Guide
How much does a small business website cost in Salt Lake City?
Most small business websites in Salt Lake City cost $200 to $1,000 as a one-time build, with the first year of hosting included. The alternative is $99 a month on a six-month agreement, which covers the build plus ongoing local SEO, AI search optimization and two hours of custom development every month.
Those are our published prices as of October 2026, not estimates — and you get a fixed number in writing before any work starts.
Price bands
What you'll pay, by how you want to work
Two plans, published. Every one-time build is quoted as one fixed number inside its range.
| What you need | Price |
|---|---|
| One-time build: custom site, launch-ready SEO, first year of hosting | $200–$1,000 |
| Monthly plan: site built and hosted, ongoing SEO and AI search, 2 hours of development a month | $99/month |
| Development beyond the included 2 hours (monthly plan) | $140/hour |
| Domain name, paid to the registrar in your name | About $15–$20/year |
What moves the number
Five things that actually change the price
In roughly the order they matter.
Which plan you pick
The one-time build is the cheaper first year if you need a site and nothing else. The monthly plan costs more over a year but includes the things a one-time build leaves out: ongoing SEO, AI search work, hosting for as long as you stay, and two hours of development every month.
How much is genuinely custom
Within the one-time range, page count matters less than how much of the design and structure is built for you rather than adapted from something that already exists. More custom design and more content to lay out moves a build toward the top of the range.
Whether you need to take money or bookings
The moment a site handles payments or appointments it stops being a brochure and becomes software: checkout, confirmations, calendar sync and real testing. On the monthly plan, payment and booking widgets come out of your included development hours. Larger builds are scoped and quoted first, with time beyond the included hours at $140 an hour.
Who writes the words and takes the photos
Copy and photography are the most commonly underestimated line in any quote. If you have both ready, the project moves faster and costs less. If you don't, that work still has to happen — budget for it honestly rather than discovering it in week three.
What it has to connect to
A site that stands alone is simpler than one that has to talk to your CRM, accounting, scheduling or email tools. Each integration is real engineering with its own failure modes. On the monthly plan it comes out of the included hours; anything beyond them is $140 an hour, quoted before it's built.
The part quotes leave out
What it costs after launch
A build price with no running cost attached is an incomplete answer.
Your domain
Roughly $15–$20 a year for a .com, paid to the registrar. It stays in your name.
Hosting
Included for the first year with a one-time build; after that the site is yours to host anywhere, or to move onto the monthly plan. On the monthly plan, hosting, SSL, updates and monitoring are part of the $99 for as long as you're on it.
What isn't a cost
There are no platform fees, license fees or per-page charges, because the site is yours outright. That's the difference between owning a site and renting one — and over three years it's usually the largest number in this section.
Why the internet can't answer this
Why quotes for “a website” range from $500 to $50,000
The word covers wildly different things. A one-page flyer and a booking platform that syncs three calendars and takes deposits are both “a small business website,” and they differ by a factor of twenty in engineering effort. Any range quoted without a scope attached is close to meaningless.
Beyond that, three things drive the spread: overhead, because an agency with account managers and a sales team prices differently than an engineer doing the work directly; recurring fees, because some low build prices are subsidised by monthly platform charges you can't leave; and ownership, because a cheap site you don't control has a cost that shows up later, when you want to move it.
That's why we publish our prices and put one fixed number in writing before starting. You can compare it to anything else you've been quoted.
How we price
Two plans, no surprises
Pick how you want to pay. Both come with a number in writing before work starts.
One-time build
$200–$1,000, paid once. A custom, fast, search-ready site with the first year of hosting included, handed over and done. No ongoing SEO, optimization or changes after launch.
Monthly plan
$99 a month on a six-month agreement. Your site built and hosted, ongoing local SEO and AI search optimization, and two hours of custom development every month. Extra development is $140 an hour, quoted first.
Full detail on both plans, and exactly what's included in each, is on the small-business page.
See both plans and pricesFAQ
Questions we get about price
Why do two quotes for the same website differ by thousands of dollars?
Usually because they're not for the same website. Compare what's actually included: how much of the design is custom versus templated, whether SEO and structured data are done at launch or sold later, who writes the copy, whether the build includes revisions, and what the monthly cost is after launch. A cheap build with platform fees attached often costs more over three years than a clear one-time price or a monthly plan that includes the work.
Is a $200 website really a website?
Yes. At the low end of the one-time range you get a small, custom-built site that loads fast, reads properly to Google and AI engines, and comes with the first year of hosting. What you don't get anywhere in the one-time range is ongoing work: nobody is optimizing it for search or adding features after launch. That's what the monthly plan is for.
What does the $99 per month actually cover?
The build of your site, hosting with SSL, updates and monitoring, ongoing local SEO and AI search optimization, and two hours of custom software development every month for things like a payment widget, a booking widget or an integration. It runs on a six-month agreement. Time beyond the included two hours is $140 an hour, quoted before we start.
Do I get a fixed price before work starts?
Yes. A one-time build is quoted as one fixed number inside the $200–$1,000 range before any work begins. On the monthly plan the price is the price: $99 a month, with anything beyond the included two development hours quoted before it's built.
Will the price change once you've started?
Not for the scope we agreed — that's the point of a fixed number. If you ask for something outside it, you get a price for that addition before it gets built, never as a line item on a final invoice. Design includes three rounds of revisions, so normal back-and-forth is already in the number.
How long does it take?
Most small business sites launch in 2–4 weeks on either plan. You see working progress every week rather than a single reveal at the end.
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