheads baked into your quote. So every quote is built around what your site actually needs. A sharp one-pager costs far less than a full company site with bookings, and you only pay for what you use.
- Same quality: custom design, clean code, built to load fast and rank on Google.
- Straight talk: you speak directly to the people designing and building your site.
- No surprises: a clear quote listing every page, feature and running cost.
- Yours: you own the domain, the content and the code. Always.
Want your real number instead of a range? Tell us about your project and we’ll get back to you with a plan and a fair quote.