What Should a Small Business Website Cost in Oklahoma City?
Ask five Oklahoma City agencies what a website costs and you'll get five variations of "it depends." That's not always evasion — scope genuinely changes the number — but it leaves business owners unable to budget. So let's put real figures on the table.
The two numbers that matter
Every website has two costs, and confusing them is where most budgets go wrong.
Build cost is one-time. It covers design, development, and launch.
Care cost is monthly. It covers hosting, SSL, security monitoring, backups, and updates. A website is not a painting you hang on the wall — it's software connected to the internet, and software left unmaintained breaks or gets compromised.
Agencies that quote only the build cost aren't giving you the real number.
What we charge, plainly
We publish our pricing, so there's no reason to be coy:
- One-page site: $499 build, $19/month care
- Three-page site: $699 build
- Five-page site: $899 build, $39/month care
- Seven to ten pages: quoted by scope
- eCommerce: quoted by scope
Those numbers put a professional, mobile-responsive, SEO-ready site in reach of a business that isn't ready to spend five figures.
What actually drives the price up
Page count matters less than people expect. These are the real cost drivers:
eCommerce. Product catalogs, payment processing, inventory, and shipping logic multiply the work.
Custom functionality. Booking systems, member logins, calculators, integrations with your existing software.
Content you don't have. If you need copywriting and photography rather than supplying your own, that's real labor.
Migrations. Moving an existing site with years of URLs means redirect mapping — skip it and you lose your search rankings overnight.
What about the $5,000 quotes?
They're not automatically overpriced. A $5,000 site from a good shop usually includes strategy work, custom design rather than a template, professional copy, and photography. If you're a law firm competing on brand, that may be the right spend.
But a lot of small businesses are quoted $5,000 for what is functionally a five-page brochure site. If your quote doesn't itemize what you're buying, ask for one.
And the $500 offshore sites?
You can find them. The pattern is consistent: the site looks fine at launch, then nobody answers when it breaks, there's no local SEO foundation, and you don't have access to your own hosting. Whether that's a bargain depends on how much your time is worth when something goes wrong at 9pm before a busy weekend.
Questions worth asking any agency
- What's the one-time cost and what's the monthly cost?
- Do I own the site and its content when it's done?
- What happens if I cancel — do I get my files?
- Is basic SEO included, or is that extra?
- How long until launch, and what do you need from me?
Any agency that gets uncomfortable with those questions has told you something useful.
Budget realistically
For most OKC small businesses, plan on $500 to $1,500 up front and $20 to $50 per month ongoing for a solid, professional site. Add a marketing plan on top if you want to compete in local search rather than just exist online.
The worst outcome isn't spending too much or too little. It's spending anything at all on a site nobody finds and nobody calls.
Warehouse 13 Media has built websites for Oklahoma and Washington businesses since 2005. Our pricing is published — no discovery call required to find out what things cost.