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Website cost calculator for startups and SaaS teams
Pick your scope, pages, platform and extras to see what year one costs. Every figure is our own price, a vendor list price or a market range.
Three ways to buy it
The same site, from a freelancer, an agency or us
Market ranges next to our price for your scope, and what you actually get with each one.
Freelancer
$1.5k to $25k
Typical market range
- Senior teamOne person; seniority varies
- Design and buildOften one skill; the rest is handed off
- Timeline4 to 12 weeks
- Fixed priceVaries: hourly or per project
- SEO-safe migrationDepends on the person’s experience
- Ongoing supportDepends on their availability
- RiskOne person: holidays or a new client can stall it
- Recommended
DesignMe
$15k to $30k
10 pages, design and build, fixed price
- Senior teamSenior designers and developers, with a PM
- Design and buildOne AI-native team, no handoffs
- Timeline4 to 8 weeks, kickoff in days
- Fixed priceFixed scope and price before work starts
- SEO-safe migrationRedirect map, SEO parity, monitoring
- Ongoing supportMaintenance from $3,000 a month
- Risk15 senior people, not one; no lock-in
Typical agency
$50k to $100k
Typical market range
- Senior teamA full team; seniority varies by project
- Design and buildUsually, across separate teams
- Timeline8 to 12 weeks
- Fixed priceOften, plus change requests
- SEO-safe migrationUsually offered
- Ongoing supportUsually through a retainer
- RiskLonger timelines, more team overhead
Freelancer and agency ranges are what we see in the market, as of October 2026. The bars share one scale, $0 to $100k. Platform fees are the same whichever way you buy.
How we estimate
How we estimate, and where every number comes from
No number here is a guess: our prices, vendor list prices and the market ranges we see. The gaps say Quoted.
Design and build
A landing page from $10k, a full site from $15k, up to $50k at 30 pages. Design only or a migration: 50% of that. Design only takes about 60% of the time.
Platform fees
Framer, Webflow or Astro and Next.js: three editors, billed annually, read on 9 October 2026. Not applicable to design only: we design in Figma.
Maintenance
Our 25-hour package, $3,000 a month for 12 months. Off by default.
Market ranges
What we see in the market as of October 2026: the same for every scope, never scaled by us.
Quoted
Anything without a published price shows “Quoted” and stays out of the totals. Animations are always included.
As of
Approximate, in USD, as of October 2026. We re-read the sources and update the date.
- SaaS website design cost (2026 breakdown)The $50k+ top end, what drives cost
- Framer pricing: the real cost of ownershipFramer plans, seats and locales
- Webflow pricing: the real cost of ownershipWebflow plans, the build range, year one
- DesignMe pricingOur build, brand, SEO and maintenance prices
- Framer pricing (opens in a new tab)List price
- Webflow pricing (opens in a new tab)List price
- Cloudflare Workers and Pages pricing (opens in a new tab)List price
- Sanity pricing (opens in a new tab)List price
- Vercel pricing (opens in a new tab)List price
What drives the cost
Six things that decide what your website will cost
The calculator covers the big ones. Each card links to the article that goes deeper, with the numbers behind it.
Pages and templates
More pages and templates mean more design, build and QA. Design systems push a site past $50k.
Who does the work
A freelancer, an agency or a hire: each changes the price, the range of skills and who carries the risk.
Platform and seats
Site plans are cheap. Editor seats, locales and add-ons are what add up each year.
CMS and content
A blog or case studies need the CMS plan, and a large library takes real work to model and move.
Redesign or migration
A migration done properly is a rebuild with redirects and SEO parity, not a content transfer.
The brief
Vague scope is the biggest driver of overruns. Two extra hours on the brief save rounds of rework.
FAQ
Website cost questions, answered
Prices, running costs and timelines, from the same data as the calculator.
How much does a website cost in 2026?
It depends on who builds it. In the market, a freelancer typically charges $1.5k to $25k and a typical agency $50k to $100k. Our design and build starts at $15k, and a landing page at $10k, with a senior team that designs and builds in one place for a fixed price. Design only is 50% of that.
What does a website cost to run each year?
For three editors on annual plans: Framer $600 to $840 a year, Webflow $660 to $1,236 a year, and Astro or Next.js hosting with a headless CMS $0 to $780 a year. Maintenance is on top: our 25-hour package is $3,000 a month. With design only, platform fees don’t apply: we design in Figma, so there is no platform to pay for.
How long does it take to build a website?
With us, a landing page takes 2 to 3 weeks, a 5 to 8 page site 4 to 8 weeks and a full site 1 to 3 months. Design only takes about 60% of that: 1 to 2 weeks for a landing page, 3 to 5 weeks for 5 to 8 pages and 1 to 2 months for a full site. A typical agency takes 8 to 12 weeks and a freelancer 4 to 12 weeks. A migration takes 4 to 6 weeks into Framer, 6 to 8 weeks into Webflow and 2 to 4 weeks into Astro or Next.js.
How is a migration priced?
At 50% of our design and build price for the same number of pages and platform, so a 10-page migration is $7.5k to $15k. Platform fees are on top. We fix the price after a URL inventory, once we know the page count, the CMS and the integrations.
What does the estimate leave out?
Anything marked Quoted: integrations and the work for extra languages. Also your domain (about $10 to $20 a year), premium templates and plugins, and platform add-ons such as Webflow Optimize. Animations and interactions are part of every design and build.
Is this a quote?
No. It is an approximate range, as of October 2026, built from our published prices, vendor list prices and the market ranges we see. Scope drives the price: pages, CMS needs, design complexity, integrations and launch support. After a 30-minute call we send a fixed scope and price before any work starts.
Next step
Want a number to budget on? Get an exact quote on a 30-minute call.
Tell us the pages, platform and launch date. We send a fixed scope and price before any work starts.
A fixed scope and price
In writing, before any work starts.
Senior people only
15 senior designers and developers, with a PM.
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