Service
Website design packages priced as a project
Five, fifteen or thirty-plus pages at a fixed one-off price from $1,200 built as fast static sites, with a Core Web Vitals pass required at handover rather than promised.
In one line
Website design packages are fixed-scope builds sold at a single project price, from $1,200. Here that means a stated page count, a mobile-first static build, a contact form, and a performance standard the site has to meet before it is handed over.
Website design packages and what each tier costs
Starter
Up to 5 pages
one-off
- 5 pages
- Mobile-first build
- Contact form
- Core Web Vitals pass at handover
- Not included: E-commerce
- Not included: Custom integrations
Growth
Up to 15 pages
one-off
- 15 pages
- Everything in Starter
- Blog set-up
- Basic schema markup
- Analytics configured
- Not included: E-commerce
Scale
30+ pages or e-commerce
one-off
- 30+ pages
- Everything in Growth
- E-commerce or custom integration
- Content migration
These website design packages are billed at the price shown, with no scoping call in the way. Starter ships in 2 weeks. Scale in 6 to 8 weeks.
Every tier is billed once, as a project, and the scope is fixed by a brief you agree before anything is invoiced.
This is the one search on our list where competitors do publish prices, mostly from small studios. What they rarely publish is the page count each price covers or what happens when the build runs long.
Everything each tier includes and excludes
The same list that drives the price cards, laid out so the tiers can be read against each other. Exclusions are printed because an unstated exclusion is what turns a good month into an argument.
Starter
Up to 5 pages
Included
- 5 pages
- Mobile-first build
- Contact form
- Core Web Vitals pass at handover
Not included
- E-commerce
- Custom integrations
Growth
Up to 15 pages
Included
- 15 pages
- Everything in Starter
- Blog set-up
- Basic schema markup
- Analytics configured
Not included
- E-commerce
Scale
30+ pages or e-commerce
Included
- 30+ pages
- Everything in Growth
- E-commerce or custom integration
- Content migration
Which tier you actually need
Tiers are separated by page count, and the page count is the scope boundary. A fixed price only stays honest when both sides know what the number covers.
All three website design packages run the same process and the same reporting. What changes between them is volume.
Starter
A business that needs a credible, fast site quickly: home, services, about, contact, and one more.
You are on this tier when: You can describe the whole site in five URLs without straining.
Growth
A site with several service lines plus a blog, where schema and analytics need setting up properly rather than later.
You are on this tier when: You need somewhere to publish, and more than one service deserves its own page.
Scale
Thirty pages or more, e-commerce, or a build with content to migrate from an existing site.
You are on this tier when: You are selling online, or moving a site with history that must not lose its URLs.
Handover has a pass mark
Short answer
Every build has to pass Core Web Vitals at handover. That is a measurable gate rather than a promise about speed, and it is checked on the live site with Google’s own tooling before the project is closed.
Performance claims are usually made in adjectives on this search. A pass or fail against a published Google threshold is the only version of that claim a buyer can check themselves.
If the site does not pass at handover, the fix is inside the project price rather than a change request.
What you receive at handover
A build is finished when you own everything needed to run it without us.
- The site, live on your own hosting and your own domain
- The full source repository, yours to keep
- A Core Web Vitals pass, checked on the live site
- From Growth upward, blog set-up, basic schema and analytics configured
How many brands have actually sat down and purchased from their own site?
Why this matters
What a website build actually contains
Builds are the one thing here priced as a project rather than a month, so the timeline is the scope. Step through it before reading the tiers.
How a month actually runs
Order, brief, production, delivery, report. The same four steps every month, so a second month can be compared against a first.
- 1
Week 1
Brief and structure
Page list, content sources, and what each page has to do. The page count in the tier is the scope boundary.
- 2
Weeks 2 to 4
Build
Mobile-first build against the agreed structure. Starter ships in about two weeks.
- 3
Before handover
Performance gate
Core Web Vitals checked on the live site. Failures are fixed inside the project price.
- 4
Handover
Keys and repository
Live on your hosting, source repository transferred, and a walkthrough of how to edit it.
CRO comes down to the fine margins.
Why this matters
How this differs from the usual arrangement
Neither column is a verdict on quality. The left is how this service is normally sold, taken from the pages ranking beside this one.
