How much does a website cost in Cameroon in 2026?

Ask around Douala or Yaoundé and you'll hear wildly different numbers for "a website": 50,000 XAF from a friend's cousin, 800,000 XAF from an agency, "it's free!" from someone who means a Facebook page. Here's the honest picture in 2026.

The real options and their prices

• Web agency: 150,000–800,000+ XAF for the build, then 20,000–60,000 XAF per year for hosting and domain renewal, plus fees whenever you want a change. Quality is real — so is the invoice.
• Freelance developer: 50,000–300,000 XAF depending on skill and scope. Cheaper, but your site depends on one person staying reachable.
• Foreign builders (Wix, Shopify, Squarespace): roughly $10–30 per month (6,000–18,000 XAF), billed by bank card, in English, with features you'll never use.
• A Facebook or Instagram page: free, but not a website — no Google presence of your own, no prices page, and the algorithm decides who sees you.
• Offcl: 1,200 XAF per month, or 14,000 XAF per year (2 months free), everything included — address, hosting, security, updates.

The hidden costs people forget

A quote for "a website" often covers only the first invoice. After that come the extras:

• Domain name: around 10,000 XAF/year for a .com or .cm — and it renews forever.
• Hosting: 20,000–60,000 XAF/year for anything reliable.
• The security certificate (the padlock): sometimes billed separately.
• Changes: many developers bill 5,000–20,000 XAF each time you want to update a price or a photo.
• Your time: every week spent waiting on a developer is a week customers can't find you.

What 1,200 XAF a month actually buys

For less than a single taxi ride across town, an Offcl site includes your address (yourname.offcl.co), hosting, the security certificate, a design for your profession, a product catalogue, WhatsApp orders, bookings, analytics and updates you make yourself from your phone — no developer invoice per change.

The question was never really "can I afford a website?" — at these prices, it's "can I afford to keep paying rent for a shop that's invisible online?" Start with the free 7-day trial and decide after you see your own business on a real address.