How Much Does a Website Cost? Transparent Pricing From a Mallorca Studio

A bespoke website from a professional studio costs between £1,850 and £4,950, with larger builds scoped as Custom. Starter sites (up to five pages) start at £1,850. Core sites (up to ten pages) start at £3,500. Growth sites, with payments and local visibility, start at £4,950.

These are fixed prices — quoted upfront, not time-and-materials estimates that balloon mid-project.

What You Actually Pay For

The price of a website is the price of decisions made correctly the first time — not hours.

A £1,850 Starter site takes five business days because the scope is tight: one message, one CTA, one focused goal. A £3,500 Core site takes ten business days because there are more moving parts — content structure, navigation hierarchy, enquiry forms, schema markup.

Cheaper template quotes on Fiverr or template platforms deliver a different product: a filled-in template, not a site built for your business. The problems show up later in load time, search ranking, and the inability to change anything without a developer.

The Four Tiers

Starter — From £1,850

A marketing or brochure site — up to five pages — with a real brief behind it. Custom design, mobile-first, contact form, SEO foundations. No plugins to update. Delivered in 5 business days, with one week of hypercare support after launch.

Best for: new businesses, product launches, professional service providers who need a clean, focused presence on the web.

Core — From £3,500

Up to ten pages with content structure you actually own. Enquiry forms, SEO and schema markup, and two weeks of hypercare support after launch. Delivered in 10 business days.

Best for: established businesses, studios, and agencies replacing an outdated site or launching a new vertical.

Growth — From £4,950

Up to fifteen pages plus payments and local visibility. Built for businesses where the site earns money directly — not just a brochure. Delivered in 10 business days, with three to four weeks of hypercare support after launch.

Bigger or more unusual builds are scoped as Custom. Scope and timeline are agreed on a call.

Monthly retainer — Fixed monthly rate

Priority access to the studio on a month-to-month retainer. New pages, updates, experiments — ongoing development without the overhead of scoping a new project every time.

No contract lock-in. Stop whenever you need to.

Why the Price Floor Is £1,850

Every project — regardless of size — passes through four stages. There is no shortcut around them.

Discovery (1–2 days): Understanding the business, the audience, and what the site needs to do. Without this, every subsequent decision is a guess.

Design (3–7 days): Translating that understanding into a visual language — layout, typography, hierarchy, interactions. For Starter, this stage is lean. For Growth, it expands considerably. Either way, it happens.

Development (3–10 days): Building what was designed. Not adapting a theme, not installing plugins. Writing code that matches the design and performs well.

Review and launch (2–4 days): Testing across devices and browsers, QA pass, copy proofing, performance checks, DNS handover, and go-live support.

Even the simplest project needs all four stages done properly. The math on £1,850 is tight — it represents the minimum viable version of each stage, with nothing wasted. Below that number, someone is skipping stages. You'll find out which ones when the site doesn't rank, doesn't load fast enough, or breaks the first time you need to change something.

A very low quote gets you a template. A large agency retainer gets you a team of account managers. Atlas is the third option — bespoke, fixed-price, built for businesses that need the real thing without the agency overhead.

What £1,850 vs £3,500 Buys in Real Terms

The difference between the tiers isn't quality — it's scope.

A useful example: Mobility Scooters Mallorca came to us initially as a brochure rebuild. A clear business with a clear message, one audience, one offer. That brief was Starter scope — focused, fixed-content, fast to build.

As the brief developed, it became something different. The client needed online bookings, deposit collection, product listings with availability, and a cart that handled seasonal pricing. The scope had moved to the Growth tier — not because the brief got bloated, but because the business genuinely needed those things to operate.

Both price points exist because the briefs genuinely differ. A £1,850 site is not a cut-price £3,500 site. It's a different brief. If your business has one message and one goal, Starter is not a compromise — it's the right tool. If your business needs to take money online, manage inventory, or serve multiple distinct audiences, it isn't.

The first conversation is about understanding which one fits. We'll tell you honestly if the scope doesn't match the tier.

Mallorca and Spain: What Web Design Actually Costs Here

Web design pricing in Mallorca and mainland Spain spans a wide range, and the gap between ends of that range is significant.

