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WordPress Website Cost Calculator

Get an instant estimate for your WordPress project — design, development, WooCommerce, SEO and ongoing maintenance included.

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What type of WordPress website do you need?

This is the biggest factor in your WordPress website cost estimate.

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Blog / Personal Site
Personal writing, portfolio or hobby site
From $500
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Business / Brochure Site
Small business or professional services, 5–15 pages
From $1,500
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WooCommerce Store
Online shop with products, cart and payments
From $3,000
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Membership / Portal
Restricted content, logins, subscriptions or LMS
From $5,000
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Enterprise / Custom Platform
Multi-site, API integrations, complex functionality
From $15,000
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Website Redesign
Migrating or redesigning an existing WordPress site
From $2,000

What level of design do you need?

Custom design significantly affects your WordPress development cost.

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Template / Theme
Off-the-shelf theme with your branding applied
Base cost
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Custom Design
Unique wireframes and UI created for your brand
+50% cost
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Premium / Award-level
Full UX research, animations, pixel-perfect delivery
+120% cost

Which features does your site need?

Select all that apply — each adds to the WordPress project cost.

SEO Setup
On-page SEO, schema markup, XML sitemaps
Content Writing
Professional copywriting for key pages
Blog Setup
Categories, tags, author profiles
Speed Optimisation
Caching, CDN setup, image compression
Booking / Appointments
Calendar or booking integration
Multi-language
WPML or Polylang translation setup
CRM Integration
HubSpot, Salesforce, Zoho etc.
Security Hardening
Firewall, malware scanning, 2FA
Analytics Setup
GA4, Google Tag Manager, heatmaps
Site Migration
Moving from Wix, Squarespace or old WP

Do you need ongoing maintenance?

WordPress websites need regular updates, backups and security monitoring.

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No maintenance
I’ll manage updates and backups myself
$0/month
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Basic Care Plan
Monthly updates, backups, uptime monitoring
~$79/month
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Standard Maintenance
Updates, security scans, 1hr support included
~$149/month
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Premium Support
Priority support, 3hrs dev time, daily backups
~$299/month

What is your preferred timeline?

Rush projects may carry a premium — standard delivery gives the best value.

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Urgent
Under 4 weeks
+25% rush fee
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Standard
4–10 weeks
Best value
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Flexible
10+ weeks, no rush
Possible saving
Your WordPress website cost estimate
$0 – $0
Cost breakdown
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Typical timeline

4–10 weeks from project kick-off to launch.

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What’s included

Discovery, design, development, testing, launch support and initial training.

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Estimates based on 2026 UK agency market rates. Actual costs vary depending on project scope and specific requirements. All figures shown are approximate guides only.

WordPress website cost guide 2026

The cost of a WordPress website in 2026 ranges from $500 for a simple blog to $80,000+ for a complex enterprise platform. For most small and medium businesses, a professionally built WordPress website costs between $2,000 and $12,000 — including design, development and launch.

The biggest factors affecting your WordPress development cost are: the type of site, whether you need custom design, how many pages and features you require, and whether you hire a freelancer or a specialist WordPress agency.

Website type Freelancer Agency
Blog / Personal site$500–$2,000$1,500–$4,000
Business brochure site$1,500–$5,000$3,000–$10,000
WooCommerce store$3,000–$10,000$8,000–$25,000
Membership / LMS$5,000–$12,000$10,000–$30,000
Enterprise platform$10,000–$30,000$20,000–$80,000+

Website cost calculator FAQs

You answer five questions: the type of site, the level of design, the features you need, whether you want maintenance, and how fast you need it. Each answer has a price range attached, taken from real project quotes. The calculator multiplies the base build by your design and timeline choices, adds the features on top, and shows a low and high figure with a line-by-line breakdown. It takes about a minute and you do not need to enter an email address to see the result.

A simple blog or personal site starts around $500. A small business site with 5 to 15 pages runs $1,500 to $5,000 on a theme, or roughly $2,250 to $7,500 with a custom design. Online stores start at $3,000 and membership sites at $5,000. Large custom platforms go from $15,000 to $80,000 and beyond. Most small and medium businesses end up paying between $2,000 and $12,000 for design, development and launch.

