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What a café website costs in Ireland in 2026
A café website in Ireland costs anywhere from €60 a year to €5,000 on the prices Irish sellers publish. Prices published on 14 September 2026: web60 €60 a year, Brick and Click €599, Cupán Studio €690, Nua €799, NexusCloud €800, and Digimark's guide puts a brochure site at €800 to €1,500.
Published Irish prices, side by side
Every row is a price the seller puts on its own public page, copied as published, with the date I read it. No bands invented here, and nobody in this table was asked for a quote.
| Who | Published price | What they say it covers | Read |
|---|---|---|---|
| web60 | €60 a year, which web60 publishes excluding VAT | An AI-generated site on WordPress, hosting in Ireland, SSL, backups, and a free .ie, .com or .co.uk domain for the first year | 14 Sep 2026 |
| Brick & Click | €599 one-time; €1,099 for a bigger package | At €599: a "conversion-focused custom landing page", hosting for year one, Google Maps, basic SEO, one revision round, "5–7 day delivery". The €1,099 tier is more, not the same thing dearer: advanced SEO, integrations, custom features. From year two, €49 or €89 a month billed annually | 14 Sep 2026 |
| Cupán Studio | €690 once, or €435 then €79 every four weeks | Six pages, your domain, hosting, a hello@ address, the panel you edit it from, your menu imported, a printable brand sheet and a manual. Built and live before you pay | our own list |
| Nua | "starting at just €799", or "starting at €1499" | A small business package and a larger one, for restaurants and hospitality | 14 Sep 2026 |
| NexusCloud | "Starting from €800" | Restaurant sites with hosting, SSL, backups and support, "Live in 2-4 weeks". The same page points to packages from €500 for businesses that are not restaurants | 14 Sep 2026 |
| Digimark | "€500–€5000" overall; "Brochure Website €800–€1,500"; hourly "€40–€100" | A price guide rather than a package. The brochure band is the one a café sits in | published 9 Oct 2025 |
Two things that table does not show. Those six are the Irish sellers I could find publishing a number at all, which is why a guide's range like Digimark's has to stand in for the rest. And a quoted price is not always for the same thing: one of these is a single landing page, one is a subscription you renew every year, one is six pages built for you before you are asked for money.
What a café actually needs, and what it does not
The range is wide because a website can be almost anything. Here is my own view of what a café in Dublin uses and what it does not.
- Needs. Your hours, seven days, right. Your menu, readable on a phone. Where you are, with a map and an Eircode. A way to reach you. Something that says what the room is like.
- Usually does not need, in my view. An online shop, unless you sell bags of beans by post. A booking engine, unless you take tables. A blog. A "brand discovery" phase. A monthly search-engine retainer on top of the build.
- The one that decides everything later. Whether you can change the hours and the menu yourself, in a minute, without emailing anybody. My own view, having built these: a site you cannot edit yourself goes stale, and then every correction is an email and a wait.
Year one against year three
A one-off price and a monthly price look very different after three years, and only some of these sellers publish enough to work it out. These are my sums on their published figures.
| Bought as | Year one | Three years |
|---|---|---|
| web60, €60 a year | €60 | €180 |
| Brick & Click, €599 then €49 a month from year two | €599 | €1,775 |
| Cupán Studio, €690 once | €690 | €690 plus the domain at €45 a year after the first, so €780 on a .com |
| Cupán Studio, €435 then €79 every four weeks | €1,462 | €3,516 |
| Nua, NexusCloud, or the upper end of Digimark's range | €799 to €5,000 | Not calculable: none of those pages publishes what year two costs |
The working, so you can check it: thirteen four-week cycles make a year, so €435 plus thirteen at €79 is €1,462 in year one and €1,027 in each year after. Brick & Click's €49 a month billed annually is €588 a year, twice, on top of €599.
None of which makes the cheapest one the best buy. It does mean the number to ask any seller for is what it costs you by the third summer, not what it costs on the day.
The costs that sit underneath all of them
Whoever builds it, two things keep costing money after the build.
