The details.
What is the cheapest way to get a website?
A do-it-yourself builder. Squarespace's own pricing page lists plans at $19 to $99 a month (checked October 2026), and you supply the evenings. That is the lowest dollar cost and the highest time cost.
It is a fair way to test an idea. Most people outgrow it when the site needs to win customers instead of just existing.
What does a custom site cost at Sitewhip?
Personal Sites start at $495: one page, or up to three, usually about a week. Business Sites start at $1,495: up to six custom-designed pages, two to three weeks. Signature Builds start at $2,950: up to ten pages with a bespoke interactive centerpiece. Fixing an existing site starts at $295.
Every project gets a fixed quote before anything begins. The number you agree to is the number you pay.
What makes the price go up?
Page count, custom design instead of a template, copywriting help, and integrations like booking or payments.
A one-page site with your words ready is the cheap end. A ten-page build with scroll storytelling and copy support is the other.
Are there ongoing costs after the build?
A domain runs about $10 a year. Hosting for most simple sites costs little or nothing each month on modern hosts like Cloudflare Pages, and your site is set up in an account you own.
If you want someone handling edits, monitoring and small fixes, the Care Plan is $49 a month, cancel anytime. Every site already includes 2 small content edits in the first 30 days after launch.
Why not just pay the $19 a month forever?
If the site brings in no customers, cheap is expensive. A business site exists to get you found and make you look established.
A custom build pays for itself when one won customer covers it. For most small businesses, that is a single job.