Costs & pricing
What does a website cost?
A professional website on SitePack costs from 15 euro per month, billed annually, with your own domain name, business email, EU hosting, SSL and daily backups all included. But what does a website cost is a bigger question than one number, because the answer depends on how you build it and what you count. This guide explains what actually drives the price of a website, what is included when you build on SitePack, and what a realistic monthly cost looks like once you count everything, not just month one.
In short
- A website on SitePack starts at 15 euro per month, billed annually.
- Your domain, business email, EU hosting, SSL and daily backups are included, not billed separately.
- The real cost of a website includes maintenance, security and your own time, which an all-in plan folds in.
- There is no free plan, but you can try everything with a 14-day free trial.
- Start as a website and add a webshop later from 25 euro per month, with what you built carried over.
Why what a website costs has no single answer
Ask what a website costs and you can get answers from nothing to tens of thousands of euros, because people are pricing very different things. A do-it-yourself site on a builder is one figure. Hiring a freelancer to design and build a custom site is another, usually a one-off fee in the hundreds to low thousands plus ongoing hosting. A full agency project with strategy, custom design and development sits higher again.
What they have in common is that the build is only the start. Whoever makes the site, it still needs hosting, a domain, security and maintenance for as long as it is online. That is why comparing only the headline build price is misleading: two sites at the same upfront cost can differ a lot once you add what it takes to keep them running.
This guide focuses on the ongoing, all-in cost of building and running a professional site yourself on SitePack, which for most small businesses is the most predictable option.
What is included in the price
On SitePack, one price covers everything you need to be online, so you are not quoted 15 euro and then charged separately for the parts that make a site actually work. Hosting, your domain name, business email on that domain, an SSL certificate and daily backups are all part of the plan.
That bundling is what keeps the cost predictable. Hosting alone can be priced by traffic, SSL is sometimes an add-on, and business email is usually charged per mailbox elsewhere. Folding them into one plan means the number you see is the number you pay, and it does not climb as you switch on the essentials.
What one plan covers
- Drag-and-drop website builder with professional templates
- Your own domain name and business email
- EU hosting, SSL and daily backups
- Mobile-friendly, responsive design
- Security and software updates handled for you
- Free and paid apps to add features
- European support in your language
Build it yourself or have it built
There are two ways to get a site on SitePack, and they cost differently in effort rather than in what is included. You can build it yourself with the visual editor, choosing a template and editing text and images by dragging and dropping. This is the fastest and cheapest route, and it keeps you in control of every change afterward.
Or you can have your site built for you and simply keep it updated once it is live. That suits businesses that want a professional result without spending the hours themselves. Either way the monthly price and everything included stay the same, because the difference is who does the initial build, not what you are paying to run.
And because you can update the site through AI using our own MCP server, keeping it current afterward does not require design skills either. You describe the change and it is made on your live site.
What you would otherwise pay for separately
To match what a SitePack plan includes, a site built elsewhere usually needs several services running at once, each with its own bill and renewal. The individual amounts can look small, but they add up, and every one is another thing to manage and keep valid. On SitePack, each line below is part of the plan.
- Website builder or CMS: a monthly fee, or a one-off build cost
- Hosting: a separate host, often priced by traffic
- Domain name: an annual registrar fee
- Business email: a per-mailbox monthly charge
- SSL certificate: separate, or an add-on
- Support: spread across several different vendors
Good to know
SitePack has no free-forever plan. You start with a 14-day free trial, then choose a plan from 15 euro per month to keep your site live.
Website or webshop: when to upgrade
A website and a webshop are the same platform on SitePack, so the decision is only about what you need now. A professional website starts at 15 euro per month and is right when your goal is to be found, explain what you do and collect enquiries. If you want to sell online, the webshop plans start at 25 euro per month and add the store builder, product and stock management and built-in payments.
You do not have to choose perfectly at the start. Many businesses begin with a website and add a shop later once they are ready to sell. When you upgrade, everything you built carries over, so it is a change of plan rather than a rebuild.
The costs beyond month one
The honest cost of a website is not just the first invoice, it is what it takes to keep the site healthy over the years it is online. Software and security updates have to happen, or the site becomes slow and vulnerable. Backups need to exist and actually work when you need them. Someone has to renew the domain and the certificate, and keep the pieces compatible.
On a self-managed setup, that is either your time or a monthly maintenance fee to whoever built the site. On SitePack, updates, security and daily backups are handled as part of the plan, and support is one European team. When you compare the cost of a website, this is the part that is easy to leave out and expensive to ignore.
A realistic monthly picture
For a typical small-business site, SitePack starts at 15 euro per month, billed annually, and that figure already includes hosting, the domain, business email, SSL and backups. There is no separate hosting bill arriving next to it and no add-on for security.
Built from separate tools, a comparable site might combine a builder or CMS, a hosting plan, a domain renewal, a mailbox and an SSL add-on, each on its own invoice, plus your time or a maintenance retainer to keep it all current. The all-in plan is usually less once every line is counted, and its real advantage is predictability: one number, one team, and no surprises when you switch something on.
Try it before you commit
Start a 14-day free trial, pick a template and build a real, published site. You will see exactly what your plan covers and how the editor works before you pay anything.
When the trial ends you choose a plan to keep the site live, and everything you built carries over. That way the time you invest in trying SitePack is never lost, whichever plan you land on.
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