Pay monthly websites from £99
A proper website for one monthly price, with no build fee and no big bill up front. We build a free preview first, so you see your site before you pay anything.
Plans from
£99 /mo
→The short answer
A pay monthly website is designed, built, hosted and looked after for one monthly price, instead of a large bill up front. Ours start at £99 a month and include SEO work every month. We build a free preview first, and you only pay once you've approved it, every six months or yearly.
(01)What you pay
Paid every six months or yearly. No build fee, ever.
Three plans. No build fee.
SEO WebsiteFits this best
£99
a month
For getting a proper, findable website live.
- Website design and build
- Hosting and maintenance
- Mobile-first design
- Keyword research and on-page SEO
- Sitemap and indexing set-up
- Local SEO and Google Business Profile support
Traffic Growth
£199
a month
For turning the site into a steady source of enquiries.
- Everything in SEO Website
- New SEO content and service pages each month
- Location pages where they're justified
- Better calls to action and enquiry forms
- Monthly report with recommendations
Growth Partner
£499
a month
For businesses ready to push hard on growth.
- Everything in Traffic Growth
- Competitor and market analysis
- Strategic landing pages and customer journeys
- Monthly performance review call
- A prioritised growth plan
On the SEO Website plan that is £594 every six months or £1,188 a year. Every price is on one page.
(02)Where £99 goes
Nothing on this list is an extra.
What the monthly fee pays for, task by task
Design and build
Your site is designed for your business and written around what your customers search for. There is no build fee: the build is paid for through the plan, which is why plans run for at least six months.
Hosting
Fast hosting, the security certificate that puts the padlock in the address bar, and the technical set-up that keeps it all running. You never deal with a hosting company.
Updates and security
We keep everything behind the site up to date and patched, and take backups, so an out-of-date plugin is never the reason your site goes down.
Small changes
New prices, opening hours, photos or a line of text. Send them by email or WhatsApp and we make them; you never need to log in to anything.
SEO on every page
Keyword research before we write, then titles, headings, page structure, speed and internal links done properly. We submit your sitemap to Google and Bing and check the pages are being indexed.
Google Business Profile
Help setting up or tidying your profile, so your business shows correctly on Google Maps and in local results. See local SEO for what that involves.
(03)Three years of costs
A worked example. Change the numbers to your own quotes.
Pay monthly, one-off or DIY: three years compared
The fair way to compare a monthly website with a one-off build is the total over the time you'll keep it. Here is a simple brochure site over 36 months, using published UK price ranges.
| One-off build | Pay monthly (SEO Website) | DIY builder | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Up front | £2,000 | £0 | £0 |
| Hosting | £540 (£15 a month) | Included | Included in the plan |
| Changes and updates | £1,260 (one hour a month at £35) | Included | Your own time |
| SEO work | Not included | Included | Your own time |
| Monthly fees | None | £3,564 (£99 × 36) | £612 (£17 × 36) |
| Total over 36 months | £3,800 | £3,564 | £612 plus your time |
One-off build: £2,000 is the bottom of the £2,000–£7,000 that Startups.co.uk gives for a custom-built WordPress site1, with hosting at £15 a month (within its £5–£60 range1) and a freelancer's hour at £35 (freelance designers charge £25–£50 an hour2). DIY: Squarespace's Core plan at £17 a month, billed yearly3. Domain fees are left out of every column: they cost much the same whichever route you take.
Over three years the totals come out close. The difference is in what you get for the money: the monthly plan includes SEO work and changes every month, while the one-off build gets you a site and nothing after it unless you pay again.
Keep a one-off site for longer and it does get cheaper, year by year, provided nothing needs redesigning. A DIY builder is the cheapest in cash by far, and the right choice if you have the time and enjoy doing it; Wix's comparable Core plan is £16 a month, billed yearly4. To run your own numbers over one to five years, use the calculator in our guide to how much a website costs in the UK.
