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Website Cost Estimator

Estimate a realistic build range from your page count, design approach, content readiness and features — plus the annual running cost most quotes leave out.

The single biggest driver of price.

Count templates, not blog posts. Five to eight is typical.

Unwritten copy is the most common cause of overrun.

Booking, payments, members area, multilingual, integrations.

Likely build cost

£2,066 – £3,159

Design and build

£1,980

Copywriting

£0.00

Photography

£0.00

Extra features

£450

Annual running cost

Domain, hosting, licences, maintenance

£520

Ranges reflect typical UK and US small-business pricing in 2026. Use them to test whether a quote is plausible, not as a quotation. A supplier well outside the range should be able to explain why in one sentence.

This calculator runs in your browser. Nothing you enter is sent to us or stored, and results are illustrative guidance rather than accounting or financial advice.

The thinking behind it

How Much Should a Small Business Website Cost in 2026? — Real price bands, what drives them, and the line items worth paying for versus the ones quietly padding quotes.