Comparisons

Every comparison we publish, and where each number came from

Twelve pages, one rule. No figure about another company appears on this site unless we read it off that company’s own public page, in USD, from a United States connection, and printed the source and the date next to it. Where a vendor wouldn’t show us a price, the cell says so instead of guessing.

Today you pay $1 for the website plus your first month of hosting. After that hosting is $8.99 a month, billed on the same date each month until you cancel, and you can cancel in any month. The .com is included on the Complete plan at $18.99 a month. On Basic at $8.99 a month the name is registered in your own name and run for you, and the registry’s own annual fee for it, about $12 a year, is billed separately at cost.

Start with what a website costs Get my website $1

Read September 3, 2026. Every competitor figure on this site carries that date in the row it appears in. Nothing invented. Not one number about a competitor is estimated, remembered or averaged. We lose rows. Where a competitor is better on a point, the row says so and we leave it there.

The money questions

What this costs, asked four different ways, because people arrive at it from four different directions.

What a small business website costs
The published US range runs from $1,000 to $30,000. This page puts every one of those figures next to a source and a date, then puts our number beside them.
Website design pricing
Our own price list, in full: the build, the two hosting plans, the two-year totals and the charges that aren’t on the bill and won’t appear later.
Pay monthly websites
Who charges what per month across the done-for-you market, and which of the offers advertising no contract have a setup fee or a twelve month commitment underneath.
The .com in year one and year two
Almost every included domain in this market lasts twelve months and then renews at list. This is what each vendor does at renewal, and what we do instead.

Head to head

One competitor at a time, on the same six questions, with every figure read off their own page and the date printed in the row.

DEVIQO vs Wix
A builder you drive yourself against a site drawn for you, and what happens to the domain voucher in year two.
DEVIQO vs Squarespace
Templates and an annual bill against seven days and a monthly one.
DEVIQO vs WordPress
Free to download, and someone still has to run it. The hosting, the plugins, the updates and the build, priced.
DEVIQO vs GoDaddy
What we could verify, what we couldn’t, and where the upsells sit. Some cells are left empty.
DEVIQO vs UENI
The fair fight: two done-for-you services, compared on the setup fee and on what each monthly is buying.

Roundups

When you have decided to leave one platform and haven’t decided where to go. Several options each, ours among them, with the catch attached to every one.

Wix alternatives
Seven of them, sorted by whether you want a better tool or you want to stop building websites.
Squarespace alternatives
Six of them, judged on the year instead of the month, because the advertised rate is the annual one.
GoDaddy alternatives
Six of them, counted at renewal rather than at the introductory price, plus what to do with the domain.

How these are written

Four rules, and the reason for each one

Comparison pages are the easiest thing on the internet to slant, so here is what we will and won’t do on them.

Read it, or don’t print it

Every competitor figure was read off a public page on September 3, 2026. Nothing is estimated from memory, taken from another comparison site or averaged out of a review.

Say when we couldn’t read it

A cell marked not verified means we couldn’t get that number in dollars on the day. It doesn’t mean the vendor has no price; it’s an empty cell we refused to fill.

Compare the same thing

Annual rates are labeled annual. Setup fees are added to the monthly. Two-year totals count the domain on both sides, because a comparison that leaves it off one side isn’t a comparison.

Name the case for the other side

Every one of these pages has a section explaining when the competitor is the right choice. If you enjoy building things, a builder is a better buy than we are, and the page says so.

Prices move, and any vendor can change one the day after a page here was written. So treat every figure as accurate on September 3, 2026 and check the source before you rely on it. That’s why the source is printed in the cell rather than in a footnote nobody reads.

The sources

Every page we read, in one list

These are the pages behind every competitor figure on this site. All of them were read on September 3, 2026, in USD, from a United States connection.

wix.com/plans
support.wix.com, "Choosing a Premium plan"
squarespace.com/pricing, currency set to USD
support.squarespace.com, "Included custom domains"
godaddy.com/websites/website-builder
ionos.com/websites/website-builder
ionos.com/domains/domain-names
hostinger.com/web-hosting
hostinger.com/domain-name-search
siteground.com/web-hosting.htm
wordpress.com/pricing, country set to US
wordpress.com/domains
webflow.com/pricing
ueni.com/pricing
b12.io/pricing
hibu.com/websites
sitemonth.com
jabzwebdesign.com
redefineweb.com
webfx.com/web-design/pricing
websitebuilderexpert.com, page updated December 5, 2025
elementor.com, "How much does a small business website cost"

Read September 3, 2026. We don’t link out to competitor pricing pages because those URLs move and a dead link looks like a dodge; the page is named precisely enough to find in one search.

Left out

What isn’t on any of these pages

No star ratings we invented. No percentage improvements attributed to customers who can’t be named. No award badges we designed ourselves. No screenshot of a checkout with a number typed into it. Those are the four things that make a comparison page worthless, and every one of them is easy to produce, which is exactly why so many of them exist.

What is here instead is arithmetic you can redo. Every total on this site is the build plus twenty-four months plus the domain, at published rates, and the parts are printed under the sum so you can check it. If you find one that’s wrong, tell us and we’ll correct it and say that we did. The contact page reaches a person.

If you’d rather skip the comparing: our whole price list is public, a hundred and twenty finished sites are on one page, and the industry pages show the structure we would use for your trade before you spend anything.

The offer

The number at the end of all this

$1 once for a website our team designs and writes and puts live in seven days, then hosting at $8.99 a month, billed monthly until you cancel. Every page above exists so you can check that against the market before you believe it.

Get my website $1 What you get

The same build is openly sold at $1,500, which is what a US agency charges for a small business site of this size. No contract, no minimum term and no exit fee: cancel in any month from the dashboard.