Free tool
Website cost calculator
Free, no signup, and nothing you type is uploaded. Three routes lead to the same website: a builder you rent by the month, an agency you pay once and then pay again for every change, and your own weekends. A monthly price tag hides where they diverge. Put your own figures in and watch the years add up.
Total765
- Breakdown
- Monthly fee × 36 months 720
- Domain, per year × 3 45
The total is in whatever currency you typed in. This page does arithmetic, not exchange rates.
How the arithmetic works
- Three routes, one total. A builder subscription is a monthly figure multiplied by the months. An agency build is paid once. Doing it yourself is paid in hours, so the calculator asks two things: how many hours you think it will take, and what an hour of yours is worth.
- The domain is added to every route, because every route needs one and it's the line people forget. It renews yearly no matter who built the site.
- Put our number in and see. Storefront is $49 a month, Storefront Pro is $79, and the yearly rates are $468 and $758 — type one into the monthly field and the three-year total lands beside the agency quote you were weighing it against. The pricing page carries what each plan includes.
- It runs entirely in your browser, on a phone as well as a laptop. Nothing you type is uploaded, there's no account to create, and we never ask for an email.
Now that you have your own numbers, put ours next to them. The pricing page has the current plans, what each one includes, and where they stop.
See pricingCommon questions
What do your own plans cost?
Storefront is $49 a month or $468 a year and publishes one site on your own domain, with hosting and HTTPS included. Storefront Pro is $79 a month or $758 a year and adds online ordering, bookings, reservations, the customer tools and the full source-code export. Both are free to build and preview before you pay anything, there is no card at signup, and there is a 7-day refund. Type either figure into the monthly field above and watch what three years looks like next to the agency quote; the pricing page carries the current numbers.
Is doing it yourself really cheaper?
It depends entirely on what your hour is worth, which is why the tool asks. Put 60 in the rate field, in whatever currency you bill in, and twenty hours of building comes back priced at 1,200 — billable time you spent on your own site instead of selling it, and often more than the route you were trying to avoid. If those hours come out of a quiet evening you'd never have billed anyway, the cash cost really is close to just the domain. Both answers are honest. The calculator just makes you pick which one is yours.
After an agency builds it, what does changing one word cost?
That's the part the one-off number leaves out, and it's worth settling before you sign. Is there an hourly rate for edits, a monthly care plan, a minimum charge per request, and how long does one change take to land? A build price with no edit price attached is half a quote. Get both, then come back here and fold the edits you expect in a year into the monthly field.
Do I have to buy the domain separately?
In practice, yes: a domain is rented from a registrar by the year and stays yours only while the renewal is paid. Some builders include the first year, which is a discount rather than a transfer — the renewal comes back at the ordinary price, and the name sits inside the account you would have to leave. We connect a domain that is registered in your name, at your registrar, so the address you spend three years advertising is one nobody can hold. That is why the domain field here sits outside the three routes rather than inside one of them.