Website Cost and SaaS Spend Guides

Web development pricing is opaque in both directions. Buyers cannot tell whether a quote is high, and the same brief genuinely does produce very different numbers depending on what is included. The guides here try to make the components visible enough to compare.

The other half of this cluster is the bill you already have. Subscription costs are easy to approve individually and hard to see in total, and the total is what a build-versus-buy comparison should be measured against. A tool at forty dollars a month is a small decision; the same tool over three years, with its seat growth and its price increases, is a different one. Several posts here are about getting that number written down before anything is compared to it.

SaaS pricing moves, and it has moved a lot recently, so figures in these posts are dated and linked to their sources. Treat any price you read here as accurate on its stated date and check the vendor's current page before acting on it.

None of this argues that custom is always cheaper. It frequently is not, especially at small scale, and the guides say so. What it argues is that the comparison should use the whole operating cost on both sides rather than the sticker price on one.

Our own numbers are not hidden: our published pricing tiers lists the tiers and what each one includes.