How much does a website cost for a contractor?
A contractor website can cost anywhere from a weekend of your own time to five figures, and the number by itself tells you almost nothing. Here is what actually drives the price, what an exterior contractor should expect to pay in 2026, and how to tell whether you need a new site at all. Every CurbSide figure below is the same price we publish on our pricing page.
The short answer
The quick numbers, up front
What you pay depends almost entirely on who builds it and whether it is made to rank. Three broad options cover most contractors.
- Do it yourself on a website builder: roughly $0 to $500 a year, plus a lot of your own time, and it rarely ranks.
- A freelancer or template shop: usually $500 to $3,000 for a site that looks fine but is seldom built to bring in work.
- A done-for-you, rank-ready build: $2,500 to $6,000 for a new site.
The CurbSide figures are our real, published prices. The rest of this page explains what moves you up or down, so you can size your own budget before you talk to anyone.
What drives the price
Why one contractor website costs more than another
Two sites can look similar and cost thousands apart. Three things explain most of the gap.
Number of pages
Every service you offer and every town you cover is another page that can rank. A three-page site and a full multi-service build are very different amounts of work, and that is the single biggest driver of price.
Template or built to rank
A cheap site drops your logo into a template every other contractor also uses. A rank-ready build is structured, fast, and schema-marked around the searches that book jobs. Same pixels, very different result.
Copy and SEO included
A design-only site leaves you to write the words and figure out rankings later. A build with real copywriting and on-page SEO baked in costs more up front but is the part that actually turns visitors into calls.
The done-for-you option
Every price, itemized
Here is exactly what a rank-ready contractor website costs with CurbSide, whether you need a new build or keeping the one you have and improving it monthly inside the retainer.
One-time, new site
14-day site build
A brand-new, rank-ready website, live in two weeks or $250 off.
- Starter, $2,500. Home, three service pages, contact.
- Growth, $4,000. Home, up to eight pages, a location page.
- Domination, $6,000. Full multi-service build with blog architecture.
Cost versus value
A cheap website that does not rank is the expensive one
The sticker price is only half the math. The other half is whether the site ever brings in a job.
A $500 template site that never shows up in search costs you every job it fails to win, month after month. A rank-ready build costs more once, then pays you back in calls for years. When you price a website, price the leads it produces, not just the design.
- DIY builder: cheapest up front, but your time is not free and it rarely ranks.
- Template site: looks fine, but is not structured to bring in work.
- Rank-ready build: more up front, then it earns its cost back in booked jobs.
Website cost FAQ
Common questions about website cost
A do-it-yourself builder runs about $0 to $500 a year, a freelancer or template shop usually $500 to $3,000, and a done-for-you rank-ready build $2,500 to $6,000 for a new site. What you pay depends mostly on how many pages you need and whether the site is actually built to rank.
Cheaper up front, yes. A website builder can cost almost nothing. But your time is not free, and DIY sites are rarely structured to rank in local search, so they tend to sit there without bringing in work. For many contractors the true cost of a cheap site is the jobs it never wins.
Three things: the number of service and location pages, whether it is a reused template or a rank-ready build, and whether real copywriting and on-page SEO are included. A design-only template is cheap because it skips the parts that actually turn visitors into phone calls.
Basic hosting and a domain run about $10 to $50 a month. That keeps the site online but does nothing to grow it. If you want the site to climb and hold rankings over time, that is a local SEO retainer, which runs $500 to $2,500 a month for most contractors. Building and growing are two separate costs.
If your current site is reasonably fast and you like how it looks, keeping it and letting the monthly retainer rewrite and restructure the key pages is usually enough. If it is slow, dated, or built on a platform that fights you, a fresh build from $2,500 is the better value. Our free audit will tell you honestly which one you actually need.
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