UK Website Cost Calculator
Most website prices are quoted as a build fee. The number that actually decides it is what the site costs you over three years, once hosting, a domain and content changes are counted. Put your own figures in and see the routes side by side.
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Work Out Your Three-Year Total
Answer three questions, then fill in the figures you already have. Nothing is pre-filled with somebody else's price - the only figures we fill in are our own.
Your Numbers
Every box starts empty on purpose. We publish our own prices and nobody else's, so anything that is not ours is a figure you type in yourself. Leave a box blank and it counts as zero.
What a registrar charges you for the name. It is the same cost on every route, so it is asked once.
A Builder You Run Yourself
Your number, not ours. Leave it blank and your time counts as zero.
A Freelance Or Contract Build
A Subscription Somebody Else Runs
Whatever monthly figure you are weighing up. There is no maintenance line here, because on this route the upkeep is the provider's job.
Our own subscription prices are filled in for you further down, so you can set them against whatever you put in this box.
Your Three-Year Estimate
Three years is thirty-six months. You picked one page and you want somebody else to keep it running, which is exactly what a subscription is for.
A Builder You Run Yourself
£0
Estimated total over three years
- Builder fees£0
- Domain£0
- Your own hours£0
The subscription is the easy part. The hours are the part most comparisons leave out, so they are priced here at whatever you said an hour of your time is worth.
A Freelance Or Contract Build
£0
Estimated total over three years
- One-off build£0
- Hosting£0
- Domain£0
- Content changes£0
A build fee is a one-off number, but hosting and content changes are not. This route is usually decided by how often you need something changed and what each change costs.
A Subscription Somebody Else Runs
£0
Estimated total over three years
- Subscription fees£0
- Domain£0
No maintenance line, because on this route somebody else does the maintaining. Check what is actually included before you trust the figure.
The Same Sum On Our Published Prices
These are the only figures on this page we assert, because they are ours and we publish them in full. The tier that matches what you said the site needs to do is highlighted - set all three against your own totals above and draw your own conclusion.
Valacia Starter
£0
Estimated total over three years
- Subscription at £0 a month£0
- Domain£0
Valacia Starter is free forever and stays on a Valacia subdomain with a small Powered By Valacia badge, so there is no domain to buy on this tier. Move to Pro when you want your own domain, the badge gone or enquiry forms.
Valacia Pro
£324
Estimated total over three years
- Subscription at £9 a month£324
- Domain£0
Valacia Pro is £9 a month and adds contact and enquiry forms, your own custom domain and removal of the Powered By Valacia badge. The domain itself is bought from a registrar, so it is counted here at the figure you entered. Or £90 a year, which is two months free against monthly.
Valacia Business
£684
Estimated total over three years
- Subscription at £19 a month£684
- Domain£0
Valacia Business is £19 a month and adds a native booking system with email confirmations. Your own domain is extra and you buy it from a registrar, so it is counted here at the figure you entered. Or £190 a year, which is two months free against monthly.
There is deliberately no shareable link - your figures are your business, so they never go in a URL.
Every total on this page is an estimate and is only as good as the figures you entered. Nothing you type is sent to us, nothing is stored and nothing is remembered when you close the tab.
How This Is Calculated
Three years is thirty-six months. Every route below is a plain sum you can check on paper, and the only prices we fill in for you are our own.
A Builder You Run Yourself
monthly fee × 36 + domain a year × 3 + hours a month × 36 × your hourly value
The subscription is the easy part. The hours are the part most comparisons quietly leave out, so this route asks for them and prices them at whatever you say an hour of your time is worth. Leave that box blank and your time counts as zero.
A Freelance Or Contract Build
one-off build + hosting a month × 36 + domain a year × 3 + changes a year × 3 × price per change
A build fee is a one-off number, but hosting and content changes are not. Over three years this route is usually decided by how often you need something changed and what each change costs you.
