How much does a website cost in Switzerland in 2026?

A brochure site (what Swiss French agencies call a “site vitrine”) presents your business without selling anything online: a handful of pages (home, services, about, contact), a form and basic SEO. It's the most common format for a service business.

Published prices start very low. CyberClinique puts a professional brochure site at CHF 399 to 2,500. O'Matic, in Geneva, quotes CHF 1,000 to 2,500 for a one-page site or a custom landing page. Ferr Studio, in Morges, puts a brochure site at CHF 2,000 to 6,000, excluding VAT.

Beyondweb splits the one-page site by type of provider: CHF 500 to 1,500 with a site builder or a fixed-price package, about CHF 700 to 2,200 with a freelancer and CHF 1,000 to 3,500 with an agency. Before you compare these amounts, check what they cover: an adapted template filled with the text you supply, or design, copywriting and SEO done for you.

For a business website of up to 15 pages, Beyondweb gives CHF 2,000 to 5,000 with a builder or a package, CHF 3,000 to 8,000 with a freelancer and CHF 5,000 to 15,000 with an agency. For a complex site, Beyondweb gives CHF 10,000 to 30,000 with an agency. O'Matic quotes CHF 3,500 to 15,000 for a WordPress site with few page templates, depending on complexity, design and features, and notes that a custom site with animations and specific features easily goes past CHF 10,000. Ferr Studio puts a custom site at CHF 6,000 to 15,000.

Selling online adds a catalogue, payments, shipping, confirmation emails and terms and conditions, and the ranges widen accordingly. According to CyberClinique, an online store starts at CHF 1,500 and can go past CHF 8,000 depending on features, and costs CHF 6,000 to 20,000 or more with a local agency. Ferr Studio starts its stores at CHF 8,000, O'Matic at around CHF 15,000.

A store aimed at Swiss customers must also show the price actually payable in Swiss francs, VAT included, as SECO points out in its FAQ on price indication. You can add a price in euros, but it doesn't replace the price in francs. In short, based on these four sources:

• One-page site or small brochure site: about CHF 500 to 3,500
• Multi-page brochure site: about CHF 2,000 to 8,000
• Business website of up to 15 pages, with an agency: CHF 5,000 to 15,000
• Online store: from CHF 1,500 for a simple offer to CHF 20,000 and up
• Complex site with an agency: CHF 10,000 to 30,000

The type of site sets the ballpark. The final quote then depends on these factors:

• The number of pages and of distinct page templates: ten pages built on the same layout take less work than five pages that are all different.
• The design, whether it's an adapted theme or a fully custom one.
• Text and photos, depending on whether you supply them or the provider writes and produces them.
• Languages. CyberClinique puts a multilingual site (French, German, English) at CHF 2,000 to 10,000 and up, including translation, language management and hreflang tags.
• Features: online booking, a client area, TWINT payments, a CRM connection.
• The hourly rate. According to Beyondweb, agencies charge CHF 120 to 250 an hour, freelancers usually CHF 110 to 180.
• Data protection: a privacy policy, cookie handling and forms that only ask for what's needed (more on this below).

The build price covers the launch. Every year after that, you renew the domain name, pay for hosting and, unless you do it yourself, pay for technical upkeep. CyberClinique counts CHF 15 to 30 a year for a domain name (.ch, .com or .fr), CHF 60 to 300 for hosting and CHF 100 to 500 for maintenance. Beyondweb puts hosting for a business website of 1 to 20 pages at CHF 150 to 200 a year.

An online store costs a lot more to run: for a catalogue of more than 1,000 products, Beyondweb talks about hosting from CHF 1,000 to several tens of thousands of francs a year. Depending on your setup, add plugin licences, professional email addresses and transaction fees.

Some entry-level offers only include hosting for the first year, so ask for the price from year two, and for the cost of a change once the site is delivered. Check whose name the domain will be registered in, too. CyberClinique recommends that it be yours, so you can switch providers without losing your address.

The standard VAT rate has been 8.1% since 1 January 2024, according to the Federal Tax Administration (FTA). Some providers publish their prices excluding VAT, Ferr Studio among them, so a CHF 5,000 quote excluding VAT comes to CHF 5,405 with it. On the other hand, a business with less than CHF 100,000 in yearly turnover is in principle exempt from VAT liability, and a freelancer in that position doesn't charge VAT. To compare two quotes, bring them to the same basis, VAT included.

Since 1 September 2023, the new Federal Act on Data Protection (nFADP) has applied to every Swiss business that processes data about individuals, whatever its size. The federal SME portal points out that collecting any personal data, not only sensitive data, must now be preceded by information. On a website, that means a privacy policy that's easy to find and forms that only ask for what's needed. A serious quote says who writes that policy and who sets up the analytics tools. Our article on the nFADP covers these obligations in detail.

Then there's language. In Lausanne or Geneva, a French site is often enough for local customers; if you're also targeting German-speaking Switzerland, expats or international clients, German or English comes on top. The structure and design are only built once, so a second language doesn't double the price. It adds translation, the integration of each page and SEO in each language.

Online site builders cost little up front. The subscription is billed every month, and it's your own time that goes into the layout and the text. They work for testing an idea or starting out, less well for a business that relies on its website to bring in enquiries.

A freelancer is generally cheaper than an agency. For a simple brochure site of 3 to 5 pages, CyberClinique counts CHF 800 to 2,500 with a freelancer, against CHF 3,000 to 8,000 with a local agency. The result depends heavily on the person, and on whether they're still available the day your site needs changing. An agency brings a team and processes, at a rate designed for bigger projects. Either way, look at the sites they've delivered, how fast those load on a phone and who will look after yours after launch.

At Kollowo, in Lausanne and Geneva, a website costs between CHF 1,000 and 2,000: a simple site sits at the lower end of that range, a more developed one (more pages, two languages, extra features) at the higher end. The details are on our pricing page. If you need a store with several hundred products connected to your inventory system, or a site in three languages with professional translations, that budget won't be enough, and an agency that specialises in e-commerce will serve you better than we can.

Send the same request to two or three providers: the goal of the site (calls, quote requests, sales), the rough number of pages, the languages, who provides the text and photos, the must-have features, your budget and your deadline. The cheapest quote up front isn't always the cheapest over three years, once hosting, maintenance and changes are added up, so compare the quotes line by line:

• Is the price excluding or including VAT, and is VAT charged at all?
• How many pages and languages are actually included, and is translation part of it?
• Who writes the text, who provides the photos, and is basic SEO included?
• Are the privacy policy and the nFADP-related settings part of the work?
• Will the domain name be registered in your name?
• How much do hosting and maintenance cost from year two?
• What does a change cost after delivery, and can you move the site if you switch providers?