What things cost
What each kind of website costs
Eleven answers on what a small business website costs, each one broken into the five lines every quote adds up and the three routes that arrive at the same site for very different money.
What a build costs, by trade
The same line — somebody builds the site — read out of 7 separate breakdowns below, ordered by what the ceiling is. The gap between the cheapest trade and the dearest is not the number of pages: it is the forms, the integrations and the written pages the trade is obliged to carry. Every figure is the one published on that breakdown, with the sourcing stated there.
- What a hair salon website costs, line by line$300-1,500 freelancer
- What does hiring a web designer really cost?$500-$2,500
- What a plumber website costs, line by line$1,500-4,500
- What a website costs, and what moves the number$500-5,000
- What a law firm website costs, and what keeps costing$1,000-10,000
- What a gym website costs, and the software bill underneath it$1,000-20,000
- What a dental website costs, and what the quote leaves out$3,500-30,000
- What a website costs, and what moves the numberEvery quote you are handed is five numbers added together: a domain, hosting, the build, the photos and words that go inside it, and keeping it current after opening day. This page puts a range on each one, says what pushes a range to its top or its bottom, and names the lines a first-time owner can cross out. The figures are ordinary 2026 market ranges in US dollars, not quotes — check them against two real ones before you decide.
- What an online booking system really costsA booking button has five costs behind it, and only one of them is the software. This page names all five, puts a range on each, and says what makes a range move — so you can read a quote instead of guessing at it. The ranges are ordinary 2026 market rates in US dollars.
- What does hiring a web designer really cost?The build fee is the number everyone asks for first, and it is the smallest part of the bill you will still be paying in year three. This page opens the whole invoice: the one-off build, the edits after launch, the monthly retainer, the licenses on your own photos and fonts, and the paragraph that decides whether the finished site is yours. Every figure below is an ordinary 2026 market range in US dollars, not a quote.
- What a restaurant website costs, line by lineMost pages about restaurant website cost quote the website and stop there. The website is rarely the expensive part. Menu photography, a booking system, translation, and the edits a seasonal menu forces are what separate a few hundred a year from a few thousand — so each of those gets its own line here, with a range in US dollars and with the thing that decides where in the range you land.
- What does web hosting cost?Four ways to keep a website online, priced next to each other: the plan that is cheap until it renews, the server you have to patch yourself, the bill that moves with your traffic, and the one already inside a builder's plan. The ranges below are ordinary 2026 market rates in US dollars, with the variables that decide where in each range you land.
- What a hair salon website costs, line by lineMost pages about hair salon website cost quote the build and stop there. For a salon the build is often the smaller half. Booking software bills by the chair every month, the marketplace that sends you a new client takes a cut of that first visit, and the photographs of your own work are the reason anybody stays on the page. Each of those gets its own line here, with a range in US dollars and the thing that decides where in the range you land. The figures below are 2026 market ranges; where a price belongs to a named product it was read on that product’s own page; they all reprice, so check on the day you buy.
- What a dental website costs, and what the quote leaves outMost pages about dental website design cost quote the build and stop there. A practice carries three lines a plumber does not: patient forms that have to be HIPAA-compliant, scheduling that has to talk to the practice management system, and a written page for every procedure it wants found. Each of those gets its own line here, with a range in US dollars and the thing that decides where in the range you land. The most useful number is not ours and not an agency's — the American Dental Association publishes its own, and it is the one to hold a quote against. The figures below are 2026 market ranges; where a price belongs to a named product it was read on that product’s own page; they all reprice, so check on the day you buy.
- What a plumber website costs, line by lineMost pages answering how much a plumber website costs quote the build and stop there — and nearly every one of them is written by a firm that sells plumber websites. So the figures here are sourced on purpose. Four came straight off a vendor’s own pricing page; the rest are here only because two independent write-ups agreed, or because the line is a plain commodity nobody has an angle on — a domain, a hosting plan, an email account. Each gets its own row, with a range in US dollars and the thing that decides where in the range you land. Everything below was read in 2026; they all reprice, so check on the day you buy.
- What a photography website costs, line by lineAlmost every page answering how much a photography website costs is written by a studio that sells photography websites, and almost all of them quote the build and stop. So the sourcing here is stated rather than assumed. The figures below are 2026 market ranges; where a price belongs to a named product it was read on that product’s own page rather than lifted from a search result, because the search summaries contradicted one another — the same client gallery came back at $18 a month in one and $10 in another, and only opening the real pricing page settled it. Where a number is second-hand it says so: Pixieset’s pricing page refuses automated readers, so its figures are read off a competitor’s comparison, and Squarespace renders its prices in a script, so those come from a third-party review. Everything was read in 2026, in US dollars, and all of it reprices.
- What a law firm website costs, and what keeps costingA law firm website is quoted at $1,000 and at $100,000, and both quotes are honest — they describe different purchases. This page opens the whole invoice: the domain and the plan, the build, the words on every practice-area page, whoever answers the call the page produced, and the retainer that ends up larger than all of it. Every range below is 2026 US dollars, read on a publisher's or a vendor's own page: four legal marketing agencies publish their tiers and one publishes the price of its own package. They all reprice, so check on the day you buy.
- What a gym website costs, and the software bill underneath itAlmost every page answering how much a gym website costs is written by a company that sells gyms something — a website, a booking platform, or both — and most of them quote the build and stop. So the sourcing here is stated rather than assumed. The firmest figures below came off a vendor’s own published price page: Squarespace, PushPress and Zen Planner all print theirs, which is why those numbers carry decimals and tier names instead of a range. Where a figure is second-hand it says so — Mindbody publishes no prices at all, so its tiers are what a third party reports. Everything was read in 2026, in US dollars, and all of it reprices, so check on the day you buy.