A typical web design quote
- Price
- Custom quote after discovery
- Scope boundary
- "A few pages"
- Performance
- Described as fast
- Ownership
- Sometimes hosted on the agency’s platform
- Billing
- Monthly care plan bundled in
The Super Panel
- Price
- Published, by page count
- Scope boundary
- A stated page count per tier
- Performance
- Core Web Vitals pass at handover
- Ownership
- Your hosting, your repository
- Billing
- One-off project price
Cost per page, worked out
Short answer
Starter works out at about $240 a page, Growth at about $187, and Scale at about $183 across thirty pages. A ranking competitor publishing $7,500 for fifteen pages is charging $500 a page.
Page count is the unit this market already sells on, and almost nobody does the division for you.
It is a scope unit rather than a quality one. Five well-structured pages beat fifteen thin ones, and a per-page figure only tells you whether two quotes are in the same league.
Small business website design cost is quoted almost everywhere as a package with a page count attached, so dividing one by the other is the fastest comparison available to a buyer.
What the price buys at each tier
Can AI design your website instead?
Short answer
Three of the six People Also Ask questions on this search are about AI replacing web design. It is the live question in this category, so here is a straight answer rather than a defensive one.
For a simple brochure site with a clear brief, a generated build is genuinely usable now. Anyone claiming otherwise is protecting a price rather than describing reality.
What a model does not do is decide the information architecture, judge what to cut, or carry responsibility when the result underperforms.
The honest test: if you could brief it precisely enough for a model to build it, you probably do not need us. Most people discover the brief is the hard part.
What is usually extra, and where we sit
Short answer
The published guides name three things as commonly extra: hosting and domain, copywriting and photography, and an ongoing maintenance plan. It is worth checking any quote against that list.
Hosting and the domain are yours and stay in your name. We do not resell them or mark them up, and the domain stays registered to you.
Project-priced means there is no monthly figure attached to any of this: you own the site, you own the source repository, and the invoice ends.
Copywriting is a separate service with a published price rather than a surprise line item.
There is no maintenance plan, and the next section explains why that is a platform consequence rather than generosity.
The accessibility standard that is now a dated legal requirement
Accessibility on a marketing site is usually discussed as good practice. For anything touching a public entity in the United States it is a dated obligation with a technical standard attached.
The Department of Justice’s ADA Title II rule adopts WCAG 2.1 Level AA for state and local government web content and mobile apps. An interim final rule published on 20 April 2026 moved the compliance dates to 26 April 2027 for entities serving 50,000 or more people, and 26 April 2028 for smaller entities and special district governments.
Extended is not suspended. The underlying effective-communication obligation applies now, and the rule binds public entities under Title II rather than ordinary commercial sites, which sit under Title III where no technical standard has been adopted by regulation.
It matters here because a build sold to a school district, a municipal partner or a contractor portal inherits that standard, and retrofitting it later is where the hidden extras live. Admin training and documentation are part of that handover rather than an upsell.
What this does not say: The rule binds public entities under Title II. Private commercial sites are governed by Title III, where no technical standard has been adopted by regulation.
| US Department of Justice, Fact Sheet: ADA Title II web and mobile app accessibility final rule, technical standard and compliance-date table | read 2026-09-06 |
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A performance score is not a performance measurement
Almost every web design package quotes a performance number, and almost none of them say which number it is. The distinction decides whether it means anything.
Core Web Vitals are judged on real user visits at the 75th percentile, segmented by device. The thresholds are 2.5 seconds for Largest Contentful Paint, 200 milliseconds for Interaction to Next Paint, and 0.1 for Cumulative Layout Shift. INP replaced First Input Delay as a stable metric in 2024.
A single synthetic run on a fast connection is not that measurement. It is a lab score, it is useful for debugging, and it is not what Google uses. A package quoting one should say so.
What is checkable at handover is the build itself: the turnaround, how long does it take, and how many revisions and rounds of changes are included.
Whether two rounds means two, and where web hosting and the content management system sit, are the other two. An AI website builder or a free website tool answers some of that and cannot answer the accessibility standard above at all.
Scope creep is what fills the gap when none of it was written down. Providers like Sprout Media Lab publish page-count packages for the same reason: a stated count is the only thing that survives an argument about what was agreed.
What this does not say: The thresholds are current as of the access date and have changed before; INP's own threshold was set when it replaced FID.
| web.dev, Core Web Vitals - the metrics, their thresholds and the 75th-percentile rule | read 2026-09-06 |
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| web.dev, Interaction to Next Paint (INP) | read 2026-09-06 |
What the build is made of
Sites here are built with Astro and served as static files, which is why the performance standard is a handover condition rather than a hope.
