How Much Does a Small Business Website Cost in 2026?

A small business website can cost nothing or tens of thousands of dollars, and both numbers are honest. The spread comes from who does the work, how much of it is custom, and what the site has to do after someone lands on it. This guide puts real ranges on each option, names where every number comes from, and shows where our own packages sit.

The largest published sample is a survey by WebFX of more than 2,000 businesses. It puts a basic small business site at $0 to $500 with a DIY website builder, and $500 to $5,000 or more when a freelancer or agency designs it. Across every kind of site built by an agency or freelancer, its range runs from $1,000 to $145,000. WebFX sells web design itself, so read those figures as one vendor's view of the market. They are still the best sourced numbers available.

Two quotes for "a website" can differ by ten times and both be fair, because they describe different work. Five things decide most of the gap.

• Page templates. Ten service pages that share one layout cost far less than ten pages that each need their own design. Ask how many distinct page types the quote covers.
• Custom design or a theme. A theme gets you a decent site fast. A custom design is drawn around your business, your content and your customers, and it takes longer to make.
• Who writes the words. Copy is easy to leave out of a quote. If you are writing it yourself, the project waits on you; if the studio writes it, that is real work and should be priced.
• What the site connects to. Booking, a CRM, payments, a newsletter, a quote form that lands in a spreadsheet. Each connection is a small project with its own testing.
• Selling online. A cart, product pages, tax, shipping and checkout turn a website into a store, and the platform fees above start the day it opens.

Our prices are published, and each one is a fixed price for a defined scope. Every build is a custom design, and from the Simple Website up the first year of hosting and domain registration is included.

• Landing Page, $800: one custom page built around a single goal, with SEO essentials and a fast load.
• Simple Website, $1,500: up to five pages, a gallery, basic SEO, and a year of hosting and domain registration.
• Business Bundle, $2,500: up to ten pages, a content management system, a contact form, Google Analytics, and a year of hosting and domain.
• Growth Suite, $5,000: unlimited pages, e-commerce with checkout, a database, custom forms and advanced SEO.
• Care plans, $75, $125 or $150 a month: hosting, backups, updates, monitoring and monthly edit hours, from shared hosting to your own server.

The builds sit inside the $500 to $5,000+ range WebFX reports for a professionally designed small business site. The care plans come to $900 to $1,800 a year, under the $3,600 floor of its maintenance range, because they cover hosting, updates and a few hours of edits, with a fixed scope.

What the money buys shows up in the numbers. When we rebuilt Florida Green Improvements, the homepage dropped from 29,834 KiB to 1,839 KiB on mobile and its main content painted in 3.46 seconds instead of 11.62. Renewed Bodyworks went from a site Google was not allowed to index to nine pages Google can index, listed in a sitemap, with all eight services priced.

• A new solo practice that needs to be found and contacted: our Simple Website at $1,500, with the first year of hosting and domain included. From year two, Starter Care at $75 a month, $900 a year, with the domain renewal billed at cost.
• A growing service business with a team and a booking flow: the Business Bundle at $2,500, then Growth Care at $125 a month, $1,500 a year, for staging, daily backups and up to three hours of edits a month.
• A maker selling online on a platform: Shopify's Basic plan is $29 a month billed yearly, $348 a year, before card fees. At 2.9% + 30¢, a $50 sale pays $1.75 in fees. A designed store on top of that is a build cost, like any other site.