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The price guide
“From $6,000” means little without the rest of the market beside it. So here it is, plainly: what a Naples-area business pays in 2026 for a website — the $20-a-month builders, the freelancers, the custom builds, the agency retainers — and the three-year math the sticker price hides. Every benchmark below is sourced, with an access date. Last checked July 11, 2026.
The same job — a website that brings in work — sold five different ways. The sticker is what you pay to start. The three-year column is closer to the truth, because it counts the rent.
| How you buy it | Sticker | 3-year cost | You own it? |
|---|---|---|---|
DIY hosted builder The cheapest sticker. You build and maintain it yourself, on a template. Add-on apps and a business email push it higher, top tiers reach about $159/month, and the rent never stops. | $9–$40 / mo | ~$350–$1,500 | No — you rent it |
Freelancer, one-time One person, one-time build. Quality swings by who you get. Upkeep, hosting, and fixes run $600–$5,000 a year on top, and support can go quiet when they get busy. | $500–$8,000 | ~$2,300–$23,000 | Sometimes |
Custom / mid-market build A real design-and-build. This is the honest market for a site that ranks and converts. Where it lands is design originality, content, and instrumentation — not magic. Ongoing runs $1,000–$17,500 a year. | $5,000–$25,000 | $8,000–$77,000+ | Usually |
Agency + monthly retainer Strategy, custom design, and a monthly retainer on top. The build is fine; the retainer is where three-year cost balloons — sometimes on a platform you can't take with you. | $20,000–$100,000+ | Well past six figures | Often not |
How we work — owned, no retainer Hand-coded, custom, from $6,000. You own the code and the domain in a repository you can walk away with. Static hosting runs low, often under $20 a month, and there is no mandatory retainer. | From $6,000, once | $6,000 + your own low hosting | Yes — code + domain |
Sticker and three-year ranges are third-party 2026 benchmarks (OneLittleWeb; Website Cost Estimator — cited in full below). The “how we work” row anchors only to our $6,000 build floor. No web-design firm is named — these are categories, not companies.
Here is the honest version, no thumb on the scale. The cheapest sticker is a DIY hosted builder — call it $9–$40 a month on annual billing, more once you add apps and a business email, which is roughly $350–$1,500 over three years plus a $10–$20 yearly domain renewal. You build it, you maintain it, and you never own the platform. For a brand-new one-person operation, that can be the right call. Say so.
The most expensive over three years is almost always an agency build carrying a monthly retainer, or a large enterprise build: $20,000–$100,000 or more to start, then ongoing on top. Running a professional site alone is $1,000–$17,500 a year (OneLittleWeb), before any retainer. That is how a project quietly becomes a six-figure line over three years.
An owned, no-retainer build sits in between on day one and often comes out ahead by year three. From $6,000 you own the code and the domain; static hosting runs low, often under $20 a month; and there is no mandatory retainer draining the account. Three years in, you have paid once and you still own the site. That is the whole idea: not the cheapest sticker, the cheapest thing to keep.
Five things decide where a build lands in the range. None of them is a mystery, and any honest studio will walk you through them before quoting.
A five-page site and a forty-page city-and-service build are not the same job. Most of the spread between a $5,000 site and a $25,000 one is pages, copy, and who writes them — and the published build ranges usually exclude SEO, copywriting, and integrations, so a bare sticker often leaves those out (OneLittleWeb).
A theme with your logo placed on it is cheap because it is the same site everyone else bought. A design drawn around your business and your market is more work up front, and it is the reason the page does not read like your competitor's.
A form that only emails you is the floor. A form that filters spam and counts every inquiry, wired to analytics so you can see what the site produced, is the difference between a brochure and a tool. It costs a little more to build, and it is the part that pays you back.
The lowest three-year cost is rarely the lowest sticker — it is the build you do not keep re-buying. A site you own outright, on code you can host anywhere, ends the rent. A builder or a proprietary platform keeps charging as long as it is live.
Running a professional site is $600–$17,500 a year in maintenance, hosting, and support depending on its size (OneLittleWeb); a hosted builder adds a $10–$20 yearly domain renewal on top of the monthly. Ask what the ongoing number is before you sign, not after.
Five things to look for on any proposal — ours included. If a quote dodges these, that is the answer.
Built on a proprietary builder you cannot export. The day you leave the platform, the site goes with it. Ask plainly: do I get the code, and can I host it anywhere?
A form that emails you but never counts. At month's end you cannot say what the site brought in, so you cannot tell whether it is working. If a quote does not mention counting inquiries, it isn't.
A stock theme with your logo dropped in, priced like a custom build. Fine if you are paying template money. A problem when you are paying custom money for it.
You paid for the site but you do not get the repository. You are renting your own website. Ownership of the code and the domain should be in writing, not implied.
A retainer with no deliverable list is a blank cheque. Ask what lands each month and how you will see it. A record, not an invoice.
Everything above prices one arrangement: you commission the build, you own it, you pay for it. That is the honest default and where most of this work lives. But it is not the only way to work with the studio — two of these carry more of the risk on our side.
The default
You commission the build and it is yours the day it ships — the code, the domain, all of it. The five tiers above are this arrangement: from $6,000 to build, then an optional monthly growth plan if you want us keeping it fed with pages, search work, and upkeep. Nothing monthly is required. Most Naples businesses start here, and for most it is the right call.
Pay as they land
A smaller build up front, then you pay for the inquiries the site actually brings you — each qualified one we deliver and log, and nothing for the months it is quiet. What a lead is worth is not the same for a roofer and a pool service, so it is priced per lead by trade and ticket size, set in writing before we start. You are paying for work the site put in front of you, not for a promise.
We build it, you close it
No build fee at all. We build the site and we own it — the domain and the code stay with the studio — and every lead it produces is yours, exclusively, in your metro. You pay a monthly minimum plus 10% of the jobs you close from it, valued on a rate card we set together up front. We bill off what we can count, never your books. It includes the review engine: review-request texts to every finished customer that grow your Google reviews as the work comes in.
The honest part — because we keep the site, this is a partnership, not a purchase. We take one partner per trade, per metro, so the same leads never go to your competitor. We scope it by conversation, not off a menu.
The last two we scope by conversation — send the details through the form and you will get an honest read on which arrangement fits, or whether the plain owned build is simply the better deal for you.
Want the real number for your build? It starts from $6,000 and tracks scope — page count, content, the tools you need. Send the details through the form and you'll get a plain read on price and fit, in writing, before anything starts.
Get a scope and priceBenchmark ranges are third-party market data, cited so you can check them yourself. Our own price is the one figure we set: from $6,000, scope on the call, in writing before we start. If a number on this page can't be checked, it doesn't belong here — the same rule every client site gets.