A build does not rank on its own, so if search is the goal it pairs with the SEO retainer. If you would rather have Elementor and a page builder, that is a fair choice and this is not the productized service for it.
What we cannot show you, and what to check instead
Web design is the one category where a portfolio is the normal proof, and the designers ranking above this page show one. There is none here, and none will be borrowed or invented.
That is a genuine disadvantage on this term and it would be dishonest to dress it up.
- Ask any provider what one page costs, not what the package costs
- Ask what condition the site has to meet before handover, and how you would check it
- Ask whether hosting, the domain and the repository end up in your name
- Ask whether a maintenance plan is required, and what it actually covers
How billing works, and what cancelling changes
Short answer
This is the one service billed as a project rather than a monthly retainer. It is invoiced against the agreed scope after the brief, and there is no recurring charge to cancel.
The site and its source repository are yours on handover, deployed to your hosting rather than held on a platform we control.
Nothing stops working because you stopped paying, because after handover there is nothing to stop.
The ownership position is part of what cancelling Website Builds means in the terms.
When a package build is the wrong choice
Short answer
A fixed-price package is a poor fit for a site whose page count is unknown, for e-commerce below the Scale tier, or for a project that needs custom integrations. In those cases a fixed price would be fiction and would fail you halfway through.
- You need e-commerce and are looking at Starter or Growth. That starts at Scale.
- The page count is genuinely unknown. A fixed scope cannot price an unknown.
- You need custom integrations with internal systems. Excluded below Scale.
- You want ongoing design changes after launch. This is a project, not a retainer.
Questions before you order
Builds are project-priced because scope decides the number. Send the page count and the must-have integrations and you get a fixed figure and a date, not a range.
How much does a website design package cost?
Here it is $1,200 one-off for up to 5 pages, $2,800 for up to 15, and $5,500 for 30+ pages or e-commerce. Published market ranges run from about $1,000 for a landing page to $15,000+ for a large custom build.
What does one page cost?
About $240 a page at Starter, $187 at Growth and $183 at Scale. For comparison, a WordPress studio ranking on this term publishes $7,500 for fifteen pages, which is $500 a page.
Is hosting and the domain included?
No, and deliberately. Both stay in your name, and we do not resell or mark them up. The published guides list hosting and domain as a common extra, so it is worth checking who owns them in any quote.
Can I edit the site myself after handover?
Content edits yes, layout changes less easily than on a page builder. These are static builds, so there is no plugin layer to click through. That is the trade-off for the speed and for having nothing to patch.
Who owns the site and the code?
You do. The site is deployed to your hosting and the source repository is transferred to you at handover. Nothing is held on a platform we control.
What is the Core Web Vitals pass mark at handover?
The site has to pass Core Web Vitals before handover is complete. It is a condition rather than an aspiration, and you can verify it yourself in a free public tool on the day.
Is this a one-off cost or a monthly one?
One-off. Website builds are the single project-priced exception to the retainer model everywhere else on this site, and there is no recurring charge afterwards.
Can ChatGPT design a website instead?
For a simple brochure site with a clear brief, a generated build is genuinely usable now, and pretending otherwise would be protecting a price. What it does not do is decide information architecture or carry responsibility for the result.
Do I need a monthly maintenance plan?
Not for these builds. A static site has no database and no plugins, so there is nothing to patch. That is a platform consequence rather than a favor, and it is why no plan is offered.
Is copywriting included?
No. It is a separate service with a published price rather than a surprise line item. The market commonly lists copywriting and photography as extras too.
Sources cited on this page
| Source | Cited for |
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| Google’s Core Web Vitals thresholds | Cited for the handover gate. |
| PageSpeed Insights | The tool used to check the gate, so a buyer can repeat the test. |
Start Website Builds from $1,200
Pick a tier and send the order. You get a brief form and a start date within one business day, and nothing is charged until that brief is agreed.
Entry point $300/mo. Cancel any time. No long contracts.
Still deciding?
Read how the process runs end to end: order, brief, production, delivery, report.
How it worksA build is project-priced rather than monthly: what a site costs to build, and the production sequence it runs through.
Sources
| Core Web Vitals: the LCP, INP and CLS thresholds, judged at the 75th percentile | Google (web.dev), read 2026-09-06 |
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| PageSpeed Insights | Google, read 2026-09-06 |
Each link was opened on the date shown. Where a figure is illustrative rather than measured, the page says so beside it.