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What does it cost to build a site?

A website is a smaller, more finishable thing than a product, so it gets a number instead of a conversation. Three shapes cover nearly everyone who asks.

$750A one-page site, paid once
$75/moKeeping it live, month to month

Sites are priced by how much of them there is, not by how long we feel like taking. One page is $750. A multi-page site is $1,000 to $1,500, and which end you land on depends on how many pages there are and whether the words and photographs already exist. Anything with a moving part — real availability, payments, stock, a page you edit yourself — starts at $1,750 and gets a fixed number once we have seen the moving part. Every build is written twice, in English and in Spanish, because a translated site reads translated and your customers can tell. Keeping it alive afterward is $75 to $150 a month, month to month, and it is optional.

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Every number on this page was last checked . If a figure here is out of date, the one we quote you is the lower of the two.

The site, priced in tiers

Most quotes for a website are a guess dressed as a number, because nobody agreed what the site contains before pricing it. These three tiers are defined by content, not by hours, so you can tell which one you are in before you call anyone.

Both languages are in the price, and they are written rather than translated. The English and the Spanish are drafted separately from the same brief, so each one reads like it was meant. On the island that is not a nicety — it is the difference between a family in Bayamón booking with you and bouncing.

One-Page Site

$750paid once

Everything on one scrolling page: who you are, what you sell, where you are, when you are open and how to reach you. Built by hand so it opens fast on cellular data, set up on your own domain, connected to your Google Business Profile, with WhatsApp and phone one tap away. Both languages.

Right for you if: you have no site, or a Facebook page doing the job of one, and what you sell fits on a page you could describe out loud in a minute.

Wrong for you if: you have a menu, a room list or a catalogue that changes. One page can hold it, but you will outgrow it inside a year.

Multi-Page Site

from$1,000

Four to eight pages — services or menu, gallery, the story, contact — each one written for what someone arriving on it actually wants. Enquiries land wherever you already work, whether that is WhatsApp, a form to your inbox or your Calendly. Local search handled per page, not sprinkled on at the end. $1,500 is the top of the range, and it is where the copy and the photography have to be produced rather than collected.

Right for you if: the site is your storefront — people decide whether to come to you by reading it — and there is more to say than one page holds.

Wrong for you if: customers need to log in, pay you or manage something. That is a product, and it is priced on the software page.

Custom Build

from$1,750

A site with a moving part. Real availability rather than a contact form, card payments or deposits, live stock, several locations, or a page you update yourself without calling us. We scope the moving part first and then give you one fixed number for the whole thing — there is no version of this where the price arrives after the work.

Right for you if: the site has to do something, not only say something, and doing it by hand is already costing you evenings.

Wrong for you if: the moving part is the whole business rather than a feature of the site. Then you are buying software, and discovery is the honest first step.

After it goes live

A site does not fail loudly. The certificate lapses, a plugin somewhere goes stale, the hours change and nobody edits them, and eighteen months later the first thing a customer sees is a browser warning or last year’s Christmas hours.

The care plans are that, handled — hosting inside every tier, no separate bill, and the person who answers is the person who built it. Month to month, no minimum, no cancellation fee. They are optional: the site is yours and it will run without us.

Care Essential

$75/month

Hosting, SSL, backups, uptime monitoring, and small text or photograph changes when you send them — new hours, a new phone number, a swapped picture. The site stays live, fast, current and safe.

Right for you if: the site says what it needs to and you want it still saying it, still quickly, in two years.

Wrong for you if: you already know you will want new sections every month. That is the next tier.

Care Standard

$120/month

Everything above, plus real content work each month in both languages: a new service, a seasonal menu, a gallery refresh, a page for the thing you just started offering. Plus a short monthly note on what people searched to find you and what they did next.

Right for you if: the business changes through the year — seasons, menus, events — and the site should change with it instead of lagging a season behind.

Wrong for you if: nothing has changed since launch and nothing is going to. Essential covers you for less.

Care Custom

from$150/month

For sites with a moving part. Everything in Standard, plus the booking calendar, the payments, the stock feed or the integrations kept working — including when the service on the other end changes something without telling either of us. Priority response when the moving part is what broke.

Right for you if: the site takes bookings or money, so an hour of it being wrong is an hour of lost trade rather than an inconvenience.

Wrong for you if: the site is pages only. There is nothing here for you to pay for.

Leaving does not cost you the site. The domain, the hosting account and the code were put in your name on day one, so cancelling means the plan stops — not the site.

What’s not in the number

The short second page every web quote has and nobody shows you. Here is ours, before you ask.

  • The domain. If you own your name already we build on it. If not, we register it in your account for roughly $15 a year — the renewal is yours, in your name, and you see the figure before we buy anything.
  • Hosting beyond a normal year. It sits inside every care plan at ordinary traffic. Without a plan it is yours to arrange, and a static site of this kind costs little or nothing to host.
  • Photography. We will use what you have, and use it well. A real shoot — a photographer, a day, the room emptied — is its own profession and its own invoice.
  • Licensed fonts and stock imagery. Only if you want a specific one. Everything we reach for by default is free to use commercially, so this line is usually zero.
  • Third-party subscriptions. A booking tool, an email platform, a payment processor’s percentage. Billed to you, at cost, with the monthly figure estimated before you commit to the tool rather than after.
  • Advertising. Neither the spend nor the managing of it. A site that converts makes ads cheaper; it is still a separate decision and a separate budget.

You own all of it regardless of what you spend. The domain, the hosting account and the code are created in your name from day one — not transferred later as a goodwill gesture. There is no arrangement here where leaving costs you the site.

Included, always, no line item: both languages, the fixed quote before work starts, and two rounds of changes — one when you see the design, one before it goes live, each of them a list of any length. If we misread what you asked for, fixing it does not spend a round; that one is our mistake and our time.

Ready when you are

Start with the free half hour.

You’ll leave it knowing what version one actually is, roughly what it takes, and whether it should be built at all. If the answer is a tool you can buy instead, we’ll say so and you’ll have spent thirty minutes.

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