For small businesses watching every pound
Cheap small business web design, with the price fixed first
Cheap website design starts with the least your site has to do: tell us that and we price exactly that, as one fixed figure you see before anything starts. For comparison, UK small business designers who publish a one-off price charge a median of £495.
Source: UK Small Business Web Design Price Index: every row, with its source
- One fixed price for the scope in your quote, agreed before anything starts
- Only the pages and features you need, so you are not paying for padding
- Any hosting or upkeep charge shown in the quote, never slipped in after launch
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- Lowest
- £25
- Median
- £55
- Highest
- £250
18 prices published for monthly, read . Every price, with its source
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- Asking costs nothing
- Stays with us
- Tell us your budget and we say what it buys
What the fixed price can cover
A lean site does a few things well. Your quote lists which of these it includes, so you can drop anything you can live without and ask for the figure again.
A few pages, done properly
Home, services, about and contact is enough for many small firms to start with. Each one is written around what a customer needs to know before picking up the phone.
An adapted layout where it saves money
Starting from a well-built layout and fitting it to your brand costs less than designing from a blank page, and the quote says which route yours takes.
Your own words and photos
Supplying your own text and pictures keeps the cost down. If you would rather we wrote or sourced them, that appears as a separate line so you can choose.
Hosting you can see the cost of
Where the site will be hosted, what that costs each month or year and whose name the domain is in, stated plainly so a low build price does not turn into a high running cost.
What the market charges
UK Small Business Web Design Price Index
Every figure read from the provider's own page; last updated
- The median published figure is £349.50 across 14 readings, with the middle half between £299 and £974.25. (UK Small Business Web Design Price Index: every row, with its source)
- 14 of 46 providers read publish a price at all; 31 publish none. (UK Small Business Web Design Price Index: every row, with its source)
- The cheapest published figure is £149, by Cheap Website Designer. (Cheap Website Designer (its own page, listed on this site's dataset page))
- The dearest published figure is £2,490, by We Build Stores small business website design. (We Build Stores small business website design)
Use these figures to judge the price we send back: it comes as one figure with the work it buys set out line by line.
Get my budget website priceEvery row of the table, with its source (26)
Every provider below was read on its own page through our fetch box, and the row says what that page published on the day we read it. 43 of 74 publish a figure; the rest are listed too, because how many will not quote a number is the most useful thing about this market. Nothing here is a quote for your job: it is what other people advertise.
| Provider | Published figure | Read | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Citrus Design small business website packages | £899, | 2026-09-21 | Red Citrus Design small business website packages |
| London Website Design Services price page | £1200 | 2026-09-21 | London Website Design Services price page |
| We Build Stores small business website design | £2,490 | 2026-09-21 | We Build Stores small business website design |
| Aspire Tech web design package prices | £199 | 2026-09-21 | Aspire Tech web design package prices |
| FMEOS bespoke website packages cost | £350, | 2026-09-21 | FMEOS bespoke website packages cost |
| Cheap Website Designer | £149 | 2026-09-21 | Cheap Website Designer (its own page, listed on this site's dataset page) |
| dotitmedia.co.uk | £349 | 2026-09-21 | dotitmedia.co.uk |
| Harris Digital Web Design | £299 | 2026-09-21 | Harris Digital Web Design (its own page, listed on this site's dataset page) |
| C Website Design (cheapwebdesign.org.uk) | £ 399 | 2026-09-21 | C Website Design (cheapwebdesign.org.uk) (its own page, listed on this site's dataset page) |
| Yonet web design packages | £1500 | 2026-09-21 | Yonet web design packages |
| CountSEO cheap web design packages | £299 | 2026-09-21 | CountSEO cheap web design packages |
| Cheap Web Design | £399 | 2026-09-21 | Cheap Web Design (its own page, listed on this site's dataset page) |
| Affordable Web Design | £299 | 2026-09-21 | Affordable Web Design (its own page, listed on this site's dataset page) |
| Sitebloomy affordable web design UK | £349 | 2026-09-21 | Sitebloomy affordable web design UK |
| Wildflowers & Pixels pay monthly websites | publishes no price | 2026-09-21 | Wildflowers & Pixels pay monthly websites |
| Pay Monthly Websites | publishes no price | 2026-09-21 | Pay Monthly Websites (its own page, listed on this site's dataset page) |
| Peter Bourne Communications small business package | publishes no price | 2026-09-21 | Peter Bourne Communications small business package |
| EdTheDev pricing | publishes no price | 2026-09-21 | EdTheDev pricing |
| Kitching Ltd pay monthly web design | publishes no price | 2026-09-21 | Kitching Ltd pay monthly web design |
| Harris Digital website design packages | publishes no price | 2026-09-21 | Harris Digital website design packages |
| Switchweb: how much does a website cost UK | publishes no price | 2026-09-21 | Switchweb: how much does a website cost UK |
| Duport: average cost of website design for small business UK | publishes no price | 2026-09-21 | Duport: average cost of website design for small business UK |
| ExpertSure: how much does a website cost UK 2026 | publishes no price | 2026-09-21 | ExpertSure: how much does a website cost UK 2026 |
| Valoron: web design prices UK | publishes no price | 2026-09-21 | Valoron: web design prices UK |
| Digital Otter: how much does a website cost UK 2026 | publishes no price | 2026-09-21 | Digital Otter: how much does a website cost UK 2026 |
| Luminary Brands: web design cost UK | publishes no price | 2026-09-21 | Luminary Brands: web design cost UK |
How these figures were read, and how to cite them
Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2). 14 of the 46 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 31 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 6 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere. The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source in GBP (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences), so N counts sources, never sentences; 383 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded. Derivation as chartered: the median, minimum and maximum PUBLISHED entry price across every UK provider that advertises one, held apart by purchase route - a one-off build against a monthly subscription - because they are not the same product and averaging them is the error every cost guide makes; the total cost of ownership over 12, 24 and 36 months for the monthly route (the figure that decides the purchase and that nobody publishes), the share of providers publishing a price at all against quoting, and the entry price against what the tier actually contains from the coverage dataset. Repriced-since on each read, with live promotions recorded as promotions and never as the price.
