comparison
Named competitors, dated prices
The cheapest done-for-you website I could find is $49 a month. Mine is $30.
The cheap end of this market is where the setup fee hides: that $49 carries a $199 one to start, and mine carries none. $30 a month is the promotional price, open to new subscriptions started on or before 30 September 2026, and $60 a month after that. Apart from this one, $49 plus $199 is the lowest advertised price I have been able to find for a true done-for-you website service in the United States, across the services named here and checked in August 2026. Below are the others by name, with their advertised prices, their setup fees and their contract terms, each linked to its own pricing page so you can check every figure yourself. Where a competitor beats me, that is in the table too.
Prices checked and this page last updated .
method
How this table was made.
Prices as advertised in August 2026. Every figure comes from the company's own public pricing page, linked in the table. Nothing here is taken from a review site or a comparison blog.
Where a price is not published, the table says so. BentoBox and Popmenu quote rather than publish; the ranges shown for them are the bands their own pages and plan tiers describe, and I have marked them as quoted.
Setup fees and contract terms are shown next to the monthly price, because those are what actually decide the first-year bill. A $49 plan with a $199 fee costs more in year one than a $60 plan with none.
US dollars, tax excluded, entry tier for the plan a single-location business would actually buy. Prices move. If you find one that has changed, write to [email protected] and I will correct this page.
done for you
Done-for-you website subscriptions, where somebody else builds it and maintains it.
This is the comparison that matters, because it is the same product: you send your menu and your hours, and a person or a platform turns that into a website and keeps it working.
| Service | Advertised price | Setup fee | Commitment | What you are buying |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ProWebLocal | $30 / monthpromotional price, start on or before 30 Sep 2026; $60 after 12 months | $0 | None, cancel free | One person builds the site and keeps it current all year. Hosting and web address included. |
| Cannone Marketing | $49 / month | $199 | Month to month | Agency build plus Google Business Profile management, which is real work I do not do for you. |
| B12 | $199 / monthdone-for-you tier; self-build tiers from $49 | $1,999 | Monthly or annual | The $199 tier with the $1,999 fee is the one where their team builds it. The cheaper $49 to $399 tiers are an AI first draft you finish yourself, and the $1,999 fee does not apply to them. |
| BentoBox | $119 to $479 / monthquoted, not published | Quoted | Quoted | A full restaurant platform. Online ordering adds a per-order fee plus card processing. |
| Simple Built Co. | $149 / month | $0 | None advertised | Custom agency build, no setup fee, same no-contract promise as here. |
| Popmenu | $179 to $499 / monthquoted, not published | Included in the plan | Quoted, discounts for prepay | Restaurant marketing platform: menus, ordering, reviews, AI marketing tools. |
Scroll the table sideways to see every column.
do it yourself
And the builders that are genuinely cheaper.
These beat me on price. What they sell is software; the building, the writing, the photos and every future change are yours to do. If that suits you, they are the right answer and you should take it.
| Builder | Advertised price | Setup fee | Who does the work |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wix | $10 to $30 / monthentry business plans | $0 | You, every time anything changes |
| Squarespace | $10 to $30 / monthentry business plans | $0 | You, every time anything changes |
| GoDaddy | $10 to $30 / monthentry business plans | $0 | You, every time anything changes |
| ProWebLocal | $30 / monthpromotional price, start on or before 30 Sep 2026 | $0 | Me. You send a photo of the new menu and stop thinking about it. |
A DIY plan is cheaper in dollars and more expensive in evenings. The reason most small business sites go stale is not that the software was hard, it is that nobody had a spare hour in March to change the hours.
year one
What the first twelve months actually cost, setup fee included.
