Guide
What a tradie website actually costs in Perth in 2026
Every price here came off a company's own public pricing page, and every one is linked so you can check it yourself. No industry averages, no invented ranges, and where a business does not publish a number this guide says so. Real prices, the terms hiding underneath them, and who owns the website when you walk away.
Published 19 August 2026 · All prices checked that day · Sam O'Leary, OP Digital
Why this is so hard to find out
Ring five Perth agencies about a website and you will get five different answers, three of which are “it depends” and two of which are only available after a discovery call. That is not a conspiracy. Scope genuinely varies enormously, and an agency quoting blind is exposing itself.
It does leave a tradie trying to budget with almost nothing to work with. So this guide only reports prices a company has chosen to publish on its own website, and links every one so you can check it. Fewer numbers than the average “how much does a website cost” article, and every single one of them verifiable in a click.
The published prices, as at 19 August 2026
Five sets of numbers, all lifted from public pages. Two of these companies are Perth-based and one is elsewhere in Australia serving the same market. They are not doing identical work, which is exactly why the “what you get” column matters more than the price column.
| Who | Published price | What that buys | The thing to check |
|---|---|---|---|
| WebSteps Mornington Peninsula, VIC | $99/mo, and $149/mo with SEO | An 8-page website, monthly maintenance, one hour of quarterly changes, responsive design, ongoing support. The $149 tier adds on-page and off-page SEO. | Both prices are stated over 36 months on the same page. At $99 that is $3,564 across the term. |
| Rise Web Design Perth, WA | $100 per hour | Pay-as-you-go design work for changes and updates, plus discounted maintenance packages for ongoing clients. | This is their published rate for ad-hoc work, not a build price. A full build is quoted. |
| JimmyTech Perth, WA | $790 · $1,490 · from $3,500 | An Opportunity Review at $790 fixed, a fuller Systems Audit at $1,490 fixed, and an Implementation Sprint from $3,500 covering one focused outcome such as technical SEO, MarTech, automation or website foundations. | This is a diagnosis-first consultancy rather than a website shop. Worth knowing before you compare it to a build price. |
| Dilate Perth, WA | Not published | No price on the page. Their enquiry form asks you to pick a budget band, and those bands start at $0 to $1,500 and continue past $50,000. | The bands are the only public signal of range. You cannot compare without booking a call. |
| OP Digital Perth, WA | $299/mo, or $1497 + $99/mo | The monthly plan is website plus missed-call text-back plus Google review automation. The one-off is a build you own outright from the day the fee clears, with an optional $99/mo care plan. | One person builds and runs all of it. The $299 is the price, not a discount off anything. |
Every figure above was read off the linked page on 19 August 2026. Prices change; check the link before relying on any of them. Nothing here is an industry average and no figure has been estimated.
The three shapes these deals come in
Underneath the numbers there are only really three models, and they behave very differently the day you want to leave.
Monthly subscription, agency owns the site
The most common shape at the affordable end. You pay somewhere between $99 and $400 a month, the agency builds and hosts, and the site belongs to them while you are paying. Cancel and it goes dark.
This is not automatically a bad deal. It removes the upfront cost, which is the actual barrier for most one-van businesses, and it usually bundles hosting and support. What you have to check is the term. A $99 a month site over 36 months is a $3,564 commitment, and a genuinely month-to-month $299 that you can leave in April is a different product to a $99 you are locked into until 2029.
Two questions, before you sign anything: how long is the term, and what happens to the site if I stop paying.
One-off build, you own it
Pay once, own the result. In Perth this generally starts around $1,500 for something genuinely simple and rises steeply with scope; Dilate's published budget bands, which start under $1,500 and run past $50,000, are a fair picture of how wide that gets.
The advantage is obvious: you own the asset and you are not renting your own front door. The disadvantage is less obvious and it is the reason plenty of these end badly. A site you own is also a site you maintain. Six months after launch someone has to update the plugins, renew the certificate, add the new service page and fix the form that quietly stopped emailing you. Budget for that or accept that your $4,000 site will be two years stale by the time it matters.
Consultancy and project work
A different animal. JimmyTech's published ladder is the clearest local example: $790 for an Opportunity Review, $1,490 for a fuller Systems Audit, and an Implementation Sprint from $3,500 for one focused outcome.
You are buying diagnosis and a plan first, delivery second. For a business with an existing site, real traffic and a specific problem, that can be excellent value. For a sole trader who does not have a website at all, paying $790 to find out you need a website is the wrong first purchase.
The question nobody asks until it is too late
Ownership. It gets skipped because it feels rude to ask about leaving before you have started, and it is the single most expensive thing to get wrong.
- The domain. It should be registered to you, in your name, on your account. If your agency registered it, you are one dispute away from losing the address your van has been advertising for six years.
