How much does a business website cost in Miami?

In short

A business website in Miami can cost anywhere from a few hundred dollars to tens of thousands, and both ends of that range are real. The price follows what the site has to do, not how many pages it has: the number of page types, the content, the languages, and the connections to booking, payments or a CRM. The bigger risk is rarely the first quote. It is what comes after it: hosting and renewal fees, features that turn out to be “not included,” paid change requests and contracts that are hard to leave. Get the scope, the price and the running costs in writing before any work starts.

Goldren’s first-year website plan

Our first-year website plan is $149.99/month, billed annually, and $99.99/month during our seasonal specials: one payment for the year, not a month-to-month subscription. There’s no required second year, and nothing renews automatically. The plan includes up to 5 pages in one language, professional copy, mobile-friendly design, a secure setup, SEO and AI-search foundations, and one round of changes each month of the first year, on request. It comes with a two-month fit guarantee: if the plan isn’t the right fit, tell Daniel within two months of payment; you pay only for those two months, and the other ten are refunded (a partial refund, for plans paid in full). A small website typically takes 7–12 business days from when all materials are received. Extra pages or languages, booking, ecommerce, CRM and other custom work are quoted separately, and third-party running costs are not part of the plan price: Daniel goes over them with you on the free consultation. You receive the full scope, price and terms in writing before you commit, including what a round of changes covers.

This price is for one defined plan, not for every website. See what the first-year website plan includes and ask for a written quote that lists any extra work. Our guide to basic SEO and AI-search foundations explains what launch setup can and cannot do.

What the Miami market actually charges

Few agencies publish their prices, so the useful signals are scattered. On September 30, 2026, we went through public agency profiles, published packages and about 560 client reviews of web agencies in Miami-Dade, Broward and south Palm Beach, and of the specialist providers that sell to the same businesses. This is what the public numbers looked like:

• Hourly rates listed on agency directory profiles ranged from about $50 to about $200 an hour, with one listing above $300.
• Minimum project sizes on the same profiles ran from $1,000 to $10,000 and more. One Miami agency listed a minimum of $50,000.
• Reviews of one budget vendor mentioned a website sold for about $400, and projects of $2,500, $10,300 and $14,000.
• A package published in the local Russian-speaking market priced a single landing page at $899, and a website with three months of marketing at $4,499.
• Published SEO retainers ran from about $950 to about $3,450 a month.

These are market observations, not a price list, and they are not our prices. They also explain something that confuses a lot of business owners: two quotes for “a website” can be very far apart because they usually describe two different projects. Publishing prices is rare, too. On one independent list of 21 Miami agencies that market to med spas, only four showed their rates.

What actually drives the price

Page count is the wrong measure. A five-page site with online booking, two languages and a connection to a CRM is a bigger project than fifteen simple text pages. These are the drivers that matter:

• Page types. A service page, a location page, a product page and a booking page are each designed and built once, then filled with content. More types means more work.
• Content. Who writes the copy, who takes the photos, who films the short video. Content left “for later” is where most schedules slip.
• Languages. A second language is not a translation pasted on top. Headlines break differently, Hebrew reads right to left, and every version needs its own review and its own setup for search.
• Connections. Online booking, payments, inventory, a CRM, an AI assistant, or a form that saves the inquiry and alerts the right person. Each one needs rules, testing and a plan for what happens when something fails.
• Online sales. A store adds products, variants, shipping, taxes, returns and a checkout that has to be tested properly.
• Moving from an old site. Redirects (old links sent to the new pages), keeping the search traffic you already have and moving old content take real time, and they are often missing from cheap quotes.
• Design depth. A clean layout built from a few strong components is one level of effort. Custom motion and scroll storytelling is another. Neither is automatically better.

To prepare a request that gets a useful proposal, see what shapes the cost of a business website.

Why cheap quotes become expensive

In the negative reviews we read about Miami web agencies, the most common complaint was not bad design. It was money: 12 of 23 negative reviews were about hidden costs, add-ons, scope stretched to raise the price and charges nobody expected. Most of them were about one budget vendor, so read them as a picture of what can go wrong, not as a verdict on the whole market. The same pattern shows up in reviews of the CRM and AI platforms that small businesses buy, where billing surprises, lock-in and hard cancellations were the top complaint, tied with slow support.

The story is usually the same. A low quote gets the signature. Then features that seemed obvious turn out to be extra. Then hosting is billed at a price nobody discussed. Then leaving costs money too: a fee for the backup files, a fee for the domain, a fee for access to accounts that were supposed to be yours.

The hidden costs to settle before you sign

Ask about each of these, and get the answers in the proposal, not in a phone call:

• Hosting: who pays, how much per year, and whether you can move it elsewhere. One review described a small-business site hosted by its agency for $1,200 a year.
• The domain: registered in your name, with renewals billed to you at the registrar’s price, not with an agency markup.
• Change requests: the price per change or per hour, written down before the first request.
• Content: whether copywriting, photos, translation and a second language are included.
• Licenses: paid themes, plugins, fonts and stock images, and whose name they are in.
• Maintenance: what it covers, what it costs, and whether you can stop it.
• Contract length and exit: minimum terms, notice periods and cancellation fees.
• Your files at the end: the code, the design files and a full backup, handed over without a separate fee.
• Your card: nothing charged without written approval. One reviewer described about $700 charged to a card on file without their approval.
• Marketing: when ads are included, what the management fee is and what actually goes to Google or Meta.

Running costs are part of the price

A website is not a one-time purchase. Budget for the domain, hosting, email, any paid tools the site depends on, and upkeep: updates, backups, security fixes and small edits. If you add marketing, the monthly fee and the ad budget are two separate numbers. If you add an AI assistant, local providers publish setup fees from about $1,500 plus monthly plans of about $300 to $500, so ask exactly what yours includes.

The simplest protection is a table with three columns: what you pay once, what you pay every month or year, and who receives the money. If a provider can’t fill it in, you don’t yet know what the website costs.

How to compare two quotes

Put the quotes side by side and check that they describe the same project: the same page types, the same responsibility for content, the same languages and connections, the same testing before launch. Then compare the total for the first year, not the build price alone. A quote that looks higher often includes content, redirects, accessibility checks and a handover that a lower quote quietly leaves for later.

Then ask who you will actually be talking to. In the reviews we read, about a quarter of the positive ones named a specific person, not the company. People remember the one who answered. That is worth checking before you compare numbers.

What you should get before any work starts

A written proposal with the scope, the price, what is not included, the timeline and what the provider needs from you. A list of the accounts that will be created and in whose name. The running costs after launch. And a clear answer to the question, “What happens if I want to leave?” If a provider can’t put these in writing, the number on the first page doesn’t mean much. Our guide to who owns your website lists the accounts worth checking, and nine questions to ask before hiring a web design company covers the rest of the conversation.

How pricing works at Goldren Studio

Apart from the first-year website plan above, we don’t publish a price list, because every business needs something different: a single landing page, a new website, a redesign of the one you have, or a site connected to a CRM. After a short call you get the scope and the price in writing, before any work starts, and anything outside the proposal is agreed with you in writing first. The domain, the site and the accounts are in your name. The website plan runs for one year with no required second year, other work has no long-term commitment, and at the end you get a handover document.

Get the scope and the price in writing

Tell me what you’re planning, even if it’s still rough. I read every message myself and reply within one business day, and the first consultation is free. After a short call you get the scope and the price in writing, before anything starts. Write on WhatsApp or through the contact page.