A Subscription Somebody Else Runs
monthly fee × 36 + domain a year × 3
Whatever monthly figure you are weighing up goes in this box. There is no maintenance line, because on this route the maintenance is the provider's job rather than yours - which is exactly the thing worth checking before you trust the number.
Our Own Published Prices
£0, £9 or £19 a month × 36 + domain a year × 3 on Pro and Business
Valacia is our done-for-you route: a finished one page website, generated and run by us. Starter is £0 a month, Pro £9 and Business £19, so three years at the monthly price is £0, £324 or £684. Pro and Business are also sold at £90 and £190 a year, which is two months free against monthly. Starter stays on a Valacia subdomain, so the free tier has no domain to buy.
Every result is an estimate and is only as good as the figures you entered. Our own prices are published in full, and every figure shown is the total payable.
What A Calculator Cannot Tell You
Arithmetic is the easy half of this decision. These four things change the answer and none of them can be given a number.
Where You Will Rank
No provider can promise you a position in search results, so no figure on this page prices one. What a website can be held to is being fast, correctly marked up and technically sound - a build standard rather than a ranking promise.
What Your Own Time Is Worth
The hourly value in the calculator is your number and not ours. If you enjoy building the site yourself, those hours may not feel like a cost at all. If you resent every one of them, they will usually be the largest figure on the page.
What Happens When The Price Changes
The price of an active Valacia plan is held for twelve months from sign-up, and any increase after that takes thirty days' written notice, so you can leave before it applies. That is written down in the Valacia subscription terms rather than left to a marketing page.
Whether You Can Leave
A Valacia plan is rolling monthly with no minimum term and a £0 cancellation fee, so you can leave any time, and a domain you have bought from a registrar is registered in your name whichever route you take. A three-year total means very little if you are locked in for all three.
Website Cost Questions
How Much Does A Website Cost In The UK
It depends entirely on the route, which is why this page is a calculator rather than a price list. A done-for-you one page website from us is £0, £9 or £19 a month on Valacia, which comes to £0, £324 or £684 over three years. A freelance or contract build is whatever you are quoted, and this tool asks you to enter that figure rather than guessing on your behalf.
What Is The Average Cost Of Website Design For A Small Business
There is no single average worth trusting - the average cost of website design for small business varies with how many pages you need, what the site has to do, and who hosts and maintains it afterwards. What we can give you is our own published prices as a concrete example: Valacia, our done-for-you one page website, is £0 a month on Starter, £9 a month on Pro and £19 a month on Business, and every figure is the total payable. Put the quotes you have actually received into the calculator to see how they compare over three years.
Why Three Years And Not One
One year flatters a one-off build fee, because hosting, a domain and content changes have barely had time to add up. Three years is long enough for the running costs to show themselves properly, and short enough that most small businesses can still picture it.
Do You Publish Other Providers Prices Here
No. The only prices published on this page are our own. Every other figure in the calculator is one you type in yourself, from your own quotes and invoices. That is also why the tool does not go stale: there is no third-party price here to re-check every quarter.
Is Anything I Type Sent To You
No. The calculator runs entirely in your browser: nothing you type is sent to us or stored anywhere, and it is forgotten when you close the tab. There is deliberately no shareable link with your figures in it - your costs and your hours are your business.
Which Route Should I Choose
This page does not answer that for you, and it is deliberately not built to. Put your own numbers in, look at the three-year totals side by side and decide. If one page and a fixed monthly fee fits what you need, Valacia is live today and free to start. We no longer build multi-page websites to order, so quotes for a bigger site belong in the freelance route - and a business that needs software of its own, accounts, bookings or payments, is looking at a custom SaaS application, which we quote per project.
Every price in the done-for-you route is set out in full on Valacia pricing, down to the cancellation fee, which is £0.
Work Out Your Website Cost
We publish every price we charge, so you can check the arithmetic before you speak to anybody. Valacia is live today, free to start, and run for you.