Short answer: it depends on what the site has to do. At Style Marking you get a set price for the build, quoted up front, then a monthly plan for just the services you need. Traditional agencies commonly quote $3,000–$10,000+ for a contractor site, and DIY builders charge a monthly fee while you do the building yourself. Here’s the full breakdown — what drives the price, what the ongoing costs really are, and where contractors get overcharged.
If you run a construction, framing, remodeling, roofing, or any other trades company and you want a real website in 2026, the honest answer to “what does it cost?” is that it depends on what the site has to do. A five-page site that makes you look legitimate is a very different job from a 40-page site with an estimate funnel wired into your CRM. Here’s how we price it at Style Marking, with no “starting at” teaser that doubles once you’re on the phone.
The build price covers designing and building a site around how your business actually works. The monthly plan covers only the services you choose after launch — hosting, updates, SEO, lead alerts — and nothing you don’t use. That split matters more than the sticker price, and we’ll come back to it.
A small build covers a custom website design of about 5 pages — typically a homepage, services, about, gallery, and contact. It should include mobile responsive design, basic SEO setup, an SSL certificate, and a working contact form. For a one-crew operation that mostly needs to look legitimate when a homeowner Googles the company name, this is usually the right call.
This is where most contractors land, and for a reason. Going up to about 15 pages is where contractor sites start winning search traffic: a dedicated page for each trade you offer, plus deeper SEO and analytics, a blog, and social media integration. If you want to rank for “framing contractor St. Cloud” and “drywall contractor Sartell”, you need separate pages for those searches — and that means a site this size. It’s also the size where adding SEO to the monthly plan starts to make sense.
Some operations need more than a brochure: unlimited pages, custom app development, live chat, an advanced security setup, custom integrations, and performance work. Multi-division companies, GCs juggling residential and commercial audiences, and contractors who want estimate workflows wired into their CRM land here. Our development team builds each one unique to the business, so the build price follows what the system has to do.
Just need one page? A single custom landing page is a real option if you’re a new operation and every dollar is spoken for. It’s one page, but it’s built for your business, it’s fast, it’s quoted the same way, with a set price up front, and it can grow into a full site later.
When one quote comes in at twice another — or a big agency’s number climbs from $3,000 toward $15,000 — these are the factors that genuinely add work:
What should not drive the price up: vague “discovery phases” billed before you’ve seen a plan, a monthly bundle padded with services you’ll never use, or a number that changes once you’re on the phone. If a quote includes those, keep shopping.
Every website has a carrying cost after launch, and an honest quote spells it out before you sign. With us, that’s the monthly plan — and it covers only the services you actually need:
You pick what goes in the plan, and you know the price before you start. It’s priced to compete with the website builders and the subscription apps contractors already pay for. Compare that with a DIY builder subscription, where the platform fee typically runs hundreds of dollars a year, you still do the building yourself, and the site looks like everyone else’s template. We broke that comparison down fully in Wix vs custom for contractors.
If you’ve already collected quotes, you’ve probably seen numbers between $3,000 and $10,000 for a contractor site — sometimes far more from larger firms. Most of that spread is overhead: offices, project managers, sales commissions. The build work for a 10-page contractor website is largely the same either way.
We’re a lean Central Minnesota shop without those layers, and our development team works hard for every client, whether that’s a one-crew framer or a multi-division GC. Our pricing is built to compete with the big agencies and the subscription apps, and you get a written quote before any work begins: a set price for the build and the monthly plan spelled out line by line — no deposit to find out what you’re getting.
You get a written quote with a set build price before any work begins. No deposit to find out what you’re getting.
Your monthly plan covers what you picked — hosting, updates, SEO, lead alerts — and nothing else.
Builds and monthly plans are priced to compete with the big agencies and the apps contractors already pay for.
Your domain and your leads stay yours, and you can export everything. No hostage situations.
For most trades businesses in 2026, the realistic plan has two lines: a set price for the build, sized to how many pages and tools you actually need, and a monthly plan for the services you choose — hosting and the domain at minimum, plus updates, SEO, and lead alerts if you want them handled for you. A brand-new operation can start with a single landing page and grow it into a full site when the work justifies it.
The wrong plan is paying for a big agency’s overhead and then a bundled monthly fee for services you never asked for, or sitting on a template and wondering why you never show up on Google. If you want a sense of what the finished product looks like, our portfolio has live contractor builds you can click through.
More honest breakdowns for contractors and small business owners weighing website decisions.
Tell us what your business does and we’ll send you a free quote: a set price for the build and a monthly plan for just the services you need — no deposit, no pressure. Call (320) 360-8285 or reach out below.