Almost no web design company in Cambodia publishes its prices. You are expected to call, describe your business, and wait for a number you have no way of judging.
This article is the reference we wish existed. It covers what the market actually charges in 2026, what each tier buys, and the running costs that rarely appear in a quote.
We build websites, so we are not a neutral party. We have tried to write it so that it is useful even if you hire someone else — and we have published our own prices at the end so you can judge the advice against them.
The three tiers of the market
Prices researched in August 2026 from published Cambodian rate cards. Ranges, not names — every one of these is a real, currently advertised price.
A useful rule: the tier is set by how much of the design is decided for you. At $300 the layout already existed. At $3,000 someone is looking at your product and deciding what the page should be.
What the template tier actually is
There is nothing dishonest about a $300 website. Somebody buys a theme for $60, puts your photos in it, and charges for the afternoon.
The problem is what it says about you. If a customer has seen that theme on three other businesses, the site quietly communicates that yours is the same as those. For a shop selling a commodity that may be fine. For anyone selling on quality, it works against you.
What the mainstream tier gets wrong
This is where most Cambodian businesses land, and where the value varies most.
The usual pitch is page count — 5 pages, 8 pages, 15 pages. Page count is close to meaningless. Nobody reads fifteen pages. A visitor reads one, gets an answer or does not, and messages you or leaves.
Eight mediocre pages are worth less than three good ones. When comparing quotes, ask what happens on the page a customer actually lands on, not how many exist.
The costs that are not in the quote
The build price is not the cost of having a website. Four things follow it.
Domain — $12 to $30 a year
An ordinary .com costs about $12 to $15 a year.
If your business is registered in Cambodia, you are also required to hold a .com.kh address — about $100 to register and $30 a year direct with the ministry. Foreign resellers charge $204 to $500 for the identical name. We wrote about that in detail here.
Hosting — $0 to $80 a year
Cambodian shared hosting runs $2.50 to $6.40 a month. Many builders include the first year and then renew you at their own rate.
Worth asking: where is it hosted? A great many "free hosting" offers in this market are shared slots in the UK or the US. If your customers are in Phnom Penh, every page load makes a round trip to another continent. Modern static sites can be served from a Cloudflare edge location inside Cambodia for close to nothing — so the honest answer to "why is hosting free?" should be "because it costs us nothing", not "because we absorbed it".
Maintenance — $0 to $80 a month
The industry rule of thumb is 15% to 20% of the build cost per year. On a $900 site that is $135 to $180 a year.
You are buying somebody's attention: monitoring, backups, small content changes, and a person who answers when something breaks. Whether that is worth it depends entirely on whether you can afford the site being broken for a week.
On-demand support in Phnom Penh is commonly around $120 for a two-hour session — worth knowing when comparing a monthly plan against paying per incident.
The plugin tax
If your site is built on WordPress, budget for paid themes and plugins — forms, security, backups, page builders — many of which are annual subscriptions. This rarely appears in a quote and is a real recurring cost. A static site has none of it.
What actually drives the price
Not page count. These:
- Whether the design is made for you or bought. The single biggest factor.
- Whether the content exists. Photography, product descriptions and specifications are the most common reason projects stall. If you supply them, the build is faster and cheaper. If someone has to write and shoot them, that is a separate job with a separate price.
- How many products. One product is a page. Forty products is a catalogue with listings, categories and detail pages — a different piece of software.
- Whether money changes hands on the site. A "contact us to buy" site and a real checkout with payment and stock are not the same project, and the second is several times the first.
- Who is responsible afterwards. A build with no support is cheaper than a build with somebody's phone number attached. It should be.
How to tell which tier you need
A template site is enough if: you need an address to exist, you are not selling on quality, and the site is not expected to convince anyone of anything.
The middle tier is right if: your product photographs well, you are answering the same questions in Messenger every day, and the difference between your product and a cheaper one needs explaining. This is where most Cambodian product businesses sit.
An agency is right if: you have a marketing team to brief, several stakeholders, and the website is one part of a larger campaign.
Five questions to ask any quote
- Is the design made for me, or a theme? Ask to see three sites they built. If they share a layout, it is a theme.
- What does it cost to run, per year, after the first? Hosting, domain, maintenance, plugin licences. Get the total.
- Whose name is the domain registered in? It should be yours. Always.
- What happens when something breaks in month eight? Get the answer before you pay, not after.
- How fast does it load on a phone on mobile data? Ask them to show you. Most of your customers will arrive that way.
Question 3 matters more than it sounds. A domain registered in a designer's name is a business you do not fully control, and it becomes a problem exactly when the relationship has already gone wrong.
Our prices
We publish them, so you can weigh the advice above against what we charge.
Every package includes 12 months of hosting and free maintenance for four to eight months depending on tier. Hosting runs on Cloudflare's edge network, which has a point of presence in Phnom Penh — your customers are served from inside Cambodia rather than from a data centre in Europe.
Payment is staged: 50% to begin, 30% at design approval, 20% before launch. The domain is registered in your name and paid by you directly, so nothing has to be prised out of anyone's account if we stop working together.
You can see five complete example builds on our work page, and the full package detail on the Premium Product Showcase Website page.
Building or replacing a website in Cambodia? Send us a message — we will tell you honestly which tier you need, including when that is not us.
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