Website Development Company in Saudi Arabia: Arabic and English Sites
Bilingual company sites, online stores and web applications for Saudi businesses, built right-to-left from the first screen. We quote by what you need.
Devvista is a website development company in Saudi Arabia. We build websites for Saudi companies in Arabic and English: company sites, service sites, bilingual landing pages and online stores. We show a working staging site every one to two weeks, and hand over the code, the hosting account and the domain in your name. We price either as a fixed project from $500 to $100,000 or hourly from $10 to $100, depending on complexity and developer level.
This page explains how a bilingual Saudi website is built, what makes the price move, how a project runs and what to ask any web company before you sign. For a quote, contact us or use the Get an Estimate button.
What a Saudi company needs from a website
Most businesses we speak to do not need "a website" in the abstract. They need one job done: customers find the company, trust it and get in touch, or buy. The job decides the build.
| The job | What gets built | Where to read more |
|---|---|---|
| Be found and trusted by new customers | A company or service site with clear service pages, proof and a contact route in both languages | This page |
| Sell products online | An online store with payments, shipping and stock | Ecommerce development (English) |
| Let customers or staff log in | A portal or web application with roles | Software development company |
| Connect the site to accounting or ERP | An integration with Odoo or your own system | Odoo ERP implementation |
| Take an app to the phone | A mobile app on iOS and Android | Mobile app development |
If you are not sure which row is yours, say so on the first call. We would rather tell you honestly that a simple site is enough than sell you a platform.
One website in two languages, built properly
A bilingual site is more than a translated copy. Arabic reads right to left, so the layout, the menu, the form fields, the icons that point somewhere and the order of table columns all mirror. We design the first screens in both directions at the same time, because, in our experience, retrofitting right-to-left later is where most of the breakage comes from.
We write or review the Arabic copy as Arabic, not as a word-for-word translation, because buyers search in Arabic with different words than the English page uses. Each language gets its own address (for example /ar/ for Arabic) and its own title and description.
For search engines, Google says that if you have multiple versions of a page for different languages or regions you should tell it about them, and that each language version must list itself as well as all other language versions; if two pages do not point to each other, the tags are ignored (Google Search Central, localized versions). We set this up in pairs and check the return links before launch.
Smaller details decide whether the site feels native: a font that carries Arabic and Latin text well, phone numbers and prices that read correctly inside Arabic sentences, a form that accepts Arabic names and does not reject them, and an Arabic confirmation email.
Speed and search basics
A site that loads slowly loses visitors before they read anything, and, as our assumption, many visitors arrive on a phone. Google publishes three Core Web Vitals and what counts as good: Largest Contentful Paint within 2.5 seconds, Interaction to Next Paint of 200 milliseconds or less, and Cumulative Layout Shift of 0.1 or less (web.dev, Web Vitals).
Our own working target on web builds is a Lighthouse performance score above 90 on mobile, the same target stated on our ecommerce development page. We reach it with compressed and lazy-loaded images, little blocking JavaScript and a CDN. That is a target we work to and measure, not a promise about your results.
The search basics are part of the build, not an extra: one clear heading per page, titles and descriptions written for the person who will click, a sitemap, clean addresses, structured data where it fits and redirects if you are replacing an old site. If you want ongoing search work after launch, see our SEO service (English).
Which kind of website: a quick guide
The right platform depends on who will edit the site and what it must do. This is the short version of the advice we give on the first call.
| Option | Suits | Watch for |
|---|---|---|
| WordPress | Company sites and content-heavy sites that staff will edit themselves | Plugins and updates need looking after; see our WordPress development page (English) |
| Custom build (for example Next.js) | Sites with unusual layouts, strict speed targets or heavy integrations | Higher build cost; every change goes through a developer |
| Shopify or WooCommerce | Online stores where the catalog and checkout matter most | Choose by who maintains it; see ecommerce development |
| Web application | Logins, dashboards, approvals, customer portals | Scope grows quickly; start with a first release |
We state this plainly because the cheapest route is not always the right one. A staff-edited company site on WordPress costs less to run than a custom build, and a custom build is worth it only when the site must do something a template cannot.
