How much does a website cost UK small businesses?
A new website from Fixr costs between £1,200 and £6,000, and redrawing one you already have starts at £750. Building it yourself on a website builder is a monthly subscription instead, so the cost arrives in small pieces rather than in one. The gap between the two is not really the design, it is what the site is built to do and what you own at the end of it.
Three things that decide where you land
How many pages it needs. A business selling three things in two towns needs fewer pages than one selling eleven across twenty five, and the page count follows what people actually search for rather than what looks tidy.
Whether money changes hands on it. A site that takes bookings and payments has slots, prices, deposits and confirmation emails to set up and test before anybody uses it.
What it has to talk to. Connecting a till, a calendar or an accounts package adds work, and it is usually the part that saves the most time afterwards.
And two you control yourself
Whether your words and photographs are ready. This is the single biggest thing on the list that sits with you, and having your own photographs and a rough idea of what you want to say moves a build along faster than anything else.
And how much of the existing site can be kept. Where the foundations are sound, redrawing costs less than rebuilding, and we will tell you which one you are looking at before you spend anything.
How much do website designers charge?
The honest answer is that the range in the UK is very wide, and the number on its own tells you almost nothing. What tells you something is what the number is attached to.
So ask what the price is fixed against. A fixed price quoted against a written scope means you know today what you will pay in six weeks. Ours works that way, and the figure you agree is the figure you pay.
Everything Fixr charges is published on the pricing page before you have to ask for it, which is not something you should have to negotiate for.
What the money buys over doing it yourself
The comparison worth making is not the first weekend, it is what the site is bringing you a year later. Three things decide that, and each one is something you can check for yourself rather than take on trust.
They are whether there is a page for every thing people actually search, whose name the domain and the code are in, and whether somebody answers when it needs changing. Here is each one.
Tell us what the business does and what you need the site to do, and a fixed price against a written scope comes back the same working day.
A page for each thing people search
This is the one that decides whether you get found. Google shows a page, not a business, so a single Services page covering eight things has nothing specific to show somebody searching for one of them.
A built site starts with the research: the exact phrases people near you type, with real volumes, and then a page for each of them. That is how a site gets found for those searches rather than hoping.
SV Autos is the clearest example we can show you. Eleven services across twenty five towns, a page for each, and 155 phrases now on page one of Google with 82 of them in the top three, measured in Search Console.
It is also the hardest thing to add later, which is why it goes in first rather than as a second project.
What you own at the end
With Fixr the domain, the hosting account and the code are in your name from the first day. If you ever want to take the site somewhere else you can, and we will help you move it.
That is worth checking wherever you buy from, because it is the difference between owning an asset and renting one. A subscription keeps a site online for as long as you keep paying. Owning it means the site is yours whether or not you keep working with anybody.
Somebody who answers
When something needs changing, you message Ben and it usually just gets done. The person who quotes the work is the person who builds it and the person who answers afterwards.
That is a real part of what the money buys, and it is the part people notice most in the second year.
What it costs to keep running
Once a site is live there is hosting, a security certificate, updates and backups to keep going. We put that on a maintenance plan, priced per plan. Because the hosting is in your name, the plan is support you choose to keep rather than the thing keeping your site online.
The figure depends on what the site does, and it is quoted before it starts like everything else.
Before you ask
How much does a website cost UK small businesses in 2026?
A new site from Fixr is £1,200 to £6,000, and redrawing an existing one starts at £750. Where you land depends on how many pages you need and whether the site takes money.
How much do website designers charge?
The UK range is very wide and the figure alone tells you little. Ask what it is fixed against, because a fixed price quoted against a written scope is the thing that means you know today what you will pay in six weeks.
Is it cheaper to build a website myself?
A subscription and a built site are different purchases, so the useful question is what each gives you a year in. What decides whether a site brings you enquiries is the research behind it, a page for each thing people search, and owning the domain, hosting and code, and those are what the price covers.
How much does a website cost per month?
With Fixr there is no monthly fee to keep your site online, because the hosting is in your name. Maintenance is a separate plan you choose to have, priced against what the site does.
Do I have to pay it all up front?
No. Pay up front, a deposit, or 50/50 depending on the project, and Klarna is available on most of them.