Every turtle-watching trip to Ras Al Jinz is booked online, months before the visitor reaches the beach. Sur's dhow-building yards still craft wooden dhows by hand, the only place in the Gulf where that craft is public. Most teams miss this part about Sur though: visitors split their searches between Arabic (domestic Gulf tourists) and English (international), a bilingual Sur site doubles the bookings.
What you will actually pay in Sur (2026)
| What you need | Typical price (OMR) | How long it takes |
|---|---|---|
| Professional company website (bilingual AR/EN) | company sites 300–700 OMR | 2 to 4 weeks |
| E-commerce or booking site | booking/tourism portals 800–1,400 OMR | 4 to 8 weeks |
| Custom web app or portal | custom | 8 weeks plus |
Seen a 150 OMR offer and a 1,200 OMR offer for what sounds like the same website? Neither is lying. They are just selling different things. The cheap one usually skipped original design, mobile speed, proper Arabic support or any help after launch. In Sur that cheap quote is often the one that disappears with your domain a year later.
Why everyone in Sur quotes you a different number
Visitors split their searches between Arabic (domestic Gulf tourists) and English (international), a bilingual Sur site doubles the bookings. That is why the same brief can come back at three different prices. Here is what usually moves it:
- Template or original design: a template is cheaper, but customers in competitive markets spot it in seconds. Original design costs more because someone plans your customer journey from scratch.
- Arabic and English: a real bilingual site is not a translate button. Proper RTL layout and Arabic type adds about 30 to 40 percent, and it is why you show up in Arabic searches at all.
- What the site actually has to do: a brochure site just shows. A booking site or portal has to work, payments, accounts, approvals, and every working part adds time and testing.
- Who builds it: a good freelancer can be great value and can also vanish. A senior team costs more than the cheapest freelancer but less than a big agency, and you get a contract and people who are still there next year.
The costs nobody puts in the first quote
- Domain and hosting: not much per year, but make sure the domain is registered in your name, not your developers.
- Email on your domain: a few OMR per inbox per month. Small, but ask so it is not a surprise.
- Care and updates: backups, security patches, small changes. A simple care plan, about one or two percent of the build per month, is cheaper than paying by the hour later.
- Photos and words that are yours: ten honest photos of your team, shop or job site beat any stock photos. Customers trust what they can verify.
A quick checklist to get a fair price
- Ask to see two live sites they built for Sur or nearby Gulf clients in the last year. Not screenshots, real links you can open on your phone.
- Ask who will own the domain, hosting and code on day one. The right answer is always you, in your name.
- Open their example site on your phone on 4G. If it does not load in under two seconds, speed is an extra they did not include.
- Ask what is actually included. Pages, languages, features, and what costs extra later.
- Ask what happens after launch. How fast do they reply, what is covered each month, and what is not.
If they cannot show you a live site, give you a price with no scope, want the domain in their name for convenience, or promise you number one on Google, just walk away. In 2026 every serious buyer asks harder questions, and every good builder is happy to answer them.
What we would charge you in Sur
We build for Sur at the prices in the table above. Fixed quote in OMR, clear scope, milestones you can hold us to. No surprises. We have done this before, our public work is the website, client portal and app for Quick Solution Oman, so you can see how we build before you ask us for a quote.