What a website actually costs in Gran Canaria

What's actually published

Here is all of it, quoted from their own pages. Read in September 2026 — check before you rely on any of it, mine included, because these numbers move.

• Webs aMedida — €145 for a static HTML site, €245 for a self-managed WordPress one, €345 for a Prestashop shop. Hosting, domain, maintenance, corporate email and SSL bundled in, delivered in seven days. Every tier is advertised at 50% off, "solo este mes", against a crossed-out price.
• Tony Reise — €299 for a landing page, €499 for a five-section informational site, €699 for an advanced one with bookings. Shops from €499 to €999. Domain and hosting for the first year, six months of maintenance, and a twelve-month warranty on the code.
• Sande Studio — from €500, and €25 a month for maintenance. Based in Tenerife, building on the same stack I use, and the only other site in the set that publishes a performance guarantee.
• digital-webservice.com — the German-language agency on this island. €2,259 as a one-off for a ten-page site, €3,319 for a Shopify shop. Or €549 a month in the first year and €439 a month after that. Domain, hosting, SSL and Shopify's own fees are extra.
• The other six — Web Las Palmas, Las Palmas Web, Coco Solution, The Simple Web Studio, Islatech and C-Me Online — show no price at all on the pages I could read. "Consultar precio".

The same website, €145 to €2,259

That is a fifteen-fold spread for something a buyer would describe in a single sentence, and it isn't a story about who is cheap and who is greedy. They are not selling the same thing.

At the bottom you are buying a template and a fast turnaround. Seven days is not enough time to learn a business, so nobody tries; you get a layout with your logo in it. That is an honest trade if a layout with your logo in it is what you need.

At the top you are buying an agency: an account manager, a process, somebody else's overhead, and in the German-language case a subscription. €549 a month is €6,588 in the first year. Whether that is expensive depends entirely on whether what it produces earns back more than €6,588 — and for some businesses on this island it comfortably does.

The middle is where most of the real work sits, and it is also where the numbers stop being comparable, because it is where what you are actually buying starts to vary.

And what I charge

A brochure site for a local business starts at €145. Most of what I deliver lands between €145 and €490; an online shop or a direct-booking site starts at €490, and maintenance, if you want it, is €25 a month. Prices exclude IGIC, and you get a fixed quote before anything starts.

That ties me with the lowest published price on the island, which invites exactly one question, so here is the answer. There is nobody between you and the person building the site: no agency overhead, no account manager relaying messages, no reseller margin on top. And Astro compiles your site into plain, fast files instead of assembling every page out of a pile of plugins, so the speed that agencies charge four figures to retrofit is simply how the site comes out. Cheap here means low overhead, not cut corners.

What the number buys:

1. A site built to measure, not a template filled in.
2. English and Spanish from day one, with per-language URLs and hreflang set up the way Google wants them.
3. 99 or above on all four Google Lighthouse checks, measured on your live site, on mobile. If it comes in under, I keep working until it doesn't.
4. Domain, hosting and admin access in your name.
5. Editable by you, with none of the plugin stack that needs patching every month to stay standing.

What you're paying for

Four things move the price. None of them is "the design".

Page count

A one-page site and a twelve-page site with a blog aren't the same job. They're also not a twelve-fold difference, because most of the work happens on the first one. It is worth noticing that Tony Reise's ladder — €299 for one section, €499 for five — says the same thing: the second page is much cheaper than the first.

Whether it takes money

An informational site shows things. A shop or a booking engine takes payment, and everything that takes payment needs a payment provider, stock or availability logic, automated email, a refund path, and somewhere to look when a transaction goes wrong at 11pm. Different project — which is why almost everyone on the list above prices shops separately.

How many languages

On this island that isn't an add-on, it's the architecture. Your customers are residents searching in Spanish and visitors searching in English or German. A two-language site isn't a bigger site, it's a differently built one — separate URLs per language, hreflang tags, and a content setup where the translations don't drift apart. Doing it upfront costs something. Doing it later costs a rebuild.

Who writes the words

The single most underestimated line, and the one that delays projects most. If you have your copy, things move fast. If someone has to write it, that's work and it belongs in the quote.

Ask what they guarantee

This is the question I would ask first, and it is the one almost nobody asks. Of the ten sites I read, two promise anything specific at all.

• Tony Reise gives a twelve-month warranty covering structural and code faults — if it breaks, they repair it free.
• Sande Studio guarantees PageSpeed 95 or above, on mobile and on desktop.
• Everyone else — at every price point, including the €2,259 one — guarantees nothing you could hold them to.

For the record, mine is 99 or above on all four Google Lighthouse categories — performance, accessibility, best practices and SEO — measured on your live site, on mobile, not on my laptop. If it comes in under, I keep working until it doesn't.

But the point isn't whose promise is biggest. It is that a guarantee is the only line in a web quote that costs the seller something if they are wrong, which makes it the most informative thing in the document. Where there isn't one, you are buying on trust alone — and you should price that accordingly.

The costs that arrive after the invoice

Ask about these before you pay a deposit, whoever you hire:

• Domain and hosting — how much per year, and registered in whose name. Several of the cheaper packages bundle the first year and go quiet about the second.
• Maintenance — monthly retainer, hours bank, or nothing? This is where the spread above stops being academic. A subscription at €549 a month is €6,588 in the first year and €5,268 every year after. A site built once and maintained at €25 a month is €300 a year. Over three years that gap is larger than any build price on this page.
• The WordPress tax — a WordPress site with fifteen plugins needs somebody patching it every month, or it eventually breaks in public. A statically built site needs far less. If you are quoted a low build price and a high monthly, work out which of the two you are really buying.
• Post-launch changes — how many are included, and what happens after.
• Ownership — if you want to move to someone else next year, can you? Do you get the code and the accounts?

That last one causes the most damage here. There are businesses on this island paying a monthly fee on a site they can't move, because it was never in their name.

And check where they actually are

Scroll to the legal notice at the foot of any site ranking for "web design Las Palmas" and read the address. At least one of the businesses ranking on the first page for this island is registered in a town outside Madrid.

That isn't illegal and it doesn't make the work bad. But if part of what you think you are paying for is somebody local — somebody in your time zone, who can come and look at the place, who you could turn up and see — then it is worth knowing before you pay rather than after.

And the IGIC

If your developer is based in the Canaries, the invoice carries IGIC, not mainland IVA. Sande Studio puts it plainly on their own pricing page — invoices carry IGIC at 7% instead of Spanish VAT — and that is exactly how it should read. If you're getting IVA from a Canarian supplier, or Canarian IGIC from a mainland one, ask: something's off, and your accountant will spot it.

So what will yours cost?

Honestly: until I know what you need, I don't know. But twenty minutes on a call is enough to tell you the range you're in — and if what you need costs less than you were expecting, I'll tell you that too. If it's one of the ten above rather than me, I'll tell you that as well.

Bring these four things and the quote comes back as a fixed number instead of a range:

1. Roughly how many pages or sections you picture, even as a guess.
2. Which languages it has to run in.
3. Whether it has to take payments or bookings, or only inform.
4. Whether you already have the text and the photos, or they need making.

With that I send you a final price in writing, with the scope and the delivery date. If it works for you we start; if it doesn't, you owe me nothing.

Jean Ayala — web development in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Working in English and Spanish with businesses across the island and the wider Canaries. All competitor prices in this article were read from their own public pages in September 2026.