UAE Business Website Cost 2026: What a Bilingual Company Site Actually Needs

"How much does a website cost?" is the wrong question, and the quotes that answer it directly are the ones to distrust. A UAE company site is not one thing: it is a design, a build, two content languages, a domain, hosting, and email — some of that one-time cost, some of it an annual stack you pay for as long as the company exists. The right question is: what does a site that a Gulf client, supplier or bank will take seriously actually require — and what in that list is one-time versus recurring? One disclosure before we go further, because we do not write fake-neutral content: Sijil builds websites as a service — the same team that builds sijil.ae and Maryam builds client sites — and the specific prices in this guide come from our own published service list. Anything about the wider market is labeled as market observation, not a verified figure.

In most markets a business site is one language plus a courtesy translation. In the UAE it is two first-class languages, and the difference shows up in the build itself. A proper Arabic page is not a mirrored English page: it is right-to-left layout, Arabic typography that does not break, forms that accept Arabic input cleanly, and content written by a human in Gulf business Arabic — not machine output that Emirati and Gulf readers spot within a sentence. English serves the international side of your client base; Arabic is how a large share of local buyers, government-facing pages and B2B enquiries actually reach you. Treating either language as an afterthought is the most common way a new UAE company ends up rebuilding its site within the first year — paying twice for what should have been scoped once. Whatever you pay, pay it for a site that carries both languages natively from day one.

Underneath every site sits a stack you pay for annually, and quotes that hide it are incomplete by design. Domain: a .com works everywhere, while a .ae domain signals local presence and is registered through accredited registrars — either is defensible; the mistake is letting a contractor own your domain instead of your company. Hosting: needs to be fast for Gulf visitors and sized to a real company site, not a hobby blog; poor hosting shows up as slow load times on mobile, which is where most of your traffic will be. Email: personal Gmail or Hotmail addresses on business cards and invoices quietly cost you credibility, and a domain mailbox ([email protected]) costs little but needs DNS configuration done properly. We publish these as one package on the starter tier — domain and first-year hosting included — so the number you see is the number you pay. If you already have a site, our professional email setup covers the mailbox and DNS side on its own.

There are two honest tiers, and knowing which you need prevents both overspending and under-buying. A customized template site — a proven layout adapted to your brand, content and both languages — is what most new UAE companies actually need: fast to launch, mobile-first, and enough credibility for banking forms, licence applications and client proposals. Ours starts at AED 3,500 including the domain and first-year hosting, delivered in one to two weeks. A bespoke corporate site — custom design built around your brand, a content structure tailored to how you sell, SEO foundations — is for companies whose site is a primary sales channel or whose brand cannot sit in a shared layout. Ours starts at AED 9,000, scope-dependent, in three to six weeks. Market observation, not a verified figure: agency quotes in the UAE for comparable work range widely — from a few thousand dirhams for template builds to several tens of thousands for bespoke ones — so treat any single quote as meaningless until the written scope behind it exists. For context on everything that comes before the website, see our company formation guide; freelancers weighing options may find the freelance permit guide useful, and if the site will sell products, start with the e-commerce licence guide first.

A website is one of the first things a new UAE company buys — and one of the few that keeps earning after launch. If a template tier fits, our Business Website — Starter service covers the bilingual build, domain and first-year hosting from AED 3,500; if your brand needs its own design, the custom corporate build starts from AED 9,000. Both are built in-house by Bloom Techno, the same engineering team behind sijil.ae and Maryam. And once the site is live, the company behind it still has a calendar of obligations — licence expiry, establishment card, visas, VAT quarters, the corporate-tax return. Sijil's client portal tracks all of it on one compliance surface with a health score, so the website stays credible because the company behind it stays in good standing. Start a conversation with the team on WhatsApp and they will scope your site against your actual launch date.