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What Reddit says a website costs, and the UK figures behind it
For a UK small business, a real answer is £800 to £3,000 for a competent multi-page site from a freelancer or small studio, and £3,000 to £10,000 once you add e-commerce, booking, or a lot of custom work. Below about £500 you are buying a template someone filled in. Above £15,000 you should be asking hard what the extra is for.
Ours start at £995, and multi-page builds at £1,495. Those are published because we think withholding the number is the actual problem.
This page collects what people say on Reddit. The full answer, with a £4,200 quote broken down line by line, is in the article How much does a website cost in the UK in 2026?
Why people add “reddit” to this search
Because most pages that answer it will not give a number. You search, you get twelve agency pages that say “every project is unique, book a call”, and you learn nothing. Adding “reddit” is a way of asking for the version where someone says what they actually paid.
That is a completely reasonable thing to want, and the fact that it works as a search tactic is an indictment of how this industry prices.
What the threads actually say
Quotes below are from public discussions, kept short and linked to the original so you can read the full context rather than take our summary for it.
How long is a piece of string?
Depends on what you want/need from your site. Somewhere between free and $20,000.
Being a web developer, I’ve built websites ranging from 500 USD to 7500 USD.
What we would tell you, with the numbers
Page count is not the driver. The driver is how many pages have a distinct job. Ten near-identical service pages are cheaper than three pages that each need their own thinking.
E-commerce and booking are the real step change. Anything that takes money or reserves time carries edge cases, failure states and testing that a brochure site does not.
Who does the content matters more than people expect. A build stalls on copy far more often than on code. If you write it, you save money and the project takes longer.
Beware the cheap quote that excludes everything. The £400 site that needs £900 of plugins, hosting and fixes is not a £400 site.
Our own numbers, in full: £995 for a tightly scoped single-service build, £1,495 upward for multi-page, £1,495 for a redesign that keeps your rankings, and £49 a month for care if you want it. Every build currently includes a 30-day post-launch period for fixes and reasonable tweaks.
The short version
If someone will not give you a range before a call, that is information. If someone gives you a fixed price in writing before work starts, that is also information.
The longer write-up, with the full working: How much does a website cost in the UK? What we build, and what it costs, is on the bespoke web design page.
Almost every price on this site is published and fixed in writing before work starts. We are Werehouse Holdings Ltd, company number 16802511, and you can check that.