How Much Does a Website Cost in Jordan? 2026 Price Guide
Short answer: in today's Jordanian market a simple brochure website costs 300 to 700 JOD, a custom company website runs 1,200 to 3,500 JOD, and an eCommerce store lands between 2,500 and 8,000 JOD. Custom web applications — booking systems, dashboards, internal portals — start near 8,000 and climb past 35,000.
Those are the numbers we see from inside the market after fifteen years of working in it. But a number on its own tells you nothing until you know what moves it, and what quietly never made it into the quote. That is the rest of this article.
Price by project type
| Project type | Range (JOD) | Typical timeline |
|---|---|---|
| Brochure site on a customised template (5–7 pages) | 300 – 700 | 1 – 2 weeks |
| Custom-designed company website | 1,200 – 3,500 | 3 – 6 weeks |
| Bilingual company site with a CMS | 2,000 – 5,000 | 4 – 8 weeks |
| eCommerce store (up to 200 products) | 2,500 – 8,000 | 6 – 10 weeks |
| Custom web application / internal system | 8,000 – 35,000+ | 3 – 9 months |
All figures exclude the 16% general sales tax. And any agency that hands you a final price before asking about page count, languages and integrations is guessing, not quoting.
Six things that actually move the price
1. The number of languages, not the number of pages
This is the single most underestimated item in Jordan. Adding Arabic to an English site is not "translating the text." Every margin, icon and dropdown has to mirror. A layout that reads beautifully left-to-right can fall apart the moment you flip it.
In practice a bilingual site adds 30% to 40% over a single-language build. Not 100%, as some clients fear. Not 10%, as some quotes imply.
2. Who writes the content
This is where most Jordanian web projects die. The price is agreed, design finishes in three weeks, and then the site sits for four months because nobody internally had time to write the About page.
If you supply the copy, the table above holds. If we write it, add 40 to 120 JOD per page depending on depth and research. In two languages, double it — a literal translation of marketing copy produces dead marketing copy, and writing it properly in Arabic is separate work.
3. Integrations with existing systems
Connecting the site to your accounting software, inventory, CRM or a courier adds 200 to 1,500 JOD per integration, driven almost entirely by how well the other system is documented. Honestly, half the hours usually go into working around systems whose documentation is thin or missing.
4. The payment gateway
If you are building a store, payments are a line item of their own — and the Jordanian market has its own rules here. In short: a setup fee with the provider, a per-transaction commission, then engineering work on your side. Research it before you start, not after.
5. Performance and technical SEO
A site that "works" and a site that is fast and properly indexed are not the same product. Image compression and WebP conversion, lazy loading, structured data, correct canonicals, hreflang across your Arabic and English versions — these are real hours. Some agencies include them. Others sell them back to you later as an "SEO package."
Ask directly whether performance and technical structure are in scope. We build them into every project as part of our website development services, but do not assume that elsewhere.
6. Who updates the site afterwards
A static site is meaningfully cheaper than one with a CMS. But if every small text change costs you 30 JOD, the saving evaporates inside a year. A CMS is an investment, not a luxury — provided you will actually use it.
Recurring annual costs
| Item | Per year (JOD) | Note |
|---|---|---|
.com domain | 12 – 45 | Varies by registrar |
.jo / .com.jo domain | 50 – 120 | Administered through Jordan's National Information Technology Center; requires commercial registration |
| Shared hosting | 60 – 250 | Enough for most company sites |
| VPS | 300 – 900 | For stores and higher-load systems |
| SSL certificate | 0 – 200 | Let's Encrypt is free and sufficient in most cases |
| Maintenance and security updates | 15% – 20% of project value | Optional — but skipping it gets expensive |
Worth knowing: a .jo domain sends a strong geographic signal to search engines and reads as more credible to Jordanian visitors, but it works against you if you plan to expand into the Gulf. The practical answer we usually recommend is to own both and make .com the canonical one.
Three costs nobody mentions
Photography. Product shots, the team, the office. A professional session in Amman runs 150 to 600 JOD. The alternative is stock imagery that visitors recognise instantly and that costs you more in trust than it saves in budget.
Migrating content from an old site. Two hundred existing articles is not a copy-paste job. It is a migration with URL preservation and redirects from the old paths. Budget 300 to 1,200 JOD depending on volume and how messy the old structure is.
Your own internal time. Reviews, approvals, meetings. It appears on no invoice and it is a real cost. A project with one empowered decision-maker on your side finishes weeks earlier than one routed through five people.
When you should not hire a web agency at all
Here is what most agencies will not tell you: sometimes you do not need us.
- You are testing an idea that has never sold anything. Put up a page on an off-the-shelf tool for 40 JOD, confirm there is real demand, then come back. We have watched clients spend 2,500 JOD on a site for a business that closed four months later.
- All your sales already happen on Instagram and WhatsApp and you have no plan to change that. Fix that channel first — a website will not repair what is not broken.
- Your budget is under 250 JOD. Whatever you get at that price, from anyone, will hurt your image more than it helps. Wait and save.
We have said this to prospects and lost the work. But a client who comes back a year later, ready, is worth ten strained projects.
How to read a quote — four warning signs
A final price with no questions asked. Anyone who prices you on the first call without asking about languages, integrations and who writes the content is either guessing and will revise upward, or handing you a template.
"Unlimited pages." There is no such thing. It usually means one layout repeated with different text.
No ownership clause. Ask plainly: who owns the code after delivery, and whose name is on the hosting and domain accounts? If the answer is not "yours," do not sign.
No warranty period. Any serious project includes at least two months of free bug fixing after launch.
Frequently asked questions
Does the price include hosting and the domain?
Usually the first year only, and not always. Ask for it as a separate line item.
Do I pay in one instalment?
The Jordanian norm is 40% up front, 30% on design approval, 30% on delivery. Be cautious with anyone asking for the full amount before work begins.
Why do quotes vary so widely?
Because they are not the same product. A template adjusted in three days and a custom build with research, technical SEO and cross-device testing over six weeks are both called "a company website" in a proposal.
How long does it really take?
Three weeks for a brochure site, up to ten for a store. But the biggest variable is not on our side — it is how fast content and approvals arrive from yours.
The bottom line
A realistic budget for a mid-sized Jordanian company wanting a custom bilingual site, professionally written, with sound technical SEO: 1,800 to 4,000 JOD in year one, then 300 to 800 JOD annually for hosting and maintenance.
If your number is far below that, you are buying something else — which may be exactly right for your stage. If it is far above, ask precisely what you are paying for.
CS-Aspirations has worked out of Amman for more than fifteen years, delivering projects for government bodies, corporates, medical centres and educational institutions. Browse our portfolio and judge for yourself, or read the detail on our website design services in Amman and mobile app development.
If you want a real number for your project rather than a range, get in touch for a free detailed quote. We will ask you questions before we give you a figure — and that is in your interest.