You have asked around, and every quote for a website is a different number. The real spread: $18-$49 a month to build it yourself on Wix or Squarespace, or $1,000-$3,000 for a basic agency site and $5,000-$20,000 for a mid-sized one (GoodFirms 2026 survey). Titan shows yours free first, then $197 today (first week of hosting free), $97/month starts one week later, 30-day guarantee.
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Almost every quote you collect falls into one of five buckets. Here they are side by side, with the figure each source publishes, all read on November 6, 2026. None of them include your own time. The builder plans and Titan include hosting; ask any freelancer or agency whether theirs does.
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| Who builds it | What it costs | Where the number comes from |
|---|---|---|
| You, on a website builder | $18-$49 a month | The common Wix and Squarespace plans, billed yearly |
| A freelancer | $15-$30 an hour | The rate Upwork publishes for web designers |
| An agency, basic site | $1,000-$3,000 to build | What 60% of agencies charge in the GoodFirms 2026 survey |
| An agency, mid-sized business site | $5,000-$20,000 to build | What 54% of firms estimate in the same GoodFirms survey |
| Titan Web Design | $197 today (first week of hosting free), $97/month starts one week later, 30-day guarantee. | Our own pricing page; the finished site is free to see before you pay |
Two things stand out. The builder is the cheapest in cash and the costliest in hours, because you are the one writing every page. And the agency figures are build fees only: GoodFirms prices the project, not the years of hosting and changes that follow it, so put those on the sheet yourself.
If you run a shop, a salon or a cafe, the price rows above apply to you too; what changes is the job. A shop site may need online ordering or a booking calendar, which the builders and agencies handle and Titan does not. A website for a plumber, a lawn crew or a handyman has a narrower job. It has to get a stranger with a problem to call you. That means the phone number tappable on every screen, each service you do named on its own line, the towns you cover written out, and a quote form that reaches you while the job is still open.
It also means words that match what people type. Nobody searches for "home services". They type "water heater repair near me", "gutter cleaning" or "lawn mowing" plus their town. A site that names each service you sell has words that match each of those searches; a site with one "Services" paragraph matches far fewer.
And the site has to keep up with the year. A lawn business wants spring cleanups at the top in March and leaf removal in the fall. A heating company wants furnace repair up front at the first cold snap. Whatever you pay to build the site, ask what you will pay each time the season turns, because that bill comes several times a year.
The build fee is the number everybody quotes. The bills that follow are quieter. Hosting, every month. The domain name, every year. The security certificate that stops a browser from calling your site unsafe. Backups. And changes: a new service, a new phone number, a price that moved, a photo of last month's best job. On a builder you make those yourself; with a freelancer or an agency each one is usually billed by the hour.
None of these are large on their own, and all of them arrive after you have said yes. So the fair way to compare two offers is the money that leaves your account over a whole year, plus the hours you spend, not the figure on the first invoice. If you run a trade, the numbers move with what your site has to carry; see what a roofing website costs and what a plumbing website costs for two worked examples.
Ask every builder, freelancer or agency the same five questions, and write the answers down beside the price:
A seller who answers all five plainly is worth talking to, whatever the price. If the answers are vague, ask again in writing before you sign.
Titan is the last row in that table, and it works differently from the other four: you do none of the building, and you see the result before you pay. The Titan Assistant builds the whole site from your Google listing in 10-15 minutes, and you look at it on your phone before you pay anything. If you keep it, the price is $197 today (first week of hosting free), $97/month starts one week later, 30-day guarantee.
That covers hosting, your domain name, the security certificate, automatic backups, a quote form that emails every lead to you, and 50 edits a month that you ask for in plain English. No contract; cancel any time. The trade-off: software does the building from your business details, not a designer across a table. If you run a trade, the websites for contractors page lists every one we build for, and the handyman website design page shows a finished example you can open on your phone.
Titan fits a local service business that wants a finished site listing its services, its towns and its phone number, without spending its evenings in a builder or a few thousand dollars at an agency. Because the site is free to see, the test takes 10-15 minutes: type your business name and judge the result on your phone.
Titan does not fit a business that needs online ordering, a booking calendar tied to staff schedules, a members area, or a design matched to a brand book. Those are real custom builds, and an agency quote in the GoodFirms range is buying something real.
It can be, if you have the time to build and keep it up yourself. Wix and Squarespace sell their common yearly plans for about $18-$49 a month, and those plans give you the tools and the hosting. They do not write your service pages, take your photos or change the site when your season changes. The plan is cheap; the hours are the real price.
Because agencies price the project, and projects differ. In the GoodFirms 2026 survey most agencies put a basic site at $1,000-$3,000 and a mid-sized business site at $5,000-$20,000. More pages, more custom design and more features move a quote up the range. Ask any agency what the next change will cost, not only the build.
Hosting, your domain name, the security certificate, automatic backups, a quote form that emails every lead to you, and 50 edits a month. You ask for changes in plain English from your dashboard, and there is no contract.
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