“Drupal is loved by many to build high-performant websites, but the cost factor boggles many minds. But a Drupal development company helps you decipher the secret.”

Drupal may not be the world’s leading CMS (Content Management System) and website builder — as WordPress holds the maximum market share — but it is indeed the most loved among enterprises. It is largely used to build blog sites, e-commerce websites, corporate websites, e-forums, social networking platforms, news and entertainment websites, and more.

However, the mind boggles at the thought when it is about determining the price and the factors involved in building a website backed by Drupal

Companies pay different price varying on their need. Building mobile apps may cost differently, and creating a corporate website may cost differently. At the same time, building an e-commerce website may cost more. It can be expensive as many factors work in building an e-commerce website. It requires multiple advanced features enabling superior experience concerning product listing, shopping, carting, shipping to return and refund.

The price factor depends on what region we consider and how much time we give to build a website. For instance, a Drupal specialist in North America can charge $60 to $140 hourly. Likewise, the cost may be $40 to $60 in Western Europe. Similarly, in Asia-Pacific, the charges may vary from $10 to $20 (per hour).

Drupal web development services providers or, better say, developers, take approximately 50 to 200 hours to build a corporate website or a digital commerce platform. Now, if we talk yearly, in North America, Drupal Development companies charge around $15000 to $30000, $4000 to $10000 in Eastern Europe, and in the APAC region, the charges vary between $2000 to $5000.

Many factors result in the fluctuation of price when building a website. Businesses mostly favor Drupal, NGOs, governments, and individuals because it enables the development of simple to complex websites without the need to learn coding and programming skills. Though Drupal provides pre-built templates, designs, and more that are helpful to build and running an essential website, professional-grade websites demand a lot more, which affects the price.

• Level of website complexity

Industry-grade websites must be feature-rich and should be capable of handling traffic efficiently. The level of complexity defines the price of a Drupal-based website. Developers use special features offered by Drupal to build a website that allows everything from content procurement, management, processing, and editing to publishing, reviewing, and reposting. Complex Drupal websites give users individual control and enable them to perform the required action without any delay. Pricing also affects if a particular business wants to publish multi-lingual content and add this capability to its website.

• Size of the team involved

When you collaborate with a Drupal Web Development Services provider, they give you the best team to make your website up and running. But the price differs on the fact that how big is the team size. It may include developers and designers to help you build high-performant and design-first stratezies to integrate with your new website. If an extra resource is needed, it may further attract a special price.

• SLAs (Service Level Agreements)

A Drupal website development company offers everything from Drupal consulting to regular support and maintenance. However, exact terms of performance are mentioned in the SLAs that define how your Drupal development partner would proceed. The cost factor is affected by the duration of performance too. SLAs define how many days or months will the website development needs; how they will provide after-support; whether they will manage your website regularly, and more.

Drupal is many freebie features that are good for building a website, but you have a price to pay when you have to extend your approach towards content publishing and designing. Overall, the price largely depends on how well you define your requirements. It would help you build a robust website and save a lot of money for you.