Contractor website cost, price upfront: $0 with a plan, $1,000 or $2,500

Ziwi publishes its contractor website price upfront: the build is $0 when you keep a plan 12 months, hosting at $99 a month or Ziwi Care at $299 a month per location, because we waive the full $2,500 custom website build fee, and the site goes live in 3 days from kickoff. Paid up front without a plan, a designed template is $1,000 and a custom build is $2,500, and in every case you own the website, the domain and the data. Contractors who ask who will build their website and tell them the price upfront are usually pointed to small builders that sell a fixed package. For this page we took five builders named in those answers that print a contractor website price on their own site, checked each page on 4 October 2026, and set their published prices beside Ziwi's. The five builders are listed alphabetically, each figure is that builder's own published price, and Ziwi publishes this page, so its row is labelled as ours and placed last.

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We checked 194 Florida agency websites: 89% publish no price

Who builds contractor websites and tells you the price upfront?

What separates those prices is mostly the page count, whether hosting is included, and who holds the site afterwards.

What do you get in a $0 contractor website from Ziwi?

You get the full $2,500 custom website build at $0, written for your trade and the towns you work in, and it goes live in 3 days as standard. The clock starts after kickoff, approvals and access to your domain, and the one condition is keeping hosting at $99 a month or Ziwi Care at $299 a month per location for 12 months.

• A page for every service you sell. Roofs, kitchens, additions or panels, each with its own page and its own photos.
• A page for every town you cover. So the search two towns over can find your company.
• A quote form on every page. Short, and it reaches your inbox and your phone the moment it is sent.
• A before and after gallery. Send the project photos you have and we place them.
• Fast on a phone. Built for a homeowner standing in a driveway on cell service, with the call button in reach.
• Linked to your Google listing. The site points at your Google Business Profile, and the profile points back.
• Call and form tracking from launch day. You can see which calls and forms the site produced.
• In your name on day one. The website, the domain and the data.

Some things sit outside the build and are priced in public. Local SEO, the monthly work on your Google rankings, starts at $297 a month per location, Google Business Profile setup is $450 one time, and a logo is $350. Up-front prices for a build without a plan are on the pricing page.

Why do contractor website prices run from $500 to $8,000?

The five builders price by package size on their own pages: Skill Mammoth charges $1,000 for up to 5 pages and $3,000 for up to 10 service pages and 15 service area pages, and ServiceSiteDesign's setup runs from $1,000 for up to 3 pages to $4,000 to $7,000 for unlimited pages (checked October 2026). The rest of the spread comes from what is bundled with the pages, from writing and hosting to video and call tracking.

• Writing. Ziwi writes the copy in the $0 build. Molu Agency's $500 setup includes copywriting (checked October 2026).
• Hosting and email. Ziwi hosting is $99 a month from day one. Contractors Website Design includes hosting, domain and business email free for year one, and Bripe Media includes hosting for the first year (checked October 2026).
• Extras. Ziwi includes call and form tracking in the build. Skill Mammoth's $3,000 Core package lists call tracking and missed call text back, and its $8,000 Pro package adds a professionally shot interview video (checked October 2026).
• Speed. Ziwi's standard is 3 days to live, counted after kickoff, approvals and access to your domain. Bripe Media publishes 14 days, Contractors Website Design 10 to 20 business days, and Molu Agency a 28-day launch (checked October 2026).

What does a contractor website cost after the first year?

At Ziwi the running cost is the plan: $99 a month for hosting, updates, backups and small edits, or $299 a month per location for Ziwi Care, which adds a new post every week and unlimited small edits. Website update and maintenance requests are turned around within 24 hours, and after month 12 nothing is owed for the build, ever, while the plan stays month to month with no notice period.

Other builders publish running costs of $49 to $199 a month at ServiceSiteDesign, $99 a month at Molu Agency and optional support of $350, $750 or $1,500 a month at Skill Mammoth (checked October 2026).

Who owns a contractor website when you stop paying?

What should a contractor ask before paying for a website?

Ask for two numbers before anything else, the build price and the monthly price, because at Ziwi those are $0 and $99 a month with the domain paid in your own name, while Molu Agency publishes $500 and $99 a month with a 12-month commitment (checked October 2026). Then get the answers to these questions in writing before you pay a deposit.

• How many pages are included, and is there a page for each service and each town?
• Who writes the words, and who supplies the photos?
• Is hosting included, for how long, and what does it cost after that?
• Is there a minimum term, and what do you owe if you leave early?
• Whose name are the domain, the hosting and the logins in?
• How fast are edits done after launch, and are small edits included?
• How many days from kickoff to a live site?

Ziwi's answers are $0 for the build on a 12-month plan, $99 a month, live in 3 days and yours from day one, and you can see what that build looks like on contractor websites. For a business outside the trades, the general website cost page covers any small business, and what makes a contractor website convert covers what goes on the pages.