Web development services

Search for website developers and you get a mix: freelancers, agencies, marketplaces, directories and forum threads. The quotes are just as mixed, because each one prices a different thing. In October 2026 I opened five web developer sites Google showed me for that search, and not one of them published a price.

I have been building software for 18 years. Since 2017 my team has grown to 70+ specialists and delivered 150+ projects. This page is what I would want to know on your side of the table: which kind of website project you need, what each costs with us, how we build, what you own at the end, and ten checks that work on any freelancer or website development company, us included.

Web development services at a glance

A starting price is what the smallest version costs. Anything bigger gets its number before work starts, never after, and our starting prices are also on the pricing page.

Which website project do you need

Four questions, asked in this order, settle it.

Does the site only need to show the business? Services, prices, your work, reviews, contacts and a form. Then the $499 website is enough: up to 20 pages, more than most sites need, and an admin where you change every text and picture yourself. The article on that page spells out what the package includes and what costs extra.

Does it need to take bookings or payments? Then it is the same site with a feature added. Online booking is plus $500, payments on the site plus $500; several languages, accounts or integrations are priced the same way before any work starts. If you sell services, our small business websites begin with a page plan built around them.

Does it need logic or a look no template has? A customer portal, booking by your own rules, a store with hundreds of products, a design made for you alone. That is a custom website, billed by the hour or by milestones after a free estimate. Once accounts, roles and dashboards appear, the site has become an application, and web application development starts at $5,000 for a first version.

Not sure, or holding someone else's proposal? Start with web development consulting: the first call and a rough estimate cost nothing, so bring that proposal with you. If you want a technical lead or a developer inside your own team every week, that is staff augmentation, from $35 an hour depending on the role.

One more honest option: if you would rather build and edit the site yourself, website building services like Wix or Squarespace do that job, and you need neither a developer nor a web development agency for it.

What every site we build comes with

Every site we build follows our written website standard, so even the $499 package gets a design in your colors for a phone, a laptop and a wide screen; an admin for every text, picture and page; basic SEO with titles, descriptions, a sitemap, Search Console, structured data and link previews; pictures sized for each screen and loaded as the visitor scrolls; Google Analytics; and https on your domain.

After launch, support is $29 a month, billed annually ($348): hosting, any bug in our work fixed at our cost, changes to texts and pictures, backups and updates, and an eye on your uptime and your domain's renewal date. On this plan we respond within 3 business days. The full terms are on website maintenance.

How our website developers work: a person and AI agents

Each project has a person in charge who works in a pair with AI agents. The agents take the routine: the layout, the code, the checks. They are not trained on client code. Instead, we build in the best practices my team has settled on over the years, so even a first draft follows them. The person decides what the site says and how it looks, and signs off on what ships.

Behind that person are 70+ specialists - engineers, designers, QA, DevOps and managers - with the delivery center near Kyiv, usually seven hours ahead of Miami, where I work.

The work runs through five steps, and their order matters:

1. Documentation first. What the site has to do is written down before any code.
2. Planned tasks. The work is cut into small tasks.
3. Built and checked. Each task is built and checked against its plan.
4. Code review. An engineer reads the code.
5. Final QA. Our tester checks the site last.

This is how a small site can cost $499 and show a first version in 5 business days. More on where AI actually speeds up a build.

Websites we built, in numbers

Three sites from this pipeline, all from 2026:

• Build Wise Investments, a construction company: 63 pages, 38 of them city pages for local search, and a Lighthouse score of 100 on a phone in Google's PageSpeed test on October 5 (97 for speed on desktop).
• Somatic Reset: 8 days from the approved plan to the production domain, and 157 automated tests two days later.
• BND: 2 days from the first commit to the live domain, with 108 pages in three languages.

Not one bad review so far: clients rate us 5.0 on Clutch from 26 verified reviews, as of September 2026. If your business has rules of its own, we also have pages for 33 industries, from law firms to veterinary clinics.

What you own when the site is done

• The code and the design made for your site are yours once it is paid for and delivered. You get an archive with the code, the files, a data export and notes to deploy it, so another developer can take over without starting from zero. Our own templates and components stay ours, and you get a perpetual license to use them as part of your site.
• The domain is registered and paid for by you, so it carries your name from day one. If you already have one, we connect it.
• Analytics and Search Console sit in your Google account if you have one. If not, we set them up in ours, give you access and hand them over when you leave, with no conditions.
• If you stop paying for support, the site goes offline when the paid year ends, and we keep a copy for three months in case you want it back.

How to judge any web development company: ten checks

Before writing this, I ran the technical checks on those same five web developer sites. They did well on link previews (all five) and on picture descriptions (419 of 428 images). Sizing was the gap: only 105 of the 428 images gave the browser a choice of sizes or formats, two sites sent every picture as a single file, and one loaded all 50 of its pictures without the browser's own lazy loading. Five sites are a small sample, so read it as a reason to check, not as a statistic.

The first five checks take a few minutes on any site from a developer's portfolio, ours included. The last five are questions for the contract with the web dev company or freelancer developing your website.

How we answer the same ten checks

Link previews, pictures sized for each screen and loaded as you scroll, and alt text on every picture are part of our website standard. On our own site, a lost connection leaves the page in place with a note that the next one opens once you are back online, and if the application behind it stops, visitors get our own page instead of a raw error. The domain, the code and the analytics are yours, as above. While support runs, we watch your uptime and your domain's renewal date and tell you when something needs attention. A new request gets an answer within 30 minutes on weekdays, 9:00-18:00 Miami time. On the support plan, $29 a month, billed annually ($348), we respond within 3 business days. If accessibility is a legal question for you, that is a separate ADA website compliance service.

Where to start

If you know which website design and web development service you need, the pages linked above have the details. If you do not, tell us what the business does and what the site has to do. The first call and a rough estimate are free, and you know the price before any work starts.

By Michael A., Founder and CEO of 26 Lines of Code, 18 years in software development. Updated October 6, 2026.