How much should a construction website cost?
The short answer
A construction website typically costs $2,000 to $4,000 for a fixed-price professional build, $10,000 to $40,000 from a full-service agency, and around $29 a month for a DIY template. Ongoing costs run about $15 to $50 a month for hosting and roughly $20 a year for the domain.
What construction firms actually pay for a website in 2026, what each price band gets you, and the ongoing costs nobody mentions up front.
Ask five agencies what a construction website costs and you will get five answers between $1,500 and $50,000. That is not because the work varies that much. It is because almost nobody publishes prices, so the number lands wherever the conversation lands.
Here is the honest breakdown of what construction firms actually pay.
What are the real price bands?
DIY builders: about $29 a month
Wix, Squarespace or a WordPress theme you set up yourself. Genuinely fine if you are a one-truck operation who mainly needs somewhere to point people, and you have a weekend to spare.
The catch is not the software, it is the writing and the photography. Most DIY trade sites fail on content, not design.
Freelancer: $2,500 to $8,000
A single developer or designer, usually billing $75 to $150 an hour. Quality varies enormously. The good ones are excellent value; the risk is that support disappears when they get busy with a bigger client.
Ask what happens in six months when you need a page changed, and get the answer in writing.
Fixed-price specialist: $2,000 to $4,000
A studio that builds for one sector and therefore already knows what a construction site needs. You are paying for the pattern rather than the discovery.
This is where most established trades and small contractors land, and it is where we sit: $2,000 for a website, $3,000 with branding, one time, live in seven days.
Full-service agency: $10,000 to $40,000
Custom design, discovery workshops, brand work, sometimes photography. Genuinely worth it for a general contractor doing several million a year, where the site supports bidding as well as marketing.
Overkill for a six-person roofing crew, whatever the pitch deck says.
What actually drives the price up?
- Number of pages. Ten pages versus forty is the biggest single factor
- Who writes the copy. If you write it, it is cheaper. Almost nobody writes it
- Photography. A day of professional jobsite photography is $600 to $1,500 and usually transforms the result
- Custom functionality. Estimate calculators, client portals and booking systems all add cost
- Brand work. A new logo and identity is a separate job, priced separately
What are the ongoing costs?
This is where people get caught out. Expect:
- Domain: $15 to $25 a year
- Hosting: $15 to $50 a month for a small business site
- Maintenance: $0 to $150 a month, depending on the platform and whether you need it
- SEO: $750 to $3,000 a month if you buy it as a service
WordPress needs updating; a modern static build largely does not. That difference is worth asking about, because it is most of the maintenance figure.
Should you pay monthly or a one-time fee?
Monthly "website subscriptions" at $149 to $299 a month look painless and often are not. Over three years that is $5,400 to $10,800, and in many cases you never own the site. Stop paying and it goes offline.
Read the contract for two things: who owns the site, and what happens if you leave. If you cannot take it with you, it is a rental, and it should be priced like one.
What should be included at any price?
Whatever you spend, do not accept a site without:
- Mobile-first design, because most trade traffic is on a cell phone
- A page per service, not one page listing everything
- A page per area you genuinely work in
- Real project photos with real detail
- Click-to-call on cell and an inquiry form that captures ZIP code and budget
- Google Business Profile connected and matched
- Page titles and descriptions written per page, not auto-generated
- Your license number, insurance and full ownership and access handed to you
What is a construction website actually worth?
Run the arithmetic on your own numbers. If your average job is $35,000 at a 20% margin, one extra job pays for a $2,000 site several times over. If your average job is $1,500, the math is different and a leaner build makes more sense.
The firms who regret the spend are almost always the ones who bought a brochure. The ones who are glad they did it bought something structured around how their clients actually search and decide.
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