How much does a website cost in Malaysia in 2026?

In 2026, a simple business website in Malaysia typically costs RM1,500 to RM5,000 to build, a 5 to 10 page site RM4,000 to RM12,000, and an online store RM8,000 to RM35,000. A DIY builder runs about RM25 to RM40 a month. Domain, hosting and upkeep come on top every year.

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1. What does a business website cost in Malaysia?
2. How much do builders, freelancers and agencies charge?
3. Is a DIY website builder cheaper?
4. What makes one website cost more than another?
5. What does a website cost after launch?
6. What does a website cost over three years?
7. Can a government grant pay for part of a website?
8. Where do Chapter’s website packages fit?
9. Key takeaways
10. FAQs

What does a business website cost in Malaysia?

A business website in Malaysia costs from about RM500 for a packaged template site to RM35,000 or more for an e-commerce store. A brochure or small business site is usually quoted between RM1,500 and RM12,000, depending on pages, design and features.

Website quotes can be far apart for what sounds like the same thing. The gap usually comes down to three questions. How many pages does the site need? Is it designed for your business, or is it a template with your logo dropped in? And does it need to take orders and payments online?

Website build prices in Malaysia by type (2026)

Ranges from Media Plus Digital (opens in a new tab), May 2026, checked October 2026.

Other Malaysian guides land in similar places. KeepDesign’s 2026 price guide (opens in a new tab) puts a 5 to 8 page brochure site at RM2,500 to RM6,000, a corporate site with a content management system at RM6,000 to RM15,000, and an e-commerce site at RM8,000 to RM30,000.

Treat these as ranges, not price tags. Two quotes for a “5 page website” can differ by thousands of ringgit because one includes copywriting, photography and a year of hosting and the other does not. Line quotes up item by item before comparing totals.

How much do builders, freelancers and agencies charge?

In Malaysia, a DIY website builder costs about RM25 to RM40 a month, a freelancer RM80 to RM300 an hour or roughly RM800 to RM5,000 a project, and an agency RM8,000 to RM60,000 a project.

Website prices in Malaysia by who builds it (2026)

Ranges from Media Plus Digital (opens in a new tab), May 2026, checked October 2026.

A builder is the cheapest way to get online, but you do the design, writing and setup yourself. A packaged provider gives you a fixed set of pages at a known price, usually on a template. A freelancer can be good value for a clear, smaller brief; the risk is that one person carries the whole project, so check their past work and what support they offer after launch. An agency costs the most and brings a team, a process and room for custom design, larger sites and online stores.

Is a DIY website builder cheaper?

A DIY website builder is usually the cheapest option in cash. GoDaddy estimates a small business site at about RM396 a year on a builder, against about RM3,019 a year with a web designer, before counting your own time.

Those figures come from GoDaddy’s 2026 Malaysia cost guide (opens in a new tab). A builder charges a subscription, and the site stays online only while you keep paying it. The subscription buys the software and somewhere to host the site. It does not buy the design, the writing, the search setup or the hours it takes to put them together.

Count what you would do yourself. You bend a template to fit your business, write every page and work out what your customers search for. You set up the page titles and the contact form, and check the site on a phone. When something breaks, you fix it. Some builders also keep your site on their own platform, so leaving later can mean starting again.

A builder makes sense when you have more time than budget and enjoy the work. If your time is better spent running the business, paying someone can work out cheaper once your own hours are counted.

What makes one website cost more than another?

A website costs more when it has more pages, a custom design instead of a template, online selling, professional writing and photography, or connections to other systems. Each adds planning, design and build work, and more work means a higher price.

The number of pages

Every page has to be planned, written, designed for mobile and desktop, and built. A site with a page for each service, your work and your story has more work at every stage than a single page.

Custom design or a template

KeepDesign puts template customisation under RM5,000 over 2 to 3 weeks, and a fully custom design at RM15,000 and up over 6 to 12 weeks. A template is a layout made for nobody in particular; a custom design starts from your business and your customers.

Selling online

An online store needs product pages, a cart, a checkout, a Malaysian payment gateway and an admin for products, stock and orders. That is a bigger project than a site that collects enquiries.

Writing and photography

Copywriting is quoted from about RM150 to RM1,500 a page depending on who writes it, and professional photography from about RM500 to RM10,000, according to KeepDesign and GoDaddy. If you supply your own text and photos, have them ready before the project starts: waiting for them is what most often delays a website.

Connections to other systems

A booking calendar, a customer login or a link to the software you run the business on adds work to any website. Ask for it to be named in the quote, not discovered halfway through.

What does a website cost after launch?

After launch, a Malaysian business website keeps costing money every year: a domain renewal, hosting and an SSL certificate at minimum, plus maintenance, content and SEO if you pay for them. KeepDesign puts hosting and maintenance at RM1,200 to RM6,000 a year.

Typical website running costs in Malaysia (2026)

Ranges from GoDaddy (opens in a new tab), Exabytes (opens in a new tab) and Media Plus Digital (opens in a new tab), checked October 2026. Prices vary by provider and plan.

The first three rows keep the site online, so every website pays them. Maintenance, content and SEO depend on how much the site needs to change and how hard it needs to work to be found. Many packages include the first year of the domain, hosting and SSL, so the jump in cost arrives in the second year. Ask any provider what the site costs from year two before you sign.

What does a website cost over three years?

Over three years, Media Plus Digital estimates a self-managed template site at about RM3,000 in total, a WordPress site for an SME at about RM24,500, and an e-commerce store at about RM99,500, once building and running costs are added together.

The same estimate puts a corporate site at about RM51,300 over three years. The pattern is the useful part: the build price is often the smaller share of what a website costs. Hosting, maintenance, updates and search work add up year after year.

That makes the three-year total the fairest way to compare quotes. A cheap build with expensive renewals can cost more than a dearer build with modest running costs.

Can a government grant pay for part of a website?

Yes, if your business qualifies. The Geran Digital PMKS Madani, run through BSN, matches 50% of an approved digital solution up to RM5,000, and a website built by an MDEC-registered Digitalisation Partner counts.

According to Zenweb’s June 2026 guide (opens in a new tab), a business must be at least 60% Malaysian-owned, registered with SSM, PBT or SKM, operating for at least six months, with an average turnover of at least RM50,000 a year, and must not have taken a previous digitalisation matching grant.

You apply through the Digitalisation Partner, and the grant is paid to them rather than to you. Freelancers and DIY builders do not qualify. Grant terms and funding can change, so confirm the current status with BSN before planning around it.

Where do Chapter’s website packages fit?

Chapter publishes two fixed prices. A custom Landing Page is RM1,000 and a 3 to 5 page Multi-Page Website is RM3,000, each with the first year of hosting, a .com domain and SSL included.

Chapter’s website packages

Both fixed-price packages are custom designed, with a contact form and a WhatsApp link, basic SEO setup, a layout that works on mobile and desktop, and two rounds of revisions. From the second year, hosting, the domain and SSL renew at the going rate for your plan. Care is optional: a yearly plan for updates and small edits at RM1,000, or RM150/hour only when you need an edit. See the web design packages for the full detail, or read landing page or full website to choose between the two.

Key takeaways

• Brochure and small business sites in Malaysia are typically quoted at RM1,500 to RM12,000; e-commerce stores at RM8,000 to RM35,000.
• A DIY builder costs about RM25 to RM40 a month, but your own time is the hidden cost.
• Budget every year for the domain, hosting and SSL, plus maintenance and SEO if you need them.
• Compare quotes on the three-year cost, not the build price alone.
• The Geran Digital PMKS Madani can match 50% of the cost, up to RM5,000, for eligible businesses.