Website quote
The cost of a custom website depends on the hours of work estimated during discovery, priced at hourly rates from €50 to €180/hour VAT excluded depending on the type of work. AraLith, a software house in the province of Rome, active since 2007, offers you a free technical call and a written quote within 2-3 working days of the call, with source code that belongs to you.
No commitment. We get back to you within 48 hours to schedule the technical call.
We get back to you within 48 hours to schedule the technical call.
In short
We calculate a website quote on the hours estimated during discovery, with hourly rates by type of work from €50 to €180/hour VAT excluded: websites, templates and front-end work on specifications already defined fall in the €50–60/hour band. You can choose custom development, with full ownership of the source code, or AraLith COS, with hosting, backups and content governance included in the subscription.
Two websites with the same number of pages can cost twice as much as each other. The price is driven by the features, not by the pages.
E-commerce and payments, integrations with management systems or CRMs, content migration from an existing website, multiple languages, reserved areas.
Content and images ready in advance, a scope agreed at the start, and starting with fewer pages to add more later.
A free technical call with no commitment, then a written quote with separate items. No pushy sales calls.
Source code and technical documentation. You can continue with any other supplier, even right after delivery.
The same applies whether you are looking for a quote for a new website, comparing website quotes from several suppliers or need web development estimates for different projects: the calculation method does not change, the hours do.
The year we started building websites and software
Websites and e-commerce sites delivered
Custom management systems across 8 domains
Communication and marketing agencies that use us as technical partner
A quote without a written scope leaves room for changes along the way: every unplanned request adds hours and the initial budget no longer holds.
The website was supposed to be ready in 2 months, 6 have gone by and there is still no date. Without defined and verified milestones, a project has no measurable end.
What arrives does not look like what was asked for: it happens when validations and intermediate feedback are missing along the way.
Your project
Are you looking for a website development quote or a tailored website build quote? Every project has different needs. Here is how to understand which approach best fits your business goals and what a custom website really costs.
Two different paths for different needs. Traditional web development for flexibility and code ownership, or AraLith COS for short publishing times and built-in content governance.
WordPress, Prestashop, Laravel, Custom
Hourly rates from €50 to €180/hour VAT excluded depending on the type of work, with hours estimated during discovery
Content Operating System SaaS
Case study
Since 2023 we have been developing the frontend of the portal the firm's clients use to check their own cases. Brought in to support the in-house developers towards the release, after a few months we were given full responsibility for development.
Work
Over 500 websites and e-commerce sites and over 10 custom management systems across 8 different domains, from invoicing for road hauliers to patent management: the cases described on our work page.
Free and with no commitment
Together we analyse business goals, target audience, required features and necessary integrations. A 30-60 minute call or video call to understand the project in detail.
Functional mapping and architecture
We map features, information architecture, technical specifications and real time constraints. We study the requirements and prepare a reasoned proposal, not a price-list quote.
Within 2-3 working days of the call
You receive a complete document with a breakdown of activities, estimated timelines for each milestone, hours and costs per item and the deliverables included. If you choose AraLith COS, the quote also covers access to the platform, managed hosting, automatic backups and the built-in content governance system.
Free and with no commitment
Together we analyse business goals, target audience, required features and necessary integrations. A 30-60 minute call or video call to understand the project in detail.
Functional mapping and architecture
We map features, information architecture, technical specifications and real time constraints. We study the requirements and prepare a reasoned proposal, not a price-list quote.
Within 2-3 working days of the call
You receive a complete document with a breakdown of activities, estimated timelines for each milestone, hours and costs per item and the deliverables included. If you choose AraLith COS, the quote also covers access to the platform, managed hosting, automatic backups and the built-in content governance system.
The initial technical call with AraLith is free. After discovery we prepare a detailed quote with the activities, the estimated timelines for each milestone and the hours priced at the rates for each type of work: €50–60/hour for execution on defined specifications (front-end, templates, websites, routine maintenance), €65–85/hour for application development (management systems, web apps, standard integrations), €90–120/hour for qualified design and development (multi-tenant SaaS architectures, critical integrations such as Italy's Exchange System (SdI) and ERP, legacy modernisation) and €130–180/hour for advanced technical consulting (enterprise architecture, AI and agents, technical due diligence). VAT excluded, rates valid until 31 December 2027. The total cost depends on the hours: e-commerce and payments, integrations with management systems or CRMs, content migration, multiple languages and reserved areas push them up. To find out the cost of your project, request a tailored quote.
No, AraLith COS is a SaaS platform: you do not receive the source code of the COS, but you keep full ownership of your content, data and configurations. The advantage of the SaaS model is that AraLith handles hosting, automatic backups, security, patches and updates for you. You focus on the content, not on the infrastructure. If you need code ownership for complex integrations or on-premise hosting, we can develop a custom project in Laravel, which takes more hours of work.
After the initial call, the detailed quote is delivered within 2-3 working days. The full timeline: initial request today, technical call within 48 hours, analysis and drafting in 1-2 days, quote sent within 3 days of the call. Receiving the quote does not commit you to anything.
Every project is different. A brochure website for a medical practice has very different requirements from an e-commerce portal with ERP integrations. Publishing package prices would mean overestimating simple projects, underestimating complex ones and ignoring the client's specific needs. That is why we publish hourly rates by type of work, from €50 to €180/hour VAT excluded, and the tailored quote estimates the hours starting from an analysis of the real requirements.
AraLith COS is the better fit when you need a content governance system: company SEO profiles, an approved knowledge base, content clusters, multi-level approval workflows. Custom development is the better fit when you need specific features, integrations with your business systems or ownership of the code. What sets AraLith COS apart is governing the semantic layer of content for B2B contexts, multi-client agencies and marketing departments that must respect editorial and brand constraints: during the technical call we tell you which of the two paths suits your project.
Requirements discovery and functional analysis with a single technical point of contact, with no sales intermediaries
Breakdown of activities, estimated timelines per milestone and costs per item. No package price lists or surprises
With custom development the source code is yours. With AraLith COS: your data and content, managed platform
WordPress/Laravel/custom or AraLith COS with content governance. Every project has its own path
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