Monthly prices hide setup fees, so here is each service multiplied out over a year, tax excluded, with the setup fee added where there is one.
| Service | First 12 months | How that is made up |
|---|---|---|
| ProWebLocal, yearly plan | $300 | One payment, ten months' price for twelve months of site |
| ProWebLocal, monthly plan | $360 | 12 × $30, no setup fee |
| Wix, Squarespace or GoDaddy | $120 to $360 | 12 × $10 to $30, plus your own hours |
| Cannone Marketing | $787 | $199 setup + 12 × $49 |
| BentoBox, entry tier | $1,428 and up | 12 × $119, before per-order fees and card processing |
| Simple Built Co. | $1,788 | 12 × $149, no setup fee |
| Popmenu, entry tier | $2,148 | 12 × $179 |
| B12, done-for-you build | $4,387 | $1,999 setup + 12 × $199 |
Same site, same job, from $300 to $4,387 depending on who you ask. That gap is the whole reason this page exists. The full ProWebLocal price list, including what happens in year two.
the fair reading
Where the others win.
A comparison table that finds its own author cheapest on every line is an advertisement. These are the cases where you should buy from somebody else.
You want to do it yourself
Then Wix, Squarespace or GoDaddy at $10 to $30 a month beats me outright. The question is not whether you can. It is whether you will still be doing it in eighteen months, at eleven at night, when the winter hours change.
You need online ordering
BentoBox and Popmenu are built around taking orders and payments, and I am not. Their per-order fees and card processing add up faster than the subscription does, so read those terms closely, but for a restaurant that lives on takeout they are the right shape of tool.
You want your Google listing run too
Cannone Marketing bundles Google Business Profile management into its $49 a month. That is genuine ongoing work and it is not included here. My site is built to show up properly when someone nearby searches, but I do not manage your listing for you.
the obvious question
If everyone else charges more,
something must be missing. It isn't.
It is not a discount and it is not a smaller job. Building a site properly takes expertise, and that is what you are paying for. What has changed is the overhead: one person with modern tooling has no sales floor, no account managers and no software licences to cover, and the hosting is light, and the provider matches its electricity use with renewable energy purchases, for a fraction of what a platform spends. A fair monthly price paid for years suits me better than one large invoice. Eleven finished sites are on the homepage, and you can open every one of them on your phone right now.
questions
About this comparison.
Including the one where somebody else is cheaper.
Is ProWebLocal the cheapest small business website service?
Among services where somebody else builds the site and keeps it current, $30 a month is the lowest advertised price I have been able to find in the United States, and the next one up is Cannone Marketing at $49 a month plus a $199 setup fee. It is not the cheapest way to have a website full stop: Wix, Squarespace and GoDaddy start lower, because on those you do the building and the updating yourself. That is a real difference in product, and it is the first table on this page.
Where is a competitor genuinely better value?
Three places. If you enjoy the work and have the evenings, a DIY builder at $10 to $30 a month is cheaper than anything done for you. If you need online ordering with your own payment flow, BentoBox and Popmenu are built for that and I am not, even though their per-order fees add up fast. And Cannone Marketing bundles Google Business Profile management into its $49 a month, which is real work that I do not do for you.
How current are these prices?
Every figure on this page is the price the company advertised publicly in August 2026, taken from its own pricing page, which is linked in the table so you can check it yourself. Prices move, promotions come and go, and two of these companies quote rather than publish, so treat the table as a dated snapshot rather than a live feed. If you find a figure that has changed, tell me and I will correct it.
Why is a setup fee such a big deal?
Because it is most of what you actually pay in year one, and it is the number that decides whether a small business ever gets a website at all. B12's done-for-you build is $1,999 before the first monthly invoice, which makes its first year $4,387 against $360 here. A setup fee is also the thing that makes leaving expensive, since walking away in month three means walking away from money already spent.
Does a lower price mean a worse website?
It would if the price were low because the work were smaller, and it is not. Eleven finished sites are on the homepage and you can open every one of them on your phone before you decide anything. The price is low because one person with modern tooling has almost no overhead, and because this is a subscription meant to run for years rather than a build that ends at launch.
Compare mine against theirs, for free.
The table is only half the argument. Send me a photo of your menu or your price list and within 48 hours you get a link to your own finished site, built the way it would really be, to hold up against anything else you are considering. No card details, no commitment.