How Much Does a Website Cost in Palm Beach County (2026)?

A small business website in 2026 costs anywhere from about $200 a year if you build it yourself on Wix or Squarespace, to $5,000 to $15,000 from a full-service agency, with custom builds running well past that. Most of that spread comes down to two questions: who builds it, and what it has to do.

This guide gives you the ranges published by people who track them, splits them by type of site, and adds the yearly costs that most quotes leave out, so you can compare a $750 offer and a $9,000 offer on the same terms. Every outside figure links to where it came from, and the prices are the ones listed in November 2026.

The short answer

A simple site for a local service business built by a professional usually costs between $750 and $7,600, plus anywhere from about $50 a year (domain and basic hosting, edits done by you) to several hundred a year (a builder plan, or hosting with edits included). A full agency build is commonly $5,000 to $15,000. An online store or a custom web app costs more.

Here is where those numbers come from.

Website cost by who builds it

Build it yourself on Wix or Squarespace

You pay a monthly plan and do the work yourself. On yearly billing, Wix's plans run from about $17 a month to about $159 a month, and Squarespace's run from $19 a month (Basic) to $99 a month (Advanced). Squarespace's Core plan is $29 a month, or $348 a year.

• What you get: a template, hosting and an SSL certificate in one bill
• What you give: your own evenings writing copy, picking photos and learning the editor
• Good fit: you are just starting, the budget is tight, and you enjoy doing it

Build it yourself on WordPress

WebsiteSetup puts the starting cost of a self-built WordPress site at $95 to $180: a domain at $12 to $25 a year, shared hosting at $40 to $150 a year, and an optional premium theme at $30 to $100. It is the cheapest route on paper and the one that asks the most of you, because updates, plugins and security are yours to manage.

Hire a freelancer

WebsiteSetup estimates a freelance WordPress developer at $50 to $95 an hour for roughly 40 to 80 hours, or $2,000 to $7,600 before theme, hosting and plugins. WebFX gives a wider range of $500 to $10,000 or more. The spread is real: a freelancer reusing a theme they know costs far less than one designing from a blank page.

Ask who writes the words. Many freelance quotes assume you supply every page of copy, and that is often the slowest part of the whole project.

Hire an agency

WebsiteSetup lists a full-service agency at $5,000 to $15,000 for strategy, design, development and content. WebFX's agency range is $3,000 to $30,000 or more. You are paying for a team: a designer, a developer, a writer and someone managing the project, which is also why timelines are often several weeks.

Custom web applications

If the site has to do real work, such as customer logins, quoting tools, or a portal tied to your other software, it is a software project. WebsiteSetup's range for an enterprise custom build is $20,000 to $75,000.

Website cost by type of site

Who builds it sets the hourly rate. What the site has to do sets the number of hours.

A simple site for a local business (1 to 5 pages)

Home, services, about, reviews and contact. This is what most plumbers, salons, law offices and restaurants need to start. Expect a few hundred dollars a year on a builder, or roughly $750 to the low thousands from a professional, depending on how much design and writing is included.

A fuller small business site (5 to 20 pages)

A page for each service and each town you serve, a blog, booking links and lead forms. More pages means more writing, which is usually what moves the price into the freelancer and agency ranges above. Separate service and town pages are also what helps you show up for searches like "AC repair Jupiter" rather than only your business name.

An online store

Selling online adds products, cart, checkout, taxes and shipping. WebFX puts ecommerce features on a smaller site at $3,000 to $10,000. A cheaper first step for a shop with a handful of products is a regular site that links to a store you already run on Shopify or Square, so the catalog and checkout stay there, and a full store built into the site only once online orders justify it.

