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title: Freelance Web Developer in Bangalore | Samuel Marndi
description: Freelance web developer in Bangalore building business sites, e-commerce and web apps from ₹7,000. Fixed quotes, staged payments, you own everything.
source: https://samuelmarndi.com/services/freelance-web-developer-in-bangalore/
site: https://samuelmarndi.com
author: Samuel Marndi
contact: +91 82803 20550 · samuelmarandi6@gmail.com
updated: 2026-09-12
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# Freelance Web Developer in Bangalore

One accountable person building business websites, online stores and web applications — Next.js or WordPress, Core Web Vitals green, and every account in your name. You talk to the person writing the code, not an account manager relaying it.

## Short answer

A freelance web developer in Bangalore charges **₹7,000–₹80,000** for most business websites, **₹50,000 upwards** for e-commerce, and **₹15,000–₹1,20,000** to rescue or redesign an existing site. A standard 5–8 page site takes two to four weeks once content is approved.

The difference from an agency is overhead and cover rather than quality: you are not paying for a sales layer, and there is one person rather than a team behind you.

## What gets built

| Project | What it is | Indicative range |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Business websites | Five to fifteen pages for consultancies, clinics, manufacturers and trusts — the site that has to make you look credible and turn a visitor into an enquiry. | ₹7,000 – ₹80,000 |
| E-commerce stores | Catalogue, payments, shipping and GST invoicing on Shopify, WooCommerce or a custom build. Cost scales with catalogue size and integrations, not with page count. | ₹50,000 – ₹8,00,000 |
| Web applications | Portals, booking systems, dashboards and member areas — a database, authentication, roles and an admin panel rather than a set of pages. | Quoted after scoping |
| WordPress builds and rescues | A CMS your team can actually edit, or the recovery of a site that is slow, broken or abandoned by whoever built it last. | ₹15,000 – ₹1,20,000 |
| Landing pages for ad spend | One page per service, built to be measured — call tracking, conversion events and a layout that can be A/B tested without a rebuild. | ₹7,000 – ₹40,000 |
| SEO-ready builds | Keyword research before design, schema markup, sitemaps, canonicals and Core Web Vitals passing on the day it launches rather than as a later project. | Included as standard |

## Freelancer vs agency vs website builder

| Factor | Freelancer (me) | Agency | Website builder |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| **Typical cost, business site** | ₹7,000 – ₹80,000 | ₹50,000 – ₹5,00,000 | ₹1,000 – ₹3,000 a month, forever |
| **Who actually builds it** | The person you spoke to | Often a junior, briefed by the person you spoke to | You do |
| **What you pay for** | Development time | Development time plus sales, account management and office overhead | A subscription and your own weekends |
| **Custom functionality** | Whatever can be built — bookings, portals, integrations | Same, usually with a longer runway | Only what the template and its plugins allow |
| **SEO ceiling** | No ceiling — markup, speed and structure are all under your control | No ceiling | Capped by the platform's markup and page speed |
| **Support** | One person. Fast, and honestly a single point of failure | A team with cover, behind a ticket queue | A help centre and a community forum |
| **Ownership** | Yours — domain, repository, hosting, CMS, analytics, all in your name | Usually yours; check the contract, because sometimes it is not | Theirs. Stop paying and the site goes away |
| **Where it goes wrong** | One person can fall ill or take on too much — which is [a real risk with a structural answer](https://samuelmarndi.com/hire-freelance-developer-bangalore/) | You are a small account beside their large ones | You outgrow it and rebuild from scratch in year two |

