How much does a small business website cost in 2026?

If you run a salon, a garage, a clinic or work for yourself, the question comes up sooner or later: how much does a website cost, and what do I get for the money? The short answer: in 2026 a small business website runs from nothing at all with a free site builder to several thousand euros with an agency. The long answer is the one that matters, because the price you are quoted is rarely the price you end up paying.

Below you will find indicative market ranges, a checklist of what a local business site should include, the costs that get left out of the quote, and five questions for comparing proposals. At the end we explain how Easy and Fast Web does it: you see your website first and only then its price.

Indicative price ranges in 2026

The figures in this table are broad ranges for the European market. They are there to give you a bearing, not as anyone's rate card: every provider sets their own.

Option	Upfront (indicative)	Per month (indicative)	Who does the work
Site builder, done yourself	€0	€0 to €40	You, with your time
Template set up by a professional	€300 to €1,000	€5 to €30 hosting	A freelancer or a small agency
Custom site from a freelancer	€800 to €2,500	€10 to €60	An independent professional
Agency	€1,500 to €6,000 or more	€30 to €150	A team
Easy and Fast Web	Free to generate and view your website; publishing it is a one-off payment (you see the price in your dashboard before deciding)	A monthly fee, starting one month after publication	An AI drafts the proposal; it goes live automatically once payment is confirmed

Two warnings before you go on. First: "free" is rarely free. A builder with no monthly fee puts its own adverts on your page, gives you an address that is not yours, or charges for every feature you actually need. Second: the upfront price tells you little until you know what is inside it. So let's look.

What a local business website should include

A small business does not need much, but what it needs has to be done properly.

• One page, or a handful of commercial pages. Home, services, about you, contact. A café does not need twelve pages; it needs the menu, the opening hours and directions to be visible.
• Your details, correct and easy to find. Address, phone, hours, WhatsApp, social profiles. If a customer has to hunt for your number, you have already lost them.
• A map and a way to get in touch. A form, a call button or a WhatsApp link.
• A booking or quote button that goes where you already work: your diary, your booking system or your inbox.
• A design that reads well on a phone. Most of your customers will look you up on their mobile, often on the way over.
• A domain and hosting. Without them the site does not exist.
• Legal pages with your real details: legal notice, privacy and cookies.

And what a site in this price range usually does not include, in case someone promises it casually: an online shop that takes payments, a booking engine of its own, photographs of your premises and your team, and advertising campaigns. Each of those is separate work with a separate price.

The costs that never make the quote

When you compare prices, look at this list too. It is where the differences hide.

1. Domain. Paid every year. For a .com or a national domain, €10 to €20 a year is typical (indicative).
2. Hosting. Monthly or yearly. For a small site, basic hosting is usually enough.
3. Maintenance. Backups, updates, fixes. If nobody does it, the site ages and one day it stops loading.
4. Copy. Who writes the services page? If that is left to you, budget several evenings.
5. Photos. Stock images show. Your own cost a session with a photographer or a morning with a phone and good light.
6. Changes. Updating your hours or a price should not require a new quote. Ask what a small change costs.
7. Your time. Meetings, emails, reviewing drafts. It is the cost nobody writes down and the one that weighs most.

Five questions for comparing quotes

1. What do I see before I pay? A sketch, a mock-up, nothing. The more you see up front, the fewer surprises later.
2. What happens next month? Who hosts the site, who maintains it and what it costs each month.
3. Whose name is the domain in? It must be yours. Otherwise, the day you change provider you lose the address.
4. What does a small change cost? New hours, a photo, an extra service.
5. Who checks what goes live? A site with a mistyped phone number does quiet damage for months.

With those five answers on the table, two quotes that looked identical stop looking identical.

How Easy and Fast Web does it

We have turned the usual order around: you see your website first, then you decide whether to pay for it.

1. You describe your business in a step-by-step questionnaire: what you offer, where you are, what you want the site to do. Anything you leave blank is left out, not filled in with made-up details.
2. You generate a proposal. Once you verify your email you have 3 free generations, and we do not ask for a card. Each proposal stays at its own link for 30 days, so you can review it calmly and show it to whoever you like. When the free ones run out, you keep going by buying the website: from payment it includes 3 tickets a month, and each one lets you generate or modify your website or request support.
3. You see the price with your website in front of you. Once your first website has been generated, your dashboard shows what it costs to make it official and what that includes. If you buy it, you choose its address (like yourbusiness.easyandfastweb.com) and, as soon as the payment is confirmed, that version is published automatically, exactly as you saw it. It covers one page or up to 5 commercial pages.
4. One month after publication the monthly fee begins: hosting, maintenance, the same 3 tickets a month (to generate, modify or request support) and one weekly post on your blog: you receive the draft by email and, if you do not reply within 48 hours, it is published. You see its amount in your dashboard next to the website price. A domain of your own is not included: if you have one, you connect it from your dashboard.

What we do not do is written down as well: no online shop, no booking engine of our own, no photos of your premises, no legal texts ready to publish without your details. It is all laid out in the frequently asked questions, and the examples show how the website is planned for several sectors: its goal, what it says and where its main button leads.

Frequently asked questions

How much does it cost to keep a website running each year?

Adding up domain, hosting and a little maintenance, a small site you manage yourself usually lands between €100 and €600 a year, and more if you pay a professional to maintain it. Those are indicative figures. At Easy and Fast Web hosting and maintenance are inside the monthly fee, which starts one month after your site is published; a domain of your own, if you want one, you register separately.

Can I have a website without paying anything?

Yes, with a free site builder. In exchange you accept someone else's adverts, an address that is not yours and limits on what you can do. For a business that wants to be found and called, what you save on the fee you tend to pay in customers who never arrive.

Do I need my own domain?

Your own domain is your address on the internet and it should be in your name: if you change provider, the address goes with you. If you already have one, ask whoever builds your site whether they can use it. At Easy and Fast Web your site goes live at one of our addresses (yourbusiness.easyandfastweb.com) and you can connect your own domain from your dashboard.

How long does it take to get a website published?

It depends on who builds it and how quickly you supply the details and review the drafts. Be wary of fixed deadlines promised before anyone has looked at your business. At Easy and Fast Web the proposal is generated in the background while you get on with something else, you review it yourself before paying and, as soon as the payment is confirmed, it goes live automatically.