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Website cost calculator

A small-business website costs $3,000 to $25,000 from a custom agency or a few thousand from a freelancer, as a one-time build, with the figure driven by your industry, page count, and features. A DIY builder runs a few hundred dollars a year and you build it yourself. AtlasForge builds the finished site free and charges $149 a month only to publish it.

Pick your industry, how many pages you need, and the features that matter. You get honest market ranges for an agency, a freelancer, and a DIY builder, next to what AtlasForge charges: nothing for the build, $149 a month to publish.

Features you need

Estimated cost for a plumbing website, 6 to 12 pages

Estimated cost by build option
OptionEstimated cost
Custom agency or dev shopOne-time build. Hosting and changes billed separately.$6,000 to $20,000
Freelancer or small studioOne-time build. Quality and follow-up vary widely.$2,000 to $6,000
DIY builder (Wix, Squarespace)You build and maintain it yourself, every year.$250 to $900 a year
AtlasForgeWe build the finished site free. You pay monthly only to publish and keep it live.Free build, then $149 a month

Cost is driven mostly by the number of service areas and trades, each one is a real page of unique local content, not a duplicate. Ranges are researched market figures for a small-business site, scaled to your page count and features. They are estimates, not quotes from those providers.

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Enter your business and we build the whole site, then show it to you before you pay anything. You only subscribe when you decide to publish it on your domain.

How we get these numbers.

The ranges are researched market figures for a small-business website in each industry, scaled to your page count and the features you choose. In our own sample of 391 small-business websites, 36.8% had no structured data and 27.9% had no meta description, the kind of work a paid build is supposed to cover and often does not.

For a full breakdown by industry, see how much a website costs by industry, or read The State of Small-Business Websites for the data behind it.

Cost questions

How much will my website cost?
It depends on your industry, how many pages you need, and which features (booking, a blog, a small store) you add. A custom agency typically charges $3,000 to $25,000 as a one-time build across industries, a freelancer less, and a DIY builder a few hundred dollars a year. AtlasForge builds the finished site free and charges $149 a month only to publish it.
Why is the AtlasForge number flat when the others are ranges?
Because the build is run by a pipeline, not a team billing hours, the price does not change with page count or features. A complete build costs us about ten dollars of compute, so we build it free, show it to you first, and charge one flat monthly price to publish it on your domain.
Are these real numbers or guesses?
They are researched market ranges for a small-business website in each industry, scaled by your page count and features. They are honest estimates of what each option typically costs, not live quotes from specific providers, and the AtlasForge figure is our real published price.
What does the monthly AtlasForge price include?
$149 a month covers hosting, SSL, the domain, the unified inbox, and edits by message. There is no setup fee and no separate build invoice. The build is free; the subscription keeps the site live.

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