Pricing guide · 2026
Most answers to this question are ranges wide enough to be useless. Here are the real options a small business has in 2026, what each costs, what you get, and what it costs you later. The prices in the two studio rows are ours.
| Option | Up front | Ongoing | What you get | Where it breaks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI or template builder (Wix, Squarespace, Hostinger AI) | $0 to $50 | $15 to $50 a month, forever | A site in an afternoon from a template | Generic design, weak search visibility, you do all the work, and you do not own the platform |
| Freelancer on a marketplace | $300 to $2,000 | Varies | A template customised by one person | Quality and follow-through vary; support ends when the gig does |
| Starter site from a studio (ours) | $500 | Optional hosting from $100 a month | One professional page from a licensed layout, your content placed and tuned, basic SEO, one revision, delivered in 5 business days | It is one page. When you outgrow it, you upgrade |
| Custom site from a studio (ours) | $6,500 to $12,500 | Optional care plan from $100 a month | Pages planned from how your customers search, copy written with you, custom design, WordPress you own, on-page SEO, training, 30 days of adjustments | Takes 6 to 10 weeks and needs your time for content |
| Agency | $15,000 to $75,000 and up | Retainers from $2,000 a month | A team, a process, a project manager | Overkill for most businesses under 20 staff |
Hosting is $100 to $250 a month for a managed plan with backups, updates and someone to call. A domain is $15 to $20 a year. The rest is your time, unless you pay for a care plan. A $500 site with nobody looking after it is not a $500 site; it is a $500 site plus a few hours of your month.
Starter, $500, and Custom from $6,500. Hosting and care from $100 a month. Fixes and updates, $250. Landing pages, $950.
Yes, for what it is: one professional page, built on a layout we have tested, with your content placed and tuned. It is not custom design and it is not five pages.
Because someone plans the pages from how your customers search, writes the copy with you, designs the layout for your business and builds it so you own it. That is 45 to 85 hours of work.
Yes. Starter clients who move to Custom within a year have the $500 credited.
Yes. WordPress, your domain, your content, your hosting account if you choose. We document it at handover.
Good. That lowers the price and shortens the timeline.
$100 to $250 a month with us. You do not have to host with us, but a site nobody maintains breaks.
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