Plain answers about websites, brands and marketing for small businesses, from Jack and Carly in Somerset.
Paying someone to build a Wix website in the UK costs anywhere from under £100 to around £5,000, as of October 2026. Most small business sites from a designer on Wix's own Marketplace start somewhere between £300 and £750, and the Wix plan, £9 to £25 a month plus VAT, is paid on top for as long as the site is live.
Where you land depends on who builds it: a freelancer on a site like PeoplePerHour, a designer from the Wix Marketplace, or a Wix Partner agency. We should say up front that we don't build on Wix. We're a two-person studio in Clutton in Somerset and we build bespoke sites on our own system, so this is an outsider's look at the prices. Every figure below is linked in the sources, with the date we checked it.
How much does a Wix designer cost in the UK?
Most of the difference comes down to who you hire. These are the usual routes and what each one costs to build, before the Wix plan.
| Route | Typical build cost | What you pay every month after |
|---|---|---|
| Build it yourself on Wix | £0, plus your evenings | Wix plan, £9 to £25 plus VAT |
| Freelancer on PeoplePerHour | Fixed-price Wix offers from £10 to £565 | Wix plan, plus paying them for changes |
| Wix Marketplace designer | Starting prices £100 to £900 for a basic site, £150 to £1,500 for a custom one | Wix plan, plus paying them for changes |
| Wix Partner agency | About £295 to £4,925 at the two UK agencies we checked | Wix plan, plus a management fee if you want one (from £135 at WixWorks) |
| Bespoke studio (our prices) | £995 for 5 pages, £1,795 for 10, from £2,995 for up to 40, or £95 to £279 a month | Hosting and edits on a care plan from £29 a month, or included in the monthly price |
In short: a basic Wix site built by someone else usually costs a few hundred pounds, a more designed site from an established Wix Partner costs £750 to £2,000, and the Wix plan never goes away. Our prices and the bespoke route are covered further down.
What do designers on the Wix Marketplace charge?
Usually a few hundred pounds to start. On 7 October 2026 the Wix Marketplace listed 1,776 professionals offering a "classic website", which Wix describes as a basic website including a theme. On the first page of UK results, starting prices ran from £100 to £900, and half of them started at £330 or less. For an "advanced website" with custom visuals and extra features, the first page ran from £150 to £1,500, with a middle figure of £520.
"Starting at" is the cheapest package a designer sells, so a ten-page site with a booking system will usually cost more. Individual profiles show the spread. Curious Fish Websites in Brighton lists a classic site from £750 and an advanced one from £1,200. Get Fresh Brands in Leeds lists £450 and £600. MX Web Design in London lists £300 and £330.
A classic build starts from a Wix template, so you're paying for someone's time to fit your words and photos to it. That's fine if it's what you want. Ask which template they'll use before you pay.
What does a freelance Wix designer charge per hour?
Usually £10 to £30 an hour on the freelance marketplaces, and rarely more than £65. Freelancers on PeoplePerHour's Wix page showed hourly rates from £6 to £65 in October 2026, most of them between £10 and £30. An hour of Wix help was £35 to £50, and fixed-price offers for a whole Wix website ran from £10 to £565.
Read the very cheap offers closely. Before you buy a £10 or £50 Wix website, check how many pages it covers and what extra pages and changes cost.
Agencies charge more by the hour. Of the UK firms Clutch lists for Wix work, most charge $50 to $149 an hour (Clutch shows rates in dollars), and half set a minimum project of $5,000 or more.
What does a Wix Partner agency charge?
From about £300 for a simple build to around £5,000 for a bigger one. WixWorks, a UK Wix design agency, starts new Wix sites at £295, Wix shops at £650 for up to 30 products, and monthly management at £135. Smoogles Design in Bath, a Wix Partner, sells an hour of help for £275, a site built in one day for £1,925 and a larger build over a week for £4,925.
Agencies tend to include more in the price. WixWorks, for example, includes on-page SEO and unlimited revisions on a new site. Some pay the Wix plan themselves and fold it into their fee, so check whether the plan is in the quote or extra.
What will you pay Wix every month on top?
£9 to £25 a month plus VAT for most small businesses, paid yearly, then the extras below. ExpertSure checked these UK prices in July 2026. Wix's help centre says its listed prices don't include tax, so expect 20% VAT on top. VAT-registered businesses may be able to avoid it by adding their VAT number to their Wix account.
| Wix plan | Paid yearly (a month) | Paid monthly | Good for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Light | £9 | £11.50 | A brochure site with no online shop |
| Core | £16 | £19 | Taking payments and selling online |
| Business | £25 | £29 | Bigger shops, more currencies |
| Business Elite | £119 | £145 | High-volume selling |
Then the extras. The domain is free for the first year on a yearly plan and then renews at around £10 to £20 a year. Email on your own domain isn't included; Google Workspace Starter is £6.90 per person a month. Many apps from the Wix App Market charge £5 to £30 a month each. Card payments through Wix Payments cost 2.1% plus 20p per UK transaction.
