In Peru, a website is paid for in two separate bills. The first is paid once: building it. The second is paid every year: keeping it online. Most of the confusion about price comes from mixing the two, or from getting a quote that only covers the first.
What it costs to keep a website online can be known today, because it has public prices. What it costs to build one depends on how much work your site needs. Here are both bills, item by item, with the source of every figure.
Prices checked on October 6, 2026. Amounts in Peruvian soles (S/).
The summary, in one table
| Item | How much | How often | Where the figure comes from |
|---|---|---|---|
| .pe or .com.pe domain | S/ 110 | Every year | Punto.pe price list, taxes included |
| Security padlock (https) | S/ 0 | Renews automatically | Let's Encrypt |
| Software license (WordPress or Drupal) | S/ 0 | — | Both are open source |
| Hosting | Depends on the plan | Monthly or yearly | The provider you choose |
| Design and development | Quoted | Once | Depends on the work your site needs |
| Maintenance | Optional | Monthly, if you hire it | Depends on what it includes |
What you pay every year
The domain: your website's name
It's the address people type: yourbusiness.pe or yourbusiness.com.pe. In Peru, .pe domains are run by Punto.pe, and its price list is public: S/ 110 for one year, S/ 200 for two, S/ 295 for three and S/ 465 for five, taxes included. The price is the same for .pe and .com.pe.
Two things worth knowing before you pay:
- Ask for the domain to be registered in your name or your company's, not in the name of whoever builds the site. If it ends up in someone else's name and you later want it transferred to you, Punto.pe charges the change of holder at the price of one year's renewal.
- If the domain is free the first year, ask how much the second year will cost.
Hosting: where your website lives
It's the space on a server where your pages and photos are stored, switched on day and night. You pay monthly or yearly, and the price goes up with the size of the site and the traffic it gets. A business site with a few sections fits in the smallest plan; a store with many products needs a bigger one. When comparing plans, check what they include: storage, backups and who you call if the site goes down.
The padlock: the security certificate
It's what makes your address start with https and stops browsers from flagging it as "not secure". It doesn't have to cost anything: Let's Encrypt issues valid certificates free of charge to anyone who owns a domain. Ask your hosting provider whether it's already included.
What you pay once: building the site
There's no official price here, because what you pay for is work: organizing what your business wants to say, designing how it looks, programming it, loading texts and photos, and testing that everything works on a phone.
The software used to manage the site isn't the expensive part. WordPress and Drupal, the two we work with, are open source: there's no license fee to use them. What you pay for is someone to install them, adapt them to your business and leave them working.
As a reference, there are three project sizes:
| Type | What it is |
|---|---|
| Single page | One page for a product or a campaign, with a form or a WhatsApp button. |
| Business website | Home, services, about us, contact and a blog. You manage it yourself. |
| Online store | Catalog, cart, payments and shipping. |
What makes the price go up or down
- How many different pages need designing. Ten pages with the same layout cost less than four pages with four layouts.
- Who provides the texts and photos. If you hand them over ready, you pay less. If they have to be written and shot, that's extra work.
- Template or custom design. Adapting a template is faster than drawing everything from scratch.
- What the site has to do. Taking card payments, bookings, showing a catalog or connecting to your invoicing system all add work.
- Languages. A site in Spanish and English doesn't cost double, but every text exists twice and someone has to write and review it.
What a quote should say so you can compare it
Two quotes with the same figure may not include the same things. Before comparing prices, check that each one answers these questions:
- Whose name will the domain be registered in?
- Is hosting included? For how long, and how much does it cost afterwards?
- Does the price include IGV (Peru's sales tax)? It's 18%: S/ 180 more for every S/ 1,000.
- How many rounds of changes are included?
- Who loads the texts and photos?
- Will I get the administrator account and training to use it?
- If I later want to switch providers, do I keep the site and the domain?
- How much will I pay in year two for domain, hosting and maintenance?
Do it yourself, hire a freelancer or an agency?
- Yourself, with an online builder. You pay a monthly fee for as long as the site exists and you put in your time. It works to get started; the limit shows up when you need something the tool doesn't have.
- A freelancer. Usually the cheapest option for a simple site. Put in writing who maintains it afterwards.
- An agency. You pay more because several people work on it (design, programming, content, SEO) and there's someone to turn to when something breaks.
After launch: getting found
Publishing a website doesn't make it show up on Google. That's a separate job and a separate bill, which we explain in how much SEO costs. If you're still choosing the software to build it with, compare the best content management systems first.
How we quote at Dom Host SEO
Every website is quoted according to what it has to do: how many pages, who provides the texts and photos, and which features it needs. We are based in Cusco, at Calle San Andrés 218, Of. 05, and we work remotely with businesses all over Peru. Ask for your quote and we'll reply with the eight questions above already answered.
Frequently asked questions
How much does a .pe domain cost?
S/ 110 per year on the Punto.pe price list, taxes included. Paying for five years costs S/ 465.
How often do you pay for a website?
Building it, once. Domain and hosting, every year. Maintenance, if you hire it, every month.
Is the domain mine?
Only if it's registered in your name or your company's. Ask for it that way from day one.
Is WordPress free?
The software is: it's open source. What you pay for is the domain, the hosting and the work of building the site.
Does the price include IGV?
Always ask. The Punto.pe price list already includes it; in a design quote it depends on who's quoting.