Web design prices 2026 and why we are becoming cheaper.
While lame jokes are flying around about things meant to sound serious but turn out to be nonsense, we are turning the story around once again. It is meant to come across as a lame joke, but it is the most serious business decision we have made for this year. The prices of websites, webshops, and a number of online services are going down—significantly down. Here is why we decided to do this, how we managed to achieve the price reduction, and how we became cheaper without becoming cheap.
WetNose, newest member of the High Technology Park.
And this is the very simple reason. We have become a member of the High Technology Park (HTP). The HTP in Kyrgyzstan is a virtual export-oriented tax regime that creates favorable conditions for companies active in IT. While the sector in the Netherlands is slowly drowning in rising labor costs, rents, and a tax burden that stifles all creativity, we have virtually eliminated the overhead that normally makes websites unnecessarily expensive. We do not pocket the tax benefits of our membership as extra profit, but share them with our clients.
Why others can’t match this.
Agencies based in Holland have the Tax and Customs Administration as a sort of partner. An agency in the Netherlands pays 21% VAT; we pay 0%. A minimum of 19% corporate income tax; that, too, is 0% with us. And the staff pays up to 49.5% personal income tax, which for us is a fixed rate of 5%, supplemented by a 1% contribution to the HTP Directorate. This is not a shady Cayman Islands structure, but an officially transparent government export regime resulting in a price reduction that is mathematically impossible for a Dutch agency, but for us, the new standard in 2026.
And then there’s the rest.
These tax benefits are just the basics, but it doesn’t stop there. The real overhead of a Dutch agency is primarily hidden in costs that are of no use to you as a client, but for which you still pay. Think of the rent for a trendy office building, branded lease cars parked outside, advertising in a football stadium necessary to stand out a little in the overheated Dutch market, an administrative assistant who does nothing on your site but still needs to be paid, and so on. We do not have (or need) any of that; it saves on costs, and that is also why the price reduction is possible.
Cheaper without being “cheap”.
Let’s make one thing very clear! A lower price does not mean a lower standard. We work according to Dutch standards with Dutch people on Dutch servers, and increasingly for Dutch agencies! Chances are very high that you have unknowingly landed on a website built by us. More and more Dutch agencies are outsourcing their projects to us. For them too, we save on taxes, fixed costs, and overhead, and instead of pocketing the profit, we share the benefit. A little extra for us and a little extra for you.