What does a website cost in Romania in 2026? Public price lists from 93 providers

If you are based abroad and considering a Romanian developer, the first question is usually the website cost in Romania, and most provider sites answer it with a "request a quote" button. On 27 September 2026 I collected what providers do publish: 397 public packages from 93 providers in Romania. This article is about the market, not my own prices. What a website costs with me and what drives the price is covered in a separate article.

I do not name any provider or domain, only aggregate figures. I am not calling anyone cheap or expensive. I want to give you a reference point for when an offer lands in your inbox.

A quick note on currency

Romania uses the leu (plural lei, code RON). Many providers quote in euros anyway: 53% of the packages I collected had a euro price. To compare them, I converted euros at 1 EUR = 5 lei. This is a rounded approximation, so the euro figures in this article are rounded too and can differ from the daily rate by a few percent.

The key numbers

• The cheapest public package for a business (presentation) website has a median of 2,250 lei, about 450 EUR (57 providers).
• An online store: 4,972 lei, about 995 EUR (32 providers). A one-page landing page: 1,450 lei, about 290 EUR (11 providers).
• Monthly maintenance: 170 lei, about 34 EUR (30 providers).
• On 66% of the 397 packages, it is not stated whether VAT is included, and 64 of the 93 providers never state it on any package.

How I collected the data

I went through the websites of Romanian providers that publish prices: 77 agencies, 6 freelancers, 9 platforms (template-based or subscription websites) and one I could not classify. For each package I recorded the name, price, currency, VAT note, billing (one-off, monthly or yearly) and what it includes. Where the same package appeared twice, I counted it once, based on the domain and package name.

For each provider I took the cheapest, entry-level package, so that a provider with many packages does not skew the result. I used the median rather than the average, because one very expensive or very cheap package would pull the average a long way. P25–P75 is the range the middle half of providers fall into. My own packages are not included.

Website cost in Romania by package type

• Business website, one-off: median 2,250 lei (≈ 450 EUR), P25–P75: 1,372–3,000 lei (≈ 275–600 EUR); 120 packages, 57 providers.
• Landing page, one-off: median 1,450 lei (≈ 290 EUR), P25–P75: 1,000–1,500 lei (≈ 200–300 EUR); 12 packages, 11 providers.
• Online store, one-off: median 4,972 lei (≈ 995 EUR), P25–P75: 3,112–7,246 lei (≈ 620–1,450 EUR); 68 packages, 32 providers.
• Maintenance, monthly: median 170 lei (≈ 34 EUR), P25–P75: 100–261 lei (≈ 20–52 EUR); 64 packages, 30 providers.
• Business website on a monthly subscription: median 142 lei (≈ 28 EUR) a month, P25–P75: 80–499 lei; 11 packages, 6 providers.
• SEO, monthly: median 2,475 lei (≈ 495 EUR), P25–P75: 575–3,146 lei; 16 packages, 6 providers.
• Hosting, monthly: median 22 lei (≈ 4.40 EUR), P25–P75: 11–72 lei; 33 packages, 9 providers.

Only 6 providers stand behind the subscription and SEO lines each, so treat those as a signal, not a market price.

How wide is the spread?

The cheapest published business website costs 300 lei (≈ 60 EUR), the most expensive entry-level package 9,000 lei (≈ 1,800 EUR). The 57 entry prices break down like this:

• under 1,000 lei: 11 providers;
• 1,000–1,999 lei: 14;
• 2,000–2,999 lei: 15;
• 3,000–4,999 lei: 13;
• 5,000 lei or more: 4.

For online stores, entry packages range from 1,485 to 14,500 lei. Of 32 providers, 7 are under 3,000 lei, 10 between 3,000 and 4,999, 8 between 5,000 and 7,499, and 7 at 7,500 lei or more. Monthly maintenance starts anywhere from 32 to 950 lei: 4 of 30 providers charge under 100 lei, 16 between 100 and 249, 9 between 250 and 599, and one 600 lei or more.

