How Much Does a Contractor Website Cost? Real Numbers

How much does a contractor website cost? On October 17, 2026 the do-it-yourself builders' own pricing pages read like this: Squarespace's Basic plan at $25 a month, or $19 a month on its Pay annually toggle; Wix's page showing prices that vary by location, so no Wix figure is quoted; WordPress.com's Personal plan at US$4 a month billed every 12 months and its Business plan at US$25. A .com costs $11.08 a year at a registrar that charges the same to register and to renew, and the certificate behind HTTPS is free. The part no pricing page shows is the labor: yours, a designer's, or a service's.

What you pay for when you buy a contractor website

Every website, whoever builds it, is the same six parts. Price each one and the total stops being a mystery.

• The domain: the name people type. Bought by the year from a registrar, or included for the first year by a builder and renewed after that.
• Hosting: the computer that serves the pages. Builders include it; a designer either includes it or hands you a hosting bill.
• HTTPS: the padlock in the address bar. Let's Encrypt issues the certificates behind it free, so a host that charges for one is charging for convenience.
• The build: the pages, the words, the layout. The biggest cost, paid in your hours or someone else's.
• Photos: your own jobs, from your phone, before and after. A stock photo shows a lot nobody on your crew striped; your own costs a minute at the end of each job.
• Updates: a new service, a new town, new hours, a price change. The cost that outlives the launch.

A Google Business Profile is off the list because it is free, per Google's own page, and is not a website. The profile is the listing; the site is what backs it up when someone taps through.

Website builder pricing: Squarespace, Wix and WordPress.com

Three builders' pricing pages were opened on October 17, 2026; the figures are what they showed, with the billing term each page states. Builders change prices, so check the page before you buy.

Squarespace

Squarespace lists two prices per plan under a Pay annually and Pay monthly toggle: Basic $25 a month and $19 a month, Core $39 and $29, with Plus and Advanced above, each card with a 20 percent off badge under a headline that says paying annually saves up to 36 percent. A plan bought for an annual term includes one year of free domain registration; the footnote says that domain then renews at Squarespace's standard rate plus applicable taxes.

Wix

Wix's page shows prices that vary by location. Opened for this post, it printed its plan prices beside the words Price includes GST, a tax the United States does not charge, under a note that prices and currency vary by location and USD prices are for reference only. So no Wix figure is quoted here; open the page and read the price it shows you. What it does state: displayed prices are for yearly terms paid in full at purchase, taxes depend on your billing address, each paid plan lists a free domain for one year as a voucher the FAQ says is redeemable within 60 days of purchase, and a free plan is listed with no card required.

WordPress.com

WordPress.com prints the term under every price: Personal US$9 a month billed every month or US$4 a month billed every 12 months; Business US$40 or US$25; Premium and Commerce either side, all excluding taxes, with two and three year terms cheaper still. A free plan is listed at US$0 with no expiration date. The free domain for one year comes with the annual plans; the FAQ says monthly plans do not include it.

GoDaddy's builder pricing page would not load for this post, so it is left out.

Domain name cost per year: register it in your own name

Porkbun's domain page, opened the same day, lists .com at $11.08 to register, $11.08 to renew and $11.08 to transfer, .net at $12.52 for all three, and .org at $7.98 for the first year on sale with $11.84 to renew; prices are per year and include ICANN and other fees. Cloudflare Registrar publishes no table on its product page but states that it does not mark up domain prices at all, and that registration, transfer and renewal prices are always at or below what registries and ICANN charge it.

Two habits save money and grief. Register the domain in your own name at a registrar, not inside a builder or under a designer's account, so the name survives a change of builder or a falling-out. And read the renewal column before the first-year column: Porkbun's .org sale price covers one year, and the renewal is what you pay every year after.

Tip: Set the domain to renew on its own and put the date on the calendar anyway. A lapsed domain takes the website and the email on it down together.

Hiring a web designer: what the quote has to spell out

No credible survey of freelancer or agency prices for contractor sites was found on an HTML page, so no range is given here. What can be sourced is the labor behind a quote: the Bureau of Labor Statistics puts the median wage for web developers and digital designers at $47.85 an hour, $99,520 a year, for May 2025. A freelancer's rate also covers overhead, unbillable hours and profit, so expect a rate above the wage figure, times the hours the job takes. Ask for the hours, and ask the quote to spell out:

• Who registers the domain, and in whose name.
• Where the site is hosted, what the hosting costs on its own, and whether you can move it.
• How many pages, which ones, and whether a page per service and per town is in the price.
• Who writes the words, who takes the photos, and what a change costs after launch.
• A request form that emails you, or better, lands in the tool you quote from.

Photos and updates: the costs no pricing page shows

The photo budget is your phone: shoot the finished job from the same spot as the before, in daylight. The update budget is the hours a year the site needs to stay true: new services, new towns, new hours, a price. A site nobody updates tells a customer the business might be gone, so count those hours before choosing who builds it.

A done-for-you website built from your CRM

MakeHay's Website add-on is $197 a month or $1,970 a year. A person at MakeHay builds the site from your account, a short questionnaire and your photos, usually with a first version within 1 to 2 business days: a page per service and per town served, hosting and HTTPS included, and the contact page is your request form, so a lead lands in Requests with its photos and address. A domain is free for the first year, connected or bought in your name; from the second year a domain bought through MakeHay renews at the registrar's yearly price. After the first version the editor is yours. If the add-on ends, the site stays up 14 days and a bought domain stays yours.

Every option side by side

Which one for a two-truck crew

Pick by the hours, not the sticker. If evenings at a laptop are available and the site will be kept current, a builder at US$4 to $25 a month on the pages checked is the cheapest cash, and the domain in your own name is the one thing to get right. If the hours are not there, pay someone, and pay for the request form that drops the lead where you quote; one job the site brings in that would otherwise have been missed pays for many months of it. Either way, decide the pages first: what pages a contractor website needs.