Website Cost Calculator

Every website cost calculator is really pricing three things: who builds the site, who looks after it, and how many hours of your own time it eats. The ranges below are the ones this tool uses. DIY builders charge $0 to roughly $50 a month for the plan but cost 200 or more hours of your time. Freelancers and small studios price a service-business site between $1,500 and $6,000 one time. Managed platforms (the "we build it for free, you pay $300 to $2,500 a month" model) cost $7,000 to $60,000 over a 24-month contract and you do not own the site at the end. Agencies quote $5,000 to $30,000 and up. Our own packages are $1,000, $3,000 and $8,000.

If you already have a site and are pricing a rebuild, the website redesign cost guide covers the migration line items this calculator leaves out. If the question is really "what will it cost to rank," run the SEO ROI calculator next.

1. The build itself. This is the one-time investment to get a site shipped. Range: $0 (DIY) to $30,000+ (high-end agency). At SkillMammoth, our three packages are $1,000 (Lite), $3,000 (Core), and $8,000 (Pro), all available as one-time payment or monthly Easy Start financing.

2. Ongoing care. Hosting, security updates, content edits, SEO maintenance, reporting. Most operators forget about this until month 6 when they realize they need to change a phone number and there's nobody to call. Range: $0/mo (DIY) to $2,500/mo (managed marketing platforms). Our support plans are $350/mo (Essentials), $750/mo (Growth), or $1,500/mo (Authority).

3. Your time. The single biggest hidden cost on DIY platforms. A "free" Wix site takes 200+ hours to build well. At $50/hr (a low estimate of your hourly value), that's $10,000 in opportunity cost, invisible in the price tag, but absolutely real.

If a one-time check for $1,000, $3,000, or $8,000 isn't how you'd rather buy, our Easy Start in-house payment option spreads the build payment across the financing term and pairs it with your support plan, so you start with a single predictable monthly invoice from day one. Easy Start adds the build cost on top of whichever support plan you pick:

• Lite Easy Start: $100/mo build cost for 12 months, on top of your support plan
• Core Easy Start: $150/mo build cost for 24 months, on top of your support plan
• Pro Easy Start: $400/mo build cost for 24 months, on top of your support plan

You can upgrade your support plan to Growth ($750/mo) or Authority ($1,500/mo) at any point, the build financing portion stays the same. Most clients start on Essentials and upgrade once organic SEO traffic kicks in around month 6.