How long does it take to commission an Astro website?

A manageable Astro site is usually ready in four to six weeks. Larger or multilingual projects with migration and a headless CMS integration tend to take eight to twelve weeks. In our experience, the biggest part of the time isn't the code but the content – text and images are more often the bottleneck than development.

Is Astro worth it for small businesses?

Yes, if your content changes at a manageable frequency and load time, security and low running costs matter to you. Small businesses in particular benefit from a static Astro site needing almost no maintenance and bringing no monthly plugin and security chores. If you want to maintain large amounts of content daily without code skills, a classic CMS is often more suitable.

Does an Astro website need maintenance?

Significantly less than a WordPress site. There's no public backend and no plugin zoo that has to be updated weekly. A lean care package for dependency updates and monitoring still makes sense, but the ongoing effort is structurally low – that's one of the main reasons Astro pays off over the years.

Commission an Astro Website: Cost & Process in 2026

Q: What does an Astro website cost?

With us, a professional Astro site with technical SEO and Schema.org starts at €4,000. Across the market, Astro projects range roughly from €2,500 for simple sites to €60,000 for large, multilingual corporate presences with strategy and migration. The exact price depends on scope, design, languages and integrations – it only gets serious once someone has seen your specific project.

“What does an Astro website cost?” is a fair question – and every honest answer starts with “it depends”. So this isn’t a non-answer, let’s be concrete about what it depends on, which price ranges are realistic, and how an Astro project runs from the first enquiry to launch.

We don’t say this from theory: our own website runs on Astro – bilingual, with everything that entails. So we know first-hand where the time goes in a project like this and which decisions ultimately drive the price.

If you’re still wondering whether Astro is even the right choice, start with the honest comparison of Astro vs. WordPress. Here we assume: the decision for Astro is made, and we’re now talking about costs and process.

What Drives the Price

An Astro website isn’t a catalogue item with a fixed price – the effort depends on concrete factors:

Scope. A marketing site with five pages is something else than a corporate presence with 40 subpages and a blog.
Design. Adapting a clear template or fully custom design – this is often the biggest lever.
Multilingual setup. Astro brings i18n natively, but every additional language means structure, translation pipeline, and maintenance. We’ve been through it on our own site – setting up two languages cleanly is more than “duplicating text”.
Migration. Coming from an existing site means clean content carryover and redirect mapping take effort – but they protect your rankings.
Headless CMS. If your team needs an editorial interface, integrating a headless CMS is added.
Custom functions. Configurators, forms, search, integrations – everything that goes beyond static content.

The biggest lever is almost always the design. Adapting a well-built template to your brand is a fraction of the effort of a presence drawn from scratch. Both are legitimate – but it’s the difference between a solid four-figure and a five-figure project.

Realistic Price Ranges

Honest orientation instead of guesswork:

Simple marketing or corporate sites start in the low four-figure range. A professional Astro site with technical SEO and Schema.org markup starts at €4,000 with us.
Multilingual or feature-rich corporate sites sit above that – depending on languages, scope, and integrations, quickly in the mid to high four-figure, for large projects five-figure range.
Migrations of larger existing sites and headless integrations we calculate after a tech audit that reviews content and URL structure.

For context: across the market in 2026, Astro projects sit roughly between €2,500 for small sites and €25,000 to €60,000 for large, strategically supported corporate presences. Our entry point at €4,000 is deliberately at the lower end of that range – not because we deliver less, but because we build lean and skip the content-strategy surcharges that drive the price up elsewhere.

Anyone giving you a fixed price without looking at your project is guessing – or padding the number. It only gets serious once someone has seen your specific case. How the total cost of a website adds up over several years is broken down separately in What a Business Website Really Costs in 2026.

What a Fair Price Should Include

An Astro quote isn’t automatically comparable just because two numbers sit side by side. Make sure these points are included – and not billed separately later:

Technical SEO from the start: clean page structure, meta data, Schema.org, sitemap. Not as an add-on, but as part of the build.
Performance: image optimisation, lean delivery, good Core Web Vitals. With Astro this is no extra – but it still has to be done properly.
Accessibility basics: semantic HTML, focus states, contrast.
A clean deployment to your hosting, including a functionality and performance check.

If one of these is missing from the quote, the price isn’t cheaper – it’s just incomplete.

Running Costs – Don’t Forget

The build is one thing, operations are another:

Hosting we set up at the provider of your choice – Astro sites are static and frugal, hosting is correspondingly cheap. Important: hosting at you, not at us.
Maintenance in the classic sense largely disappears – no plugin updates, no weekly security patches. An optional care package for dependencies and monitoring is sensible, but lean.
Extensions after launch run on a transparent hourly rate.

Calculate not just the build, but the years after for every website. That’s exactly where Astro plays its strength: low ongoing effort because there are few moving parts.

How an Astro Project Runs

First conversation. You tell us what you’re planning. We ask about goals, content, languages, current site – and tell you honestly whether Astro fits.
Concept & tech audit. For migrations, we review content and URL structure. The output is a solid ballpark instead of gut-feel guesswork.
Design. Template adaptation or custom design – aligned with your brand.
Build. We build the Astro site: components, content, technical SEO, Schema.org, image optimisation – performance is part of the build, not afterthought.
Migration & redirects (if there’s an existing site). Move content over, set up 301 redirects, secure rankings.
Launch. Deployment to your hosting, functionality and performance check.
Optional: support. Care package, extensions, content workflows – including AI-supported if wanted.

How Long Does It Take?

As rough orientation from our projects:

Small marketing or corporate site: four to six weeks.
Multilingual site with more scope: six to ten weeks.
Migration with a headless CMS integration: more like eight to twelve weeks, depending on the existing site.

The honest truth behind it: the code is rarely the bottleneck. What delays projects is missing text, unclear image rights and approval loops. Providing the content early shortens the timeline noticeably – that’s the lever you hold yourself.

When It’s Worth It – and When It Isn’t

Astro pays off when performance, security, and low maintenance matter to you and your content changes at a manageable frequency. If, on the other hand, a large editorial team needs to maintain content daily without code skills, a classic WordPress can be the cheaper and more fitting choice – or the middle path via a headless CMS.

And if you’re coming from an existing WordPress site, look at Astro Instead of WordPress – when the switch is really worth it first.

You want a concrete number for your project? Tell us briefly what you’re planning – after a first conversation, we’ll turn that into a solid estimate, not a shot in the dark. Request an Astro website →