How Much Does a Website Cost in Nigeria? (2026 Guide)

Ask five Nigerian developers what a website costs and you will get five very different answers, sometimes for the exact same job. One quotes 30,000 naira, another quotes 400,000 naira, and neither of them is necessarily lying to you. This guide breaks down what actually drives website costs in Nigeria, where the hidden fees hide, and where the free options genuinely make sense.

Why website quotes swing from 20,000 naira to 2 million naira

Unlike, say, printing a banner, there is no fixed price for a website. The final number depends on a mix of things:

• How custom the design is. A template with your logo dropped in costs far less than something designed from scratch.
• How many pages and features you need. A simple one page site is cheap. A site with a login system, multiple product categories, or booking is not.
• The developer’s experience and location. Someone new to freelancing in a smaller town will often charge less than an established agency in Lagos, though experience does not always track with price.
• Whether the quote is priced to your budget. This happens more than people admit. Some developers ask what you have to spend before naming a number.

None of this means expensive is always better or cheap is always worse. It means you need to know what you are actually paying for before you agree to a number.

What a freelance developer actually charges (and why)

For a straightforward small business website in Nigeria, a rough range is 30,000 to 150,000 naira for something simple, and upward of 300,000 naira for anything with custom design work, e-commerce, or ongoing support built in. Agencies with a office and a team tend to sit at the higher end, sometimes well past a million naira for larger projects.

What you are paying for, beyond the code, is time: theirs to build it, and yours whenever you need it changed. That second part is where costs quietly grow. A developer who charges 80,000 naira upfront may then charge per change afterward, and “just move this button” can somehow turn into another invoice.

Wix, WordPress, and other DIY builders: the real cost

DIY builders look cheaper on paper, and for the basics they usually are. Expect to pay:

• Wix or Squarespace: roughly 5,000 to 15,000 naira a month depending on the plan, once you move past the free tier.
• WordPress: the software itself is free, but you pay for hosting (see below) and often for a premium theme or plugins, which can add up to a similar monthly cost.

The real cost with DIY builders is your time. Someone has to actually build the site, learn the tool, and keep updating it. If your time is worth something to your business, and it is, that is not free either.

Domain names and hosting: the costs nobody explains upfront

Two costs catch people off guard because nobody mentions them until after the main website bill:

• Domain name. A .com or .com.ng address for your business, separate from the website itself, typically 5,000 to 15,000 naira a year depending on the registrar and the extension.
• Hosting. The server space that keeps your site online, if it is not already bundled into a builder like Wix. This can run anywhere from a few thousand naira a month to significantly more for busier sites.

Both of these are ongoing, yearly costs. A “one time” website fee from a developer often does not include them, and your site can go offline if you forget to renew either one.

Hidden costs: maintenance, edits, and “small changes” fees

This is where a cheap website quietly becomes an expensive one. Common hidden costs include:

• Per change fees. Some developers charge for every update after launch, even fixing a typo in your price list.
• Slow turnaround. Even when changes are free, waiting days for a small edit costs you sales in the meantime.
• Renewal surprises. Domain and hosting renewals that nobody reminded you about, until your site is suddenly offline.
• Being locked in. Some developers build the site in a way that only they can edit, so you cannot simply move to someone else later without starting over.

Before you pay anyone for a website, ask directly: who updates this after launch, how, and what does that cost.

What you should actually be paying for

Strip away the noise and a website is only worth paying for if it does three things: shows your products clearly, lets customers order without friction, and is easy for you to update yourself when your prices or stock change. A beautiful site that you cannot touch without calling a developer is not actually saving you time, it is just moving the bottleneck.

If you are going to spend money, spend it on speed to launch and ease of updating, not on extra pages or animations nobody asked for.

How to get a website for free in Nigeria

The newest option skips most of this cost structure entirely. Instead of hiring someone or learning a builder, you describe your business in plain language, on WhatsApp, and the website is generated for you. TextMint does exactly this, free during launch: your products, your brand, your own link, plus an Order on WhatsApp button so customers still land in your chat to buy. There is no upfront developer fee, no monthly builder subscription, and no waiting on someone else’s schedule. You only spend money later if you choose to add a custom domain name or extra features.

You tell TextMint about your business. It builds the site. You approve before it goes live, and you can ask for changes the same way, in plain English, whenever you need them.