Local freelancers typically quote much less for template-based sites — Divi, Elementor, or a Wix-plus-customisation variant. These are competent for basic needs, but they carry the limitations of the template: slow load times, limited SEO control, and dependency on theme updates that may or may not happen.

Local agencies in Palma, Barcelona, or Madrid quote several times more for bespoke projects, with longer timelines and the overhead of account management, project management, and junior developers doing the build under a senior's supervision.

Atlas sits in the gap: bespoke quality at a fixed price, without the agency overhead. It's a small studio, so the people who spec your project are the people who build it — no handoff to a junior team.

For international clients based in the UK, Germany, or the Netherlands — many of whom run businesses here in Mallorca or are building them remotely — the comparison is even more pronounced. London or Berlin rates for the same quality would be noticeably higher for a site at the Core tier. At Atlas, that same site is £3,500. The exchange is real, and it comes from lower operating costs and no middle layer of account management.

Every project, regardless of where the client is based, goes through the same four-stage process: discovery, design, development, review. The brief gets the same attention. The code meets the same standard. The only thing that changes is the invoice.

The True Three-Year Cost of Cheap

A very cheap WordPress site feels like a bargain until you add up what it actually costs to keep it running.

Year one costs begin immediately: Premium plugin licences for the functionality that wasn't included in the theme (contact forms, SEO tools, caching, security) add up every year on a typical site. Managed WordPress hosting with adequate performance — not the bottom-tier plan that's oversold — is another yearly cost.

Developer time accumulates: WordPress and its ecosystem of themes and plugins require maintenance. PHP updates break plugins. Plugin updates break themes. Security patches need applying, sometimes urgently. A conservative estimate is 1–2 hours of developer time per year at a minimum — and more if something goes wrong.

The rebuild arrives on schedule: Template-based sites have a natural lifespan. Themes are abandoned. Plugins reach end-of-life. The cheap site built in 2023 often needs a full rebuild in 2025 or 2026 because the underlying tools can no longer be maintained safely, or the design has aged badly, or the site can't rank because the template generates bloated markup that fails Core Web Vitals.

Add up the build, plugins, hosting, developer call-outs and an eventual rebuild, and the cheap option often costs more over three years than it first appears — with worse results, more friction, and time spent managing it.

A bespoke site at £1,850 or £3,500 runs on Vercel (hosting is free or low-cost for most small sites), uses no premium plugins, and is built on code that doesn't rot. The total cost of ownership over three years is often lower — and the site performs better throughout. No update anxiety. No broken checkout because a plugin release conflicted with the PHP version. No emergency call to a developer on a Friday afternoon because the contact form stopped working.

When clients ask why we don't build in WordPress, this is the answer. It's not snobbery about the platform — it's arithmetic.

What's Not in the Price

Domain registration, hosting, and third-party services (Stripe fees, email marketing, stock photography) are separate. We recommend Vercel for hosting — free or low-cost for most small sites, depending on traffic. We'll advise on the right setup for your project.

Frequently Asked Questions

Do you offer payment plans?

For projects over £3,500, we split into two payments: 50% upfront to begin, 50% on delivery. Retainers are billed monthly.

Can I see pricing before getting on a call?

Yes — that's why this page exists. If your project clearly fits one of the four tiers, you can start a conversation with a budget in mind. We'll tell you honestly if the scope fits.

What happens if the project runs over scope?

It doesn't, because scope is agreed upfront in writing before we start. If you want to add something mid-project, we'll quote the addition separately.

Is there a cheaper starting point for very small businesses?

The Starter tier at £1,850 is designed for exactly this — a focused site of up to five pages, delivered in five business days. We've built sites in this tier for newly launched businesses, freelancers establishing a professional presence, and campaign pages for existing businesses. If the brief is genuinely that focused, the price is genuinely that low. We won't upsell you into a tier your business doesn't need.

Do I have to be based in Mallorca to work with you?

No. We work with clients across Europe and further afield. Most projects are managed asynchronously with a mix of email, shared documents, and video calls at key milestones. Many of our clients are UK or Northern European businesses with interests in Mallorca or Spain, or working with us because the price-to-quality ratio doesn't exist at home.

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Prices shown are correct as of June 2026. We review pricing annually.