Web Design Pricing
Nobody will tell you what a website costs. We will. What each tier includes, what moves the number, and how to tell a fair quote from a padded one.
Nobody will tell you what a website costs. Let's fix that.
Search for web design pricing and you will find a thousand pages that decline to answer. Every one of them ends at a form. The reason is not really a secret: a number without context is dangerous, because the same four words — “I need a website” — can honestly mean four thousand dollars or forty.
That is a real problem, but hiding the number is a lazy solution to it. The better one is to explain what moves the price, so you can place yourself on the scale before you talk to anybody. That is what this page does.
Almost all of the cost sits in three things. How many pages need original thought — five pages of considered copy costs more than fifty pages of the same template. How much the site has to do — a brochure that publishes information is a different animal from one that books appointments, quotes jobs, takes payment, or talks to the software your team already runs. And who writes it — words and photographs are the most commonly underestimated line on any quote, and the most common reason a build stalls three weeks from launch.
What does not meaningfully move the price, despite frequently appearing on invoices: the number of revision rounds, the choice of platform in isolation, and the raw page count once a design system exists. If a quote scales mostly by page count, you are being sold volume rather than judgment.
There is also a floor worth naming. Below a certain point you are not buying a cheaper website, you are buying a template with your logo dropped in, and it will cost you again inside two years when it cannot do the thing you actually needed. That is not a moral failing, it is a budget decision — and there are moments in a business when it is the correct one. We will tell you when you are in one of them.
The tiers below are honest ranges, not a menu. Where your project lands depends on the three factors above, and we will tell you which tier we think you belong in before you have paid anything. If that is a smaller number than you expected, we will say so; a client who is oversold once does not come back.
Bring us the goal rather than the page count. Tell us what the site has to accomplish and we will scope it against that.
Estimate it yourself
Drag to find your project.
Typical figures are what agencies across the United States charge for comparable work. Ours are half that. Same work, without the account managers, the sales floor, and the downtown lease you would be paying for.
Custom marketing site
Designed around your offer rather than a theme, and built to turn visitors into calls.
- 8–15 custom-designed pages
- Original copywriting
- Technical SEO and Core Web Vitals
- Conversion tracking wired in
Estimates, not a quote. Your real number depends on how much original writing and functionality the build needs — send us the goal and we will scope it properly.
Get an exact quoteWhat you are actually paying for
Where the money goes
Original writing
The most underestimated line on any quote, and the most common reason a build stalls before launch.
Pages needing real thought
Five considered pages cost more than fifty templated ones. Judgment is the expense, not volume.
What the site has to do
Publishing information is one job. Booking, quoting, taking payment, and syncing with your systems is another.
Design system
Built once, then every future page is cheap. This is what makes page count stop mattering.
Speed and structure
Performance and SEO groundwork done during the build, not sold back to you afterward.
What happens after
Hosting, updates, and someone who answers the phone. Cheap builds hide this cost in year two.
Tell us the goal, not the page count.
Send us what the site has to accomplish and we will tell you which tier it belongs in, in plain numbers, before you commit to anything. If a smaller build gets you there, we will say so.
Three lenses
How to read any web design quote
Is search included?
A build with no technical SEO is not cheaper, it is unfinished. Ask what happens to your rankings on launch day.
Can it be found and cited?
Structure that lets answer engines quote you is build-time work, and far more expensive to retrofit.
Is it built to convert?
A quote for a good-looking site and a quote for a site that books work are different products at similar prices.
How we scope and price
The real job
What the site must accomplish, who it is for, and what happens after someone converts.
Honest range
A tier and a range, with the assumptions written down so you can see what would change it.
Fixed scope
A written scope at a fixed price. Changes get quoted separately rather than absorbed silently.
Build and measure
Built, launched, and tied to conversion tracking so you can see whether it paid.
Questions
Frequently asked
For a small business site, most projects land in the low-to-mid four figures; sites that book appointments, quote jobs, or connect to other software run into five. The number is driven by how many pages need original thought, how much the site has to actually do, and who writes the words — not by page count alone.
Because the same request can honestly mean very different projects, and a number without context misleads. That is a real problem, but hiding the number is a lazy fix. The better approach is publishing the ranges and explaining what moves them, so you can place yourself on the scale before contacting anyone.
Three things account for most of it: pages that need original thinking rather than a repeated template, functionality beyond publishing information (booking, quoting, payments, integrations), and who produces the copy and photography. Revision rounds and raw page count matter far less than quotes often imply.
Sometimes, and we will say so when it is. Below a certain budget you are buying a template with your logo on it, which is a legitimate choice at an early stage. The cost arrives in about two years, when it cannot do the thing you actually needed and you pay again to replace it.
Technical SEO, mobile performance, conversion paths, and a plan for what happens after launch. A build without those is not cheaper, it is unfinished. Ask specifically what happens to your search rankings on launch day — the answer is revealing.
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