Over three years the plan alone comes to £324 on Light, £576 on Core and £900 on Business, before VAT and extras.
When does a bespoke website cost the same or less?
It gets close once a Wix designer charges £750 or more, and it can work out cheaper against a bigger Wix build or once you count paying for changes. This table puts three years of each route side by side, from the figures above and our own published prices. VAT and the extras above are left out of every row.
| Route over three years | Build | Plan or care | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marketplace designer, basic site, Wix Light | £330 | £324 | £654 |
| Established Wix Partner, Wix Core | £750 | £576 | £1,326 |
| Wix Partner design day, Wix Business | £1,925 | £900 | £2,825 |
| Bare, 5 pages, pay once | £995 | £696 | £1,691 |
| Bare, 10 pages, pay once | £1,795 | £1,176 | £2,971 |
| Bare, 5 pages, pay monthly | None | £3,420 | £3,420 |
So the cheapest Wix route really is cheaper, by about £1,000 over three years against our five-page site. Against an established Wix designer on the Core plan, the gap is about £365, roughly £10 a month. Against a design day at £1,925, our ten-page site costs about the same.
The Wix rows don't include edits. On Wix you either make changes yourself or pay the designer each time. Our pay once price includes the first 12 months of care, then a care plan from £29 a month covers hosting, security and everyday content edits. On a pay monthly website from £95 a month, unlimited content updates are included with no setup fee. After 24 months the site is redesigned and rebuilt for free. It's a 12 month minimum, then rolling.
Ownership works differently too. A Wix site stays on Wix. Our sites run on our own CMS, and if a pay monthly client leaves after the minimum term, they get an HTML copy of the site and keep their domain, content and data. Our bespoke web design starts from the business and its customers rather than a template. Comfinity, a cabling firm in Nottingham, came to us on Wix, and we rebuilt all twenty-seven pages around the people buying from them.
Who should just use Wix?
Plenty of people, and we'd tell them so. Wix is the better buy if:
- The business is brand new or you're still testing whether the idea works.
- Your whole budget is under about £500.
- You want to change things yourself at 11pm without asking anyone.
- You already have a Wix site that works and only needs tidying. A redesign from £70 a page at WixWorks costs far less than a rebuild.
Our honest comparison of Wix and a professional website goes through the trade-offs in more detail.
What should you check before paying a Wix designer?
- Is the Wix account in your name, or theirs?
- Is the domain registered to you?
- Who pays the Wix plan, and is it in the quote?
- How many pages, and do they write any of the words?
- What do changes cost after launch?
- Is the price plus VAT, or including it?
If you're weighing up a Wix designer against something built for you, see what our websites include and what they cost. Send us the quote you've got and we'll tell you honestly whether to take it.
Frequently asked questions
Do web designers use Wix?
Yes, lots of designers build on Wix. The Wix Marketplace listed 1,776 designers offering basic Wix sites in October 2026. Some studios, ours included, build on their own systems or WordPress instead.
Do Wix designer prices include VAT?
Check each one. Wix's own plan prices are plus VAT. Our prices exclude VAT too, so compare like with like.
Do I pay the Wix plan or does the designer?
Often you pay Wix directly, and that's the safer way round because the account stays in your name. Some agencies pay it and add it to their monthly fee.
Is it worth paying a Wix designer instead of doing it myself?
It is if your time is worth more than a few hundred pounds, or if you've started a DIY site and never finished it. If you enjoy building it and have the evenings, Wix is made for doing it yourself.
Is a Wix designer cheaper than a pay monthly website?
At the budget end, yes. A £330 Marketplace build plus Wix Light costs about £654 over three years, against £3,420 for our five-page pay monthly site. The monthly plan includes unlimited content updates and a full redesign after two years, which the Wix route doesn't.
Sources
All figures checked 7 October 2026.
- Wix Marketplace, Classic website design and Advanced website design. Number of professionals and first-page starting prices, UK listings.
- Wix Marketplace partner profiles: Curious Fish Websites, Get Fresh Brands (Tanya Wragg), MX Web Design.
- PeoplePerHour, Hire Wix freelancers. Fixed-price offers and hourly rates.
- Clutch, Top Wix web designers in the UK, October 2026. Hourly rates and minimum project sizes.
- WixWorks, Pricing. New sites, shops, redesigns and management.
- Smoogles Design, Wix website costs UK, updated 19 May 2026. Package prices and Google Workspace cost.
- ExpertSure, Wix pricing UK, updated August 2026, prices verified July 2026. Plan prices, domain renewal, apps, Wix Payments fees, three-year plan totals.
- Wix Help Centre, Tax and VAT charges for Wix Premium subscriptions. Listed prices exclude tax.
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