Good enough to set a budget, not good enough to sign a contract. An estimator cannot see your content, your integrations or the odd requirement that turns a two-week job into a six-week one. Treat the range as a sanity check: if an agency quotes three times the top figure, ask why, and if a freelancer quotes a third of the bottom figure, ask what is being left out. For a fixed price you need a short scoping call.

Design is how the site looks and how people move through it: wireframes, layouts, typography, mobile views. Development is turning that into a working site: theme code, plugins, forms, payments, integrations, speed and security. On a template build, design is a small part of the bill. On a custom build it is often 30 to 40 percent of it, which is why the design step in the calculator adds 50% for custom work and 120% for premium work.

Budget $1,500 to $5,000 for a brochure site of 5 to 15 pages built on a quality theme. Add $800 to $2,500 if you want proper SEO setup and $600 to $2,000 if someone else is writing the copy. A typical small business build with custom design, SEO and a booking form lands between $4,000 and $9,000. Startups on a tight budget are usually better off launching a template site now and paying for custom design once the business has revenue.

A WooCommerce store starts at about $3,000 and goes up to $15,000 for a theme-based build, depending on product count, payment gateways and shipping rules. A basic shop with up to 50 products usually costs $3,000 to $8,000. Subscriptions, product configurators or ERP and stock system integrations push the price to $15,000 to $50,000. On top of the build, expect payment processing fees of around 1.4 to 2.9 percent per transaction.

A one-page site or a single landing page costs $500 to $1,500 on a template and $1,500 to $3,000 with custom design and copywriting. The price rises when the page needs a custom form flow, A/B testing or tracking wired into a CRM. In the calculator, pick "Blog / Personal Site" as the closest match and add only the features you need.

A custom design costs about 50% more than the same site built on an off-the-shelf theme, and a premium build with UX research and animation costs a little over double. For a business site that means $2,250 to $7,500 custom versus $1,500 to $5,000 on a theme. Custom is worth paying for when the site is your main sales channel. For a local service business that gets its work through referrals, a well-configured theme does the job.

Redesigning an existing site costs $2,000 to $10,000. That is often close to the price of a new build, which surprises people. The work includes moving content, keeping URLs and redirects intact so you do not lose search rankings, and rebuilding features the old site relied on. Migrating from Wix or Squarespace to WordPress adds $400 to $1,500.

Enterprise builds run from $15,000 to $80,000 or more. The money goes on things a brochure site never needs: multi-site setups, single sign-on, API integrations with internal systems, approval workflows, accessibility audits and load testing. Timelines are 16 to 24 weeks, and discovery alone can take a month.

Shared hosting starts at about $3 a month and is fine for a small blog. A business site should be on managed WordPress hosting at $10 to $40 a month, and a busy store or membership site at $50 to $100 or more. Hosting is separate from the build price shown in the calculator. Add a domain at $10 to $20 a year and premium plugin renewals of $100 to $500 a year.

Hosting, the domain and plugin licences are the fixed costs. Maintenance is the optional one: $79 a month covers updates, backups and uptime monitoring, $149 adds security scans and an hour of support, and $299 includes priority support with three hours of developer time. You can do the updates yourself for free. Most owners who try it stop after the first plugin update breaks the checkout.

Yes. There is no signup, no email gate and no limit on how many times you run it. Change your answers and compare as many scenarios as you like. The estimate works on phones and tablets too.

The figures here are in US dollars and reflect typical freelancer and small agency rates. Agencies in London, New York, Sydney or San Francisco charge noticeably more for the same scope, sometimes double, while remote and offshore teams charge less. Scope affects the price far more than location does, so use the estimate as a baseline and adjust for the kind of provider you plan to hire.

A blog takes 3 to 5 weeks and a business site 5 to 8. A WooCommerce store needs 8 to 14 weeks, and a membership site 10 to 16. Rush delivery in under four weeks is possible for smaller sites and adds about 25% to the build. Late content and slow feedback cause more delays than development does.

Freelancers cost less, typically $500 to $10,000, and suit small sites with a clear brief. The risk is a single point of failure: if they get ill or busy, your project stops. An agency costs $3,000 to $35,000 and gives you a designer, developer, project manager and someone to call a year later. For a store or any site that takes payments, pay for the agency.

Yes. Freelancers and small agencies use it to check their quotes against market ranges and to show clients how design level, features and deadlines change the price. Run the client's requirements through it during a discovery call and you have a starting range before you write the proposal.