What the entry price actually buys

The biggest unknown is what the package contains. Of the 57 entry-level business website packages:

• 32 state the number of pages, most often 5 pages (13 packages) or 10 pages (7 packages), ranging from 2 to 15.
• 18 mention the domain or hosting. For the rest it is unclear whether they are included or billed separately.
• For online stores, only 6 of 32 entry packages mention the domain or hosting.

A 1,500-lei package with 5 pages, a domain and a year of hosting, and a 1,500-lei one-pager with hosting billed separately, are the same number in a table. They are not the same invoice.

VAT for a foreign client

Of the 397 packages, 264 (66%) do not say whether VAT is included, 109 (27%) are explicitly excluding VAT ("+TVA"), and only 24 (6%) include it. I used the prices as published, without adding VAT.

The standard Romanian VAT rate has been 21% since 1 August 2025 (Law 141/2025, in Romanian). For a Romanian private client, a 2,250-lei price excluding VAT becomes 2,722.50 lei on the invoice. For you as a foreign business, it usually works differently: when a Romanian provider sells a service to a VAT-registered company in another EU country, the invoice is normally issued without Romanian VAT and you account for it at home under the reverse-charge mechanism. Some smaller providers are not VAT-registered at all. Confirm the exact treatment with your accountant, and ask the provider how they will invoice before you sign.

Where the prices come from

Of the 93 providers, 26 are in Bucharest (28%), 7 in Cluj-Napoca, 7 in Timișoara, and 10 advertise nationally without a city. Among packages the weight is even larger: 161 of 397 (41%) come from Bucharest or Timișoara pages, because some providers keep a separate page and price list for each city. The median entry price of the 11 Bucharest providers is 2,495 lei, and 2,350 lei for the 42 outside Bucharest and Timișoara. The difference is small, and the sample is too small to draw conclusions about city prices.

In Harghita County, where I work, I found no provider with public prices: developers in Miercurea Ciuc and Odorheiu Secuiesc all use a quote request. In neighbouring Covasna County, one or two providers in Sfântu Gheorghe publish prices, alongside a few national players with city-specific pages. My own prices are public too, on the pricing page: a business website from 2,500 lei (≈ 500 EUR), an online store from 5,000 lei (≈ 1,000 EUR), maintenance at 250, 600 or 1,200 lei a month. For a business website that sits between the median and the upper quartile, for an online store around the median, and my entry maintenance plan at the upper edge of the middle range.

Six biases to keep in mind

• Providers who publish prices lean towards the cheaper end. Expensive agencies typically use a "request a quote" form and are missing from the sample, so the median more likely underestimates the market.
• "From" prices are entry level. They refer to the simplest version, and only 40 of 397 packages give a price range. A real project with several languages, copywriting or custom features usually costs more.
• Most sites do not state VAT. The same number can mean a net or a gross price.
• Package contents vary a lot. Pages, domain and hosting are sometimes included, sometimes not, and sometimes it is unclear.
• The geography is skewed. Sites optimised for a city name and the city pages of a few national players are over-represented, and Bucharest and Timișoara carry too much weight.
• Subscriptions cannot be compared with one-off fees. The 142-lei monthly median adds up to 5,112 lei (≈ 1,020 EUR) over three years, but often includes hosting and maintenance. With a subscription, ask what happens to the website if you cancel.

What to ask a Romanian provider

• Is the price with or without VAT, and how will the invoice be issued to a foreign company?
• Is the price in lei or euros, and at which exchange rate will you be invoiced?
• How many pages are included, and are the domain and hosting included, for how many years?
• What is included in the "from" price, and what costs extra: a second language, online payments, copywriting, photos?
• For maintenance, what does the monthly fee actually cover? I wrote about what to expect in the article on WordPress maintenance costs.
• Price is only one criterion. When I measured the websites of 100 Harghita companies, most of the problems were cheap to fix; nobody had checked them since launch.

If you have received an offer from a Romanian provider and are not sure whether it is realistic, send it to me and I will tell you what I see in it and what is missing, in English.