- The site itself.Ask directly what happens to it on cancellation. “It comes down” is a legitimate answer to a subscription deal, but you need to hear it before you sign, not after.
- Your content. The photos of your work and the copy about your business are yours. Confirm you can take them.
- Your Google Business Profile. Never let an agency own this. It is where your reviews live and reviews do not transfer.
What you should actually spend, in order
If you have a fixed amount to spend on getting more work, the order matters more than the amount.
- First, claim and fill in your Google Business Profile. Free. For most trades it produces more enquiries than the website does, and it will not rank without recent reviews.
- Second, catch the calls you are already missing. The cheapest win available, because the demand already exists and you are losing it. The full guide is here, including how to build it yourself.
- Third, get the reviews flowing. Systematic, after every job. Review velocity is what moves you in the local map results.
- Fourth, the website. By this point you know what enquiries you get and what people ask, so the site can be built around real questions instead of guesses.
- Last, ads. Paid traffic multiplies whatever your site and reviews already do. Multiplying a bad number gives you a bigger bad number.
Most tradies do this in exactly the reverse order, starting with ads pointed at a site nobody built for the purpose, and conclude that marketing does not work.
What we charge, and what you get for it
You have just read every price we could find published in this market. Here is ours, in the same format, on the pricing page where you can check it without booking a call.
The monthly plan is $299 a month. That is the website, the missed-call text-back and the Google review automation, built and run for you. First month free, no setup fee, month to month, no 36-month term. Live in 14 days from when you give us your content. The site vests to you after six paid months, so you end up owning it.
The one-off build is $1497 up front plus $99 a month for hosting and care, and you own the site outright from the day the build fee clears. No free month on this one. Across the first year that is $2,685.
Line that up against the table above. The subscription tier that looks cheapest on the month carries a 36-month term, which is a payment plan; ours is month to month and you can leave in April. The Perth agencies that build one-off sites mostly will not tell you the number until you have sat through a call. And none of that includes anything catching the calls you miss or asking your customers for reviews, which is where the work actually comes from.
Two cases where we will point you elsewhere on the call rather than take the money: if you want a site you own outright on day one and no automation at all, take our one-off build or a pure build shop; and if you already have a site with real traffic and one specific technical fault, a diagnosis-led consultancy is the better spend. Everyone else, we are built for.
Common questions
What is a fair price for a tradie website in Perth?
There is no single fair price, because two things called a website are not the same product. A subscription site is typically $99 to $400 a month with the agency retaining ownership while you pay. A one-off build you own outright generally starts around $1,500 and runs well past $5,000 depending on scope. The question that actually matters is not the number, it is whether you own the thing at the end and what happens the day you stop paying.
Who owns the website if I cancel?
It depends entirely on the deal and it is the question most people forget to ask. On most subscription models the agency owns the site and it goes dark when you stop paying. On a one-off build you generally own it once the invoice clears. Our own answer differs by product: on the $1,497 build you own the site from the day that fee clears, and on the monthly plan the website vests to you after six paid months while the automations switch off. Get whichever answer applies to you in writing before you sign anything.
Why do some Perth agencies not publish their prices?
Usually because the price genuinely varies by scope, and sometimes because it varies by what they think you will pay. Dilate, one of the larger Perth agencies, asks enquirers to pick a budget band running from under $1,500 to over $50,000, which is an honest reflection of how wide their range is. It is not sinister, but it does mean you cannot compare without booking a call, and that is a real cost in your time.
Is a $99 a month website a good deal?
Check the term before you decide. WebSteps publishes a standard website at $99 a month, and the same page states that price is over 36 months. Three years at $99 is $3,564, which is more than plenty of one-off builds you would own outright. A low monthly with a long lock-in is a payment plan, and it is worth comparing it as one.
Does the monthly price include hosting and changes?
Sometimes, and this is where published prices stop being comparable. Ask specifically what happens when you want a change made: how many are included, how quickly, and what it costs beyond that. Ours includes hosting and four changes a month, and if a change is not live within two business days of us having what we need, that month is 25 per cent off.
Do I need to pay for SEO on top?
Not at the start. A new trade website needs to be technically sound, fast, and connected to a Google Business Profile that has recent reviews. That combination does most of the local ranking work. Paying for an SEO retainer before you have a site worth ranking and reviews worth showing is spending money in the wrong order.
Sources
Every figure on this page came from one of these, checked on the date shown above. Where a company does not publish a price, this page says so rather than guessing one.
- 1WebSteps published package pricing ($99/mo and $149/mo, each over 36 months)
- 2JimmyTech (Perth) published fixed prices: Opportunity Review $790, Systems Audit $1,490, Implementation Sprint from $3,500
- 3Rise Web Design (Perth) published hourly rate of $100/hour for pay-as-you-go work
- 4Dilate (Perth) enquiry form budget bands, from under $1,500 to over $50,000
- 5OP Digital pricing, in full
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