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How much does a website cost in Malaysia? (2026, real numbers)

Short answer: anywhere from about RM1,400 to well past RM20,000 over two years, depending on how you buy it.

That range is useless on its own, so here is the long answer. There are four common ways to get a business website in Malaysia in 2026. Each has a different price shape: some charge you up front, some charge you monthly, and some charge you in your own time. We will go through all four, then put them side by side in a two-year cost table.

One thing before we start: we run WebX, a website subscription service. It appears as one of the four options below. We will tell you exactly what it includes and excludes, and we will also tell you when the other options are the better choice. This article is meant to be useful even if you end up hiring a freelancer.

Option 1: Hire a freelancer (RM2,500-8,000 up front)

This is the classic route. You find a freelance web designer, brief them, and they build you a custom site, usually on WordPress.

Typical numbers:

• Build: RM2,500-8,000 for a standard business site of 5-10 pages. Below RM2,500 exists, but at that price you are often getting a template with your logo swapped in.
• Hosting: RM100-500 per year, which you usually pay yourself.
• Domain: roughly RM40-120 per year depending on whether you pick .com or .com.my.
• Maintenance: often not quoted at all. When it is, expect a few hundred ringgit a year for updates and backups. When it is not, small changes get billed ad hoc, or the site quietly goes stale.

One warning: quality varies wildly. A good freelancer at RM5,000 can outdo an agency at RM15,000. A bad one can leave you with a broken site and an unanswered phone. The price tells you very little; the portfolio and the references tell you more.

Also budget your own time. Custom builds need your input: content rounds, revision rounds, approval rounds. Two to six weeks of back and forth is normal, and projects stall most often because the customer side runs out of steam writing content.

Option 2: Hire an agency (RM8,000 and up)

Agencies do what freelancers do, with more people, more process, and more accountability. You get proper project management, design revisions, sometimes copywriting and photography.

Expect RM8,000 as a realistic floor for a small-business site, and RM15,000-50,000+ once branding, custom features, or e-commerce enter the picture. Hosting and maintenance are often sold as a separate retainer.

This is the right option if your website is genuinely central to your business, you sell online at volume, you need custom systems, or your brand justifies the investment. For a simple business that mainly needs to look credible when someone Googles them, it is usually more machine than the job requires.

Option 3: DIY builder, Wix, Squarespace and friends (RM60-110/month)

The builders advertise low starting prices, but for a proper business plan, your own domain connected, no platform ads, expect RM60-110 per month when billed properly. That is RM720-1,320 per year, every year.

The bigger cost is not on the invoice. You do everything: pick the template, fight the layout, write the copy, resize the photos, set up the domain, and fix the site when it looks wrong on mobile. For some owners that is a satisfying weekend project. For most, it is 20-40 hours of unfamiliar work producing a site that looks like exactly what it is.

DIY makes sense if you enjoy this kind of work, your budget is genuinely tight, and your time is genuinely free. All three need to be true.

Option 4: Done-for-you subscription (WebX, RM149/month)

This is the model we run, so read this section knowing we are biased. Here is exactly what it is.

Every plan includes the same things: WebX builds the site, and the domain (registered in your name), the hosting and the https all sit inside the one price. Your site is live at yourname.webx.my straight away, and your own domain points at it once it is registered. What separates the plans is how many pages you get and how fast changes are done.

The plan most businesses take is Business, RM149 per month, prepaid for the year at RM1,788, which covers up to 8 pages. Below it is Solo at RM99 per month (RM1,188 a year, up to 4 pages); above it is Priority at RM299 per month (RM3,588 a year, up to 15 pages). Whatever you sign up at is what you renew at; the price does not rise because you stayed.

When you want something changed, you do not log into anything: you send us the change request and we make it. Change requests are unlimited, one at a time. Send a second while the first is still running and it queues, and you can see where it sits in the line. That covers text, photos, prices, opening hours, promotions and section content inside your existing pages. On Business, changes are done by the next business day. On Solo it is within two business days, and on Priority it is same day if you ask before 3pm, three requests running at once.

Business also includes Google Business Profile setup and a monthly traffic and uptime report. Priority adds a second language, a quarterly proactive refresh, and a named human contact.

How can a build, a domain, a year of hosting and a year of unlimited changes, one at a time, cost less than a freelancer charges for the build alone? Because AI does the building and handles most change requests, with a human stepping in when a request needs judgment. We would rather tell you that plainly than have you wonder what the catch is.

What it deliberately excludes:

• No online store, booking system or member login. WebX sites are simple, fast, informational sites. If you sell, your site links out to where selling actually works, Shopee, TikTok Shop, WhatsApp.
• No do-it-yourself editing. There is no builder to log into. If you want hands-on control of your site, this is the wrong product and a DIY builder will suit you better.
• No forms. Contact happens through WhatsApp buttons, phone, email and map links, the channels Malaysian customers actually use.

Optional add-ons, priced separately: a one-time full design refresh at RM199, a ZIP export of your site at RM99 per export if you ever want to take it elsewhere, Google Analytics setup at RM199, Google Search Console setup at RM199, and an archive of your existing site at RM99. Pages are not sold one at a time. If you outgrow your page count, you move up a tier, and the tier price is the whole cost.

The two-year cost table

Two years is the fair window, because up-front and recurring models only compare fairly over time.

Ranges are typical 2026 market figures; individual quotes vary.

Read that table carefully, because it does not say what you might expect it to say. Over two years WebX is not the cheapest option, and against a freelancer at the bottom of their range it is the more expensive one. A RM2,500 freelancer build plus two years of hosting and a domain lands around RM2,800. WebX Business over the same two years is RM3,576. That is roughly RM800 more, and we are not going to pretend otherwise.

What the extra RM800 buys is the two years after the build. Every change is included, and changes are what a one-off build does not cover. Anchor Sprint charges about RM250 for a single ad-hoc change and Exabytes about RM500 per amendment. Three changes at RM250 is RM750, which is already about the whole gap, and that is one year, not two. The second thing it buys is somebody still being there. The common failure with a one-off build is not the build. It is the moment eighteen months later when your prices have changed, your freelancer has moved on to a full-time job, and nobody owns the site.

So the split is fairly clean. If your site genuinely will not change after launch, a good freelancer at the low end is cheaper and you should take it. If your prices, photos, promotions or opening hours move during the year, the subscription is cheaper and much less annoying.

What makes prices balloon

Whichever route you take, the same three things inflate a website bill:

1. E-commerce. The moment "sell online" enters the brief, you add payment gateways, product management, shipping logic and security. A RM4,000 project becomes RM12,000. If you are a small business, ask seriously whether a marketplace store plus a simple site does the same job for a fraction of the cost.
2. Custom features. Booking calendars, calculators, member areas, integrations with other software. Each one is real development work, and each one needs maintenance forever.
3. Content rounds. Every extra revision cycle costs someone time. Projects quoted at three revisions that run to eight either get re-billed or the relationship sours. Having your content ready, words, photos, prices, is the single cheapest way to keep any web project on budget.

How to choose

• Your website is core to your business, with custom needs and real budget: agency, or a proven senior freelancer.
• You want a custom site and can vet the person properly: freelancer, check live sites they built, and ask who handles changes next year.
• You have more time than money and enjoy the tinkering: DIY builder.
• You want a simple, credible site that someone else builds, hosts and updates, at a price that never surprises you: that is the job WebX was built for.

If you want to talk it through, including whether WebX is the wrong fit for you, which we will say plainly, email us at [email protected].