# SiteCost — Website Development Cost Calculator
# https://sitecost.info
# Maintainer: Edge Holdings (https://edge.holdings)

> SiteCost is a free interactive calculator that estimates website development budgets in real time. Users answer four questions (site type, features, design tier, technology stack) and receive three market segments: freelancer, web studio, and premium agency (Edge Holdings). Supports Russian, English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, and Chinese. Exports a PDF estimate; leads route to edge.holdings in the user's language.

## Primary use cases

- How much does a website cost?
- Website development price estimator
- Landing page / corporate site / e-commerce / SaaS budget range
- Compare freelancer vs agency pricing
- Get a PDF development quote before contacting a studio

## Calculator inputs

1. **Site type:** landing page, corporate website, e-commerce, web app/SaaS portal, media/blog
2. **Features (multi-select):** auth, payments, multilingual, CRM, admin panel, blog, live chat, search, SEO
3. **Design:** template, custom UI/UX, premium WOW design
4. **Tech stack:** no-code (Tilda/Webflow), CMS (WordPress), modern SPA/SSR (React/Next.js), enterprise (Go/Python)

## Pricing model (summary)

Base USD rates by site type, multiplied by design and stack factors, plus per-feature add-ons. Three tiers: freelancer (direct cost), web studio (~2.2×), premium agency Edge (~5×). Currencies: USD, EUR, RUB. Timelines shown per tier.

## Languages & locales

| Code | URL param | Edge Holdings path |
|------|-----------|-------------------|
| RU   | ?lang=ru  | /ru               |
| EN   | ?lang=en  | /en               |
| DE   | ?lang=de  | /de               |
| FR   | ?lang=fr  | /fr               |
| ES   | ?lang=es  | /es               |
| IT   | ?lang=it  | /it               |
| ZH   | ?lang=zh  | /zh               |

## Order / contact

Premium development and custom proposals: **Edge Holdings** — https://edge.holdings (localized paths above). Email: hello@edge.holdings

## Key pages

- / — main calculator (index.html)
- /sitemap.xml — sitemap
- /robots.txt — crawler rules (search + AI bots allowed)
- /llms.txt — this file

## FAQ (short)

**Why do freelancer, studio, and agency prices differ?** Freelancers are cheapest but highest delivery risk. Studios add PM, design, QA, and contracts. Agencies (Edge) add business analytics, custom architecture, security, and SLA.

**How is the estimate calculated?** USA/Western Europe baseline rates; base cost × design × stack + features; tier multipliers for studio and agency overhead.

**Can I get a PDF or formal quote?** Yes — PDF export after the wizard. Contact Edge via the CTA for a commercial proposal with your configuration parameters.

## Crawling

All public static assets may be indexed. JavaScript required for interactive wizard; FAQ and noscript blocks provide text fallback for answer engines.