**Please read though before submitting your vote**

I know this question has been asked a lot of times but for clarification's sake, I think this poll is still necessary to give an idea what is the current market price for creating a website in Malaysia, so that developers don't undercharge or overcharge you clients and end up regard as scam or providing bad service to your client. After all it is you get what you pay for in the web design world....

This poll is intended for web designer/developer only, if you have not developed a website for your client before nor if you are potential customer seeking for service, please DO NOT TAKE THIS POLL!!

This poll doesn't not justify the exact pricing for creating a website as there are too many factors to consider (like cost of host, static or dynamic website, 3rd party scripts included like payment gateway...., develop from an existing theme or from scratch, CMS creation). For this poll I'm taking into consideration of all sorts of websites, from the most basic to the most sophisticated. This is to give an idea on how low or high creating a website could go and also to give an idea to to people what are the most common price range for what client consider to be a "standard website".

Guidelines on how to consider/calculate your average website cost:
Take the 3 most recent websites that you have developed(simple or complicated) totaled them up and divide by 3 to get your average.

Things you might need to consider:
1. Please include the cost of domain, hosting but exclude yearly renewal fees.
2. Anything that doesn't not affect the functionalities of the site like mail blasting services, cloud server, auto backup service.... should not be included.
2. Consider purely only on the design and development of the site, but if your site uses a lot of 3rd party services like SSL, payment gateway that is crucial for the site to work and not merely just an additional function to boost the performance, please include those as well.
3. Exclude monthly maintenance cost, try to estimate the cost when you first launch the website.
4. If you are using paid theme/plugins you need to include the cost into your average as well.


This post has been edited by Vincentccw: Dec 29 2015, 12:33 PM

so its only for freelancer?

no, if you are working for company and you know how much man power and money is spent on that particular website then is good enough to take the poll.

We usually take clients who can pay more than a certain amount since two months ago.

Same amount of headache & work but getting paid the same. Not worth the hassle accepting projects less than RM 5,000.

You got the point but sometimes it isn't fair for some 'organise' clients where they give clear direction of what they want with minimum changes and on other hand a client that give you constant pain in the ass with all sorts of changes you could get..... But you really won't know the quality of your client unless you have work with them before and hence the charges....

Yes. But usually once you qualify the client by telling website prices start from Rm 5,000, it tend to filter out the bad ones.

I've to agree with @Icehart there.

Thank you @Vincentccw for setting this poll up. Hopefully it'll be a good start to know what our market here is like and possibly becoming.

I see a lot of 1400 and below. LOL!

Yes I do feel like trying out @Icehart method, but propably I would start with 4K haha. Ya I was quite suprise I saw so many vote below 2k. But good thing is there are many 6.6k and above. That means most ppl are charging either very high or too low.

Like you said the cost depends on the complexity of the website + if its developed by a company or freelancer. If its a company project normally they wont entertain jobs thats lower than xxx amount because they have to take in consideration of overhead of company, salary and so forth but for a freelancer or parttime in a team of 1 is able to take a lower fee seeing how the cost is much lower

Let's throw a wrench in there.. and create the following profile of the freelancer:

1) Under 21 years old.
2) Living with parents.

Because they may have not decided (or not asked) to contribute their earnings to the upkeep of the household, 100% of revenue is for their own use.

Hence, any amount between RM500 - 1500 is acceptable by them. Maybe for someone below 17 years old will accept less than RM 500.

But if we added the following criteria to our profile above:

3) Contributes to household upkeep.

Then wouldn't this situation be similar as you've described about a company paying for overheads ?

By your case, wouldnt The overhead of the company double up as the company boss needs to pay for the salary and also contribute the the household upkeep?

Edit: im saying the reason why your poll is heavy at both ends is because for a freelance 2k (1k after deduction family cost) is acceptable while for a company 7k (2k after deduction salary company overhead family cost) is acceptable.

This post has been edited by Eulm585: Jan 21 2016, 11:11 AM

If you described it earlier like this, then it would've made perfect sense to what you had written prior to this.

Looking at the poll and grouping the first few category of amounts, it looks like many are in the less than 2000 category. Hmm..

Haha sorry was walking while typing the first reply. Anyhow just my personal comment. Im a part time freelancer but i only do clients that are current friends or extended loop of friends. Like a simple website using wordpress and is responsive i will do it for under 2k given there is no time urgency(not those need to be done by next month projects) seeing how i have a full time job already. Give or take 2 months duration for a 3week project if i was a fulltimer

By the way are you looking into doing web dev?

Was this question directed to me or TS. And could you elaborate a little more. lol

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