What Software and Websites Actually Cost in Nepal (2026)

Ask three companies in Kathmandu to quote the same system and you can get NPR 40,000, NPR 200,000 and NPR 900,000. That spread is not dishonesty — it usually means the three firms understood three different projects. Understanding what actually drives the number puts you in a much stronger position, both to budget realistically and to spot the quote that is too low to be real.

What Actually Drives the Price

Four things move a software quote more than anything else. First, the number of distinct user roles — a system where an admin, an accountant, a teacher and a parent each see different data is several times the work of a single-view tool. Second, whether money moves through it; payments bring reconciliation, refunds, receipts and audit requirements. Third, integrations with anything you already run. Fourth, reporting, because exports and dashboards are usually underestimated by everyone including the developer.

Websites: NPR 19,999 and Up

A professional business website — fast, mobile-first, technically SEO-ready, with the pages a real company needs — starts around NPR 19,999 with us. Complexity moves it: an e-commerce store with inventory and payment integration is meaningfully more than a five-page company site. Anything quoted dramatically below that is usually a template with your logo dropped in, which is a legitimate product but a different one.

Custom Software Is Quoted, Not Priced

We do not publish a figure for ERP, CRM or custom platform work, because a single-purpose internal tool and a multi-role institutional platform are not comparable products. What we do publish is the process: we scope the work first, in writing, and then give a fixed quote with a timeline. As a rough shape, a focused web application typically runs 6 to 10 weeks of build, and a larger platform with multiple roles, payments and reporting runs 3 to 6 months.

What the Cheapest Quote Usually Excludes

A very low quote is rarely a lie — it is a narrower scope. The things most commonly missing are: revisions after the first version, testing on real devices, data migration from whatever you use now, staff training, hosting and domain setup, and any support after handover. None of those are optional in practice. They simply arrive later as separate invoices, or as work you end up doing yourself. Ask any quote to state explicitly what is excluded.

Ongoing Costs People Forget

Software has running costs after launch: hosting, domain renewal, SSL, and maintenance to keep security patches current. Budget for these from the start rather than discovering them in month two. Maintenance is also where you protect the investment — an unmaintained system slowly becomes one nobody dares to change, and then it becomes a rebuild.

How to Compare Two Quotes Fairly

Put them side by side and check four things: is the feature list identical, is the number of revision rounds stated, is post-launch support included or extra, and does the code become yours on final payment. Once those four are aligned, the quotes are usually much closer than they first appeared — and the remaining difference tells you something real about the two teams.