Website Cost in Dubai: A Scope and Quote Comparison Worksheet

A website quote is meaningful only when its deliverables are clear. Separate content pages, templates, forms, integrations, migration, accessibility checks and ongoing support. Five pages written by the client are a different job from five pages requiring research, photography and copywriting.

This site lists its own service starting prices on the pricing page. Those are this business’s offers, not evidence of an average Dubai market price. For your project, request a written scope and comparable proposals before treating any published price range as a budget.

Use one column per supplier and one row per deliverable. Include discovery, design revisions, development, content entry, migration, integrations, testing, launch, training and support. Add an explicit row for exclusions. A low number can reflect a narrower scope rather than lower quality.

Ask who owns the domain account, hosting, source code, design files and paid licenses. Check whether access is supplied in your business’s accounts or held by the supplier. Record the cost and procedure for a future handover.

Assume, only for this example, AED 6,000 for a build, AED 1,200 for content migration and AED 1,800 for a required integration. The initial subtotal is AED 9,000. If hosting and licenses total AED 1,500 per year and agreed support is AED 300 per month, the first-year total is AED 14,100 before any applicable tax or separately agreed changes.

These numbers demonstrate the calculation; they are not a quotation or a surveyed market range. Replace every line with a supplier’s actual written price. For later years, remove one-time items and include the recurring items that really continue. Confirm tax treatment with the supplier and your accountant.

A legacy integration, undocumented database or unknown migration volume can make a fixed quote unreliable. Ask for a discovery deliverable that identifies those unknowns, followed by a revised scope. Alternatively, agree a capped investigation with a clear stop point.

For changes, define how estimates are approved before work starts. A small contingency can be useful for planning, but it should not become an unrestricted allowance. Keep the original scope, requested change, price and approval together.

“SEO-ready” and “fast” need definitions. For example, agree that approved URLs have correct titles and canonicals, migration redirects are checked, forms reach the intended inbox, and the main user journeys work on agreed devices. For performance, record the tool, page, device profile and conditions used to evaluate the result.

Accessibility requirements should name the intended standard and test scope. A perfect automated score does not establish that every user can complete a task. Include keyboard and form-error checks, then document any remaining limitations.

Ask how updates, backups, restore tests, security fixes and failed integrations are handled. A maintenance agreement should identify response expectations and what work is included. Do not assume that a hosting subscription includes application support.

Choose the proposal whose scope, responsibilities and evidence fit your project. Neither the cheapest quote nor the highest quote proves the best outcome. The worksheet should expose the differences so that the decision is deliberate.