What a General Contracting Website Costs in 2026

How much does a Pixlel general contracting website cost?

Pixlel costs 79 dollars a month, or 756 dollars a year, which works out to about 63 dollars a month. Hosting, security and edits come with the plan.

Pixlel uses the same pricing for every trade. There are two plans and two optional packages:

• Monthly plan: 79 dollars a month.
• Annual plan: 756 dollars a year, or about 63 dollars a month.
• Annual plan, paid within four hours of your build: 588 dollars for the first year.
• Local visibility package: 997 dollars, one time, for added pages that cover the towns you work in.
• Larger area package: 1,997 dollars, one time, for broader coverage if you work across a wide region.

Either plan covers the full site, hosting, the security certificate, your domain connection and ongoing edits. You change text or photos by clicking on them, or a Pixlel Pro Partner can handle it for you.

The first build is free, so you see your site with your services and towns before you pay anything. Most small remodeling companies only need a plan, and the optional packages make sense later, once the site is live and you want to reach more towns.

What do builders, freelancers and agencies charge for a contractor website?

Builders charge a small monthly fee but you do all the work, freelancers bill a build fee plus hourly changes, and agencies add a monthly retainer.

Each option bills in a different way, and the differences matter more than the sticker price. Here is how they compare in plain words:

• Do-it-yourself builders like Wix, Squarespace and GoDaddy charge a monthly subscription. The fee is low, but you write every page, resize every photo and fix every problem yourself.
• Freelancers usually charge a one-time fee to build the site. Changes after launch are billed by the hour, and some freelancers are hard to reach a year later.
• Agencies charge a setup fee and a monthly retainer, often with a contract. They do the work, but every change goes through a request and a wait.
• Field service software sometimes includes a basic site. Jobber's free website requires a paid plan that starts at 49 dollars a month, and the site is fairly simple.

For a closer look at each builder, see our page on the best website builders for general contractors.

What does a do-it-yourself site really cost a busy contractor?

The subscription is cheap, but the evenings you spend building pages and fixing photos cost more than the fee, and the finished site is often slow.

A builder looks like the cheapest choice until you honestly add up your hours. Setting up a site means writing a page for kitchens, another for baths, another for additions, then sizing photos, connecting a domain and learning where every setting lives. That is time you could spend on estimates or walking a job with a client.

After launch, the site needs regular attention: your license renews, you add a town, or you finish a project worth showing off. Most owners build once and never come back, so the site slowly falls behind the work you actually do.

Quality suffers too. Webtonic, summarizing a RapidWebLaunch audit of 69,560 trade websites, found an average mobile Lighthouse score of 58. That is slow for a homeowner checking you out on a phone, and the same audit found 42 percent of those sites had no analytics at all.

How does the cost of a website compare to one remodel job?

Foundry CRO puts the average general contracting job at 25,000 to 100,000 dollars, so a year of Pixlel is a small slice of a single project.

Put the website cost next to the value of the work it supports. Foundry CRO puts the average general contracting job between 25,000 and 100,000 dollars. A full year on the Pixlel annual plan is 756 dollars, which is a small slice of even the smallest of those jobs.

Compare it with paid leads, too. Foundry CRO puts the average cost per general contracting lead at 425 dollars. A year of the annual plan costs less than two of those leads, and a paid lead may also go to other contractors at the same time.

A website does not replace every other source of work. It gives every source, from referrals to the map, a real place to land. Foundry CRO reports contractor websites convert 2 to 4 percent of visitors into leads, and each of those calls comes straight to you. Read how general contractors get leads for the full picture.

What hidden costs should you ask about before you sign?

Ask about domain renewals, add-on fees, charges for small edits, contract length and what happens to your site and domain if you ever decide to leave.

The first quote rarely shows the full cost over a year or two. Before you sign with anyone, ask these questions:

• Domain. Who owns it, and what does it cost to renew each year?
• Add-ons. Are quote forms, photo galleries or extra pages billed on top?
• Change fees. Does a new project photo or a new town cost extra each time?
• Contract length. Is there a one-year or longer contract, and a fee to leave early?
• Leaving. If you cancel, do you keep your domain, and can you take your content with you?

Ask every option the same questions and write the answers down. The lowest monthly fee is not always the cheapest year.

Which website option makes sense for your contracting business?

Pick a builder if you enjoy the work, an agency if you have office staff and an ad budget, or Pixlel if you want a site without learning software.

No single option is right for every contractor. Here is an honest way to choose between them:

• Choose a builder if you like that kind of work and will actually keep the site current between jobs.
• Choose an agency if you have someone in the office to manage it and a real budget for ads.
• Choose Pixlel if you want a full site without learning software, so your time goes to bids and job sites instead.

Whatever you pick, make sure the site shows your services, your towns, your license and real project photos. Our general contractor website overview explains what each page should do, and the guide on what to include on a general contractor website goes page by page.

By the numbers

Pixlel monthly plan (Pixlel pricing)

$79 Source: Pixlel pricing

Pixlel annual plan (Pixlel pricing)

$756 Source: Pixlel pricing

Average cost per general contracting lead (Foundry CRO)

$425 Source: Foundry CRO, 2026

Low end of average general contracting job value (Foundry CRO)

$25,000 Source: Foundry CRO, 2026

Avg mobile speed score, trade websites (Webtonic on RapidWebLaunch)

58 Source: Webtonic summarizing RapidWebLaunch, 2026