You have a website quote on the truck seat and no way to tell if it is fair. Most agencies charge $1,000-$3,000 for a basic site and $5,000-$20,000 for a mid-sized one (GoodFirms 2026 survey), and doing it yourself on Wix or Squarespace runs $18-$49 a month. Titan: $197 today (first week of hosting free), $97/month starts one week later, 30-day guarantee.
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For a basic contractor site, yes, $1,500 is a normal price. It sits inside the $1,000-$3,000 band that 60% of agencies quote for a basic site in the GoodFirms 2026 survey. It is not a bargain and it is not a rip-off. What decides whether it is good is what the $1,500 buys and what you pay after it.
Read the quote for three things. How many of your services get their own words, not one line in a list. Whether hosting, the domain and the security certificate are in the price or billed monthly on top. And what a change costs once the site is live. A $1,500 site that bills an hour for every edit can cost more over two springs than a pricier quote that includes them.
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The ranges below come from the sources listed at the bottom of this page, read on November 6, 2026. The middle column is our read of what a contractor usually gets at that price.
| Price | What a contractor usually gets | Source |
|---|---|---|
| $18-$49 a month | A builder template and hosting; you write every page and make every change | Wix and Squarespace common yearly plans |
| $15-$30 an hour | A freelancer building to your brief; the total depends on the hours | Upwork web designer rates |
| $1,000-$3,000 | A basic agency site: a handful of pages, your logo, a contact form | GoodFirms 2026 survey, basic site |
| $5,000-$20,000 | A mid-sized agency site: more pages, custom design, more back and forth | GoodFirms 2026 survey, mid-sized site |
A low quote can still cost money in three quiet ways. The site lists your services in one paragraph, so it has words for one job when you sell many. The number is a picture, so it cannot be tapped. And every change after launch goes back to the person who built it, at their rate, on their schedule.
Before you take any quote, low or high, open a site that person built for another contractor, on your phone, and try to call it.
A consultant can get by on a home page, an about page and a contact form. A contractor cannot, because the homeowner searches for the job, not the company. Somebody with a rotten deck types "deck repair" and their town. Somebody planning a remodel types "kitchen remodel" or "bathroom remodel". The site that has a section named for that job is the one that matches what they typed, so every service you sell needs its own words, and every one of those is a line on the quote.
Then there is proof. A homeowner about to let a stranger into the house wants to see your work, so a trade site needs project photos, ideally before and after, and your license and insurance stated plainly where your state expects them. Add the towns you cover and a quote form that reaches your phone, and the page count is already past what most basic packages assume.
Whoever builds it, hold the finished site to this list. Each line is something a homeowner checks before calling:
A contractor's year is not flat, and the site should not be either. Remodelers get the planning calls in late winter and early spring. Deck and fence builders want the summer jobs on the front page in April, not July. After a storm, every roofer and tree crew in the county wants storm work at the top.
Each of those is a change to the site. On a builder you make it yourself on a Sunday. With most freelancers and agencies it is a ticket and a bill. Count how many times a year your work shifts and price the changes, because over the life of the site they can cost more than the build. Roofers have the sharpest version of this; see what a roofing website costs for the storm-season pages.
The hardest part of buying a website is that you pay before you see it. Titan turns that around. The Titan Assistant builds the whole contractor site from your Google listing in 10-15 minutes, with your services, your towns, a quote form and a tappable number, and you judge it on your phone first. If you keep it: $197 today (first week of hosting free), $97/month starts one week later, 30-day guarantee.
Hosting, your domain name, the security certificate, backups and 50 plain-English edits a month are in that plan, so the spring and storm changes above are something you type, not something you are billed for. You change it from a dashboard rather than through a designer. The general contractor website design page shows a finished example, and the websites for contractors page lists every trade we build for.
Can I see the finished site before I commit? Is my number tappable on a phone? Does every service I offer get its own words? Where does the quote form go, and how fast? What does it cost to change my hours next week, and who does it? What leaves my account each month once everything is added? Who owns the domain, the words and the photos if I leave?
Any builder, freelancer or agency that answers those plainly is worth a conversation. Then, and only then, compare prices, because two quotes are only comparable once the answers match.
Titan fits a contractor whose site needs to do the plain things well - list the services, ring the phone, take a quote, name the towns - and whose work changes often enough that paying for every edit would hurt. It fits the owner who would rather judge a finished site than a sales call.
Titan does not fit a general contractor bidding commercial work through a portfolio of large projects, a franchise that must match a national brand, or a firm that wants a custom-designed site as a statement. An agency is the right call there, and the extra cost buys real custom work.
Not always a separate page, but every service needs its own words. Homeowners search for the job, like "deck repair" or "kitchen remodel", not for the word contractor. Give the big jobs their own section and the small ones their own line.
You can get a free builder site, but it carries the builder's branding and lives on the builder's address until you pay for a plan, and you still build every page yourself. Titan's demo is free to see, built for you, and you only pay when you want it live under your own name.
With Titan the full demo is built in about 10-15 minutes, and an approved site can go live the same day. With a freelancer or an agency, ask for a written timeline, and expect much of it to be spent waiting on your words and photos.
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