Taking payments and selling online
If the site sells, the checkout is the product. Decide in the scoping call which payment gateway you will use, whether mada and Apple Pay are switched on, how refunds reach your accounts and which shipping companies need to be connected. We test payments with real transaction flows and in sandbox mode before launch, and we set up redirects so an old store does not lose its search pages when it moves.
If invoices are issued from the store, they fall under ZATCA e-invoicing, and the connection to the Fatoora platform becomes part of the scope. Our ZATCA Wave 25 guide and Odoo e-invoicing page explain what that involves.
How a website project runs with us
Every project follows the same steps. The table shows what happens and what you hold at the end of each.
| Step | What happens | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Discovery call | Who the customers are, what the site must do, what exists today | A short written summary of the goal |
| 2. Scope and plan | Pages, features and integrations listed and split into first release and later | A feature list, a plan in working days and a price (fixed or hourly) |
| 3. Design | Key screens in Arabic and English, reviewed before any build | Clickable designs you can show your team |
| 4. Build | Working software every one to two weeks, with a demo on a video call | A staging site you can open and test |
| 5. Test and launch | Phone and desktop checks, form and payment tests, speed and search checks, redirects, DNS cutover | A live site and a written launch checklist |
| 6. Handover and support | Code, accounts and documentation passed to you; optional monthly maintenance | Everything in your company name |
A note on honesty: we do not have Saudi client sites to show on this page, and we will not invent any. What we offer instead is a process you can check, written scope and prices, and case studies from other markets that show how we document projects.
What decides the price, with one worked example
Devvista prices a website either as a fixed price from $500 to $100,000 depending on complexity, or hourly from $10 to $100 per hour depending on the type and level of developer. Four things move the number most: how many page types the site has, how much has to work in both Arabic and English, how many integrations (payments, forms into a CRM, accounting) are needed, and how much content we must write or restructure.
Illustrative estimate, not a quote. Take a bilingual company site with eight page types, a contact form that feeds your CRM and a blog. Assume it takes 120 to 200 developer and designer hours (an assumption for this example). At an illustrative $40 per hour that is $4,800 to $8,000. Your own scope will differ, and we give a written plan before you commit.
For context, here is what some companies state on their own pages. These are their figures for their own scope, not like-for-like with ours, and we show them only so you can compare questions, not prices.
| Company | What it states on its own page |
|---|---|
| A Saudi web agency | Website interfaces in 3 to 5 days and programming in 5 to 7 days |
| An Egyptian agency selling into Saudi Arabia | Packages from EGP 14,900, 2 to 8 weeks |
Fast and cheap packages exist and suit a simple brochure site. If you need a bilingual site that connects to your systems and that your team can edit, ask each company what the package leaves out. Our own blog (English) covers how to compare quotes.
Questions to ask any web company before you sign
These work for us or for anyone you are comparing. A good answer is specific.
| Question | What a good answer looks like |
|---|---|
| Who owns the code, the domain and the hosting account? | You do, in writing, with accounts in your company name |
| Have you built Arabic right-to-left pages before? | Pages you can open on your phone, not screenshots |
| How do you handle the Arabic and English versions for search? | Separate addresses, titles and descriptions, and linked language pairs |
| What speed do you test to? | A named tool and target, measured on a phone |
| What happens after launch? | A written support option with a stated scope |
Mistakes Saudi companies make when commissioning a website
- Treating Arabic as a translation job at the end. Mirrored layouts and forms break when retrofitted, so test Arabic in the first release.
- Buying only on the cheapest quote. Without a written scope the difference returns as change requests.
- Letting the agency hold the domain or hosting account. If the relationship ends, so does your access.
- Launching without redirects. A new site that drops the old addresses throws away the search pages you already had.
- Ignoring the phone. Check every page on a real phone before approving it.
Where Devvista fits
Devvista is a software development and growth agency. We work with companies across Saudi Arabia, in English and Arabic. Tell us your case and we will say honestly if we are a fit.
Related pages: software development company, mobile app development, hiring developers and the Saudi home page. To discuss your site, contact us.
Contact Devvista
Our address, phone and opening hours.
Amna Bint Wahb St, road, Jeddah 23622, Saudi Arabia
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Tell us who your customers are and what the site must do. We will quote it in writing after a short scoping call.
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