- The domain. A
.ieis quoted by Maxer at "€18.49 + VAT per year" for a new registration, with a promotion running to 30 September 2026 that halves the first year. Renewals are at the standard rate, which is the number to plan on. Ours is on the pricing page at €60 a year for a.ieand €45 for a.com, because a.ieis a manual registration that needs proof of an Irish connection. - Hosting. Taking the pages at their word: Brick & Click says hosting for year one, web60 and NexusCloud list hosting without saying for how long, Nua's and Digimark's pages do not mention it, and ours is in the €690. Ask any of them what happens in year two before you sign anything, because that is where the difference between a €599 site and a €1,775 one lives.
What the grant changes
The Trading Online Voucher that paid half is closed. What replaced it pays "50% of eligible costs with minimum grant aid of €500", which means it does nothing at all for a project under €1,000, and it has to be applied for "before any project expenditure is incurred". The whole thing, written out for a café, with the terms quoted and the part that catches cafés out.
Five questions to ask anybody who quotes you
Is that once or every year?
And what exactly changes in year two. Get the number for year two in writing.
Whose name is the domain in?
It should be yours. If it is theirs, leaving costs you the address your customers know.
Can I change the hours and the menu myself?
Ask them to show you, on a phone, not describe it.
What does one extra page cost next year?
The build price is the cheap part of a relationship that goes badly.
Can I see a finished site before I pay?
Not a portfolio screenshot. A live site, on your phone, that you can poke at.
Questions
- How much for a website for a small café?
- On published Irish prices in September 2026, between €599 and €800 buys a built-for-you site from a named seller, and €690 is where Cupán Studio sits. Digimark puts the brochure band at €800 to €1,500. Below that, my view is that you are buying a tool to do the job yourself, and above the brochure band most of what you are adding is meetings, phases and a project manager, none of which a six-page café site needs.
- Is that price once or every year?
- It depends who you ask, and it is the thing to nail down before you sign anything. web60's €60 is every year. Brick & Click's €599 is once, then €49 a month from year two. €690 here is once, with no monthly bill unless you choose the care plan.
- Can I pay in instalments?
- The care plan is the instalment version: €435 to start and €79 every four weeks, cancellable with one email. It works out dearer than €690 once if you keep it for years, and it exists because a slow month is a bad time for a single large bill.
- How much does website maintenance cost in Ireland per month?
- Published figures run from Brick & Click's €49 a month to whatever an agency retainer costs. A static café site needs very little of it: hours, menu, photos and the odd new page, most of which you can do yourself in the panel. €79 every four weeks here covers someone else doing all of it.
- Why are .ie domain names so expensive?
- Because a .ie is not sold on the open market like a .com. You have to prove a connection to Ireland: the registry asks a business for one of an RBN or CRO number, a VAT number, or a tax clearance certificate, and an application is "usually processed within 3 hours, Monday to Friday". Maxer quotes "€18.49 + VAT per year". A
.comneeds no proof of anything, which is why it is €45 a year on our list against €60 for a.ie. - What is the cheapest option for a café starting out?
- web60's €60 a year, if you are willing to build and maintain it yourself. The catch is the same as with any builder: the site is only as current as the last evening you gave it. My view is that a wrong closing time on a Sunday costs a café more than sixty euro a year.
- Does a cheaper site cost more later?
- It can, and the three-year table above is where you see it. A €599 build on a €49 monthly plan is €599 in year one and €1,187 by the end of year two; a €690 one-off is €690 then €45, so €735. The cheaper build is the dearer one the moment the year-two bill lands.
- Will a grant cover it?
- Possibly, and not for a project under €1,000, because the replacement scheme's minimum grant is €500 at 50%. It must also be applied for before anything is spent. The guide to that has the terms quoted.
What this looks like here
Cupán Studio, spelled Cupan Studio when the fada is a nuisance to type, builds the site for your Dublin coffee shop first and sends you the live link before asking for anything. You compare it against every price in that table with the finished thing already in front of you: what it is and what it costs, or how it works.