Buying a website
Published prices from UK pay-monthly and small-business web design providers, fetched from each provider's own site and checked in August 2026.
Verithora 13 Aug 2026 5 min read
On 13 August 2026 we fetched the public pricing pages of UK web design providers that publish their prices, and recorded what each one displays. This post is that table, with a checked-on date for every figure, plus a short section on how to choose between the models.
Two things before the table. First, this is a price comparison, not a ranking: nobody is scored, and the providers sell genuinely different things. Second, one of the rows is us. Verithora sells the £49 to £200 a month tiers listed below, so read our inclusion with that in mind. Every other figure is quoted from the provider’s own public page.
The method is short enough to state in full:
What the table cannot tell you: how good the work is, how quickly anyone replies, or what a site will do for your enquiries. It records published prices on a stated date, nothing more.
| Provider | Model | Published price | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|
| JJ Solutions | One-off build | From £299 for a three-page WordPress site, including the first six months of hosting and email | 13 Aug 2026 |
| Stagg Studios | Monthly service on an existing site | £100 a month, or £1,000 a year with two months free; first month free | 13 Aug 2026 |
| Steve Sims | One-off build, optional care | £650 for up to ten pages; custom WordPress from £500; e-commerce from £850; maintenance from £50 a month | 13 Aug 2026 |
| Verithora (that is us) | Pay-monthly build and management | £49 Essentials, £79 Growth, £200 Pro, per month; £0 setup; 10% off paid annually; 30-day money back | 13 Aug 2026 |
| Yopp | Pay-monthly websites | Five plans: Premium £40, Business £65, Boost £150, Total SEO £300, Full Stack £1,000, per month plus VAT, plus a bespoke tier priced on application; annual prepay £440, £715, £1,650 on the first three; no setup fees | 13 Aug 2026 |
Notes on the rows, in the same order:
Three things stop this table being a like-for-like grid.
The models differ. A £299 one-off, a £100 a month service on an existing site, and a £49 a month build-and-manage subscription are three different purchases. The first question is which model fits how you run, and only then which provider.
VAT changes the real bill. Yopp states its prices exclude VAT, so its £40 plan invoices at £48 for a buyer who cannot reclaim it. Where a provider displays a single figure with no VAT note, confirm before comparing: a 20 per cent difference is bigger than most of the gaps in the table.
Time makes prices comparable. Using only the published figures above: £49 a month is £2,940 over five years, all-in. £650 up front plus the same provider’s £50 a month maintenance is £3,650 over five years. £299 up front covers six months of hosting, after which hosting, changes, and upkeep are extra and depend on your arrangements. The headline prices order one way; the five-year totals order another. The five-year post works through the full arithmetic, including the DIY-upkeep route.
Four checks, none of which need a sales call:
Verithora is one of the providers in this table. We sell the £49, £79, and £200 a month tiers shown, so we have a commercial interest in the subscription model looking sensible. That is why this post contains no rankings, no scores, and no adjectives about anyone else’s work: only published prices, fetched from each provider’s own site, with the date we checked each one. If a figure above changes and we have not caught it, tell us and we will correct it and update the date.
Written and checked by Verithora, a one-founder web studio in East Dulwich, London SE22. We work UK-wide and meet clients in person across south London and Surrey, including Croydon, Bromley and Sutton.
Questions
From the published prices we checked on 13 August 2026: Yopp publishes five priced monthly plans from £40 to £1,000 plus VAT, and its three core website plans are £40, £65, and £150 a month. Verithora (that is us) lists three tiers at £49, £79, and £200 a month. Stagg Studios lists £100 a month, though that buys ongoing work inside a website you already have, not a new build. On the one-off side, published prices start at £299 for a three-page WordPress site (JJ Solutions) and £650 for up to ten pages (Steve Sims), with ongoing costs on top.
It varies, and it changes the real bill by 20 per cent. Yopp displays its monthly prices excluding VAT, so the £40 plan costs £48 to a buyer who cannot reclaim it. Other providers in our table display a single figure with no VAT note. Before you compare two quotes, confirm in writing whether the number you have been shown is the number that will appear on the invoice.
Over five years it often is, once the running costs of the one-off are counted. £49 a month for five years is £2,940 all-in. A £650 build plus maintenance at the same provider's published £50 a month is £3,650 over the same period. A £299 build looks far cheaper until hosting, changes, and upkeep are added, because the published price covers only six months of hosting. The honest comparison is total cost over your realistic time horizon, not the headline. Our five-year cost post works through the arithmetic in full.
We fetched each provider's live public pricing page ourselves on 13 August 2026 and recorded exactly what it displayed. Any provider we could not verify was left out: one candidate site returned a server error on every attempt across 12 and 13 August 2026, and another publishes no prices at all, so neither appears in the table.
No, and it deliberately avoids being one. It is a factual price comparison. The table records what each provider publishes, on a stated date, and nothing else. It does not measure quality of work, speed of replies, or results, and the providers sell different things, so price alone cannot rank them. We are also in the table ourselves, which is exactly why we stick to published facts.
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