How much does a website cost in South Africa?
A professional small business website in South Africa costs between R4,999 and R14,999 once off. R4,999 refreshes a site you already have, delivered in a week. R9,999 is a full redesign, delivered in two weeks. R14,999 is a complete overhaul with your search structure built end to end, delivered in three to four weeks. Rented monthly packages in the wider market are advertised from about R299 to R1,049 a month. Our monthly care is R3,499 a month, the work continues every month, and it carries the exclusivity promise: while you are with us, we will not do this work for anyone chasing the same customers as you in your area.
The rest of this page explains why those numbers are so far apart, what each end of the market actually includes, and what to check before you pay anyone, including us.
Three ways this market charges you.
Website prices in South Africa run from R299 a month to well past R10,000 a month, and all three models below are real businesses serving real customers. The difference is not quality alone, it is what you own at the end and what it costs to leave.
Rented monthly packages
R299 to R1,049 a monthTemplate based sites with hosting included, usually live within days, and the low price is real. What the price buys is a rental. Before you sign, check whose name the domain is registered in, what happens to the site when you stop paying, and how many pages and changes the price covers. On many of these packages the site and the web address go away with the subscription.
Full service agencies
Around R10,000 a month and upThe bigger agencies do good work. Their monthly budgets bundle strategy, content, advertising management and reporting, and their cost base means the numbers start around R10,000 a month, often with a six month commitment. For a business that spends that comfortably, it is a fair model. It is simply built for bigger budgets than most small businesses run on.
Where we sit
R4,999 to R14,999, once offOne fixed price, printed on this page, paid once. The site, the domain, the hosting and the Google accounts registered in your name, so nothing goes away if you leave. Monthly care is optional at R3,499, there is no minimum term, and it carries a promise the other two models do not make: while you are with us monthly, we will not work for your competitor in your area.
We are built for businesses at the small and medium end. The bigger agencies do good work, their costs just mean they need bigger budgets, and we are set up so a job worth R5,000 to you is worth doing properly. That is a difference of fit, not of quality, and it is why our prices sit where they do.
Every service we sell, with every price, is at what we do. How we score a website before we quote a cent is at how we score.
Our website prices, in full.
Three packages, each with its price and its turnaround printed here. The turnaround holds unless the work turns out bigger than the site suggested, and if it does, we say so before starting, not after.
The Complete Overhaul
R14,999 DELIVERED IN 3 TO 4 WEEKSEverything below, plus a page for each service you actually sell, your search structure built end to end, your Google listing brought right, the shape that gets you quoted in Google's AI answers and in chat assistants, speed and page weight brought to modern standard, and your positions measured before and after.
The Redesign
R9,999 DELIVERED IN 2 WEEKSEverything in the Refresh, plus your navigation rebuilt around what buyers actually look for, your pages reorganised, every page given the headline and description Google prints, your images replaced and compressed, and every way of contacting you walked and fixed.
The Refresh
R4,999 DELIVERED IN 1 WEEKYour existing site brought up to date. Modern typography and colour, current imagery, mobile properly sorted, tap to call and WhatsApp wired in, and the dates in your footer corrected.
New websites start from R4,999. The starter package gives you a simple logo and brand sheet, a five page site, your Google listing set up, and your own .co.za name registered in your name for the first year.
An online shop, a booking system, a quoting tool or a client portal is software, not a page. That work starts at R25,000 and is quoted per job, with one fixed figure in writing before anything is built.
Send a test enquiry yourself and watch it arrive. Then the speed test, run the same way before and after, with both readings dated.
Start with the free scorecard →Four things decide what any website quote should be.
How many pages you need
Five pages tell most stories: home, services, about, proof and contact. Past about twelve pages, or a page for each service and each suburb you work in, the hours go up and so does the figure. We tell you which pages actually earn their place before we quote.
Whether anything custom is built
A brochure site and a site that takes bookings, payments or client logins are different jobs. The moment software has to be built, the price moves from thousands into tens of thousands, and any quote that does not make that line obvious is hiding it.
Who owns what at the end
The biggest difference between quotes that look the same. If the domain, the hosting or the Google accounts sit in the provider's name, the price was never the whole price, because leaving costs you your address and your history. Everything we build is registered in your name.
The words, the search work and the tracking
Writing the pages properly, pointing them at the searches your buyers type, and counting the enquiries all take hours, and they are the hours that decide whether the site produces work. A quote that excludes them is not cheaper, it is smaller. Ask every quote to say which of these are in.
Start with one fix.
Not ready to spend R4,999 on faith in a stranger? Fair. Pick the single thing from your scorecard that is costing you most. We fix it inside a week, we measure it before and after, and we show you both readings. If we do not deliver what we scoped, it costs you nothing.
The full amount comes off any bigger piece of work you take with us in the next 60 days.
Start with one fix →Questions we get asked about website prices
How much does a website cost in South Africa?
For a small business, between R4,999 and R14,999 once off with us. R4,999 brings an existing site up to date in a week, R9,999 is a full redesign in two weeks, and R14,999 is a complete overhaul in three to four weeks. A brand new five page website also starts from R4,999. Anything that is really software, like an online shop, a booking system or a client portal, starts at R25,000 and is quoted per job with one fixed figure in writing before we start.
Why do website prices vary so much?
Four things move the number: how many pages you need, whether anything custom has to be built, who owns the domain and the accounts at the end, and whether the words, the search work and the tracking are included or left out. Two quotes that look the same can be R10,000 apart on those four alone, so ask every quote to answer all four. If a quote cannot say who will own the domain, that is the answer.
Are R299 a month website packages worth it?
They can be, if you are starting out and the fine print suits you. The low price is real, and for a brand new business a rented template can be a sensible first step. Before you sign, check three things: whose name the domain is registered in, what happens to the site when you stop paying, and how many pages and changes the price covers. If the domain is not registered to you, your web address can leave with the provider, and that costs more to fix later than the package ever saved.
What does a website cost to run each month?
The unavoidable part is small. Hosting and a .co.za domain together usually come to under a few hundred rand a month. Everything above that is a choice, not a requirement. Our monthly care is R3,499 a month: your positions and your Google listing measured and reported with dates, one improvement shipped every month, and direct access when you need a second opinion. No minimum term, cancel any month, and while you are with us we will not do this work for a competitor of yours in your area.
Are there costs that only show up later?
Not with us. Every price on this page is a starting price, and anything quoted per job gets one fixed figure in writing before we start. That figure does not move unless you change the work, and if a job turns out bigger than the site suggested, we say so before starting, not after. If we do not deliver what we scoped, you do not pay. The later costs to watch for elsewhere are the quiet ones: a domain in somebody else's name, a site that disappears when a subscription stops, and a contract with a leaving fee.
Everything we sell, with every price, is at what we do, and how we score a website before we quote is at how we score.
Get your free audit and scorecard.
Send us your website address and we will go and look. You get three scores, the thing we observed behind each one, the date we checked it, the first thing worth fixing and what it would cost. No charge, and nothing to sign.