A transparent breakdown of web design prices in Kenya — from a KSh 35,000 landing page to a KSh 200,000+ web application. Know what you're paying for before you talk to anyone.
Your cousin's friend built a website for KSh 8,000. An agency in Westlands quoted you KSh 320,000. A freelancer on a Facebook group said KSh 15,000 and can deliver in three days. Who's right?
All of them — in different contexts. Website pricing in Kenya spans a massive range, not because the industry is inconsistent, but because "website" means very different things depending on what you actually need. A three-page brochure and a SACCO member portal are both called websites. They have nothing else in common.
This guide breaks down exactly what you get at each price point in 2025, so you can walk into any conversation with a developer and know what questions to ask.
A website is not a product with a fixed shelf price — it's a service. The cost depends on several things working together:
Most pricing confusion in Kenya comes from comparing things that are not comparable. A quotation for a three-page landing page looks cheap next to a quotation for a twelve-page e-commerce store — because they are fundamentally different projects.
At this range, you are getting a WordPress template (usually a free or low-cost theme) with your content and logo dropped in. It can look professional. The risks are real though: limited customisation, often bloated with plugins that slow it down, and usually no ongoing support once the work is done.
Best for: Testing an idea before committing budget. A side project. A temporary placeholder while you plan something proper. Not ideal as a permanent brand presence, especially if your customers are searching for you online.
This is where most Kenyan SMEs should start. A well-built business website in this range includes proper mobile-first design (your customers are on Tecno and Samsung mid-range phones, often on Safaricom 3G — your site needs to load fast), a contact form that actually delivers enquiries to your inbox, basic SEO setup, and a clean handover so you can update your own content.
At Mycrea's Starter and Growth packages, this range covers everything a service business, professional firm, or local brand needs to establish a credible online presence. Done properly, a website at this price point should start generating enquiries within the first few weeks of launch.
Online stores, appointment booking systems, property listing platforms, job boards — anything where users interact with data that changes regularly falls here. The cost reflects custom database design, M-Pesa payment integration (Safaricom's Daraja API, Pesapal, or Kopokopo), admin interfaces so you can manage your own inventory or bookings, and more rounds of testing.
If your "website" has user accounts, business workflows, real-time data, or custom logic specific to how your business operates — you are building a web application, not a website. This is software development. The pricing reflects that.
Mycrea's web application work starts at KSh 120,000 for a focused application and scales based on features, integrations, and timeline.
Low-cost builds often cost more over time. A KSh 10,000 site that loads in eight seconds on mobile, breaks when someone opens it on a mid-range Android, and gets zero traffic from Google is costing you in missed leads every month it stays live.
Scope creep is the industry's biggest problem. Make sure your quote specifies the number of pages, how many revision rounds are included, what happens if you need extra features, and what's covered post-launch. Any serious agency will give this to you in writing before work begins.
Domain and hosting are almost never included. Budget an additional KSh 5,000–12,000 per year for a business domain and reliable Kenyan or African hosting.
Use the Mycrea pricing calculator to build a rough estimate in under two minutes — choose your product type, scale, and the features you need, and get an instant figure. Then start a project conversation and we'll scope it properly together with no obligation.
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