Industry features that change the price

• Real estate: listings and property search come through an IDX feed from your MLS, which the IDX provider usually bills separately each month
• Medical and dental: forms must not collect health information unless the whole setup is built for it, so most practices link to the scheduler they already use
• Restaurants: menus, plus links to reservations and online ordering
• Bilingual sites: an English and Spanish version is close to twice the writing, so ask whether a quote covers one language or two

The costs that come after launch

The build price is a one-time number. These are the ones that keep coming:

• Domain name: about $12 to $25 a year for a .com, and renewals can cost more than the first year (WebsiteSetup)
• Hosting: $40 to $150 a year for shared hosting, $60 to $250 for managed WordPress hosting. Builder plans include it.
• SSL certificate: the padlock in the address bar. Many hosts include it free; check that yours does.
• Updates and small edits: changing a price, swapping a photo, adding a staff member. Either you do it, or someone bills you for it.
• Business email: often a separate monthly charge per person
• Plugins, apps and feeds: booking tools, IDX feeds, store apps and premium plugins each carry their own fee

A cheap build with expensive edits can cost more by year two than a pricier build that includes them. That is why the fairest comparison is a first-year total, not a build price.

What a first year actually costs

Here are three ways to get a simple five-page site live, added up for twelve months using the published prices above.

• Squarespace Core, built yourself: $29 a month on yearly billing, so $348, plus every hour you spend building and updating it
• Freelancer: $2,000 to $7,600 to build per WebsiteSetup's estimate, plus $52 to $175 for a year of domain and shared hosting, plus whatever they charge for edits after launch
• Ivey Digital starter site: $750 to build plus $49 a month for hosting, SSL, backups and small edits, so $1,338

None of these is the right answer for everyone. If you have more time than money, the builder wins. If you need a custom design or complex features, the freelancer or agency range is where you will land. The point of adding up the year is to stop a low build price, or a low monthly fee, from hiding the rest of the bill.

Where Ivey Digital fits

We publish our prices so you do not have to book a call to find them.

• $750 one time for a site built on one of our starter designs, up to 5 pages, with your logo, your photos and copy we write from a 30-minute call. It goes live in about a week and you own it.
• $49 a month for hosting, SSL, backups and small edits, or export the site and host it yourself
• $150 for each page beyond five
• From $2,500 for a fully custom design, or a full online store with cart, checkout and stock built in
• Included with every marketing plan, through a $750 website credit. Plans start at $750 a month, and on a plan the credit also comes off a custom design.

Every starter design is a finished, working website you can click through before you decide, and each one goes to one business only. See the starter designs, read more about how our web design works, or compare the marketing plans that include the site.

Questions to ask before you sign anything

Whoever you hire, get these answered in writing:

1. Who writes the words? If it is you, budget the time.
2. How many pages, and what does each extra page cost?
3. What is the monthly cost after launch, and what does it cover? Hosting, SSL, backups, edits?
4. Who owns the site, the domain and the content? Can you take it with you if you leave?
5. How long until it is live?
6. Is it built to work on a phone first? Ask to see it on your own phone before you approve it.
7. Is basic SEO included? Page titles, descriptions, a sitemap, and Google Analytics connected.
8. What happens if I want to change something next month?

Frequently asked questions

How much should a small business website cost?

For a simple site with a handful of pages, a fair professional price runs from under $1,000 up to the low thousands, and a full agency build is commonly $5,000 to $15,000. What matters more than the build price is what you will pay each year to keep it running and up to date.

Is a website cheaper in Palm Beach County than elsewhere?

Not in any way that shows up in the published ranges. Web designers and agencies here quote the same kinds of prices you will see nationally. What is local is the work: pages for the towns you serve, from Jupiter to Boca Raton, a Google Business Profile set up properly, and Spanish if your customers use it.

Is Wix or Squarespace good enough for a small business?

For many new businesses, yes. The trade is your time. A builder is cheap in money and expensive in evenings, and the result depends on how well you write and design. If your time is worth more spent on paying work, it usually makes sense to hand it off.

How long does it take to build a website?

A builder site can go up in a weekend if you have the words and photos ready. Agency builds commonly take several weeks. Our starter-design sites go live in about a week, because the design is already built.

Do I need to pay for a website every month?

Something has to keep it online. On a builder, that is your plan. Otherwise it is hosting, a domain and someone to make updates. Expect at least a domain renewal and hosting every year, even if you do the edits yourself.

Ready to see what yours would look like?

Open any of our starter designs and click around. It is a real, working site, not a mockup. When one feels right, tell us about your business and we will come back with what it would cost and when it would be live.

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About the Author: Ivey Digital builds websites and runs local marketing for Palm Beach County businesses. Our prices are published on our pricing page.