(04)See it first
You see your site before you pay a penny
You tell us about your business
A short call or a WhatsApp chat: what you do, where you work, who you want more of.
We build your preview
A real working preview of your website or logo. Free, and no card needed.
You ask for changes
We make a reasonable number of changes until it's right.
You give it the nod. Then you pay.
We launch it and keep improving it every month under your plan.
Everything is agreed in writing. We send you a private link with a few quick questions about your business, then a written summary of what we'll build. When your preview is ready, you look at it on your own phone, ask for changes, and give it the nod on the same link. How it works has the detail.
(05)If you stop paying
The top worry with any monthly website. Here are our terms in plain English.
What happens if you stop paying
A monthly plan has to end cleanly, or it isn't worth signing. Ours ends when the period you've paid for ends. Your site comes down at that point, and everything that belongs to you goes with you.
Your domain
Registered in your name. We handle it for you: registering it, renewing it and pointing it at your site. The domain's own yearly fee is the one cost you pay separately. If you already have a domain, it stays where it is and we point it at your new site.
Your words, photos and logo
Everything you give us, and every word we write for your site, is yours to use anywhere, during the plan and after it.
Your customers' details
Enquiries that come through your site are yours. We only handle them to run the site for you, and you can have a copy whenever you ask.
Your accounts
Google Business Profile, Analytics, Search Console and social accounts are set up in your name, with us added as a manager.
Leaving
Tell us before your next payment is due and the plan ends when the period you've paid for ends. Within 14 days we send your words, photos and enquiries and help you move the domain.
The design and code
Your site runs on our own platform, so the code stays ours. If you'd like to take the design with you when you leave, ask and we'll quote for it.
(06)Cheaper monthly sites
You'll find monthly websites advertised for a good deal less than £99. This is what the difference usually buys.
What the difference buys
A preview before you commitAsk for it
Many cheaper plans start with a contract and a template you pick from a gallery. We design your site first and you see it working before you agree to anything.
SEO work that carries onThe biggest gap
A low monthly price usually covers hosting and little else. Ours includes keyword research and on-page SEO from day one, and the higher plans add new pages every month.
Pages written for your searches
A site built from a shared template tends to say what every other site on that template says. Search engines have little reason to show it above the others.
Terms you can leave on
Your domain, words, photos and enquiries are yours, and the exit is written down. Check that any provider you compare puts the same in writing.
(07)Before you sign
Read any pay monthly contract, ours included, and tick each one you find. Every tick is a question to ask before you sign.
Red flags in pay monthly website contracts
(08)Recent projects
Our three most recent builds, all for businesses in South Africa.
Questions
(09)Questions
Over three years it comes out close to a modest one-off build once you add hosting and changes, and the monthly plan includes SEO work as well. Keep a one-off site unchanged for five years or more and it will usually have cost you less.
One payment period: six months or a year, whichever you choose. After that you can carry on, change plan or leave at the end of any period.
Yes. Tell us and we'll move you up from the start of your next payment period. Many businesses start on SEO Website and move to Traffic Growth once the site is bringing in enquiries.
Yes. We rebuild it on our platform and keep the addresses Google already knows, so you don't lose what's ranking. See website redesign for how we protect your rankings during the move.
No. We ask you a few quick questions on a private link, and write the pages from your answers. You read them in the preview and tell us what to change.
Sources
(10)Sources
Every figure on this page comes from one of these. Checked on the date shown.
- 1How much does a WordPress website cost?, Startups.co.uk. Checked 26 October 2026.
- 2How much does a website cost?, Startups.co.uk. Checked 26 October 2026.
- 3Squarespace pricing, Startups.co.uk. Checked 26 October 2026.
- 4Wix pricing explained, Startups.co.uk. Checked 26 October 2026.
(11)Start a project
Let's build your
free preview.
Tell us about your business. We'll come back with a plan and start on your preview. You pay nothing until you give it the nod.