## Indicative pricing

| Tier | Indicative range | Timeline | What sits inside it |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| **Starter** | ₹7,000 – ₹25,000 | 1 – 2 weeks | 3–5 pages, mobile-responsive, contact and WhatsApp forms, basic on-page SEO, analytics. For getting credible quickly |
| **Business** | ₹25,000 – ₹80,000 | 2 – 4 weeks | 5–10 pages, CMS your team can edit, keyword research before design, schema, Core Web Vitals, CRM-connected forms, 30 days support |
| **E-commerce** | ₹50,000 – ₹8,00,000 | 6 – 12 weeks | Catalogue, payment gateway, shipping, GST invoicing, order management, abandoned-cart recovery. Scales with catalogue and integrations |
| **Custom web app** | Quoted after scoping | 8 weeks + | Database design, authentication, roles, admin panel, third-party integrations. Priced honestly only after the scope exists |
| **Redesign / rescue** | ₹15,000 – ₹1,20,000 | 2 – 6 weeks | Audit first, then rebuild preserving rankings and URLs, with a redirect map and speed remediation |
| **Care plan (optional)** | ₹15,000 – ₹60,000 / year | Ongoing | Updates, backups, uptime monitoring, security patching and small content edits |

*Indicative Indian market ranges, not a rate card. Hosting, domain and third-party services are billed to your own accounts at cost.*

## Cost estimator

Four questions that move a website quote more than anything else. Pick the closest match for a working number in about twenty seconds.

**Formula:** **Build** = site type + design approach + extra functionality. **Monthly** = hosting and domain + optional care plan. **Year one** = build + (monthly × 12).

| Option | Price | Basis |
| --- | --- | --- |
| What you need built — A single landing page | ₹20,000 | one-off |
| What you need built — Starter site, 3–5 pages | ₹18,000 | one-off |
| What you need built — Business site, 5–10 pages | ₹50,000 | one-off |
| What you need built — Larger site, 10–20 pages | ₹95,000 | one-off |
| What you need built — E-commerce store | ₹2,00,000 | one-off |
| Design approach — Proven template, your branding | included | one-off |
| Design approach — Custom design, built for you | ₹35,000 | one-off |
| Design approach — Custom design plus logo and brand basics | ₹60,000 | one-off |
| Extra functionality — None — pages, forms and a CMS | included | one-off |
| Extra functionality — Bookings or appointments | ₹45,000 | one-off |
| Extra functionality — Login area or customer portal | ₹90,000 | one-off |
| Extra functionality — CRM, ERP or payment integrations | ₹70,000 | one-off |
| Ongoing care — None — you host and maintain it | ₹500 | per month |
| Ongoing care — Hosting, backups and updates | ₹2,000 | per month |
| Ongoing care — Care plan with content edits and monitoring | ₹5,000 | per month |

*Indicative Indian market ranges, not a rate card — a real quote comes from a conversation about your content and integrations. Hosting and domain are billed to your own accounts at cost. Every figure here is sourced in [pricing](https://samuelmarndi.com/pricing/).*

## How a build runs

| Stage | When |
| --- | --- |
| Discovery call | day 1 |
| Itemised quote | within 24 hrs |
| Design sign-off | week 1 |
| Build with weekly staging | weeks 1–4 |
| Your testing round | final week |
| Launch and handover | launch day |
| Support window | 30 days after |

## Delivery timeline

| Project | Typical time | What decides it |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Landing page | 3 – 7 days | Copy and one round of design feedback are the whole critical path |
| Starter site, 3–5 pages | 1 – 2 weeks | Assumes content is ready on day one |
| Business site, 5–10 pages | 2 – 4 weeks | The usual delay is content approval, not development |
| Larger site, 10–20 pages | 4 – 8 weeks | Keyword mapping and blog architecture add a week at the front |
| E-commerce store | 6 – 12 weeks | Catalogue data and payment-gateway KYC are the two things that slip |
| Custom web application | 8 weeks + | Quoted in stages after scoping, never as a single number upfront |

## Selected work

Scope is described accurately. Measured results are not published for these projects yet — the clients have not supplied figures, and inventing them would devalue every other number on this site.

## Frequently asked questions

### How much does a freelance web developer charge in Bangalore?

**₹7,000–₹80,000 for most business websites, ₹50,000 upwards for e-commerce.** On a time basis, experienced Indian freelance rates run roughly ₹800–₹3,000 an hour against ₹1,500–₹5,000 for an agency doing the same work. The gap is overhead — sales staff, account managers and office costs that never touch your project. The estimator above gets you to a number for your own shape in under a minute.

