Every number is on this page: what a build costs, what the monthly fee covers, what is quoted separately, and what you pay to take the code and go. No form to see a price, and no figure that changes depending on what you look like you can afford.
Monthly plans
We build it, run it and keep it patched
Hosting, certificates, backups, monitoring and security patching are inside the fee and are never billed separately. Twelve months, then rolling, then thirty days' notice.
Essential
Up to 5 pagesFor trades and local businesses who need to be found, judged quickly and called.
Plus £595 design and build fee, half at kickoff and half at launch.
12 months, then rolling. Thirty days' notice to leave.
Buy the code outright from £995, less £30 for every month paid, never below £395.
- A bespoke site built around your work, not a template
- Gallery of finished jobs, with before and after
- Click to call, prominent on every screen
- Your service area and the postcodes you cover
- Accreditation strip: Gas Safe, NICEIC, MOT, insured
- Google reviews and enquiry form
- Managed hosting, TLS, daily backups and monitoring
- Security patching every month, never billed extra
- Content changes at a published price per change, never an hourly estimate
Practice
Up to 8 pagesFor clinics, dental, accountants and solicitors, where somebody will eventually ask how you handle data.
Plus £795 design and build fee, half at kickoff and half at launch.
12 months, then rolling. Thirty days' notice to leave.
Buy the code outright from £1,495, less £45 for every month paid, never below £595.
- Everything in Essential
- A signed Data Processing Agreement
- A written data protection and website security statement
- Supplier security questionnaires answered on request
- Compliant cookie and consent configuration
- Treatment or service pages with clear pricing
- New patient or client enquiry forms
- Annual written security review
- Prepared by a certified security auditor
Ordering
Full menu plus orderingTake orders on your own site instead of paying commission on every one.
Plus £1,495 design and build fee, half at kickoff and half on your first live order.
12 months, then rolling. Thirty days' notice to leave.
- Your own ordering site, your customers, your data
- Pay online or pay at the counter, your choice
- Menu you can edit yourself, with photos
- Collection and delivery, with your own delivery zone
- Order alerts to tablet, SMS and email so nothing is missed
- No commission on any order, ever
- Managed hosting, TLS, daily backups and monitoring
- Security patching every month, never billed extra
Ecommerce
Up to 40 productsA first real storefront: sell, ship and get paid, without a platform taking a cut of every order.
Plus £1,795 design and build fee, half at kickoff and half at launch.
12 months, then rolling. Thirty days' notice to leave.
- A bespoke storefront, not a themed template
- Up to 40 products with variants and stock
- Card payments, and no commission on any sale
- Shipping zones, rates and order emails
- A dashboard you run yourself: products, prices, stock
- Product and category SEO built in
- Managed hosting, TLS, daily backups and monitoring
- Security patching every month, never billed extra
- Larger catalogues and marketplaces are scoped separately
The other way to buy
Or we build it once and hand it over, from £1,295.
You own the code and the design outright, host it wherever you like, and there is nothing to cancel. We do not price it by the page, because pages are not the work: one cinematic page with video and custom graphics can take longer than five plain ones. Tell us what you have in mind on a short call and you get a fixed price in writing before you commit to anything.
What moves that number is the design work, whether you need video, motion or custom graphics, and anything that has to be built rather than laid out. If it is going to cost more than £1,295 we say so on the call, not after you have started.
Talk about a one-off buildWhat the quote leaves out
A build price is not what a website costs
The number in a proposal is the cost of getting live. It is not the cost of staying live, and the second one arrives every year whether or not anybody planned for it. Around thirty-six new vulnerabilities are published against common website software every day, and roughly ninety percent of compromised sites were running something the owner did not know needed updating.
Freelance build
£800 to £3,000
A simple small business site, quoted individually.
Regional agency
£3,000 to £8,000
London agencies commonly start higher again.
Running costs on top
£100 to £300 a year
Domain, hosting and certificates, usually billed separately.
Maintenance
£50 upwards a month
Quoted across an enormous range, and rarely defined.
Those are figures from published UK price guides for 2026, not measurements we made, and they are wide because the word website covers a five-page brochure and a booking system. The one number here that is ours: when we surveyed twelve UK pay monthly website providers in July 2026, three mentioned a Data Processing Agreement anywhere on their public site.
When we are the wrong answer
If your website is a few pages that will not change and takes no personal data, a monthly plan is more expensive over time than buying once, and we will tell you so on the call rather than after the invoice. If you need pay-per-click campaigns, social media management or a WordPress site your own team can edit, another studio will serve you better than we will. We would rather lose the enquiry than take a fee for being the wrong shape.
The questions people actually ask
- How much does a website cost in the UK?
- Published guides put a freelance small business build at roughly £800 to £3,000 and a regional agency build at £3,000 to £8,000, with London higher again. Our own numbers are on this page: £99 a month plus a £595 build fee, or a one-off build from £1,295. The reason the market range is so wide is that the word website covers a five-page brochure and a booking system, and almost nobody publishes which one they are quoting for.
- Why do you publish prices when most agencies do not?
- Because quote on request means the price depends on what you look like you can pay. Most of what people ask us for is repeatable, so we publish the number for it and quote in writing where it genuinely varies. You should know roughly what something costs before you spend an hour of your day in a meeting about it.
- What is not included in the monthly fee?
- New pages, redesigns, new sections, booking systems, ecommerce, custom development, API integrations, SEO campaigns, copywriting, branding and advanced analytics are quoted separately. Hosting, TLS, backups, monitoring, security patching and minor content changes are inside the fee and are never billed extra.
- What does it cost to leave?
- Thirty days' notice after the minimum term, and nothing to pay to walk away. If you want to take the code with you, the buyout is published in pounds on Essential and Practice above and shrinks with every month you have paid. On Ordering and Ecommerce it is quoted rather than published. Either way your domain, your content and your data are yours throughout and are handed over when you go.
- Is a monthly plan more expensive over time than buying once?
- Yes, if nothing ever needs doing. That is the honest answer and it is why the one-off option is on this page rather than hidden. If your site is a few pages that will not change and holds no personal data, buy it once and save the money. If it takes enquiries or holds customer records, somebody has to be patching it, and the monthly plan exists because that somebody is us.
- Do you charge VAT?
- Prices are shown excluding VAT. All plans are billed in GBP through Stripe, and VAT is applied per jurisdiction: UK clients are charged 20%, EU clients provide a valid VAT number for reverse-charge, and US clients are billed VAT-free. Any cross-border bank fees are passed through at cost. If you are viewing prices in another currency that is a conversion for guidance, and the charge is made in GBP.
The full contract is published too. The Website-as-a-Service terms carry the same figures as this page, and the economics behind them are written up at length.