"How much does a website cost?" doesn't have one honest answer, and any agency that gives you a single number without asking a single question is guessing, padding, or both. What it actually costs depends on a small number of concrete variables. Here's what they are.

Page count is the first lever, not the only one

More pages generally mean more cost, but it's not linear. A 5-page business website and a 12-page one aren't just "more of the same page": a 12-page site usually means deeper information architecture, more internal linking to plan, and more content to write and review. This is why Klyvora's own packages scale by page count: Launch covers up to 5 pages, Growth up to 8, Pro up to 12.

Design complexity

A templated layout with light customization costs less than a fully custom interface with bespoke UI sections and interactions. Neither is "wrong": a service business with a straightforward offer often doesn't need custom animation, while a brand that competes on visual polish might.

Integrations and functionality

A contact form is simple. A booking system, a CRM integration, a membership area, or a multi-step quote calculator is not. Each integration adds development and testing time, and that time is the actual cost driver, not the "feature" itself.

SEO and AI-search foundations

Foundational technical SEO, clean URL structure, metadata, basic schema and AI-search readiness should be part of any professional build, not an upsell bolted on afterward. What is legitimately a separate cost is ongoing SEO: content publishing, backlink campaigns and ranking management are recurring work, not a one-time build.

Ecommerce changes the math

Product catalogs, payment gateways, shipping and tax configuration, and checkout testing add real scope. This is why ecommerce is almost always quoted separately from a standard business website rather than folded into a flat starting price.

What's usually excluded from a "starting price"

  • Domain registration
  • Paid plugins, premium themes or premium stock assets
  • Paid third-party software and payment-gateway processing fees
  • Hosting and server, which are ongoing costs, not a one-time build cost

Any package that claims to include all of this at a rock-bottom flat price is either scoping something very small, or planning to add fees later. Ask directly what's excluded before you sign anything.

Where Klyvora's pricing lands

Klyvora publishes starting prices rather than a "contact us" wall: Launch at $99, Growth at $199, Pro at $349, and ecommerce from $499, with hosting billed separately starting at $59/year. See the full breakdown on the pricing page.

A simple way to sanity-check any quote

Ask three questions: what's the page count and is it a hard cap or a starting point, what's explicitly excluded, and is any SEO or AI-search work included in the build or billed as a separate ongoing service. A vendor that answers all three clearly is probably pricing honestly.