### Is a freelance web developer cheaper than an agency?

Usually, and for a structural reason rather than a quality one: you are not funding a sales layer. What you give up is cover. An agency has other people who can pick your project up if someone is unavailable, and if your build genuinely needs three specialists working in parallel to a fixed deadline, that is worth paying for and I will tell you so. The [freelancer versus agency comparison](https://samuelmarndi.com/hire-freelance-developer-bangalore/) sets out the trade-off in full, including where the agency wins.

### Do you work only with clients in Bangalore?

No. I am based in Bengaluru, which matters if you want to meet, but website work is delivered remotely and most of my clients are elsewhere in India or abroad. Nothing about a website build requires me to be in your city — only physical work like cameras and cabling does.

### How long does a website take to build?

One to two weeks for a starter site, two to four for a standard business site, six to twelve for e-commerce. The honest caveat: those clocks assume content is ready. The single most common cause of a late website is not development, it is waiting for copy and photographs — which is why the quote lists what I need from you and when.

### Will I own the website and the code?

Yes, entirely, from the first commit. Domain, hosting, repository, CMS logins and analytics are all registered in your name and handed over documented. You can take the site to another developer without asking me for anything, and that is a genuine option rather than a polite fiction — it is the main thing that separates this from a website builder subscription.

### What about a Wix or Shopify site — why hire a developer at all?

For a three-page site for a business that will never need more, a builder is a reasonable answer and I will say so rather than sell you something. The two things that change the maths are the SEO ceiling and the exit: builder markup and page speed cap how well you can rank, and you never own the result, so leaving means rebuilding. If the site is a sales channel rather than a business card, that ceiling arrives sooner than people expect.

### WordPress or Next.js — which should I choose?

It depends on how often your team publishes and how custom the functionality is, and anyone who answers without asking that is selling what they happen to build. WordPress suits frequent non-technical publishing; Next.js suits speed, custom functionality and scale. There is a full comparison on the [website development](https://samuelmarndi.com/services/website-development/) page, and I build both.

### How do payments work?

Staged against delivery, never in full upfront — typically a start payment, one or two milestones and a balance on handover. Razorpay, UPI or bank transfer, with a GST invoice for every payment. If a milestone is not signed off, the next stage does not begin.

### What happens if you are unavailable halfway through?

It is the fair question to ask any individual, and the answer has to be structural rather than reassuring. Your code sits in your own repository from day one, accounts are in your name, and the work is documented as it goes — so another developer can pick it up without archaeology. Ask any freelancer how you would recover if they vanished; the shape of the answer tells you most of what you need to know.

### Can you improve an existing site instead of rebuilding it?

Often yes, and it is usually the better spend. A speed and SEO remediation on a structurally sound site costs a fraction of a rebuild and protects rankings you already have. I will tell you which of the two your site needs after looking at it — and if the honest answer is that it needs nothing right now, you will get that too.

### Do you write the content as well?

I write the structure, the page titles and the SEO-facing copy as part of the build, because those are search decisions rather than writing ones. Long-form content, product descriptions and photography are yours or quoted separately. What I will not do is fill a site with placeholder text and call it delivered.

### What is included as standard in every build?

Keyword research before design, responsive layout, technical SEO — schema, sitemaps, canonicals, Core Web Vitals — a CMS your team can edit, analytics and Search Console configured, lead forms wired to your inbox or CRM, SSL, and 30 days of post-launch support. These are not upsells; a site without them is unfinished.

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*Published by [Samuel Marndi](https://samuelmarndi.com), independent IT consultant, Bengaluru, India.
Source page: https://samuelmarndi.com/services/freelance-web-developer-in-bangalore/
Enquiries: +91 82803 20550 (phone and WhatsApp) · samuelmarandi6@gmail.com · Mon–Sat, 9am–7pm IST
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