Quotes for the same brief range from ₹8,000 to ₹8,00,000. Here is what actually drives the difference, and which parts of it you are allowed to skip.
Ask five agencies to quote the same five-page website and you will get five numbers that look unrelated. That is not because four of them are dishonest. It is because "a website" describes anything from a template filled in over a weekend to a custom build with proper technical foundations.
What you are actually paying for
Roughly, a quote is made of design time, development time, content work, and whatever running costs are being bundled in. The cheapest quotes are cheap because they remove the first three and give you a template.
- A template filled in, no custom design — cheapest, and it looks like every other site using that template
- Custom design on a page builder — middle, but page builders carry a real speed penalty that hurts search
- Custom design, hand-built — more expensive up front, faster and cheaper to run
- Web application with logins and data — a different category of work entirely
The costs that arrive later
Domain and hosting are the small ones. The costs that surprise people are the recurring plugin licences on WordPress builds, the transaction fees on hosted e-commerce platforms, and the cost of someone maintaining it all. Ask for the annual running cost in writing before you compare two quotes, because a cheaper build on a more expensive platform is not cheaper.
Where it is reasonable to spend less
Custom illustration, animation and video can wait. So can a blog you are not going to write. What should not be cut is mobile performance, a working enquiry form, and the technical SEO groundwork — those are expensive to retrofit and nearly free to get right at build time.
A fair question to ask any quote
"What will this site score on Google PageSpeed Insights on mobile, and will you put that number in the contract?" It is a reasonable question, it is measurable, and the answer tells you a great deal about how the site will be built.