“UK Small Business Web Design Price Index”, Cheap small business web design, https://cheapsmallbusinesswebdesign.co.uk/ (updated 2026-09-21).
Read next
Every figure sourced and dated.
- UK Small Business Web Design Price Index: every published figure
Every provider we read that publishes a figure for cheap small business web design, what it publishes, and the day we read it. 14 of 46 read.
- The cheapest published prices in the UK Small Business Web Design Price In.
The 5 providers publishing at or under £299, the lower quartile of every figure we read for cheap small business web design.
- Who publishes a price, and who makes you ask
14 of 46 providers read for cheap small business web design publish a figure. These are the ones that do not.
- Monthly websites cost calculator: what monthly websites will cost you (UK)
Work out monthly websites over a year from what UK firms publish: £40.50 to £99 a month across the middle half, median £55.
What happens next
- Tell us what the business does, the must-haves for the site and the most you want to spend.
- We work out the leanest way to do it, then send one fixed price with a line for each thing it covers.
- Up to you. If it is over budget, say what to drop and we price it again; nothing is charged unless you agree.
The team that runs this site also does the work it quotes for. It carries no advertising, no sponsored placement and no affiliate links, and no provider in the table has paid to be there or can pay to be removed. Every figure is read from the named provider's own public page on the date shown and is what that provider advertises, not a quote for your job. Prices move; check the source before you rely on a row.
Straight answers
How much does cheap web design cost for a small business?
It depends what cheap has to include. Of the 74 UK providers whose pages we read for this index on 1 November 2026, 43 publish a price. A one-off website build has a median of £495 across 11 published figures, from £69; a pay-monthly website package has a median of £55 a month across 18, from £25 a month. Those are entry prices for each provider's own package. Our price is fixed from your brief, so you know what the figure buys before you agree.(UK Small Business Web Design Price Index)
What do small business website packages cost in the UK?
Website packages for small businesses are sold two ways. Pay-monthly packages, where the build, hosting and domain are bundled into one charge, have a median of £55 a month across 18 published figures and start at £25 a month (iWebServices). One-off builds have a median of £495 across 11 figures. Over two years a £55 a month package costs £1,320, so compare the total, not the entry price.(UK Small Business Web Design Price Index)
Who is the cheapest web designer in the UK?
On the prices published when we read them on 1 November 2026, the lowest one-off figure was Cheap Website Designer's packages from £69, and the lowest monthly figure iWebServices' packages from £25 a month. An entry price is the smallest package, so ask what it leaves out before you compare it with a budget website design quote fixed to your brief.(UK Small Business Web Design Price Index)
How can I keep the cost of a website down?
Keep the first version small, supply your own words and photographs, and start from an adapted layout rather than a fully custom design. Tell us your budget and the quote will say what fits inside it and what would push it up.
What information gets me an accurate price?
What the business does, your web address if you have one, the pages you think you need and the most you want to spend. A link to a site you like the feel of helps too.
Will I be contacted by lots of web designers?
No. One team reads it: ours, the people who run this site and would do the build. Your phone number is not sold, swapped or put in front of a panel of designers.
Can you build a website for a business anywhere in the UK?
Yes. Nothing about the work needs a visit: the brief, the design sign-off and the launch all take place online, which also helps keep the cost down.
Sources
This site's own datasets, every figure quoted from its source and dated:
- For monthly, the median published figure in the UK Small Business Web Design Price Index is 55 GBP across 18 figures from the sources' own pages (range 25 to 250 GBP), read 1 November 2026.
- The UK Web Design Service Index carries 4 published figures read from 3 sources' own pages; the 3 published figures given by purchase route run from 49 to 2,490 GBP, read 21 October 2026.
- Aspire Tech web design package prices
- Cheap Web Design (its own page, listed on this site's dataset page)
- Harris Digital Web Design (its own page, listed on this site's dataset page)
- We Build Stores small business website design
- Wildflowers & Pixels pay monthly websites
- Cheap Website Designer (its own page, listed on this site's dataset page)
- Inventis pay monthly website design
- Pay Monthly Websites (its own page, listed on this site's dataset page)